Flats Report 11/2/2013

[Yak Fish]

Fishing was much slower than 2 weeks ago on the flats. I went out with a buddy from work and we got a couple of 23" fish. The numerous 17" fish were not there today nor were the large schools of bait fish I'd seen over the past several weeks. It was a beautiful day in the water and my belly is full of rockfish so I can't complain. In years past I remember mid November really slowing down. I would expect the next two weeks to be good, just not based on what I saw today. Just another day of fish documenation :-) We'll see if others share the same outcome. Perhaps the fish have moved up into the river. I believe that's probably a pretty good bet.

[HJS]

No different than for the Patapsco... here today, gone tomorrow... and for unknown reasons. It's all so frustrating, yet all so very addicting. CBIB is showing the clarity of the Flats continues to get clearer. Temps the past 2 days shows only a slight increase. So nothing out of the ordinary happened to conditions on the Flats that might prompt the stripers to change their behavior.

However, could be a river flow thing. I see as of 3:30pm today that Conowingo has not released any water for generation all day. This is the first day in a week that they didn't generate during the morning hours. Who knows for sure whats going on down below the waterline.

[Yak Fish]

The current was rather weak today, even flat at times. That's not typical so that's the only thing I could point to.
I'll keep trying though. I cut up the fillets and fried them. Whew, they were delicious with some homemade tarter sauce.