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.