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@RBC:Captain Jim Duncan at <B>Florridays Charters<P> continues to favor trolling over chumming simply because there is an opportunity to catch larger stripers along with mackerel and blues. The wake from the boat traffic over the holiday weekend was as much as a problem as the wind. Last week, trollers working depths from 22 to 36 feet of water south of Thomas Point Light and Belvedere Shoals made random catches of stripers to 28 inches. Most legal stripers being caught have been running from 18 to 22 inches along with a high percentage of throwbacks. Bottom fishermen, as well as the head boats, have been focusing on the lumps at the mouth of the West River.
Angler’s Sport Center reported that bottom fishing has been outstanding from the mouth of the West River north to Snake Reef. White perch are practically everywhere and aggressively biting peelers, bloodworms, clams and grass shrimp. Dolly’s Lump, the Bay Bridge pilings, Snake Reef, inside Hackett’s Can, the mouth of the West River, Tolly and Podickory points are among the most prolific locations. There are “a ton” of undersize flounder all along the Western Shore, it’s tributaries as well as the Eastern Bay. Bob Herder almost made the catch of the week. He was jigging for perch, rock and blues near Parson’s Island and hooked up with a drum, which proved to be too much for his lightANNAPOLIS
@RBC:Captain Jim Duncan at <B>Florridays Charters<P> continues to favor trolling over chumming simply because there is an opportunity to catch larger stripers along with mackerel and blues. The wake from the boat traffic over the holiday weekend was as much as a problem as the wind. Last week, trollers working depths from 22 to 36 feet of water south of Thomas Point Light and Belvedere Shoals made random catches of stripers to 28 inches. Most legal stripers being caught have been running from 18 to 22 inches along with a high percentage of throwbacks. Bottom fishermen, as well as the head boats, have been focusing on the lumps at the mouth of the West River.
Angler’s Sport Center reported that bottom fishing has been outstanding from the mouth of the West River north to Snake Reef. White perch are practically everywhere and aggressively biting peelers, bloodworms, clams and grass shrimp. Dolly’s Lump, the Bay Bridge pilings, Snake Reef, inside Hackett’s Can, the mouth of the West River, Tolly and Podickory points are among the most prolific locations. There are “a ton” of undersize flounder all along the Western Shore, it’s tributaries as well as the Eastern Bay. Bob Herder almost made the catch of the week. He was jigging for perch, rock and blues near Parson’s Island and hooked up with a drum, which proved to be too much for his light tackle (or perhaps Bob).
tackle (or perhaps Bob).
Captains continue to favor trolling over chumming simply because there is an opportunity to catch larger stripers along with mackerel and blues. The wake from the boat traffic over the weekend was as much as a problem as the wind. Last week, trollers working depths from 22 to 36 feet of water south of Thomas Point Light and Belvedere Shoals made random catches of stripers to 28 inches.
Most legal stripers being caught have been running from 18 to 22 inches along with a high percentage of throwbacks. Bottom fishermen, as well as the head boats, have been focusing on the lumps at the mouth of the West River.
Bottom fishing has been outstanding from the mouth of the West River north to Snake Reef. White perch are practically everywhere and aggressively biting peelers, bloodworms, clams and grass shrimp. Dolly’s Lump, the Bay Bridge pilings, Snake Reef, inside Hackett’s Can, the mouth of the West River, Tolly and Podickory points are among the most prolific locations.
There are “a ton” of undersize flounder all along the Western Shore, it’s tributaries as well as the Eastern Bay. Bob almost made the catch of the week. He was jigging for perch, rock and blues near Parson’s Island and hooked up with a drum, which proved to be too much for his light tackle (or perhaps Bob).
