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I think I've come down with tog fever the last month. It's been a good bite in Ocean City this fall and I've been out the last four weekends now with this weekend being no different. I tried again Saturday (9th) and Monday (11th). I've mostly been fishing the 50 bridge and Maratha's Landing area but tides were favorable for hitting the south jetty so I decided to work there both days.
Saturday was pretty slow in the morning. Short tog here and there and I had to move around a lot to keep getting hits. The couple hours around the afternoon slack tide set off a feeding frenzy though and everybody along the jetty was into fish. As soon as bait hit bottom, the tog were on it. I only brought 2 dozen live green crabs and a half dozen frozen I had left over from the weekend before and was out of bait by 2 pm. I had to leave them biting. I ended up getting only 1 keeper tog at 17.5" out of about 3 dozen caught. The boat next to me was in the magic hole though and I saw them get at least 6 keepers.
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And yes.... this boat really did anchor this close to me. When I informed the women fishing in front that they were casting over my anchor line and would eventually snag it, they finally decided they were too close. After pulling anchor they almost reversed into me and I had to use my paddle to push against their motor to keep them off me while yelling at the fool driving to put it in forward.
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Monday I brought 3 dozen greenies with me and caught 2 pints of rock crabs from under the jetty rocks at low water on the way out for insurance. Found plenty of fish during the falling tide in the morning, but all shorts again. The bite died around slack tide but picked right back up once it started moving in. Short tog continued to come up so I made a couple moves to find some new holes and got into 6 keepers with the largest being 18.5". Kept 3 and let the rest swim. Used up all my bait again. In one hole I couldn't hook the little bait stealer's for the life of me. Ended up catching a total of 3 dozen or so tog again. Most boats around me were catching at about the same rate. The only fish I caught that wasn't a tog was a single toad. But than again I didn't really try for anything else. Lot's of gannets diving just outside the inlet on Monday too...
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Saturday was pretty slow in the morning. Short tog here and there and I had to move around a lot to keep getting hits. The couple hours around the afternoon slack tide set off a feeding frenzy though and everybody along the jetty was into fish. As soon as bait hit bottom, the tog were on it. I only brought 2 dozen live green crabs and a half dozen frozen I had left over from the weekend before and was out of bait by 2 pm. I had to leave them biting. I ended up getting only 1 keeper tog at 17.5" out of about 3 dozen caught. The boat next to me was in the magic hole though and I saw them get at least 6 keepers.
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And yes.... this boat really did anchor this close to me. When I informed the women fishing in front that they were casting over my anchor line and would eventually snag it, they finally decided they were too close. After pulling anchor they almost reversed into me and I had to use my paddle to push against their motor to keep them off me while yelling at the fool driving to put it in forward.
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Monday I brought 3 dozen greenies with me and caught 2 pints of rock crabs from under the jetty rocks at low water on the way out for insurance. Found plenty of fish during the falling tide in the morning, but all shorts again. The bite died around slack tide but picked right back up once it started moving in. Short tog continued to come up so I made a couple moves to find some new holes and got into 6 keepers with the largest being 18.5". Kept 3 and let the rest swim. Used up all my bait again. In one hole I couldn't hook the little bait stealer's for the life of me. Ended up catching a total of 3 dozen or so tog again. Most boats around me were catching at about the same rate. The only fish I caught that wasn't a tog was a single toad. But than again I didn't really try for anything else. Lot's of gannets diving just outside the inlet on Monday too...
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