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John (SurfDog) wanted to fish Romancoke today. The sky was hazy with air temperatures getting up to 88 degrees. The water temperature was hovering around 70 degrees. The plan was to fish the incoming tide all the way to high tide which was around 9:30am. I met Surf at Wawa. We ran into Grilled Sardine (Mike) who was going to fish the Bay Bridge. After a quick stop to Anglers to pickup some bloodworms and to pickup a Queen Anne County parking pass ($10), we headed over the Bay Bridge to Romancoke. We unloaded our kayaks and began to set them up for John's croaker hunt. By this time Don (Shield) and Keith (Wingman) pulled up. Sun was soon to follow when everyone was just about to launch.
It was a beautiful day, the only thing that would have made it better was to catch allot of fish. We searched all over from 10 feet of water to 30 feet of water without a bite despite the variety of bait that we three at them. We tried blood worm, raw shrimp, peeler crabs, squid and who knows what else. I tried jigging, and trolling both with zero results. I did manage to pull out a 10 inch rockfish on a top and bottom rig tipped with bloodworms. My skunk was off, but the force was strong with the skunk today. We saw plenty of fish on our fish finder, but they all had locked jaw. I believe that they were pods of baby rockfish like the one that I caught. They were just not interested in feeding. There were no croakers, and not a single perch. I believe the perch are still in the creeks and smaller rivers and have not made it into the Bay in force yet. With the lack of pullage, I decided to head in at 9:50am. Everyone else followed me in also.
With time still to spare John, Sun and myself decided to follow John onto the Navy Base to fish the Severn from shore. There, I caught three white perch. John caught some also. There was more happening on Severn than at Romancoke. Catching perch there fairly easily, enforced my observation that the perch have not left the creeks and rivers yet to the main Bay. After an hour of fishing from shore, we called it quits and headed home.
This is a strange year, fishing should have been picking up by now. Well, hopefully better days are ahead in a few weeks, and by then, maybe, perhaps SurfDog will get his keeper size croaker.
It was a beautiful day, the only thing that would have made it better was to catch allot of fish. We searched all over from 10 feet of water to 30 feet of water without a bite despite the variety of bait that we three at them. We tried blood worm, raw shrimp, peeler crabs, squid and who knows what else. I tried jigging, and trolling both with zero results. I did manage to pull out a 10 inch rockfish on a top and bottom rig tipped with bloodworms. My skunk was off, but the force was strong with the skunk today. We saw plenty of fish on our fish finder, but they all had locked jaw. I believe that they were pods of baby rockfish like the one that I caught. They were just not interested in feeding. There were no croakers, and not a single perch. I believe the perch are still in the creeks and smaller rivers and have not made it into the Bay in force yet. With the lack of pullage, I decided to head in at 9:50am. Everyone else followed me in also.
With time still to spare John, Sun and myself decided to follow John onto the Navy Base to fish the Severn from shore. There, I caught three white perch. John caught some also. There was more happening on Severn than at Romancoke. Catching perch there fairly easily, enforced my observation that the perch have not left the creeks and rivers yet to the main Bay. After an hour of fishing from shore, we called it quits and headed home.
This is a strange year, fishing should have been picking up by now. Well, hopefully better days are ahead in a few weeks, and by then, maybe, perhaps SurfDog will get his keeper size croaker.
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