On 7/4/10 3:08 PM, John H wrote:
On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 18:12:41 -0500, wrote:

Harry ? wrote:
Not a bad feeeeshing report…

Got a 6 AM start so we could get up to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge for a
little BB fishing. Started out casting white and yellow bucktails, small
ones, near bridge structure, saw a couple guys just off the bridge
pulling in two foot stripers, so we putted over near them to try our
luck. Bite was good for about an hour, and we caught three to four fish
each, all of which we released successfully.


If you don't have getting some food in mind, fishing is a corrupt pastime.
What kind of person would just torture fish after fish to inflate his
ego? Probably somebody who calls fish "feeeessh."
Nothing wrong with releasing some fish for various reasons.
But to go fishing *knowing* you won't have any table fare from it?
You're just killing/stressing fish for nothing but silly.
Bowling is more fun and shows more character than that.
One other thing. Don't be messing up other fishermen with that boat
because you can't find fish on your own. Keep your distance.
There's structure with fish all over the place.
Don't be a herd animal. But do be a mensch.

Jim - Examine your motives hourly.


Methinks his motives involve a report posted the day before.


Indeed. I don't usually "post" all of my boating sojourns, because I
live close to the launch ramp and going out in a boat is not a big deal
for me.

You got skunked because you didn't know where to fish or what bait to
use. I didn't get skunked because my neighbor down the street had been
up to the BB the day before, told me the bite was pretty good, and that
he was using small bucktails. Nothing beats local knowledge, even though
it was a day old. But...you can almost always catch some species of fish
around the BB because the underwater structure is a fish magnet.

It would be a long haul for you in that light boat of yours...but you
could trailer to Sandy Point State Park. Very good launch ramps, plenty
of parking, but you'd have to pop for either a MD Boat License or all
your passengers would have to have individual fishing licenses. They do
check up there.

I've got about a dozen mid-Bay fishing spots I really like for various
reasons, some because they have fish there on occasion. We've pretty
much lost the Nuke Plant and the Gas Docks, though, thanks to former
President Bush's inability to protect the country from attack.