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FFWanabe
04-02-2009, 06:42 PM
Caught a 29lber on fresh whole herring . Had one herring taken right at the boat.All I saw was a huge mouth take my bait and was gone.In between fishing with bait caught four 12-14 inchers on bass assassin's.Started getting a little crowded about 12 so I headed home.
Skmag357
04-02-2009, 09:44 PM
Nice report! Glad to see some bigger fish starting to show...now only if the weather would cooperative
wantsbigfish
04-03-2009, 12:32 AM
Had some luck as well but marked more fish than we caught. Caught a couple mid 20" trolling a crankbait and one trolling a swim bait. Nothing top water, nothing jigging.
wantsbigfish
04-03-2009, 12:37 AM
Water Temp was 52 degrees on the west side of Elk Neck State Park, warming up fast! Was 44 two days ago.
Flyguy784
04-03-2009, 09:16 AM
Fished the flats yesterday with a couple friends, Dave and Tom. Long rodders both. The day started out slow with me catching the one and only really small fish for the day. A 12 incher.
Once I figured out the pattern if you will, it started. We put 60 - 80 fish on the boat by days end. all being 22-24 inchers, all nice, fat, healthy and strong fish. With a couple 26 inchers thrown in. Weather was cool and very variable.
We had a blast with many doubles. Watching the many boats arouund us I'd say the long rodders dominated. We we're catching constantly and I saw no evidence of the same for the others. I love when that happens.
Water temp hit just over 50 and clarity was excellent. Truly a great start to our season. :wave:
wantsbigfish
04-03-2009, 01:42 PM
That is a good day! What time did you get out? I missed the tide, had to work until 4:30 so didn't get out to about 4:45. Fished the outgoing for the second time this week. Hope to catch the incoming Sunday.
Flyguy784
04-04-2009, 02:34 PM
That is a good day! What time did you get out? I missed the tide, had to work until 4:30 so didn't get out to about 4:45. Fished the outgoing for the second time this week. Hope to catch the incoming Sunday.

Got out at dawn. See ya Sunday.
lightman
04-04-2009, 05:36 PM
They are calling for winds 10 to 20 on sunday. If you stay on the western side of the flats it should not be that bad.
Flyguy784
04-05-2009, 06:11 AM
They are calling for winds 10 to 20 on sunday. If you stay on the western side of the flats it should not be that bad.

Thanks for the heads up, just checked, 7-9 mph WNW. I'm goin.