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Made the trip down to my old stomping grounds(or waters) today in hopes of catching some fish. I got my new predator pdl on the water right around 5:30am to try and get some fishing in before the heat got to be to much. Now I will start by saying that having gone from a paddle to pedal kayak, back to paddle, and arriving at pedal again, I really forgot how much I missed having my hands free. I had a hobie PA12 at one point and I must say that the predator pdl has really blown me away.
Ok enough about kayak talk, I launched at Jonas Green park and headed toward Rt. 50 bridge. I was pretty set on checking out an oyster bed that I used to have success at. I was trolling 3 rods, 2 with paddle tails and 1 rapala x-rap. Well as luck would have as I arrived at the oyster bed I saw bait fish breaking everywhere on the surface. I started casting the paddle tail into the breaking bait and immediately started hooking up with small stripers between 10-12". At times I was surrounded in all directions by different groups of bait being chased around. I began to lose count of how many fish I was catching at that location.
In hopes of finding bigger fish I moved on from the bait fish blitz. I trolled up past Rt. 50 bridge and then made my way back toward the mouth of the Severn. Just as I cleared the 450 bridge, the rod with the X-rap bends over and starts ripping drag. Very quickly I realized this was not the fish I was hoping it was, although a fun fight, I realized that It was a snagged skate who decided that instead of snagging my cheap paddle tails he would steal my not so cheap x-rap. Picked up 2 more 10-12" stripers trolling from the mouth back to Jonas Green. All in all it was a great day and it felt good to get back on the River I loved fishing.
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Ok enough about kayak talk, I launched at Jonas Green park and headed toward Rt. 50 bridge. I was pretty set on checking out an oyster bed that I used to have success at. I was trolling 3 rods, 2 with paddle tails and 1 rapala x-rap. Well as luck would have as I arrived at the oyster bed I saw bait fish breaking everywhere on the surface. I started casting the paddle tail into the breaking bait and immediately started hooking up with small stripers between 10-12". At times I was surrounded in all directions by different groups of bait being chased around. I began to lose count of how many fish I was catching at that location.
In hopes of finding bigger fish I moved on from the bait fish blitz. I trolled up past Rt. 50 bridge and then made my way back toward the mouth of the Severn. Just as I cleared the 450 bridge, the rod with the X-rap bends over and starts ripping drag. Very quickly I realized this was not the fish I was hoping it was, although a fun fight, I realized that It was a snagged skate who decided that instead of snagging my cheap paddle tails he would steal my not so cheap x-rap. Picked up 2 more 10-12" stripers trolling from the mouth back to Jonas Green. All in all it was a great day and it felt good to get back on the River I loved fishing.
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