Well done Chris. I've been hitting small blues off Thomas Point and many aquarium size hard head. Spot is really stocked this year probably due to the higher salt levels which unfortunately bring more CNR's too.
Where did you see them in the patapsco Chris? Not asking you to burn a spot but am curious. I havent personally seen them up here in a few years... I was out around the drydock on sunday and didnt notice any. I heard guys were seeing them out around the Bay Bridge last week... probably the same pod moving around?
That's awesome brother, I've lived in the sparrows point area all my life and have seen them up around Fort Carroll a handful of times when the salinity levels are up.We passed them out in front of Old Road Bay just to the North of the shipping channel. This is the first time I have ever seen them in the Patapsco. I’ve seen plenty in the mid and lower Bay Area. Heard talk of them in the upper bay, on the eastern side this year.
These links will give you lots of good information on fishing the bay. It appears that you are bottom fishing so I would suggest targeting Perch using bloodworms or grass shrimp in depths from 6 to 16 feet. You can find them on the West side of the bridge just outside the pilings on the east bound side, at Hackett's Point, at the mouth of the Severn, on Weems Creek next to the Naval Academy and lots of other places. You can get bait at Anglers just off Route 50 on Whitehall Road or Marty's in Edgewater.
https://dnr.maryland.gov/Fisheries/Pages/fishingreport/index.aspx
http://eyesonthebay.dnr.maryland.gov/eyesonthebay/index.cfm
Hope this helps.
Thanks for that information. Actually, we were in the south river and caught lots of white perch a couple weeks ago. We are really looking for rockfish now. The last one I caught was in the late 90s. As for anglers, I was in there about a week ago, I bought some frozen bunker fish for bait. I’m wondering if I used chopped up perch as bait, if that would work for rockfish. I assume rockfish are familiar with perch in the bay and there are plenty of free perch
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