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I got out for a couple of hours on Monday.
My fishing season is rapidly winding down as I got asked to help out with a high school JV football program, and practice starts next week (once the kids are back in school and "two-a-days" are over, I should be able to get out occasionally during the mid mornings).
There was a rising tide when I started. There was a stain to the water with perhaps 12 inches of visibility, a far cry from the 3 feet we had in June.
I did manage to catch a "mess" of perch, plus another tiny striper, but none over 7 inches. It was interesting to see several fish contesting the lure, trying to take it away from the hooked fish, especially when a 16" striper tried to do so as well. About 1/2 of the fish came off of two concentrated areas, the keys were rip rap, shade, and weed edges. With the high tide, it was difficult to skip casts under the docks. I did manage several on the spinner jig by just ticking over the tops of the still prominent weed beds.
Still an odd year for me, numbers and size wise.
Everything I caught was in the lower reaches, I caught nothing in the area above the bridges, in spite of the shady shoreline. I probably should have fished further out towards the Severn, but wanted to stay more in the shade.
My fishing season is rapidly winding down as I got asked to help out with a high school JV football program, and practice starts next week (once the kids are back in school and "two-a-days" are over, I should be able to get out occasionally during the mid mornings).
There was a rising tide when I started. There was a stain to the water with perhaps 12 inches of visibility, a far cry from the 3 feet we had in June.
I did manage to catch a "mess" of perch, plus another tiny striper, but none over 7 inches. It was interesting to see several fish contesting the lure, trying to take it away from the hooked fish, especially when a 16" striper tried to do so as well. About 1/2 of the fish came off of two concentrated areas, the keys were rip rap, shade, and weed edges. With the high tide, it was difficult to skip casts under the docks. I did manage several on the spinner jig by just ticking over the tops of the still prominent weed beds.
Still an odd year for me, numbers and size wise.
Everything I caught was in the lower reaches, I caught nothing in the area above the bridges, in spite of the shady shoreline. I probably should have fished further out towards the Severn, but wanted to stay more in the shade.
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