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I haven't been able to get on the water much this year, but I think I made the most of this trip:
On Monday afternoon I loaded the kayak and a bunch of fishing gear and went to Ocean City. I fished off the bridge the rest of the day, catching flounder by day and short stripers at night. There is a bat ray swimming around the bridge recently that must have an 8ft wingspan. I snagged him once. He won that fight.
I grabbed some sleep around 2am, then woke up around 4:45 and took the drive down to Janes Island, about 1hr 15mins from ocean city. Got there around 6am and started fishing with a top-water spook. Worked by way all the way up the cut until I got to the basin with no takers on the topwater. Switched to a gulp on a 1/8 oz jighead, which has worked very well there in the past. I got a bite and I was really hoping for a trout. Turned out to be a 14 inch bluefish. No more takers on the gulp, so I paddled out of the cut and headed north, as I wanted to explore the grass edges north of the island. There was a lot of bait in the water, but I could not get a bite around the edges. I started casting a Bomber Badonk-a-donk SS, a slow sinking twitch bait like a Mirrodine, and picked up a 19in striper. I took a break from paddling and let the east wind blow be across the river to the north shore of the island, dragging fish bites on a hi-low rig. Got a 10in croaker. I then beached on a sandbar and ate some lunch, where I met a local gentleman who had paddled around from the other side of the island. He said that flounder and speckled trout haven't shown up well this year so far. Fishing was slow so I switched to exploration mode, paddling around the north side of the island and coming in on the far side of The Beach, where I could drag the yak across and put back in in the basin. I paddled back to the launch from there, got everything loaded, and left Janes Island around 3pm. Slow fishing that day, but neat area as always.
I headed back to Ocean City in the afternoon and was back fishing off the bridge by 4. I caught loads of short flounder and 1 keeper with a bucktail and gulp, and even caught 2 kingfish/whiting on the bucktail gulp combo. I only had small rods with me, but I took one of my spinning rods and fished the surf at night with fish bites and mole crabs. I caught 2 baby sharks and 2 mystery eel-like burrowing fish. I grabbed a bit more sleep, then fished the bridge again in the morning, caught more short flounder, and then drove home to go to work in the afternoon.
No camera, so no pics...nothing picture worthy anyway. Good trip, burned some gas, got to paddle a bit, and caught a bunch of fish. Fun.
On Monday afternoon I loaded the kayak and a bunch of fishing gear and went to Ocean City. I fished off the bridge the rest of the day, catching flounder by day and short stripers at night. There is a bat ray swimming around the bridge recently that must have an 8ft wingspan. I snagged him once. He won that fight.
I grabbed some sleep around 2am, then woke up around 4:45 and took the drive down to Janes Island, about 1hr 15mins from ocean city. Got there around 6am and started fishing with a top-water spook. Worked by way all the way up the cut until I got to the basin with no takers on the topwater. Switched to a gulp on a 1/8 oz jighead, which has worked very well there in the past. I got a bite and I was really hoping for a trout. Turned out to be a 14 inch bluefish. No more takers on the gulp, so I paddled out of the cut and headed north, as I wanted to explore the grass edges north of the island. There was a lot of bait in the water, but I could not get a bite around the edges. I started casting a Bomber Badonk-a-donk SS, a slow sinking twitch bait like a Mirrodine, and picked up a 19in striper. I took a break from paddling and let the east wind blow be across the river to the north shore of the island, dragging fish bites on a hi-low rig. Got a 10in croaker. I then beached on a sandbar and ate some lunch, where I met a local gentleman who had paddled around from the other side of the island. He said that flounder and speckled trout haven't shown up well this year so far. Fishing was slow so I switched to exploration mode, paddling around the north side of the island and coming in on the far side of The Beach, where I could drag the yak across and put back in in the basin. I paddled back to the launch from there, got everything loaded, and left Janes Island around 3pm. Slow fishing that day, but neat area as always.
I headed back to Ocean City in the afternoon and was back fishing off the bridge by 4. I caught loads of short flounder and 1 keeper with a bucktail and gulp, and even caught 2 kingfish/whiting on the bucktail gulp combo. I only had small rods with me, but I took one of my spinning rods and fished the surf at night with fish bites and mole crabs. I caught 2 baby sharks and 2 mystery eel-like burrowing fish. I grabbed a bit more sleep, then fished the bridge again in the morning, caught more short flounder, and then drove home to go to work in the afternoon.
No camera, so no pics...nothing picture worthy anyway. Good trip, burned some gas, got to paddle a bit, and caught a bunch of fish. Fun.
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