My friend, Gimp, and I left Deale at 6:30, loaded for bear. We had chum, we had
soft-shell crabs, we had bloodworms, squid, and shrimp from my Asian Market!

We headed for The Hill (across the Bay) where we found a couple charters and
three or four other boats, found a likely spot with lots of marks, dropped the
anchor, and started chumming. We had barely started when we saw a ruckus on one
of the charters - a little yelling from the half dozen (seemed like) females on
board, and the mate grabbing the net. After a short struggle the mate netted a
beautiful striper - all of ten inches long. Within another hour or so we saw
another 20 inches of stripers caught. Both were about ten inches long. (The
minimum size for a 'keeper' is 18".)

We hauled anchor and headed for the fish traps on the west side of the bay..
We'd heard some great hardhead and perch reports for that area. Got there,
dropped lines loaded with bloodworms, crab, and shrimp, and braced for the
action!

About an hour and a half later (bored), we headed for #81A, usually a good spot
for hardheads (for me anyway). Then, an hour or so later(still bored), we tried
a couple other spots in Herring Bay.

Bottom line - the boat smells really bad. The skunk spent the whole day there.
We had not one take down. The closest we came to anything were the four or five
rays that came by the boat to commiserate and the Maryland Department of Natural
Resources officer who checked life vests.

Hope everyone else had a SUPER day!

John H

On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

John H wrote:

My friend, Gimp, and I left Deale at 6:30, loaded for bear. We had chum, we had
soft-shell crabs, we had bloodworms, squid, and shrimp from my Asian Market!

We headed for The Hill (across the Bay) where we found a couple charters and
three or four other boats, found a likely spot with lots of marks, dropped the
anchor, and started chumming. We had barely started when we saw a ruckus on one
of the charters - a little yelling from the half dozen (seemed like) females on
board, and the mate grabbing the net. After a short struggle the mate netted a
beautiful striper - all of ten inches long. Within another hour or so we saw
another 20 inches of stripers caught. Both were about ten inches long. (The
minimum size for a 'keeper' is 18".)

We hauled anchor and headed for the fish traps on the west side of the bay..
We'd heard some great hardhead and perch reports for that area. Got there,
dropped lines loaded with bloodworms, crab, and shrimp, and braced for the
action!

About an hour and a half later (bored), we headed for #81A, usually a good spot
for hardheads (for me anyway). Then, an hour or so later(still bored), we tried
a couple other spots in Herring Bay.

Bottom line - the boat smells really bad. The skunk spent the whole day there.
We had not one take down. The closest we came to anything were the four or five
rays that came by the boat to commiserate and the Maryland Department of Natural
Resources officer who checked life vests.

Hope everyone else had a SUPER day!

John H

On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!



Yeah, well, one of the reasons I moved Yo Ho south was to get closer to
areas where the fishing is more productive. I kept my Sea Pro in the
Deale area for five years, and never was overwhelmed with the fishing.
I'm still not overwhelmed with Bay fishing, but it is better and more
consistent closer to the Pax, and across the Bay around the land
outcroppings and river outlets.

Almost every time I head across the Bay and a bit south, I see dozens
and dozens of boats trolling for a couple of stripers. Trolling for
hours, tugging tons of metal rigs, downriggers, outriggers, planing
boards, et cetera...the most boring kind of fishing there is.

Head south and east, John. Tow your boat down to the nice ramp at
Solomons. If you can't catch anything out in the Bay, there's always the
Pax, where the fishing is fairly consistent.

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 08:15:53 -0400, John H
wrote:

My friend, Gimp, and I left Deale at 6:30, loaded for bear. We had chum, we had
soft-shell crabs, we had bloodworms, squid, and shrimp from my Asian Market!

We headed for The Hill (across the Bay) where we found a couple charters and
three or four other boats, found a likely spot with lots of marks, dropped the
anchor, and started chumming. We had barely started when we saw a ruckus on one
of the charters - a little yelling from the half dozen (seemed like) females on
board, and the mate grabbing the net. After a short struggle the mate netted a
beautiful striper - all of ten inches long. Within another hour or so we saw
another 20 inches of stripers caught. Both were about ten inches long. (The
minimum size for a 'keeper' is 18".)

We hauled anchor and headed for the fish traps on the west side of the bay..
We'd heard some great hardhead and perch reports for that area. Got there,
dropped lines loaded with bloodworms, crab, and shrimp, and braced for the
action!

About an hour and a half later (bored), we headed for #81A, usually a good spot
for hardheads (for me anyway). Then, an hour or so later(still bored), we tried
a couple other spots in Herring Bay.

Bottom line - the boat smells really bad. The skunk spent the whole day there.
We had not one take down. The closest we came to anything were the four or five
rays that came by the boat to commiserate and the Maryland Department of Natural
Resources officer who checked life vests.

Hope everyone else had a SUPER day!

John H

On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

Isn't there a bumper sticker that says something about "A bad day
fishing is better than a good day doing anything else"? or something
like that anyway. Sounds like you qualify.

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:17:10 -0400, steamfish wrote:

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 08:15:53 -0400, John H
wrote:

My friend, Gimp, and I left Deale at 6:30, loaded for bear. We had chum, we had
soft-shell crabs, we had bloodworms, squid, and shrimp from my Asian Market!

We headed for The Hill (across the Bay) where we found a couple charters and
three or four other boats, found a likely spot with lots of marks, dropped the
anchor, and started chumming. We had barely started when we saw a ruckus on one
of the charters - a little yelling from the half dozen (seemed like) females on
board, and the mate grabbing the net. After a short struggle the mate netted a
beautiful striper - all of ten inches long. Within another hour or so we saw
another 20 inches of stripers caught. Both were about ten inches long. (The
minimum size for a 'keeper' is 18".)

We hauled anchor and headed for the fish traps on the west side of the bay..
We'd heard some great hardhead and perch reports for that area. Got there,
dropped lines loaded with bloodworms, crab, and shrimp, and braced for the
action!

About an hour and a half later (bored), we headed for #81A, usually a good spot
for hardheads (for me anyway). Then, an hour or so later(still bored), we tried
a couple other spots in Herring Bay.

Bottom line - the boat smells really bad. The skunk spent the whole day there.
We had not one take down. The closest we came to anything were the four or five
rays that came by the boat to commiserate and the Maryland Department of Natural
Resources officer who checked life vests.

Hope everyone else had a SUPER day!

John H

On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

Isn't there a bumper sticker that says something about "A bad day
fishing is better than a good day doing anything else"? or something
like that anyway. Sounds like you qualify.

Yup, I could have spent a week out there doing exactly what we were doing!

John H

On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!