Fletcher Fishing

posted by John on Nov 4

I have no excuse for no pictures on Thursday Nov. 1. I had the camera in the truck, but I forgot to put it on the boat. First, we fished around love point. Bad mojo here, due to the fact there were a few boats around the bridge, off we went. We caught about 10 fish in and around the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. We fished the far west rock pile, but schools of rockfish were all over the area on the outgoing tide. All the fish were sublegal with the biggest being about 16″. We tried to get under the smaller ones with different baits and retrieves to no benefit. No matter what bait or depth we caught the same size.

Sunday Nov. 4 started out cold. The twenty-seven mile per hour run to the bridge was a bit chilly. Here is what we saw on the way

Sandy Point Light

In short order we were going to start at the east rockpile and work our way west under the bridge.  We noticed that a flock of birds was working school of bait north of the bridge on the outgoing morning tide. The sublegal rockfish we caught took everything we tossed except white shad swim baits. We used some smack-it topwater lures and bass-assasin green shad plastic swim baits. Twenty five fish were caught and released as we chased the school around, but no keepers. There were about eight boats working the area.

We were leaving when this huge ship blasted through the fishing armada.

 Due to the fact that we had no fish to grill, I consoled myself with some Whole Foods sausages.

The Redskins just went ahead of the Jets 20-17. Redskins won in overtime 23 -20.