A taste of fall

[Big Mike]

For the first time this year I got to fish with Gary. Our happiness in fishing together carried over to the fishing where the cooler temperatures and overcast skies gave us a bang up morning. My first fish in the first spot we fished was a 22.5” striper on a purple and chartreuse paddle tail in maybe 3’ of water. Purple would turn out to be the theme of the day.
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Shortly after Gary hooked up with the first of 3 trout over 20” we caught between us. In total I think we got 12 or 13 trout today and 15 to 20 stripers and half a dozen acrobatic bluefish.
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For the next 2 hours the fishing was very good with a healthy mix of trout and stripers. For some odd reason the fish were concentrated on a featureless sandy bottom stretch in 3’ of water without a lot of bait around. Normally an area where we wouldn’t stop even after catching one, but when we both hooked up, well never leave fish to find fish.
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as usual in this spot the sunrise did not disappoint

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[J.A. Veil]

Nice work Mike. Good to see a photo of Gary on the fishing grounds.

[dsaavedra]

Sounds like a phenomenal day. The sunrise was gorgeous this morning; I saw it from Solomons just to the north of you. I was even wearing a bright orange shirt so everything in my field of view was cast in a luminous orange glow.

[gliebig]

Fantastic trip.

[UnkleRob2020]

Congratulatoins Mike!! That sounds like a fantastic outing. On Saturday morning, I woke up to cooler temps and overcast skies and I wished I was fishing. I am glad to hear that you guys had such a good day. I was wondering all weekend how guys like you, John and Dave were doing if you were on the water. Thank you for the report

[dsaavedra]

I was wondering all weekend how guys like you, John and Dave were doing if you were on the water. Thank you for the report

I fished closed to home Saturday evening and caught a couple dozen perch, a handful of small rockfish, a spot and a cownose ray on an impromptu trip. Sunday morning I drove to SOMD and caught just over a dozen cutlassfish. This slight break in the oppressive heat/humidity has been welcome, that's for sure.

[ski357]

Mike's report yesterday inspired me to get out yesterday afternoon. We launched a few hours before high tide off the Potomac. This area hadn't been producing for me lately. Yesterday proved different. I landed my first rockfish since the closure (landed in Maryland waters). We caught a mess of perch, some smaller blue, a croaker, and a couple of 14"ish redfish. We had intended on fishing until sunset, but the threat of storms led us to return to the launch an hour earlier. We ran a variety of lures, but it seemed the spinnerbaits were the winner. Everything from the perch to croaker, blue, and redfish hit it. All in all a good day.