Key Bridge pilings - first light 7/15

[JoshKaptur]

Thinking of jigging the bridge pilings and/or live lining some perch if I can get a few. Hope to be on the water around 6:30. Need to be off the water by lunch time.

Would love some company. Launching at Ft. Amistead.

Josh

[Hookin-Up]

Will be yak fishing in OC all next week. Hopfully picking up some flatties and a trout or 2. We will definitly hook up when I get back. I want to troll/jig/liveline around podickory seems like its heating up again.

Can you access beach parking at SPSP at 430am or just the boat ramp area?

Good luck tomorrow!

[wolfman]

Josh,
This sounds like it is very doable for me, I would like to tag along if you don't mind.[smile]
Chris

[FishingRod]

I should be able to make it. I will confirm later tonight.

Rod

[chesapeakeblend]

is the canton area starting to get hot like last summer?

mike

[JoshKaptur]

Chris, Rod, and perhaps others - looking forward to it. See you at the ramp bright and early.

Chesblend... haven't heard much yet, but I'm regularly watching the original board here on TF. Did you have good success on the yak there last year?

Right now the mid/upper bay seems to be doing pretty well if you can find the fish... and one nice thing about kayaks is that there is no prop damage!

[JoshKaptur]

Yikes, favor to ask. Just found out that my normal LTJ rod for summer sized stripers is at my parent's house in PA, not in my basement where I thought it was. Of all the things to forget!!!

Any chance one of you guys could let me borrow a medium action rod/reel tomorrow? If not, I'll just be under and over equipped... which is not the end of the world. But if you were going to leave that older rod/reel at home now that you bought the next best thing, I sure would appreciate a loaner.

Sorry to be a begger... I've been meaning to get a new/better combo anyway, and just realized this a few minutes after it was too late to head off to Bass Pro (and I had the perfect excuse, darn it).

Thanks in advance... and like I said, don't sweat it if not... I can show those rockfish I'm the boss on my ultralight perch rods if I have to... or they can cry "no fair" as I yank em up on my medium heavy spring (flats) and winder (CBBT) LTJ rod.

Josh

[FishingRod]

Sorry I missed you guys this morning. I was up late last night and over slept this morning.[sad]

I may try the Northwest branch of the Patapsco tomorrow morning. If I go I will post a report and let you know if find some fish in that part of the river.

[JoshKaptur]

Chris and I fished the bridge area this morning. Plan was to catch some perch (bait) and then jig/liveline the pilings and dropoffs.

Hard to complain when the reason you are taking too long catching the bait is because all of the perch are too big. I probably caught close to 50 perch pushing 10 inches... and another 25 of so that were smaller. I had to weed through several 8-10 inch perch before I would get a small one to take it. The were stacked up on the upriver side of the rip-rap point that goes under the bridge.

Well we finally pulled ourselves away from that, and went with the game plan. Action was slow... though there were more perch out by the bridge pilings and by the abandoned lighthouse. I did catch a few yearling rock while fishing for perch. I had one knockdown on the livelined perch, but failed to connect. There were LOTS of marks just south of the bridge on the drop off for the shipping channel, but they had lock jaw - tried stretch 25s right though them, live lined perch, LTJ soft plastics... nothing.

All in all a good day... no rockfish to speak of but TONS of pullage. The patapsco put the severn to shame when it came to perch... I easily had 10 fish that would have won the SRRKC perch off last week.

Josh

[KRiley]

Josh What kind of kayak do you have? I work near the key bridge and have a sit-in kayak. I used to fish were I work (pre 9/11) and have caught alot of nice perch, rock, catfish, and blues in this area. I have also caught some red drum when we have had dry summers. Let me know the next time you are going out at Key Bridge. This area gets a lot of ship and boat traffic so I have not attempted alone.
Kevin

[HJS]

JoshKaptur - Around mid-August, 2005, striper action in the Boston Street area of the Inner Harbor did a serious turn-on for at least a couple of weeks. Water clarity there maxed out at about 6 feet, exceptional for that area, and a nice grade of stripers moved in to take advantage of the clear water. Action was outstanding and highly accessible by canoe and kayak. But all good things come to an end. By late August a bloom started that cut vis to about a foot and it was over... they left as quickly as they came. After that brief incursion of stripers, action quickly subsided to the usual ho-hum level one tends to encounter in that area. Who knows when this will happen again.

[JoshKaptur]

KRiley - I have a hobie adventure. Wolfman has a sit in kayak and seemed just as comfortable... in fact, he seemed more comfortable than me both because he was dry, and because he remembered his seat (something I'll never forget again... trust me).

I'm always posting on here when I intend to go out, trolling for company. My cell is 4438543049 which any of you can feel free to call any time if you want to go fishing.

HJS - thanks for the insight. I usually pay careful attention to the reports on the main board and then develop a last minute plan of attack based on suitable launches, weather, etc. This is my first year kayaking, so I've also been trying to do a sampling of all the places so I can become more familiar with the local fisheries. My favorite trips are all day trips where a bunch of us fish in the morning, we meet on an island or beach somewhere for lunch and to tell fish tales, and then we do a little more fishing.

You're talking to the guy who spent one day on the flats this spring in a kayak from 6:30 AM until 10 PM... only got out twice for about 15 minutes each time. I can't get enough of this sport!

Alright, I'm done rambling.
Josh