Where's the stop sign?

[5th Tuition]

Holy Crap!!! Been doing real well south of Deal on both the charter and on friends private boats. Today, it was my turn to use my boat in a wet slip on Bodkin Creek. I have been out several evenings scouting a couple areas north of the bridge and not finding much. Today I left Bodkin Creek at 6am and headed for Rock Hall. Got to RH and not a boat to be seen. I hit a few humps and break lines and saw little bait and caught zero fish. I was fortunate enough to hang a crab pot with one of my spreader bars and lose it and the two lures.
Pulled what was left of the spread and headed south. Off Swan Point Bar there was the RH fleet. Must have been twenty boats in one section and twenty more south of them. This MUST be the spot. I put out the spread and trolled around the fleet and marked very little. We saw that they were bait fishing (can't find any spot in any quantity) and catching small throwbacks. We worked our way through them looking for better fish and still nothing of any size. Just caught some unders and snagged a big perch.
Tried the fleet south and the same thing was happening there.
I pulled lines and headed west to Podickery Point. Using the new downscan, I snaked my way down the cut formed by the tides running in and out of the Magothy. Nothing worth dropping lines over.
Made a beeline to the sewer pipe and saw a couple boats fishing, not catching. Wind and tide were against one another so it was a slow drift. We broke out the jigging rods and jigged the pipe. I caught several nice mustaches (grass and crap that covers the pipe) and had one nice hookup. Lou wondered if I needed the net (ha,ha); it was a foul hooked big perch that attempted to eat a 6 in BKD. After several drifts, we left for the bridge.
Now I can liveline the bridge, but jigging is a real challenge for me. We hoped to get lucky. Needless to say, we weren't lucky. Saw the Becky Dee jumping pilings (not a good sign).
Cranked the motor up and headed toward home. There is one spot I always hit before I hit the creek and again it produced one 20 inch rockfish for Lou to take home for dinner.
After 6 hours on the water, we saw maybe three legal fish caught north of the bridge.
It was a beautiful day with nice temps and a cool breeze. The boat got a good run and performed flawlessly. We put a few small fish in the boat, and had one for dinner. I guess I shouldn't complain. However, if there is a huge "stop sign" posted at the bridge; please take it down so the larger rock can fill the northern bay.
We are headed to Ches. Beach tomorrow to play bumper boats with the Saturday crowd. At least we know the fish will be there also.

Not many reports on the board, so I thought I'd post even a poor report for you to read.
5th (Marty)