Slow day on Weems Creek

[bignose]

I played hooky from football weight training today to get a few hours of fishing.
I hit Weems creek just before 9:00 a.m. and fished until 11:15 or so.
It was a high tide. Water visibility was poor, only 1 foot or so and cloudy.
I did manage to catch perhaps 20 Perch, not one over 6 inches. Great if I was catching bait for live lining, not so great if I was fishing for diner.
Green Spinner jig did all of the damage, nothing else I tried was effective.

[J.A. Veil]

Sorry to hear about the slow bite -- although there is nothing wrong with a 20-perch day. Recently I have caught mostly perch when throwing small spinnerbaits and mostly small rockfish when throwing jigheads with 3" minnows. If the casting bite is slow, try some trolling with light or ultralight rods.

It was a pleasant morning to be out on the water.

[J.A. Veil]

Stu -

Weems was not good to me today. After an hour of casting to shorelines and some trolling in the creek and in the main Severn, I had zero perch to my credit. Later in the morning, I tried another tributary and picked up a dozen perch, including one whopper of at least 12" that hit a lure dangling in 2 ft of water while I was untangling the line on that rod.

Like your report, the water level was high, and the water was turbid. Part of my trouble today was that I had no small spinnerbaits in my tackle box. I had lost two on the previous outing and forgot to replenish my supply from the garage shelves. I tried a beetle spin rig with a 2" white Gulp minnow grub and a silver inline spinner. They had intermittent success in the second tributary but the action was slow overall.

[bignose]

I'd like to think that the rain run off is causing some algae blooms.
I also think that the throbbing of the spinner blade is a fish attractant. Possibly the slow drop as it helicopters down......
With the water so high, it makes flicking up under the docks pretty hard. I usually find the fish parked up in the shady edges.

With an open canoe instead of a kayak, I don't like going out on the main stem of the Severn when there is a lot of boat traffic. It doesn't handle wakes well, and I've gotten pinned under a dock more than once. But I think the channel edges near the drop offs may be more productive than the creeks right now.

I couldn't buy a strike on a feather jig or a curly tail jig yesterday.

It sounds like you did real well out on the bay yesterday according to your write up on tidal fish.

The local ponds up around here are getting pretty much all snotted up, typical summer time conditions. Time for poppers and plastic worms.

[Strummerfan]

Stu -

Weems was not good to me today. After an hour of casting to shorelines and some trolling in the creek and in the main Severn, I had zero perch to my credit. Later in the morning, I tried another tributary and picked up a dozen perch, including one whopper of at least 12" that hit a lure dangling in 2 ft of water while I was untangling the line on that rod.

Like your report, the water level was high, and the water was turbid. Part of my trouble today was that I had no small spinnerbaits in my tackle box. I had lost two on the previous outing and forgot to replenish my supply from the garage shelves. I tried a beetle spin rig with a 2" white Gulp minnow grub and a silver inline spinner. They had intermittent success in the second tributary but the action was slow overall.

I had a similar experience on the other side of the Severn today. I caught 4 or 5 croaker and 12 wp, but it was slow going.