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Foursteps24, Metroman, and I launched from Jonas Green at around 5:00 am. Foursteps24 and Metroman wanted to run their trot lines for crabs and I wanted to do a little fishing and then set some traps for crabs. But Metroman had motor issues and made an early exit... LOL. The weather was beautiful that morning, little to no winds and too early for the Severn River Rec boaters to act like jerks! LOL
My game plan was to find a portion of the submerged old Severn bridge and try to jig a BKD for some Stripers. And if that failed then try a Specialized bait lil' bunker spoon/teaser fly rig, I used the lil bunker spoon as the weight and then dropper loop to the fly. It was weird because as I was paddling directly in front of the pier My FF was showing a relatively flat bottom... In my head I'm like this can't be right. So I drop my BKD... the bottom felt soft. So I paddled around the vicinity then I saw where I went from 25 ft to 15 ft and there it was! I dropped my BKD and started to jig... I could immediately feel the concrete and also felt my jig head fall into little crevices where I got hung up a couple times, but I didn't lose any lures. I caught some little puny Stripers... I mean like 10-12". LOL Then the craziest thing happened... a damn White Perch hit the BKD. And I ain't talking bout foul hooking it... the sucker had it in it's mouth! LOL It was hilarious. It was about 12" or so. So since I knew that perch were holding there as well, I switched over to my Specialized bait rig... KILLED THEM. Every drop I was getting hits in a matter of seconds. Foursteps24 came to see what I was doing and we were just laughing at how quick they were hitting it. I would get doubles of WP, doubles of Stripers, One of each... it was crazy! But as soon as I got off that piece of structure... nothing. The guys on the pier didn't look like they were doing much of anything...
Foursteps24 killed the crabs... he caught just about a bushel if not one. I tried the traps for the first time and caught a whopping 3 keeper crabs.
One was HUGE though. It was the biggest in the crate of course! LOL We got off the water around 12 or so. I wanted to try the spot again and catch a few more WP, but by this time the Severn fools were out in full force by boat and jet ski with no regard to anyone else on the water... I didn't even feel like fooling with them. All in all it was a great day on the water. I released all my fish and didn't get to taste any of the crabs... LOL
On another note I was able to finally put my new paddle in the water... A Werner Camano. I was able to talk my wife into getting me one for Father's day. My God I have no idea why I didn't invest in a good paddle sooner!!! This thing is super crazy light and I had no problem getting the Big Game Barge moving! Normally I get off the water feeling like I spent the day bench pressing. LOL This definitely reduced my fatigue and recovery.
My game plan was to find a portion of the submerged old Severn bridge and try to jig a BKD for some Stripers. And if that failed then try a Specialized bait lil' bunker spoon/teaser fly rig, I used the lil bunker spoon as the weight and then dropper loop to the fly. It was weird because as I was paddling directly in front of the pier My FF was showing a relatively flat bottom... In my head I'm like this can't be right. So I drop my BKD... the bottom felt soft. So I paddled around the vicinity then I saw where I went from 25 ft to 15 ft and there it was! I dropped my BKD and started to jig... I could immediately feel the concrete and also felt my jig head fall into little crevices where I got hung up a couple times, but I didn't lose any lures. I caught some little puny Stripers... I mean like 10-12". LOL Then the craziest thing happened... a damn White Perch hit the BKD. And I ain't talking bout foul hooking it... the sucker had it in it's mouth! LOL It was hilarious. It was about 12" or so. So since I knew that perch were holding there as well, I switched over to my Specialized bait rig... KILLED THEM. Every drop I was getting hits in a matter of seconds. Foursteps24 came to see what I was doing and we were just laughing at how quick they were hitting it. I would get doubles of WP, doubles of Stripers, One of each... it was crazy! But as soon as I got off that piece of structure... nothing. The guys on the pier didn't look like they were doing much of anything...
Foursteps24 killed the crabs... he caught just about a bushel if not one. I tried the traps for the first time and caught a whopping 3 keeper crabs.
One was HUGE though. It was the biggest in the crate of course! LOL We got off the water around 12 or so. I wanted to try the spot again and catch a few more WP, but by this time the Severn fools were out in full force by boat and jet ski with no regard to anyone else on the water... I didn't even feel like fooling with them. All in all it was a great day on the water. I released all my fish and didn't get to taste any of the crabs... LOL On another note I was able to finally put my new paddle in the water... A Werner Camano. I was able to talk my wife into getting me one for Father's day. My God I have no idea why I didn't invest in a good paddle sooner!!! This thing is super crazy light and I had no problem getting the Big Game Barge moving! Normally I get off the water feeling like I spent the day bench pressing. LOL This definitely reduced my fatigue and recovery.
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