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I took off from work a few hours early the other day and hit some of the shallow grass beds in Somerset County to look for specks. The day started out rather average picking up some dink stripers and smaller 15" specks as I trolled towards some creek mouths I wanted to fish. The tide was about halfway out, so the grass beds outside the creeks were full of life. I parked over these beds and steadily picked up 16 - 18" stripers, the biggest striper of the day at 26", and two 20" specks.
By slack water the bite had mostly fizzled out so I moved over to a marsh point where the tide would soon be pushing water around the point as incoming started. I hit the jackpot making that move. The point was absolutely loaded with specks. I didn't keep track of how many I caught, but I'd guess I pulled two dozen specks 17" - 21" off the point casting soft plastics back towards the marsh. It was the best speck fishing I have had in a really, really long time. I tried topwater off the point too, but was only able to get one fish to rise and it completely missed the spook; so still haven't caught a speck on top yet.
The bite had slowed as I wore that spot out, and I had to get going anyway, so I trolled back to the launch following the shoreline and picked up three or four more specks around 20", a bunch of 16" striper, and two lizardfish.
The memory of that speck bite will stay with me for a good while it was so much fun. Color didn't really seem to matter much either. I caught fish on white, salt and pepper, chartreuse, pink, electric chicken, and albino soft plastics.
There should be some good specks around for anybody fishing the tournament out of Crisfield this coming weekend!
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By slack water the bite had mostly fizzled out so I moved over to a marsh point where the tide would soon be pushing water around the point as incoming started. I hit the jackpot making that move. The point was absolutely loaded with specks. I didn't keep track of how many I caught, but I'd guess I pulled two dozen specks 17" - 21" off the point casting soft plastics back towards the marsh. It was the best speck fishing I have had in a really, really long time. I tried topwater off the point too, but was only able to get one fish to rise and it completely missed the spook; so still haven't caught a speck on top yet.
The bite had slowed as I wore that spot out, and I had to get going anyway, so I trolled back to the launch following the shoreline and picked up three or four more specks around 20", a bunch of 16" striper, and two lizardfish.
The memory of that speck bite will stay with me for a good while it was so much fun. Color didn't really seem to matter much either. I caught fish on white, salt and pepper, chartreuse, pink, electric chicken, and albino soft plastics.
There should be some good specks around for anybody fishing the tournament out of Crisfield this coming weekend!
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