Fishing Aboard the Patent Pending 3-14-2012

[Spot77]

Had a FANTASTIC day out on the water. No wind, the water was like glass and the temp was well into the 70's. Not bad for March!


Marty will be along shortly with the details, but here's 2 fish that we caught today:

[Skip]

Be tough to top a day like that in March - great you guys were able to get out and C/R a few.

[5th Tuition]

Scott; it was a fantastic day. We left the dock around 8am and immediatly saw a difference between last week and today. We saw bait in 25-35 ft of water and ganates diving. Last week we only saw bait deep (below 50ft) and only ganates flying.

Once we got out to deeper water (< 70ft), most of the bait was still in the 50ft and below range with SOME in 40 ft. Low tide at CB was 9:30 am so I didn't expect much until around 11am. At 10:45 we had our first fish hit a deep umbrella. For the next hour, we had (I believe) three more knockdowns.
Of the four strikes, we had one break the leader on an umbrella (line was chaffed from the slider baits I use during C/R), two fish in the boat with photo's, and another that took drag on a six pack with a 12 inch shad. After that, things slowed considerably and we had another one or two knockdowns (no stingers and barbless, MAY have contributed to not hooking up). Another factor MAY have been that all the fish caught and released so far this spring by us have been just barely hooked in the lip by fish that may still be moving a little slow due to the colder water.
Water temps last week were 47* and today was 51.5* around midday.
We had a great crew today with Scott (Spott77), Allan (Just Chillin), Bob (Fishnut's dad), and Charlie Schnieder the mate on the Big Will out of Tilghman.
Evidently, they had a good time because tomorrow Charlie, Scott, and Rob (Fishnut), are headed back out with us. Mike (Garlien) will make the trip tomorrow as well. Mike was supposed to go today, but spent today on the can with a 24 hr virus (I know tooooo much information).
Our deepest rods were the most active today, but we did get knockdowns on some midrange lures as well.
Greg (Bfaithful) was out above us today, and Skip my be headed out tomorrow, so more info will be forthcoming. I'm running five umbrellas and a sixpack as our spread because of the depth of the bait, Greg and Skip may be using boards, so that's info I want to see.


If you might be interested in going out with us to see for yourself the conditions; with the posibility of picking up a fish. Let me know on this thread (my inbox is almost always full on my PM's). I'm always looking for people to go with us and kick in a SMALL donation for fuel cost.

5th (Marty)