Lew’s Fishing Update

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Just Kidding, Sorry if I have not had a chance to post updates a bit more often.  I have been fishing the last 2 weeks nearly every day, we’re catching all kinds of stuff, all over the place.  I fished all last week as a mate during the White Marlin Open Billfish Tournament in Ocean City.  That took me offshore over 80 miles a day 3 of 5 days last week, with the time in between spent rigging baits, and keeping the 55 Viking I fished on shipshape.  As is normally my luck, I didn’t end up rich with the winning fish, but I did catch a White Marlin, see a few others, and manage to lose the biggest Blue Marlin I ever had hooked, nearly 700 lbs.  Heartbreaker to say the least.  So much for early retirement.

Spent the week previous week fishing inshore around Ocean City, my normal summer haunt, and we went every day.  Caught lots of flounders and a bunch of hardheads, some 18-25 inch rockfish, some trigggerfish, a couple tautog, some sea bass, a few dusky sharks, some snapper bluefish, and who knows what  else.  I’ll post some pics as I get them from everyone.  Managed to forget my camera like 3 or 4 days.

Somewhere in between all of this I did take 2 trips on the Gunpowder Falls River for stream trout with good succes each time.   Had a great duo yesterday who managed to catch 7 or 8 nice browns on hoppers and nymphs.  Sharon/John if you read this please send me those shots you took and I will put them up. The river is fishing great with a constant flow of about 90 cfs.  Get out there while the flows are good.  Terrestrials are working great.

Joe Menale and company sent this shot of some flounders they caught in late July while fishing with live peanut bunkers in the Assawoman Bay. 

Randy McCuaig sent some shots from a day we spent Striper fishing this Spring fishing in Eastern Bay.

Mark Wilcox shot me a picture of this nice rainbow he caught while fishing the Deschutes River in Oregon.  He never catches anything near this big when he comes with me, so I’ll just assume that is your hand Mark.

For those hunters amongst you all, my good buddies Mike Widzbor and Rob Levine sent this photo posing with their bow killed bucks from 2006.  These two 8 pointers were shot within 3 days of each other in stands only 50 yards apart.

 Going fishing again in the morning, good flounder bite today on some of the near shore reef sites using 4 ounce ball jigs and live finger mullet.  We had 5 keepers in 2 hours of fishing.  Hope for some more success tomorrow.   I’ll keep you posted. 

Ocean City Inshore Update from the last week-

We’ve been fishing the back bays and near shore waters hard the past week or so. The weather has been great, light winds and sunny skies. Perfect beach weather if not the best for fishing. The striper fishing has been lackluster, just not a whole lot of fish around, especially with the water getting warmer by the day.  Even so, we have managed to catch fish each time we target them.  Most of our fishing has been live baiting with spot or bunker.  Most of the fish we caught  this week were in the 22 to 25 inch range. Legal fish over 28″ have been tough to come by, though they are around.  I don’t think the full moon this week has helped the cause. 

Flounder fishing , on the other hand has been awesome.   We have had a bunch of keepers in the box this week every day we have fished for them.  Had some good fish 20 to 22 inches, and lost a couple of toads that would have went an easy 6 lbs +.  Lots of short fish added to the action. We fished several spots throughout the bays, mostly the back channels and sloughs.  Live bunkers and mullet have been the baits of choice.  I’ve spent many an early morning throwing the cast net to get some good baits, and they have sure made the difference.  Jigs worked good too on periods of slack or messed up tide and wind.  Tip them with a minnow an they like them even more.  ”Gulp” swimming minnow bodies proving indispensable as I have found for the last few years. They like something about those baits, and I’m not even sure the color matters.

Some nice hardheads have been around adding to the mix this week.  They love to eat the “Fishbites” bloodworms , and when we get on them we usually catch them in good numbers.  Our best bite was in the inlet.  We also had some scattered tautog bites, and a few triggerfish. 

Matt Verdicchia sent these shots of his son Christian who caught his first Tautog and a nice flounder last week.

Cullin Westwater is pictured with his dad Gary and a nice 40 lb dusky shark that ate a live spot while we were wreck fishing.  Cullin was happy that this was the biggest fish he ever caught.   We also caught some triggerfish on the wrecks and some flounders and croakers in the bay.