Jonas Green Sunday 8/4

[sparky1423]

I'll keep it short since a few Severn reports are lingering in the Boatyard. Met Thaimonkee and his buddy Julian bight and early. Both did great on the water today with a small amount of mileage under their belts.

Trolled between the bridges on the Launch side of the river and caught a total of 6 rockfish over the oyster bar. Most were small, but I managed two keepers barely making their legal sizes. No action on the Xraps, but I did manage to try a new invention that really shows promise. Basically I took a three foot piece of Mono and tied on a 1/2 oz roadrunner on each end and tied a dropper loop a third of the way down the line to make it a tandem rig. It really did not matter which bait was in front and which trailed. One roadrunner had a chartreuse paddle tail...the other, a 4" curly grub. My other rig was exactly the same except one roadrunner was 1/4 oz instead of 1/2oz.

Abumasgouf blessed us with his presence and landed his largest rockfish to date...I will let him do the honors. Also met Magothyman and had a friendly conversation. Great day, great peeps....the perch and croaker bite was slow. Called it a day after the boat traffic was in full force.

[J.A. Veil]

Good job Sparky. Sorry I missed you. I arrived at Jonas Green about 10:15 and talked with Mustafa and Zimm by the parking lot.

I am spoiled by fishing on weekdays. By late morning the water level was low, the water was murky, the wind was strong, and the boat wakes were brutal. I trolled along a riprap wall that produced several dozen perch last Thurs -- today I did not get a single bite. I managed a few perch from other spots, but returned after two hours. This was my 5th fishing trip this week, and getting bounced around with a slow bite was not attractive.

Congratulations to those of you who got out early and caught some good fish. That is a nice looking rig you put together. Obviously it has fish catching mojo.

[AbuMasgouf]

It was a blessed day bro!!

Now that's some serious Masgouf!!! LOVE IT!

Looks like we both posted around the same time

http://www.snaggedline.com/showthrea...n-Trolling-8-4

[sparky1423]

Hey John, that was my second time there. It was like an amusement park out there with all the boat traffic. I was jigging the bridge later in the day and the wakes would not let up. Glad you noticed the perch bite was slow, I though I was doing something wrong

[moc]

Sparks, you make me want to go out and try it soon with that rig.

[Fishinfool]

Wow Sparky, nice work on the rock and the creativity on the tandem road runner. The fish on the spit look delectable!

I was out at about 6:00 am upriver a mile or two. I must have just missed the best tide; The high tide there in the Brewer's Point area not far was @ 5:15 a.m., which means launching in the dark. I got out right at sunrise about an hour later, but apparently a little past prime. I went out later in the day @ 2:30 pm to try for the incoming again, but just four keeper perch (over 10 inches for me) for the entire day.

I am thinking the wind and high pressure condition slowed the overall bite down. We had a strong 10 - 20 mph wind from the north northwest on an incoming after noon, and I noticed the water level was still pretty low even nearing the afternoon high tide. All that wind basically offset the incoming, with the wind blowing the water out of the Bay. And yes, the boat traffic was like I 95 on friday nite.

[MDFisherman12]

Hey Sparky, I was the guy in the orangish/yellow (mango) Ride that talked to you just before you were headed over to the 450 bridge. Thanks for sharing the information regarding the trolling with the tandem rig. I have never really found a pattern or much luck with keeper sized rockfish in the Severn outside of the fall. You opened my eyes to a new option rather than just settling in on catching perch in a range of sizes all day. I have trolled lures and single jigheads with gulp before just moving from spot to spot, but no real success other than perch and very small < 13" rock.

Anyways, here is a report on my trip. I got in the water around 7:15 and crossed over to fish whatever remnants of the old bridge are still in the water. Caught probably 12-15 white perch, but only 3 had much size at all. All were caught vertical jigging a hopkins style spoon and ticking the bottom and picking up 6" or so and dropping it back down. Wind was pushing me around and I didn't key in on the exact spots I wanted to very well. Tried to fish the run of rip-rap that had all the wind pushing up against it, thinking the bait might be consolidated there. Threw a chug-bug and a paddle tail minnow there, had one nice strike on the paddle tail, but didn't set it well and it got off. Caught 2 very small perch there on the hopkins (casted towards the rocks).

trolled the hopkins (dropped it way back, so hopefully it would run low enough) and the paddle tail minnow from there to a cove over in Weems, no takers on the trolling. Fished the cove for about 20 minutes with no bites, no visible action, seemed like relatively low water level. I kept getting more aggressive with my casts into the submerged branches with no results.

Crossed back over to the launch side and casted the spoon along the face of the rip rap, caught a couple more small perch. Then, headed back in. caught a couple small perch/spot while vertical jigging near the docks on the way back.

Once again, thanks for the information, I'll be looking to try a little more with the trolling at some point. I think my problem has been, I am never using enough weight to get deep enough OR with the light stuff I am throwing back there, I'm not in shallow enough water. Whether it is freshwater/saltwater fishing, sometime I enjoy catching so much that I just settle for the most abundant fish (perch / bluegill / crappie), but maybe I need to start thinking quality a little more often.

[dsiekman]

Wow Sparky, nice work on the rock and the creativity on the tandem road runner. The fish on the spit look delectable!

I was out at about 6:00 am upriver a mile or two. I must have just missed the best tide; The high tide there in the Brewer's Point area not far was @ 5:15 a.m., which means launching in the dark. I got out right at sunrise about an hour later, but apparently a little past prime. I went out later in the day @ 2:30 pm to try for the incoming again, but just four keeper perch (over 10 inches for me) for the entire day.

I am thinking the wind and high pressure condition slowed the overall bite down. We had a strong 10 - 20 mph wind from the north northwest on an incoming after noon, and I noticed the water level was still pretty low even nearing the afternoon high tide. All that wind basically offset the incoming, with the wind blowing the water out of the Bay. And yes, the boat traffic was like I 95 on friday nite.

Glad to hear I wasn't the only one not having any luck. We had company in town and I had intended to get my father in law on some nice rock. Nothing doing. I couldn't hook up a rock to save my life. Out of two morning trips and one evening trip I only managed three WP and a pickerel that I foul hooked. I was able to release the pickerel without having to take him out of the water. My FIL only got one small WP the entire time.

I was marking a ton of nice fish but got nothing. I ran into a couple guys fishing the channel edges who had three in the box and numerous shorts. They were fishing the same lure, method, etc. that we were...except they were catching. Guess I just had lousy fishing karma this weekend...