Ft. Smallwood today

Hugo (TXFly16), Terry (Raptor), and myself all launched a little after 7 am from Ft. Smallwood Park. Water was calm weather nice.

Within the first 10 min after launch I hooked up with a 22” fat striper in about 6’ of water not far from the launch. We headed out towards White Rocks and trolled and fished on both the incoming and outgoing tides. . Raptor ended up with 6 stripers with all but 1 a keeper with 2-24” fish as well as Hugo catching a couple nice stripers. I caught about 5 stripers with a couple 22” fish. Now I was trolling and heard my rod go down behind me in the Ram rocket launcher and the watched the rod “rocket” out of the launcher from the tremendous strike. Luckily, I keep a leash on my rods while in the holders, so I was able to grab the leash and pull back my rod with the fish still hooked. Turns out to be about a 16” fighting Blue.

All-and-all a good day for all and Hugo took 2 nice fish home to eat.

[J.A. Veil]

Nice report Harry. You guys caught some quality fish today.

[Mark]

Way to go guys!

Sorry I missed it.

[Shady]

Looks like a fat fall striper, nice!

[Cowpokey]

Well done! We're still on the water down here at Solomons....report later.

[YaknBass]

NICE!! really good day with multiple hookups of quality fish!! congrats!! happy for you that rod had a leash!!! and the fish was still on!! gotta like that outcome

[mdfisherman57]

Sounds like you all had an awesome day on the water! Looks really calm today and shows with a lot of success. Nice report as well!

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[daddyg]

That's sweet I'm going to try to get off one day soon. I will send you a msg.

[dhawk]

Nice catches looks like the fish are back in the patapsco

[Yak Fish]

Sounds like they're getting bigger as you go more out to the main stem. Interesting stuff. I almost reached white rocks this past weekend as I did see some birds in the distance but it was pretty far from where I was and didn't feel like it. How is the ft smallwood launch? I've got a friend that lives on Stoney Creek and I've been considering taking him up on an invite to fish there and on out to the Ptaps.

[Mbae]

i think ft smallwood is a beach launch near the crabbing pier if im not mistaken.
i miss ft smallwood when you used to be able to camp there overnight.. now that the state owns the park, you have to be out by sunset

[CAGE RATTLER]

Nice Job guys.
Looks likes it's an early Rocktober in the Patapsco.

[dhawk]

Now I'm amped to get back out Friday morning before work

[On the fly]

i think ft smallwood is a beach launch near the crabbing pier if im not mistaken.
i miss ft smallwood when you used to be able to camp there overnight.. now that the state owns the park, you have to be out by sunset

The park is owned by Baltimore city but is Leased to Anne Arundel county. The beach launch is not next to the pier(that used to be an old jet ski rental place years ago) it is on the Patapsco river side to the east of the ft. The property is now well taken care of and Hours of operation can be found under AA county parks and rec.

[Mbae]

The park is owned by Baltimore city but is Leased to Anne Arundel county. The beach launch is not next to the pier(that used to be an old jet ski rental place years ago) it is on the Patapsco river side to the east of the ft. The property is now well taken care of and Hours of operation can be found under AA county parks and rec.

ohh thats good to know. thanks for that!