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I met SurfDog just before 4:00am at the WaWa on Route 50. It was a ghost town there. There was an unexpectedly bad storm late Friday night that took down trees and power in the Washington area. Both the Wawa and Anglers Sports center was out of power. The Bay Bridge was also shutdown due to an accident. Fortunately, by 4:00am when Surf and I was ready to drive to the Eastern shore, the eastern bound traffic just began to move.
It was a short drive to Bellevue from the WaWa. On the way there we stopped at a 7-Eleven to pickup some bloodworms and eats on Kent Island (they had power). When we got to Bellevue, we saw lots of crabbing boats heading out in the morning. Just before we launched Don (Shield )and Keith (Wingman) arrived. The morning was sunny with little to no breeze. Temperatures were predicted to reach 100 degrees. The water was calm and it was low tide. I immediately began fishing to the left of the boat ramp after launching by casting a beetlespin spinner with a white jighead in a chartreuse body that I got from Nay_Sayer. I immediately hooked up with a puppy drum. I continued to catch fish, perch and a small rockfish, all on this spinner. I was catching them in 2.5 to 5 feet of water. I continued fishing the northern shoreline while making my way east. I caught perch after perch. Man, I gotta get more of those chartreuse jigheads from Nay_Sayer. I worked all of the docks along the way. I was catching some nice size perch around 11 to 12.5 inches. When we finally made it to the east side in 29 feet of water I tried jigging and dragging a bucktail with a white gulp swimming mullet,but I got no takers. I caught a few fishing in the deeper water using a top and bottom rig tipped with blood worms and peeler crabs. They were only small perch and small baby croakers. By 10am we started to head in before the heat was in full force. I tried to fish the areas near to the ramp again and bam! More perch, with some large ones mixed in. Needless to say I left the perch biting.
Bellevue is a nice launch area, with free cartop water access. The ramp can launch two boats at a time. The parking lot fills up fast with trailers hauling crabbing boats, so get there early on a weekend. Next time I will explore the area to the right of the boat launch since I heard fishing can be good here in the afternoon.
It was a short drive to Bellevue from the WaWa. On the way there we stopped at a 7-Eleven to pickup some bloodworms and eats on Kent Island (they had power). When we got to Bellevue, we saw lots of crabbing boats heading out in the morning. Just before we launched Don (Shield )and Keith (Wingman) arrived. The morning was sunny with little to no breeze. Temperatures were predicted to reach 100 degrees. The water was calm and it was low tide. I immediately began fishing to the left of the boat ramp after launching by casting a beetlespin spinner with a white jighead in a chartreuse body that I got from Nay_Sayer. I immediately hooked up with a puppy drum. I continued to catch fish, perch and a small rockfish, all on this spinner. I was catching them in 2.5 to 5 feet of water. I continued fishing the northern shoreline while making my way east. I caught perch after perch. Man, I gotta get more of those chartreuse jigheads from Nay_Sayer. I worked all of the docks along the way. I was catching some nice size perch around 11 to 12.5 inches. When we finally made it to the east side in 29 feet of water I tried jigging and dragging a bucktail with a white gulp swimming mullet,but I got no takers. I caught a few fishing in the deeper water using a top and bottom rig tipped with blood worms and peeler crabs. They were only small perch and small baby croakers. By 10am we started to head in before the heat was in full force. I tried to fish the areas near to the ramp again and bam! More perch, with some large ones mixed in. Needless to say I left the perch biting.
Bellevue is a nice launch area, with free cartop water access. The ramp can launch two boats at a time. The parking lot fills up fast with trailers hauling crabbing boats, so get there early on a weekend. Next time I will explore the area to the right of the boat launch since I heard fishing can be good here in the afternoon.
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