Patapsco Report: Signs of Life!

[yakscientist]

It's been a while since I've posted a report, but here's a positive one from yesterday's outing:

I fished the Patapsco around stoney creek and around various channels, rocks, shorelines, etc. yesterday 8/27 from 630am to 10am. I caught 7 striper (2-13", 2-15", 2-17" and 1-23"), and 5 of them were caught by trolling my usual zman paddletail. 2 of them were caught casting a zman chatterbait with a paddletail trailer to some rock piles, and one of those fish was a very strong 23" keeper that caused a CC to immediately motor over to me to see if he could get in on the action. I left the spot not long after but I had already exceeded my expectations for the day, given the slow summer we've had up and down the east coast. Very happy to have a multi-fish day especially on a hot and humid morning like that one, which was also around a full moon. This coming weekend I pick up my Outback, and I'm very excited about that.

[XXXMedium]

Nice report! I tell ya the ptap has been real hit or miss this year!

So are you getting the new 2019 OUTBACK from Hobie or Subaru?

[Mark]

Congrats on your future Outback and on your success yesterday.

It's good to hear the western shore tribs are finally yielding striper activity that we've been waiting for.

[yakscientist]

Nice report! I tell ya the ptap has been real hit or miss this year!

So are you getting the new 2019 OUTBACK from Hobie or Subaru?

Neither actually, I ordered one of their 2018 demos a month or so ago and I'm picking it up Saturday. I'm going to ask if they'll have the 2019s in soon, and if I could put my deposit towards one of them, or at least demo one. But, I highly doubt they'll let me do that and I bet with all the demand, the new hobies won't even be in their shop until October.

[rugbyfish]

Good to hear. I've been meaning to get out on Stoney Creek for a while now, but haven't been able to get the weather to cooperate. It should only get better in the coming weeks.

[Jman]

Congrats on a successful outing with a nice keeper! Looking forward to hearing your reports from the outback.

[mike o]

Pat we will have to get out and put your new outback to good use. I fished the Ptap twice in the last week out of Armisted park. Sunday morning a friend and I met fish guts there. Fish guts got the first fish of the day a 22" rock and my buddy later got a 17" but that was it for the stripers. We did get a lot of perch up to 10 inches and I think I got about 8 nice size channel cats. Yesterday I got there before sunrise to beat the heat. I figured I would hit the same spots and hopefully do better than Sunday. I also had a depth finder issue Sunday that I got straightened out adding to my optimism. I did find some pretty good marks in a couple areas but the fish wouldn't bite. I hooked 2 channel cats and lost 1 at the kayak, 6 small perch and 1 tiny striper, that was it . I don't often keep any fish but it has been a lean year for rock fish so I was going to keep some channels and perch yesterday. So much for my plans.

[harlanbud]

Nice!!