Fletcher Fishing

posted by John on May 30

We left the dock at 6:15 am to catch the last two hours of the rising tide. The forecast was good, yet the promised ‘scattered showers’ followed us on our whole run from Baltimore Light to Love Point. Arriving at our secret hump structure, we proceeded to fish with jigs in about 22 feet of water. Bullet head jigs with whitish bass assassins were the trick. We marked a lot of fish, but only had luck until the tide slacked about 8:30. We had 2 stripers in the box, 24″ and 20″, by then, a few sub-legal and some nice fish that came off hook.

The fishing fleet assembled was anchored and chumming. We saw a few boats take fish. I never understood staying in the same place if you are not catching fish. Once the bite slacked off at Love Point we headed back to the mouth of the Magothy and cast topwaters, bronze poppers, and caught one nice keeper Striped Bass that ‘released’ himself right at the boat. After another 20 minutes of nothing we high-tailed it back to the dock.

All in all, a good morning of fishing.

posted by John on May 30

Jeff Smith – You tube

Jeff Smith – You tube

Reel Deal You tube

Reel Deal You tube

posted by John on May 18

Another banner day, we cruised out at 6:00 am to the good spot and again fished up until the tide slacked out, 8 am.

Best fish of the day – 39″  20# – I caught this one on a lead head with a larger sluggo, also light green Ronzi worked, silver Ronzi worked,  and the fake looking sand eel worked (made out of real sand eel oil).  This fish was really fun, because I took it on my smallest rod. Shimano Spheros 4000 reel on a medium light duty Fenwick Eagle GT rod. It was a good fight.

This is the other – 36″ 17# – that we kept. We only had one hour, and the bite died off. Everyone else seemed to be chunking with cut bait. Jigging is much more fun than chunking. Especially when you are treated to great fishing. Thursday May 14th was better, that was a late bite – six pm.  This picture is a bit of a spot burn.