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The weather cleared up from the weekday rain. The temperature was going to reach 83 degrees with only a 30 percent chance of scattered thunder storms and partly sunny skies. The tide in Ocean City would be incoming all morning. For the Maryland Kayaking Meet and Greet for July, we were expecting close to 16 members, old and new. Some of the members went down a day or two in advance such as DaddyG, Russ498, and Medicyaker. I left early in the morning and met up with Coop1486 and Kitkatyaker in Easton at 4:45am. at the WAWA. We headed down to ocean city and met the other kayakers at Lucky Angler Bait & Tackle Inc. around 6:30am. At the bait shop we met Slobber Bob, Hemingway, Chexone, Sun, DaddyG, Medicyaker and Russ498.
After getting some supplies at the Lucky Angler, we headed out to the boat ramps at Sunset Avenue. We hit the water around 7:30am. The winds were only 8 mph. The inlet did have fast currents that made for a fast drift back towards the channel. Many of the kayakers scattered in different directions. Some went to the Route 50 bridge. Some when to the inlet and some stayed in the channel. Pinch even join us according to other kayak members.
I fished near the end of the docks and got nibbles that turned out to be spots. I caught the spots on an 8th ounce jig head with a chartreuse 3 inch Gulp Swimming Mullet. I then fished the last pilings of the last pier out of the marina and hooked up with a nasty giant toadfish. At this point I saw Tufnik and another MKF kayaker. I offered Tufnik the toadfish , but he turned it down. ha ha. I fished the inlet and found a spot that was 30 feet deep. I tossed my jig head down into the depths tipped with white Gulp Swimming Mullet. Within seconds of jigging I hooked up with a heavy fish that was peeling line. It turned out to be a giant clear nose skate, not big big flounder. I battled the skate for 20 minutes until he broke my jig head off of the leader at the side of the boat.
The current for the inlet got stronger later in the morning. I only managed a 13 inch flounder in the inlet. Chexone, caught the first keeper flounder or the morning. More flounders would be caught later in the morning. Sun caught a keeper flounder in the inlet. Sun also caught a second keeper in the channel to the right when you exit the marina. Slobber Bob caught a keeper, and so did Hemingway. The happiest man of the morning was Tom aka Medicyaker. He caught an 18 inch keeper flounder in the inlet which he so wanted badly. Other fish were caught like skates, spots, small rockfish, a spider crab, oyster toads and sea robins.
It was 12:15 pm and some of the kayakers reported over channel 68 on their marine radio that hunger was calling, so 9 of us went to the Pizza Tugo's. Lunch was fun as usual. After lunch, DaddyG, Russ, Coop, Slobber Bob and myself went back out to fish the southern channel area. I hooked up with another flounder measuring 15 inches...darn, an inch shy of a keeper. Fishing was slow and the outgoing tide was really moving. All of us were getting tired of fighting the current, and with a lack a bites, we called it quits and headed back to the ramp.
It was a fun M&G and even after all of the weeks rain, fish were still caught.
I believe this is the list of those that made it....there was another MKF member who came, but I cannot remember his name...my apologies.
Russ498
Hemingway
MOC
Coop1486
Chexone
Slobber Bob
Medicyaker
DaddyG
Sun
Tufnik
Pinch
Kitkatyaker
After getting some supplies at the Lucky Angler, we headed out to the boat ramps at Sunset Avenue. We hit the water around 7:30am. The winds were only 8 mph. The inlet did have fast currents that made for a fast drift back towards the channel. Many of the kayakers scattered in different directions. Some went to the Route 50 bridge. Some when to the inlet and some stayed in the channel. Pinch even join us according to other kayak members.
I fished near the end of the docks and got nibbles that turned out to be spots. I caught the spots on an 8th ounce jig head with a chartreuse 3 inch Gulp Swimming Mullet. I then fished the last pilings of the last pier out of the marina and hooked up with a nasty giant toadfish. At this point I saw Tufnik and another MKF kayaker. I offered Tufnik the toadfish , but he turned it down. ha ha. I fished the inlet and found a spot that was 30 feet deep. I tossed my jig head down into the depths tipped with white Gulp Swimming Mullet. Within seconds of jigging I hooked up with a heavy fish that was peeling line. It turned out to be a giant clear nose skate, not big big flounder. I battled the skate for 20 minutes until he broke my jig head off of the leader at the side of the boat.
The current for the inlet got stronger later in the morning. I only managed a 13 inch flounder in the inlet. Chexone, caught the first keeper flounder or the morning. More flounders would be caught later in the morning. Sun caught a keeper flounder in the inlet. Sun also caught a second keeper in the channel to the right when you exit the marina. Slobber Bob caught a keeper, and so did Hemingway. The happiest man of the morning was Tom aka Medicyaker. He caught an 18 inch keeper flounder in the inlet which he so wanted badly. Other fish were caught like skates, spots, small rockfish, a spider crab, oyster toads and sea robins.
It was 12:15 pm and some of the kayakers reported over channel 68 on their marine radio that hunger was calling, so 9 of us went to the Pizza Tugo's. Lunch was fun as usual. After lunch, DaddyG, Russ, Coop, Slobber Bob and myself went back out to fish the southern channel area. I hooked up with another flounder measuring 15 inches...darn, an inch shy of a keeper. Fishing was slow and the outgoing tide was really moving. All of us were getting tired of fighting the current, and with a lack a bites, we called it quits and headed back to the ramp.
It was a fun M&G and even after all of the weeks rain, fish were still caught.
I believe this is the list of those that made it....there was another MKF member who came, but I cannot remember his name...my apologies.
Russ498
Hemingway
MOC
Coop1486
Chexone
Slobber Bob
Medicyaker
DaddyG
Sun
Tufnik
Pinch
Kitkatyaker
. Since the bite was slow jigging, I caught some spot at the west end of the inlet and took them out to the east end to live line. I got one short bass, maybe 20" or so, right away but nothing after. Going back out after lunch proved to be more of a workout as the current was running out pretty good and the water seemed much dirtier than the morning. I ended up getting one more short flounder jigging on the Assateague side of the channel before calling it a day. But again, a great overall time for my first meet & greet!
. I ended up catching 2 keeper flounders on the live minnows. Here are some pics from the day.
Chexone's first ever spot.
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