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I fished the Susky Flats today, Wednesday, 4-25-12, 8:00am to 11:am. I almost didn’t go because of a less than acceptable wind forecast… but I went anyway, and I’m glad that I did. I pushed off from Perryville Park at 8:00am with a dang ~8mph wind directly in my face as I headed in the direction of the fleet just south of Havre de Grace. Took me a while to get there. I shoulda launched at Havre deGrace, would have been half the distance (and 6 more bucks still in my wallet). Once I got near the fleet I started catching right off. Total for today was an even 30 stripers and size range was very similar to my last trip to the Flats on 4-18-12, although I did catch a nice one that measured in at 29”. I caught several in the 25”-27” range, 1.5 dozen in the 20”-25” range and a bunch of smalls, 15”-20”.
Almost all of them hit a 5” albino BA on a .6oz jighead worked herky-jerky just off the bottom in 10’ of water. Others were catching too. At times my FF was showing a lot more stripers than I was catching, so I’m guessing many of them had lock-jaw or were spooked by boat traffic.
By 9:00am the wind had dropped to a near calm and fishing was quite enjoyable and the fish were biting nicely. Once I got fish on 5 consecutive casts. Then ~11:15am, dang-it, a very pesky 10+mph south wind started rather quickly, with whitecaps. So I elected to head back to Perryville Park as fast as I could. It got a little bit hairy out there on the way back. I breathed a heavy sigh of relief as the nose of my canoe hit shore at the take-out. Another great day. Wish I could have stayed another 2 hours.
High tide @ 1:08pm, water vis ~2’+, forgot to check temps.
Almost all of them hit a 5” albino BA on a .6oz jighead worked herky-jerky just off the bottom in 10’ of water. Others were catching too. At times my FF was showing a lot more stripers than I was catching, so I’m guessing many of them had lock-jaw or were spooked by boat traffic.
By 9:00am the wind had dropped to a near calm and fishing was quite enjoyable and the fish were biting nicely. Once I got fish on 5 consecutive casts. Then ~11:15am, dang-it, a very pesky 10+mph south wind started rather quickly, with whitecaps. So I elected to head back to Perryville Park as fast as I could. It got a little bit hairy out there on the way back. I breathed a heavy sigh of relief as the nose of my canoe hit shore at the take-out. Another great day. Wish I could have stayed another 2 hours.
High tide @ 1:08pm, water vis ~2’+, forgot to check temps.
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