More time on the bay ....

[hookup]

Woke up at o'dark thirty yesterday and drove down to some park in the Socialist Republic of Maryland off the Severn River. Fished for about 8 hours out of a boat - started trolling the bay for strippers, err, stripers and got nothing. Neither did any of the other boats I saw. So we went back to pounding the shore lines and ponds formed from inlets of the Severn & scored big.

Stripers (nothing legal, but had a big one one and lost it), blue fish (man they got teeth!), a 18" pickerel, and plenty of white perch. Nice day and slept like a baby last night.

Start of a beautiful day



The forecast called for light winds but a threat of T-Storms after noon. And hot!

As we motored out of Spa Creek, some of the big boats and their babies were docked up.... black boat in the back's for sale - $21 million - such a deal.





We caught a few but the pesky stripers kept taking our offerings!



Caught a bunch of these white perch .... good eat'n but we released them all



Caught a 18" pickerel - which I understand is rare for this creek



And lunch was on me - 1/2 pound of pastrami & corned beef & a 1/4 pound of provolone per sandwich. We both ate the whole thing

 

[Barefoot]

Looks like a great day. My brother used to live on Spa Creek and is still an Annapolitan.
That is a heck of a sammich!

 

[StumpHunter]

The perch runs us crazy eating any live bait we try to fish with but they are now getting to a size to fillet Nice little boats, may god those things are big!
Enjoyed reading your report and seeing the pictures.

 

[Pup]

Looks like you had a very fun fishing trip. That sandwich is a real keeper too.

 

[hookup]

Thx everyone. Caught allot of them on the small safety spin spinners I made earlier this year

 

[Fatman]

Great pics!!! If you got small stipers like that it looks like you'll be having some great fishing looks real healthy!! Pickeral are fund to catch and if cleaned right are real good eating.

Beetle spin type baits are excellent - wouldn't be without them.

 

[hookup]

Fatman - you're right. We saw schools of the small stripers boiling. It was insane. Surprised the hit a bait that size too.

 

[Jig Man]

What a great post, I really enjoyed the read. I wasn't hungry till I eyed that samich. Guess I might have ta think about changin parties, looks like their doin OK.... On second thought, I would rather fish fer strippers, oops stripers instead!!