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On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:07:39 -0400, Larry wrote:

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John H wrote:

On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:19:37 -0400, wrote:



John H wrote:


Good to hear you got out. Sounds like you had a great day.

We have friends from Holland coming next week. I won't be ready to try to launch
the boat myself, but with Adri's (my friend) help, I'm sure planning to do a
little boating. He and his wife are shipping their VW camper van from Rotterdam
to Baltimore. We'll pick it up a few days after they arrive. They'll stay here a
couple weeks and then spend the next three months travelling.

I'd like to get into the Ches Bay and do a little fishing. Even some bottom
fishing for spot, perch, or croaker would be fun. I went down to the marina a
couple weeks ago, and the boat looks fine. The cover took a beating, but the new
one is here. Next year I'll give serious though to shrinkwrapping, especially if
I get the phone number of the real cheap guy in MD that one of the poster here
is always talking about.

I'm also interested in seeing how this new dog of mine does on a boat.
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Sounds like a great time! What else can you catch there?

Larry


Striped bass are the big draw, along with trout and flounder. But fishing for
all three has gotten much worse over the past few years, especially the trout
and flounder.
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John H

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Is the entire bay salt water?

IIrc these are the same striped bass that show up around here later in
the season. If they are, they are known for going some 40+ miles up the
Connecticut River, way beyond the salt or brakish water areas. Brown
trout can live way down by the shoreline too, not sure how far they
actually swim out into the Sound, but I have caught them a few hundred
yards up river from the Sound.

Scotty


I'm not familiar with your area. The bad is an estuary so it should be
mostly freshwater. It's a huge body of water so the tides can only
affect a small portion of the bay, right?

The Bay is tidal clear up past Baltimo

http://www.dnr.state.md.us/fisheries...ndex.asp#frame

The Potomac River is also tidal. Although 'fresh water' on top, the channel is
salt water on the bottom.

The stripers we catch in the bay look like this:

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...ng05_05_10.jpg

That's me on the right.

Those do seem to be the same fish we get up here. In fact I think you
man have Martha there in your hand. We did miss her last year! Was she
good?

Great pic. It's nice that you are not butt frekin ugly and fat as a pig
like so many of the nasty trolls here. Isn't it nice to be able to share
info about boating on a boating group without embarrassment. No nasty
gnawed nails, or frighteningly yellow tobacco stained teeth.

Scotty

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