Bay Reports?

[chesapeakeblend]

Dang guys the Chesapeake Board is lit up with reports but nothing from the fly board! anyone been out? I am heading out of Chesapeake Beach or Solomons at lunch today. Trying to beat the winds that are forecasted for tonight.

Report to follow - fish or no fish.:thumbup:


mike

[brettgaba]

i'm hitting the narrows tonight. we'll see how that goes. have herd mixed reports but just want to give it a shot.

[chesapeakeblend]

We left out of Chesapeake Beach around 1pm today with high hopes. Nice sunshine and flat seas. We turned south and began scouting the water through out binoculars.

A lot of birds a couple miles south of the radar towers so we put the throttle down to cruising speed. I could not believe the amount of boats! You would have thought it was saturday on the Bay. Every time the birds moved so did the boats, it was unreal. Looked like everyone was throwing light tackle. Me with my white clouser and 350 grain line. Everyone was just resting when the birds did and moved when they moved. For my first fall season on the Bay with my own boat, I found it comical.

We did this until around 4pm when the dark clouds rolled in and wind picked up. Rain was spitting for a little bit but it blew over pretty quickly. We went fishless today but it sure was nice driving home against traffic this evening!

mike

[Salmo trutta]

Nice to hear you got a boat. What is it? Funny how those birds and fish have been in that area for a while now. Other places to try would be love point and inside the Chester to around the bay bridge too. This area sees a good number of ocean fish from the DE canal, or at least that's one theory why there are big fish with sea lice there right now (or were there).

No fun chasing lots of birds with 100's of other boats. One thing that often happens is that the birds leave feeding fish to find more bait and so do the fishermen. The patient angler that sticks with the first spot often gets rewarded. The birds are often fighting over large bait right now. They'll fight each other and dive bomb each other for a while to make it look like there's some serious action going on in their facility. When in fact it's just one large baitfish they are all fighting over. It's worth it to them to expend that much energy for one fish because the reward is worth it.

This also usually means that where there's large bait fish, there's large fish around. But of course that saying is also almost always accompanied by "Elephant eat peanuts too you know?"

[golfinjoe24]

Went down to a beach by my house Wednesday afternoon (when I just started to get Swine Flu!) and caught a few small stripers on the rocks by a small jetty. It was getting later in the evening. Just north of drum point and a tad bit south of cove point. Used a silicone. They were both about 18". It was still fun and getting a little cold out. I really wanted to go back on yesterday morning but when I woke up, it felt like a freight train hit me. I have not fished the bay for real since "Flyfest" and really need to get back out but school and work's holding me up. Sunday is my only day to get out and I all ready have plans on going up to western Md for the next few sundays for trout. Maybe I will go out before class on tuesdays and thursdays.

[chesapeakeblend]

Nice to hear you got a boat. What is it?

Picked up an old Boston Whaler Katama 17', 85hp. Runs like a top and is perfect for everywhere I run. Even trying to figure out how I can make a camo cover for ducks!

Mike