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  1. There is not a better place to catch yellow perch on the Eastern Shore than the Pocomoke River. You will also catch pickerel up to 6 pounds, crappie,channel catfish,white perch towards the end of March, small rockfish, and the occasional gar. If you have a kayak or small boat you can access it in the town of Pocomoke. 1-8 size shad darts with a minnow will do the trick. look for bends in the river for the best fishing
  2. The sign was for the Anderson-Stokes realty company.
  3. Spent four days during Easter break fishing the VA side of AI. Landed 5 black drum between 28 and 47 inches. All of these fish were released except for the smaller drum. The 47 inch drum was the largest I've ever landed. Several people told me it may have weighed close to 50 pounds. Can anyone give me an estimate? Also landed 3 rockfish in the 20 inch range fishing the Chincoteague bridges after dark. Allof the drum were taken on clams while the rock fish were taken on mirrorlures. On the freshwater scene on Saturday morning on consecutive casts fishing with live shiners in Cedar Creek I landed pickerel of 28 and 30 inches. Both of these fish fought like no other fish that I have caught in many years of fresh water fishing.
  4. Fished the Burton's Island area this morning. Caught two rockfish in the twenty inch range and one 16 inch flounder. On another note it seems that many beach fisherman are focused on using fresh bunker during the early season. For what it's worth I've found that the best baits this time of year are surf clams, peelers-if available, bloodworms, and fresh herring which is easy to get this time of year.
  5. Fished the Burton's Island Area last evening. Trout killers produced 3 bluefish in the 20 inch range, 1 23 inch rockfish, and several herring. Also yesterday friends of mine caught bluefish and blowfish from the beach. Was planning to fish NC over Easter but will head to Chincoteague instead to fish for black drum and rockfish.
  6. A new state record was set for rockfish yesterday in North Carolina by a 12 year old boy fishing offshore. The fish weighed 63 pounds, measured 52.5 inches long with a 34 inch girth. I wonder how close this fish came to our local beaches. A picture can be seen on the TW'S Bait&Tackle website.
  7. On this day in 1977 in a snow storm on the MD side of AI two friends of mine and myself caught 47 trout up to 8 pounds. My friends went back the next day and caught 17 more trout.
  8. Fished the North Pocket for two hours last evening- no fish or sign of life
  9. I have spent time fishing everyday for the last three weeks. This includes the VA side of AI, the bridges on CI, and my home area of Rehoboth for a total of 17 rockfish up to 26 inches, one 14 inch seatrout,and one 18 inch flounder. I have had many past Nov. nights when I would catch 10 to 15 rockfish in one evening. Because I mainly lure fish, I rarely catch a fish over 30 inches,but I can usually count on some consistent action. This has been the slowest fall season in my memory. I had a feeling this would happen when I would plug the beach on a daily basis in Sept. and rarely see a school of mullet. People keep mentioning that there are still fish to our north. This is true, but the vast majority of these fish are passing us by. I was told yesterday by a reliable source that two miles off of Fenwick Island that there was a school of rockfish that seemed to stretch forever. These fish were feeding on sand eels and were easy to catch on metal. Usually when we have this type of bait in our area the beach fishing can be good. Let's see what happens.
  10. Just left school during my break and took a quick ride to Dewey to look at the beach. Gannets are diving at three different locations very close to the beach and no one is fishing as far north and south as I can see. I think that I had mentioned previously that Dewey at this time of year might be one of the best locations for large bluefish that are starting to show up. It just doesn't make sense.
  11. Spent the last five days fishing the beach and bridges in Chincoteague. The beach fishing provided no fish, but I managed to catch 11 rockfish up to 24 inches from the bridges at night. Several nice rockfish up to 50 inches were landed during Captain Steve's tournament. The next week should provide the best chance of the season to catch a large bluefish.
  12. I have spent the last seven days fishing for a few hours every morning or evening for a total of nine rockfish in the 20-24 inch range, 4 of which were caught on consecutive casts right before sunrise Saturday morning in the North Pocket. Some interesting observations about this catch are that every one of these fish jumped several times, they were feeding on calico crabs, and they were very heavy for school size fish. On another note, I found it very strange that when it was light enough for me to see, there wasn't a vehicle on the beach as far as I could see. In addition, when walking back to my car, I noticed that everyone was tog fishing except me. I've heard it said that the surf fishing is much better since the return of the rockfish. While the lure fishing is definitely much better, fishing the beach with bait is nothing like it was in the 70's and 80's. During this time, the trout fishing was outstanding especially if you used live spot which back then were just as plentiful as mullet especially after dark. These fish would usually stay around to the first week in Dec. Also, the bluefishing was much better. The larger blues would always show up in mid Oct. and stay around until Thanksgiving. If surf fishing tournaments were held during this period they would have definitely been won by teen sized bluefish and not the 12 inch snappers that are around today. Bluefish in the 2-3 range would show up in late August instead of the snappers that we have now. These are not exaggerations but come from true experiences. During the period that I have mentioned I lived one block from the boardwalk in Rehoboth and was attending college at the time. After getting home from school I would meet up with local mailmen Eddie Clifton and Larry Phillips who had already had tanks filled up with live spot and mullet that they had caught on their lunchbreak. Because they were local mailmen and I was a Lt. on the beach patrol no one bothered us and we were able to ride the beach from north Rehoboth all the way to the corner of the North Pocket at IRI. Believe it or not some of the best fishing was at the wreck in Rehoboth and in Dewey Beach. In fact, the state record bluefish was caught in Rehoboth on Hickman Street. I know this for a fact because Mr. Thorogood who caught this fish was leaving the beach when he saw us driving down the beach. He was out of bait and knew we would have plenty. He didn't like live bait, so we gave him some fresh mullet that we had. He immediately proceeded to hook and land the present state record. He took it down to Mac's to get it weighed. Two days later I landed an 18 pound 6 ounce bluefish in the same place and Eddie Clifton landed two trout in the 12 lb range. Now days I seldom see people seriously surf fish the wreck in Rehoboth or Dewey, the trout have all but disappeared, and the large bluefish seem to show up Thanksgiving week and then leave. I'm not complaining because I love walking the beach at daylight or after dark casting to rockfish,but for just one day I wish I could turn back the hands of time when the only worry I had was how fast I could get from school to the beach and surf fish all night knowing that there would be plenty of action.-Sorry for all the rambling
  13. Spent the last four days fishing the beach by day and the bridges at night. The beach fishing was very slow with a mixture of spot, kingfish, blowfish, and a ton of skates and dogfish. I was surprised by a 20 inch black drum that hit a piece of fishbite and lost a nice fish that hit a mirrorlure right at sunrise one morning. I'm sure that this fish was a speck by the head shake, but unfortunately I lost it in the wash. The bridge fishing produced a total of 12 rockfish up to 27 inches taken on a mirrorlure and a teaser. Lost a large fish that wrapped me around a piling. I was surprised by the lack of bluefish and the puppy drum that have failed to make a showing at all so far this fall.
  14. Fished the Gordon's Pond area, Burton's Island area, and the North Pocket area last evening for a total of one 22 inch rockfish. Talked to a couple of nice gentlemen who were fly fishing, and we seemed to agree about the lack of fish in several areas that we fish.
  15. I don't know about over 40 inches , but several years ago I caught two in the 30 inch range in mid December. That same day I also caught a four pound speckled trout on a mirrorlure and lost several more. I believe the picture of that fish is at Captain Steves. In addition a few more drum were caught the first week of January. If my memory serves me right, RockandReds caught most of those late fish.
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