Sept 6th, 2010

Fishing Report by Sue Foster

Water Temperature (WTMP): 75.4°F

Hurricane Earl gave us some swells, dirty water, and bluefish! Yes, fall is 
just around the corner when we see finger mullet hopping in the surf and the 
inlets, and blues started biting. Flounder fishing was a bit off because of 
the dirty water conditions, but surprisingly anglers caught some the next 
day after the storm. Spot are still around, some croaker, tautog, and 
sharks. Sea bass picked up big time. More larger flounder offshore.

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 Before Hurricane Earl we had quite a few reports of bluefish. Right after 
the storm, the news was mostly sharks. Fresh finger mullet were available 
right after the storm, and anglers said they saw little fish breaking in the 
ocean, which were probably finger mullet.   Hurricane Earl did  give us some 
"hard to hold" fishing conditions. Try using a " sputnik 
sinker if you can't hold with a regular surf sinker.


Bill Klein of "Stripers Online" reports "September already, and another 
summer season fades into the rearview mirror. All still pretty much on the 
quiet side locally, but things should be looking up soon with any luck at 
all. The current run of cooler temps has been most welcome, and hopefully a 
harbinger of some fine autumn weather headed our way before too much 
longer."

Assateague beach was closed right after the storm. Before the blow anglers 
caught a mixture of sharks, spot, flounder, and some bluefish.

David Blevins of Wye River e-mailed in his report from Assateague last 
Friday: "Thought I would share a quick report from Friday on Assateague.  My 
family and I drove out about a half mile past the Bull Pen and had a great 
day fishing.  We caught plenty of  fish and they were all on a finger mullet 
rig. All fish were catch and release." They caught bluefish, flounder, and 
kingfish.


Many anglers ask about reading the beach when surf fishing. "Poppy" a very
good angler has posted another very good description with pictures on
Stripers Online. Check it out: 
Reading the Beach  He draws it out completely! If you're not catching 
fish in the surf, you need to study this!

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rigs? We have plenty in our shops or buy online!  Shop Online    

Route 50 Bridge saw some excellent blue fishing the night after the storm. 
Gotcha Plugs were the lures of choice.

We at Oyster Bay Tackle and Fenwick Tackle only saw a few fish this week:

Butch Sample from Essex, MD and Bob Gunkel from Pasadena, MD came into 
Fenwick Tackle on Sept 1st with two flounder each caught at the African 
Queen site with live spot on the "Hammertime" with Capt Al at the helm. 
Butch's Fish- 6 pounds, 1 oz, 25 3/4 inches and 2 pound 12 oz, 19 1/2 
inches. Bob's fish 4 pound, 11 oz 22 1/8 inches and 3 pounds 9 oz and 21 1/2 
inches.

This picture is in our  Offshore 
Photo Gallery.


Capt. Bobby Gower of the  " Bay Bee 
reports slow fishing right after the storm because the water was so dirty. 
He only had one keeper on Saturday with only a few throwbacks.  He hopes 
this next week will be better after the water clears up.



  Larry Jock of the  Coastal 
Fisherman saw a few fish this week. On Thursday, Mike Malone caught a 
30-inch, 8 lb.13 oz. flounder on a live minnow north of the Rt. 50 Bridge in 
the East Channel. On Wednesday,  the "Bay Bee" had 71 throwback flounder 
during their 2 trips. "Morning Star" had a good catch of sea bass and some 
large flounder. Dale Seiger had a 25-incher, caught on squid. On Tueday, 
Jerry Gray caught a 10 lb. 6 oz. flounder on live spot in the East Channel 
north of the Rt. 50 Bridge.



 Nick of the  Get Sum is doing 
charters for tog, flounder and stripers.




J.J. from the Oceanic Pier (410-289-2602) reports a lot of flounder despite 
the weather. The first night after Hurricane Earl saw the best blue fishing 
action they had seen in a long time. They also had some Florida fish, some 
jack cravels! They also had a little run of croaker on Sunday morning. 
There's been lots of little sea bass and sea robins for the kids to catch on 
the edge. Just get worms and fish straight down.  At night, blues and shad 
were biting on   Gotcha 
Plugs and  Spec Rigs. 
Shad also take Sabiki Rigs.  Anglers were still catching blue crabs on the 
pier this week! Get some traps and give it a try!  J.J. wants everyone to 
know that when you come to the pier, go to the Oceanic Motel and park, then 
come buy your ticket and he will give you a pass for your car. There is also 
a big municipal pay lot about a block away from the pier. Call J.J. at 
410-289-2602 for parking details.

Clark from Old Inlet (302-227-7974) posted on the 31st: "...One good thing 
about the effect of the swells on the beach has been that the beach is 
beginning to transition from a summertime profile to a flatter, wider fall 
profile. This is good news. Stripers and flounders in the wash!! Woo hoo! 
Tautog season will be closed in Delaware waters from September 1 through the 
28th. (MD remains open) Look for croakers, black drum, triggerfish and 
sheephead to fill the tautog void. Striper fishing has slowed a bit in the 
last week but many are looking for it to pick up as this storm approaches. 
Stripers love sloppy water. Bucktails and plugs should be the hot baits .

The flounder bite in the Inlet and bays has been very consistent. Gulp Alive 
Swimming Mullet in chartruese, pearl white and pink have been very good. The 
weather will probably wash out what has been red hot fishing offshore for 
white marlin and wahoo. One Ocean City boat reportedly had 50 plus whites on 
Monday."

Thanks Clark!

 Bill Sports Center (302-645-7654) reports croaker in the Indian River Bay 
and in the Ocean. Also flounder just offshore.  Flounder and Sea bass at the 
B Buoy and the Old Grounds.  Croaker, spot, blues and flounder are biting on 
the Cape Henelopen Pier.


E-mail Sue Foster at:  Oyster Bay 
Tackle with your pictures and/or reports.  Vacation Pictures are 
welcome!
E-mail me your name and where you are from so we
can put you in our weekly fish reports and/or Gallery!



Anglers now need a DE Fishing License to fish, crab, and clam in DEL:   The 
state has published a very good  
FAQ on the license requirement. Individual Delaware Fishing Licenses are 
now available  
online.
  Stop into Fenwick Tackle and get your license. 302-539-7766.

Delaware anglers will also need a F.I.N. number every year, similar to a 
hunting H.I.P. number. It is free, very simple to get, but necessary. DNREC 
has e-mailed us how to get it!  To obtain a  F.I.N. number  anglers may visit 
www.delaware-fin.com, or call 800-432-9228, any time of day or night.

In Maryland, In Maryland, you do not need a license to fish in the ocean or 
coastal bays until 2011, but you do need a free  Registry number from NOAA  if you are 16 and 
older.   Go to www.countmyfish.NOAA.gov to print your free  number. You can 
also call a toll free number and get it in a few minutes. 1-888-MRIP411 
(1-888-674-7411). They will ask you for your name, address, and phone 
number. It's not a large big deal, no one is fining anyone, but it will help 
the states to count angler's catches more accurately.


   Capt. Mike Abbaticchio of the   
Judith M at Bahia Marina (410-289-7438, 410-251-5859, 443-497-1361) 
fishes out of Bahia Marina at 22nd Street in Ocean City.   We are fishing 
everyday now; see our web site for details.  WWW.JUDITHMFISHING.COM "


Capt. Monty on the " 
Morning Star" works hard to catch fish for his customers.  Here's his 
report from the 5th:


Before Earl I tried the flounder --fluke for those of you above 39 
degrees north-- and met with limited success. One big 'ol bruiser was lost 
boatside, a few keepers.. slow.
Went sea bassing.
That worked better.
Following day went sea bassing first thing.
Very, very nice. Good sized sea bass.
Finished with people taking pictures of their flounder.
Yup.

Laid in, did a lot of heavy maintenance while Earl did his thing.
Florida Keys, Sept. 1978, I believe the first year Hurricanes alternated 
male/female names; used to all be female.
Big sign: David Was A Lady.
So was Earl.
Might that we are always so lucky.

Some boats went the day after Earl's passage, Saturday. I moved my folks to 
Sunday.
Sea bass bite was tepid until the current slowed, then Game On.
Had a fellow catch 24 keepers, probably because he practices on tog.
Might be a while before that happens again.
Or..
Going fishing.

Going deep again too..
I have to go back.
It's a long way down, a much longer way up ..but the fishing!
Eighteen hour deep trip on Tuesday: Tiles, sea bass.. Just Mike and I last 
week; an extra-light rail this time - experimental.
No Electric Reels Ever. Make me crazy. Well, more crazy.
Boat and Federal regs enforced - MD has none - Yet.
Two Hooks. Ain't long-lining.
If it goes well I'm going to do these like my winter tog trips: Announced 
suddenly in good weather windows.
Fish caught trolling will be split amongst everyone if appropriate. There 
will be a lot of fast trolling.
I want to try Tagging. We let some sea bass go very effectively last week..
And try anchoring. I have well over 1/2 mile of anchor line.
And hard bait. I wonder if tog live off there..
Beg-borrow-get a grant for a deep drop video camera.
..hunt more new spots.
See what tales these reefs have to tell.

For a partyboat skipper, finding new bottom, new spots, is way better than 
Christmas.
New bottom w/new species far better.

From generations of experience inshore: We know what happens when fishing 
effort increases while reef habitat declines.
Been trying to point that out to NOAA for some years now.
Wrote them a little note about it while Earl was directly off the coast 
Friday; Stitches together a few of my arguments.

Fishing 7 days a week if folks want to go.

Regards,
Monty



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Capt. Monty Hawkins
mhawkins@siteone.net
Party Boat "Morning Star"
Reservation Line 410 520 2076
http://www.morningstarfishing.com/

Watch the 
weather.


The  Ocean Princess is now 
fishing.   
 Captain Victor Bunting on the Ocean Princess reports 1/2 day bottom fishing 
trips. Here's his report from the 2nd: Captain Victor on the Ocean Princess 
reports some decent fishing over the
past week.  He has been catching a mixed bag of fish which includes, sea
bass, croaker, flounder, and trigger fish.

The Ocean Princess is fishing everyday 8am to 12 noon and 1pm to 5pm,
every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday we have night fishing trips from 6pm
to 10pm.  Costs for all trips are $42.00 adults and $22.00 for kids 12 and
under.  The Ocean Princess sails everyday from Dorchester Street and the
Bay.

 

  Capt. Chris Mizurak of the  Angler 
party boat (410-289-7424) e-mailed in:   We had some pretty good sea bass 
fishing this past week, best we have seen since the spring.  Still lots of 
weeding through the small fish, but the keeper ratio is getting better. 
High hook was in the teens.  Flounder fishing was also good with the largest 
just shy of 5lbs. We are sailing daily at 730am-2pm, and the cost is $60 per 
person which includes your rod, reel, and bait. We are sailing daily at 
730am and returning around 2pm.  The fare is $60 per person, which includes 
rod, reel, and bait.  For more information and reservations please call 
410-289-7424. Thanks and hope to see you soon....




Check out the new link on our web site to the local chapter of the  MSSA.   They are keeping us 
abreast on all the Fishing Issues.  From our  Oyster Bay Website, go to "More 
Fishing Info" on the left hand side, and click on "MSSA Atlantic Anglers".
Check the weather before driving hours to go offshore or fish the surf.  Go 
to  
Coastal Marine Forecast to get an idea of the weather and height of the 
waves.


  Stop by to the Oyster Bay Tackle location and buy your 2010 Ocean City
Reef Foundation Charts. The donation fee for these charts are $25. $27 if 
you use a credit card. These charts pin-point all the GPS numbers for all 
the
Artificial Reef materials that have been scattered near offshore wrecks, 
reefs, and
obstructions. The charts give you hundreds of numbers to find fish. All the 
money collected goes back into the Artificial Reef Foundation.  You can buy 
them  
online.

Capt. Rick Yakimowicz of the "Thelma Dale V" Reports from Fisherman's Wharf 
on the 1st

 We went from catching literally hundreds of Flounder daily for nearly a 
week with our best numbers of keepers all year, to just pick fishing again 
with not much action with the Fluke and actually catching more Sea Bass than 
anything. There hasn't been a really good catch of Croakers made up in the 
Bay by our Half-Day boat now for nearly a solid week!

...

...The fishing is not all bad really, I just happen to think it should be a 
lot better. I could certainly use weather or drifting conditions as an 
excuse it hasn't all been perfect, however that is not so much the case, our 
weather has been great and our drifting conditions have been favorable for 
the most part. For a bright note our Sea Bass fishing has seen a vast 
improvement recently, in fact a few times this past week they actually bit 
the way Sea Bass should and we were able to rack up some pretty decent 
numbers of these tasty fish providing a good meal or two for just about 
everyone on board, in fact there have been a few lucky anglers that have 
actually landed into double digits of keeper Bass just these past few days. 
We even saw several large to Jumbo Bass landed with the pool winning fish 
having been a Sea Bass over a Flounder on a couple of our trips recently!...



... I will be drifting when conditions are right and I will be anchoring 
when the drift is not the best choice. I expect to see more and more of a 
variety of fish in the weeks to come including Flounder, Bass, Bluefish and 
possibly some Croakers. Flounder and Bass however will be our main target. 
My All-Day trips will be leaving daily at 7:00 a.m. daily and we generally 
get back to the docks between 4:00 and 4:30.

We will continue running Half-Day Trips throughout September sailing daily. 
Half-Day Trips will continue to target the Croakers and will also be seeing 
a variety catch with Flounder, Blues, Small Trout and Kingfish. Capt. Mike 
assured me that this "croaker thing" will pass with a few more tides and 
will undoubtedly be getting back to normal soon, and that for right now he 
is actually glad to be going back to school because his hair also is 
thinning while looking for some biting fish!


  If you would like any more information about trips sailing out of the 
Wharf (Including 1/2 days and night trips) or you would like to book a 
private charter  in the upcoming weeks please give us a call at (302) 
645-TUNA.

His full report and boat info is  
here.

Capt. Rick Yakimowicz
Thelma Dale V
catchfish@verizon.net"

  VA 
charters.
(Wilson Cropp Charters and Guide Service. Cape Charles, VA- 1-434-531-6376) 
Drum, flounder, stripers, cobia....
Jigging for flounder around the Bay Bridge is heating up.




 Capt.Dan Stauffer (866-623-4746) of the  Fin Chaser does wreck and 
trolling trips. Here's a couple of his reports from this week to give you a 
taste of what Capt Dan has to offer.


"08/31/10 Decided to run about 9 mile south of where we had fished yesterday 
looking for a weed-line. I told the crew from central PA I heard a rumor of 
one that was holding some Mahi. When we finally came upon it the line had 
blown apart and turned a nice trollable weed-line into a mates worst 
nightmare, a hayfield. Dave spent the first 90 minutes of the day going from 
line to line trying to keep the baits clean. All this work only yielded two 
small mahi and one that threw the hook. Picked up and ran to where we had 
fished the previous day and found great action on turkeys and Yellowfin. 
Mind you, the Yellowfin were BLT's (barely legal tunas) but they were legal, 
they put up a great fight on 30 lb. tackle and they look the same on a fork 
as a fat 60 pounder!  At the end of the day we have two Mahi, one Skipjack 
and ten Yellowfin in the box. I'm sure we must have released 20 turkeys as 
well.

09/01/10 Out with a solo angler from Wisconsin and his flyrod with the 
intent of catching LR a Mahi on the fly. LR is writing a book chronicling 
his fly-fishing catches in all fifty states, and if he can connect with a 
Mahi his book will be complete. Took nearly two hours to find the weeds, but 
after we found em I knew we could get him his Mahi. LR spent the next 
several hours catching Mahi on several different fly types including a 
popper. The icing on the cake, he allowed the mate and I to keep his fish, I 
LOVE blackened Mahi! Back in the slip with a limit of Mahi and one man's 
multi-year quest complete.

09/04/10 Out with a bachelor party for a day of bottom fishing. Hurricane 
Earl blew through yesterday, fortunately, the seas layed-out enough to allow 
for this trip. However, we weren't able to get any farther off than 10 mile. 
I really wanted to fish a piece of bottom 18 mile east but that just wasn't 
going to happen. Spent the day catching "under" Sea Bass as well as 
"snapper" Bluefish. "

 



  Larry Jock of the  Coastal 
Fisherman gives us the offshore report from Wed, before the storm.

 WEDNESDAY, September 1, 2010: Several boats ventured out to get their final 
days in before Hurricane Earl graces us with his appearance. "Miss Jane II" 
released 1 white marlin in the Washington. "Osprey" released 3 white marlin 
in the Washington. "Marlin Magic" released 3 white marlin in the Washington. 
"Cyntinory" released 4 white marlin in the Washington. "Billfisher" released 
7 white marlin in the Washington. "DA Sea" released 9 white marlin and a 
blue marlin in the Washington. Reel Joy" released 5 white marlin in the 
Washington."Pumpin' Hard 58" released 6 white marlin in the Washington. 
"Espadon" released 8 white marlin in the Washington. "Fin-ness" released 10 
white marlin in the Washington. "Cerveza" moved 6 miles east of the fleet 
and released 21 white marlin in the Washington. "Marli" released 3 white 
marlin and caught 10 dolphin in the Baltimore. "Hod Rod" released 1 white 
marlin in the Washington.
"About Time" released a white marlin in the Washington and had 30-40 
dolphin. "Fish Bonz" released 4 white marlin in the Washington. "Foolish 
Pleasures" released 6 white marlin in the Washington. "All In" released 10 
white marlin in the Washington. "Restless Lady" had 11 yellowfin tuna, and 4 
gaffer dolphin. "Nontypical" released 9 white marlin."


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 (Just a note to say to my readers that many of my fishing reports are from
other anglers and party boats that come over my e-mail. When I "copy/paste"
their reports I try to leave them intact. It keeps the fishing reports
lively and interesting. But any comments/politics within the quotes are
their comments and views, and not necessarily mine.)

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FREE!!!!!!



James A. Donofrio, executive director of the  Recreational Fishing 
Alliance
has been actively working on the summer flounder and sea bass crisis. The 
RFA believes the future of our fisheries is dependent on fixing the 
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act which has laid down 
strict time-frames that do not take into account livelihoods and that a 
fishery is rebounding steadily.
 The RFA is fighting hard for our right to fish.

 



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We also now carry the  
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To buy a dozen assorted flounder rigs for $21.99. (Reg- 28.08) call
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Big surf box for 49.99- a $56 value- available on line, at both our
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Surf rigs buy online or call 410-524-3433.

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you to your boat. Check it out. 
Visit our  online mall year
round.  Check it out and 
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If you have any fish reports please share them with us on our  Fish Talk Board or e-mail
Sue Foster at:  Oyster Bay
Tackle.  E-mail me your name and where you are from so we can put
you in our weekly fish reports!

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including this year's popular Calcutta T-shirts and our new Inshore-4
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Tire Deflators, Calcutta t-shirts, 2009 White Marlin Open,
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an order for an item we do not have on-line.

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Tides: These are ocean tides, add 2 hours for the bay, approximately 1 hour 
for Indian River:

High Tides: (Add approx 6 hours for low tide)

Monday, Sept 6th, 5:58 A.M. and 6:31 P.M.
Tuesday, Sept 7th  6:52 A.M. and 7:22 P.M.
Wednesday, Sept 8th, 7:44 A.M. and 8;12 P.M.
Thursday, Sept 9th, 8:36 A.M. and 9:01 P.M.
Friday,  Sept 10th, 9;27 A.M. and 9:50 P.M.
Saturday, Sept 12th, 10;17 A.M. and 10:38 P.M..
Sunday, Sept 13th, 11:08 A.M. and 11:28 P.M




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