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Raptor and I launched at high tide this morning into Mill Creek and headed to Whitehall Bay. Finally the weather was perfect. Low winds and warm air.
We poked around Mill Creek briefly to see if the perch had arrived. They had. We both caught two in roughly the first five minutes on the water. I got mine on this lure:
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But the quest for stripers awaited us so we headed into Whitehall Bay. We each had pretty good success. I caught six, the largest at 18.25 inches. Raptor was doing better than me for sure but after a while the action slowed.
I let out for Hackett’s Point and saw something curious in the water. See here:
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Then I got a good look:
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This box turtle was hundreds of yards far from shore as you can see from the first photo above and swimming NW across White Hall Bay. I had read years ago that if you rescue a turtle from the roadside to always put it in a safe spot in the direction it was heading. Well, this guy was heading to Whitehall’s high-rent district of large houses all the way across the bay. There was no point in taking him back to Hackett’s Point. I decided to give him a lift.
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I bet he was the only box turtle in Maryland today to get a kayak ride. I pedaled NW for 8/10s of a mile before I reached a beach where I could release him.
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I took him to a wooded area off the beach and let him go.
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I headed back to Hackett’s and soon thereafter we received a visit from John Veil in his center console.
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John brought me good mojo. After his visit I boated 17 more stripers from Hackett’s Point to Greenbury Points. That is essentially the area we worked today -- a triangle from Mill Creek to Hackett's Point to Greenbury Point.
None of my fish were particularly large. My biggest was 19 inches. Most were 16 to 18 inches and many were shaped like footaballs with fins. They pulled very hard.
I caught stripers on each of these lures:
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On three occasions near Greenbury I had two on at once. I was so exhausted (15.7 total miles of pedaling today) that I essentially made my way back to Mill Creek from Greenbury without fishing.
Now Raptor stopped counting stripers after 30. He had an excellent day as he usually does. But I beat him in the turtle division today. It’s my only victory over him on the Bay this year. I need to savor it.
We poked around Mill Creek briefly to see if the perch had arrived. They had. We both caught two in roughly the first five minutes on the water. I got mine on this lure:
K.jpg
But the quest for stripers awaited us so we headed into Whitehall Bay. We each had pretty good success. I caught six, the largest at 18.25 inches. Raptor was doing better than me for sure but after a while the action slowed.
I let out for Hackett’s Point and saw something curious in the water. See here:
C.jpg
Then I got a good look:
P1000511.JPG P1000510.JPG
This box turtle was hundreds of yards far from shore as you can see from the first photo above and swimming NW across White Hall Bay. I had read years ago that if you rescue a turtle from the roadside to always put it in a safe spot in the direction it was heading. Well, this guy was heading to Whitehall’s high-rent district of large houses all the way across the bay. There was no point in taking him back to Hackett’s Point. I decided to give him a lift.
E.jpg D.jpg
I bet he was the only box turtle in Maryland today to get a kayak ride. I pedaled NW for 8/10s of a mile before I reached a beach where I could release him.
G.jpg
I took him to a wooded area off the beach and let him go.
F.jpg
I headed back to Hackett’s and soon thereafter we received a visit from John Veil in his center console.
I.jpg
John brought me good mojo. After his visit I boated 17 more stripers from Hackett’s Point to Greenbury Points. That is essentially the area we worked today -- a triangle from Mill Creek to Hackett's Point to Greenbury Point.
None of my fish were particularly large. My biggest was 19 inches. Most were 16 to 18 inches and many were shaped like footaballs with fins. They pulled very hard.
I caught stripers on each of these lures:
J.jpg
On three occasions near Greenbury I had two on at once. I was so exhausted (15.7 total miles of pedaling today) that I essentially made my way back to Mill Creek from Greenbury without fishing.
Now Raptor stopped counting stripers after 30. He had an excellent day as he usually does. But I beat him in the turtle division today. It’s my only victory over him on the Bay this year. I need to savor it.
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