Muff Diver Charter Fishing Report - June 15th, June 16th 2013

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June 16th, 2013 - Tuna Time Again

Muff Diver Charter Fishing June 16th 2013

Nice day in the Baltimore Canyon again. Mike, Amanda and Damon Paquette, Tom Beinkamper from KC with Bill Fout from Baltimore, MD caught 5 out of 7 tuna bites. The largest was 70 pounds. Captain Wayne Bradford, Mate Ryan “Rambo” Knapp and assistant mate in training Shannon Ehinger put them on the meat and showed them a good time in spite of some choppy weather in the afternoon. They left town with a cooler full of tuna.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

June 15th, 2013 - Tuna Time

Muff Diver Charter Fishing June 15th 2013

Great weather, great crew & great day. Bachelor party day for Joe Traficanti. Attending and anglers were Paul Traficanti, Randy W Schaeffer (future father in law), Rob Kingston, Andy Estroff (all from PA) and Scott Cicogna (from NJ). We fished the Baltimore Canyon in 80 fathoms – 67.5 degree water – dirty green – no sign of life and we had 7 tuna bites catching 5 of them. They were all 45 – 50 pounds. Also caught 1 for 3 dolphin fish. Was a very slow day for the fleet – we were the chosen boat today.

 

 

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Muff Diver Charter Fishing Report - June 15th, June 16th 2013

WEEKLY “Gone Fishing” AT THE BEACH By Sue Foster June 17th, 2013

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WEEKLY “Gone Fishing” AT THE BEACH compliments of: Sue Foster, proprietor of OYSTER BAY TACKLE, Ocean City Maryland, and Fenwick Tackle, Fenwick Island Delaware. Sue provides us hopeful fish catchers with a timely UP TO DATE FISHING REPORT and other handy fishing advice. Courtesy of At The Beach Featured Photo From Oyster Bay Tackle Photo Gallery

Ocean City Maryland & Assateague Island – Delaware Beaches – Ocean n Bay Fishing Report By Sue Foster, Oyster Bay Tackle Shop, Ocean City MD – Fenwick Island DE June 17th, 2013 Water Temp: 64.6 Fishing Report by Sue Foster Flounder fishing in the bay has been hit or miss with the weather. First reports of croaker in the bay. Mostly small fish in the surf including kingfish, spot, and croaker. If you want to catch something big in the surf there's sharks and rays! Oceanic Pier saw the first triggerfish of the season. Blues, shad, trout, and some striper action at night from the Oceanic Pier and Bridge. Sea bass fishing is good offshore. Crabs are showing up the bay. Oyster Bay is now open summertime hours 6 A.M. till 10 P.M. daily. Fenwick Tackle is open 7 A.M. till 10 P.M. Daily. E-mail Sue Foster at: Oyster Bay Tackle. The online mall is open. We sell MD licenses and 2013 boat stickers at our Oyster Bay and Fenwick Tackle locations. De Licenses are sold at our DEL location. IF YOU WANT A BOAT FISHING LICENSE PLEASE TELL US THAT WHEN YOU GET TO THE COUNTER. Voids are no joy! For DEL boat fishing licenses you MUST bring in a current boat registration and a driver's license. (For MD boat stickers, all you need is a driver's license.) MD fishing licenses are really quick and easy once you're in the system. If you have last year's license, bring it in with you, and all we have to do is punch in the DNR ID number Otherwise, bring in your Driver's License. BTW, There's a mistake in the MD Fishing Guide about clamming. If you are out of state it IS legal for you to catch clams in Worcester Co. The state fixed the mistake online, but of course, thousands of Guides were already printed! I have had several e-mails about this. The Bulkhead at 2nd thru 4th Street is open and anglers caught some legal flounder and tautog from the bulkhead this week. You can fish here without a MD license but you still need to obtain a free registry. We can do that for you at Oyster Bay Tackle or call 1-855-855-3906. The Ocean Pier is another place you can fish without a MD License. If you fish the Ocean Pier they will register you for you. You do have to pay a fee to fish the pier. The pier this week caught bluefish, spot, croaker, sharks, rays, and even some speckled trout! 2013Tide Charts are now available in our stores and online. Go to our website and click on More Fishing Info. Flounder season is now open in MD- Minimum Size - 16" Creel - 4 fish open all year. New Ocean City chart by Capt Seagull available: Buy at Oyster Bay Tackle or online. The bay portion of this chart is a little small, but it shows the nearshore Reef Sites with numbers. 2013 White Marlin Open T's are here! Instore or Online. (We also got some tank tops in our stores.) > 2013 Shark T's! In store or on Online. We also have the 2013 Shark Tank Tops. Got a few left. Get them quick. Stopping in to Oyster Bay Tackle or Fenwick Tackle? Clip out a coupon for xtra savings! Coupons Surf fishing was up and down with the wind this week. There were several days that you just couldn't hold bottom! I had one report from an angler on Friday night that he caught lots of kingfish just before dark on Fishbite Bloodworms. After dark he caught a nice shark. There were also some spot, blowfish, sea trout, flounder and just a few bluefish reported. It's summertime fishing so be sure to grab kingfish rigs and either Fishbite Bloodworms or real bloodworms along with some kind of cut bait. Put a little of both on the same hook. We call that a sandwich bait! Works great. Jollywan posted on Stripers Online on the 15th: "Fished in and around Lewes, got croaker to a solid 15". Saw a couple short trout and short stripers caught." "PukeNukem" posted on 15th as well "Fishing was alright this week but kinda slow for bigger game. Fishing all night for the last day 4 or 5 days... Blues, sting rays, and shad off the 50 bridge been seeing some massive rays and sharks down there as well. I had something break my 50lb braid on a 20 min fight the other night there as well. Fishing around Delaware bridges was ok had a couple black drum 19 and around 25 in but that guy fell down as I had him to the top of the railing. In Cape Henlopen DE killin it at night last night around 50 croaker, 10 weakfish, a couple flounder, and a baby blacktip shark." Denny Gopear of Lewisberry, Pa fished morning low tide off of 129th street on the 16th, caught 1 20" striper on squid on a misscast in the breakers. Fished the evening incoming tide on the 16th 1 small croaker and 1 34" dogfish on squid. Not much going on. Ron Kerston sent me his blow by blow report from this weekend: "We came to Ocean City in search of the bluefish that were roaming the bay prior to the tropical storm. Unfortunately, we arrived on Saturday right after the storm blew through town. I thought for sure the bay water off the Route 50 bridge would be dirty, but to our surprise, it was fishable. I was not the cleaner green water we’ve seen at times, but it was fishable. We ran into some shad on Saturday and Sunday night. However, I was really impressed with the striper bite on both nights, especially Saturday night. The striper bite began as the tide began to change around 6:00 p.m. Since the blues were scarce that night, we decided to give the stripers a try. We used the swim shad lures. We hooked several big fish, but since our gear was for smaller bluefish, we only brought a few over the rails, but we must have seen at least twenty stripers caught. By the time twilight rolled around, the bite stopped, but it was fun while it lasted. On Sunday evening, the water became cleaner. The birds were quite active, starting at about an hour before dark. We caught a few blues, but the catch was mostly shad. We fished again on the incoming tide on Monday morning. The water was a really nice green color. The blues began to bite about two hours into the tide. We had some really good action on blues from 15 to about 20 inches long for about 1 to 2 hours on both sides of the bridge. They stopped biting at about 11 a.m., but by then it was time to leave anyway." We at Oyster Bay Tackle took pictures of several fish this week: Jimmy Monceaux of Ocean City, MD came in with a 16 1/4 inch tautog caught on sand fleas on the outgoing tide from the bulkhead between 2nd and 3rd Street on Saturday. He caught 7 total, eight inches and up. Ed Bush from Selbyville, Delaware caught another Black Drum at 21 inches and weighed in at 3.75 pounds using Sand Fleas as bait near RT 54 in Delaware. Last Monday afternoon, Bob Pino from Centerville, Md and Perry Toskov from Glen Burnie, Md fished near the RT 90 Bridge using Live Minnows fishing for Flounder when Perry and came up with a nice 29 inch Bluefish, weighing in at 6.5 pounds. The guys had one throw back Flounder and a Skate during their trip. Harry Still of Boiling Springs, PA came in to Oyster Bay with a 20 3/4 inch flounder weighing 3.3 pounds, caught on live minnows on the incoming tide with Capt Jeff Grimes on the HellBent Charters on Saturday. On Wed, Ed Bush of Selbyville, DE came into Fenwick Tackle with 2 black drum (19") and one red drum (20") caught from the Fenwick Ditch on the morning tide on grass shrimp. If you want to catch grass shrimp you need to buy a fine mesh net and scoop next to pilings. On Sunday, Father and Son duo Dave Beach Sr from Fallston, Md and Dave Beach Jr from Ocean City, Md, Maryland fished for Flounder around the Bulkhead on 2nd St during both Tides. They fished incoming and outgoing tides using Live Mullet and Peanut Bunker and caught a couple of good looking Flatties. The Flounder were 21.5 inches and 19 inches weighing in at 4 pounds and 3 pounds. These pictures are in our Inshore Photo Gallery. Ed's pictures are in our Delaware Photo Gallery. 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! Our online mall is now open and we have: Trailhead Tire Deflators! We also carry the Oasis Trailhead brand. Surf Packages, complete with sinkers. (Also flounder, Aqua-Clear, Swim Shad, and Got-cha Plug Packages.) J.J. from the Oceanic Pier (410-289-2602) reported hit or miss flounder fishing. Croakers hit the pier this week. Anglers also started catching little sea bass along with spot. Yea! The first triggerfish were reported as well. At night the pier saw shad and blues on either tide, and sea trout on the incoming tide. They did pretty good a couple nights on the trout. Spec Rigs and Gotcha Plugs work at night. (You do not need a fishing license to fish the Oceanic Pier.) Larry Jock of the Coastal Fisherman reports on Saturday: "The charter boat, "Get Sum" returned from their morning trip with 4 keeper flounder (largest 21.5-inches). All were caught on Gulp! Swimming Mullets at the South Jetty during the outgoing tide. Water temp was 62-degrees. Head boat, "Bay Bee" had 4 keeper flounder during their morning trip. Fish were caught right outside the Ocean City Fishing Center in the West Channel. Largest measured 20 1/4-inches. Dan Leonard and Brian Schmidhauser caught 2 flounder (17" & 20") by the duck blinds on Gulp! and minnows. Anglers on the "Islander" had a couple of big sea bass (3 lbs. 15 oz & 4 lbs. 9 oz.) caught at the Twin Wrecks on clams. They also released a small tiger shark and a small mako. Head boat, "Flounder Pounder" brought back a pair of flounder from their morning trip. Fish measured 18 and 21-inches. Caught in the East Channel on squid and shiners." Jeff Grimes Of Helbent Charters reports on the 16th: "I just wanted to let you know we fished 8 hours last Saturday and we had one keeper Flounder. We were forced to fish the out going tide which lasted all morning. The water in the inlet and out behind the island all the way back up to the campground was very dirty. We fished in both those areas with no luck. The other thing was the water depths out in both those areas has changed. The inlet at low tide was 30 feet all the way out and almost all the way to the south jetty. The other area that was a big change from last year was the out side of the commercial harbor near the sunken ship New Hope at the end of the dock. You used to be able to drift to within about 20 feet of the boat and now you can only get within 50 yards of the boat. That area really filed in. We had no choice but to fish the Captain Hill area all afternoon to stay out of the wind and there is where we caught our one keeper Flounder. We saw no other fish caught all day so the bite was very slow. The bay and especially the inlet was covered with large rays. They were everywhere and we only hooked one all day we saw hundreds of rays on the surface and heaven only knows how many more under the surface. The wind made for a tough day and Sunday had even more wind projected do it was a no go on Sunday. Live bait was the choice over Gulp on Saturday. Lets hope once again for the winds lay down. I booked several trips in the past week so do not be disappointed and book your trip by calling me at 717-574-4010 or contact me at helbentcharters@hotmail.com. Check out my website at helbentcharters.com. See you on the water! Dave Beall of Dave's Delmarva First Mate Service reported on the 16th: "I had a great week of fishing this past week at IRI. Flounder and Trout on the Ebb tide and Stripers on the Flood tide. Best baits are 1 to 3 oz. Bucktails for Rockfish and Gulp, Bass Assassins and small jigs worked best for the Trout and Flounder. I like to use a 30 to 40 # shock tip and using a Sebile Knot to attach the shock tip to my main line instead of a swivel but 15 to 20# for Trout and Flounder. I also use different scents on my lures based on what the lure is supposed to imitate. All the fish that I caught were tight to the rocks and the bite lasted well into the daylight hours. When you look for the fish, you have to work the rocks. Fish a spot for 10 to 15 minutes and if you don't get bites move 15 to 20 feet away. The technique is to Cast up current so that your bait gets to the strike zone on the drift before it gets to where you are standing. To figure out where the strike zone is, you have to methodically pick out a land mark on the opposite shoreline to cast to. Be sure to let your bait sink until you feel it hit the bottom and then pick up your line so that you can stay in touch with your bait as the current brings the bait back to you. The discipline is to remember where you casted to so if you get a bite then you'll remember where to cast back to so that you get another bite. The speed of the current will determine the weight of the lure that you use and the slower you move your bait the better. After a while you will get a rhythm that will help you keep you from getting hung up on the rocks. The flounder that I have seen have been bigger this week with many in the 20+ inch range. There have been quite a few keeper rockfish as well. It appears that the arrival of the spot has had an effect on the number of fish. Have a GREAT WEEK, Dave." Check out his new web site. Flounder and Surf, Rig and Lure Packages, Selection of Swimming Shads or Gotcha Plugs! Homeowners are catching blue crabs behind their houses. (You can handline or use traps at the Northside Park at 125th Street.) Capt. Monty on the " Morning Star sends us his update and comments on June 7th: "Sailing Everyday Reservations For Sea Bass Trips at 410 - 520 - 2076. See much more info at http://morningstarfishing.com Regular 8 Hr trips $110.00 - 7AM to 3PM – Saturdays 6AM to 3:30PM - $125.00 LEAVE YOUR BEST POSSIBLE CONTACT NUMBER - Weather Cancelations Are (far too!) Common - I Make Every Attempt To Let Clients Sleep In If The Weather's Not Going Our Way.. Be A Half Hour Early - We Like To Leave Early. Clients Arriving Late Will See The West End Of An East Bound Boat.. 5,020 'Oyster Castle' Reef Blocks By The Rail — 1,498 @ Jimmy's Reef — Now 496 @ Ake's Reef And Growing.. Hi All, It was comforting to come across a section of reef & paint many sea bass 10 to 30 feet up in the water on my depth sounders; great to see schools of cbass up off the bottom. When we anchored they followed our baits down and CHEWED for a while. Happened a couple times this week. Nice. Everyone likes drop & reel fishing — especially the captain.. Mostly though we're still, and will remain, working for a catch. Sending very nearly everyone home with dinner plus a few. Every once in a while someone will push into the high teens. Catching a lot of fish & keeping dinner. Did have a young man catch two flounder. One was a keeper, the first filleted on my rig this year. Hoping for a good season on fluke/flounder. Should start biting well in a few weeks. Still seeing a couple ling (red hake) almost every day. That's a huge increase from recent years past. Scientists blame our region's ling demise on climate change. Odd: I think water's warming is mostly up-top thus far – on the surface; that we often have cooler than average bottom temps as ice-melt waters seep low & south.. Capt. Monty Hawkins mhawkins@siteone.net Partyboat Morning Star http://morningstarfishing.com Ocean City, MD" Go to " Morning Star to read Capt Monty's entire newsletter... E-mail Capt Monty at: Capt Monty about upcoming trips or to subscribe to his newsletter: mhawkins@mediacombb.net Capt. Monty Hawkins mhawkins@siteone.net Party Boat "Morning Star" Reservation Line 410 520 2076 http://www.morningstarfishing.com/ Watch the weather. Help and Donate to the Ocean City Reef Foundation! http://www.ocreeffoundation.com/ It's a 501c3 tax deductable .org Joe at Lewes Harbour Marina (302-645-6227) reports on June 15th: "June 13, 2013 - New Flounder Regs The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission approved a coastwide recreational summer flounder harvest limit that allowed for changes in Delaware's flounder regulations. As of June 11, anglers catching summer flounder in Delaware waters will be able to retain smaller fish, with no closed season. Under previous regs, legal flounder had to be at least 18 inches long. The new minimum size is 17 inches, and anglers may keep four fluke per day. This should mean more in the box for summertime fishermen, and less wear and tear on the flounder population, since anglers won't have to cull through and handle as many fish prior to releasing them if they don't meet minimum size. Flatties continued to come from Lewes Canal and Broadkill River. Terry Euston and Scott Proctor stopped by with 5 nice keepers caught with smelts and chartreuse Gulp!. Chris Teeter was casting a chartreuse Gulp! from Lewes Beach when he connected with a 4.4 pound flounder and a 15 inch trout. Delaware Bay structure is also yielding some flatfish. Captain Brent's afternoon group put three in the box yesterday, along with a bunch of croakers, while working reef 5. Matt Adams managed the largest flounder, which weighed in at 4.63 pounds. The resurgence of weakfish has been a bright spot this spring, and many good sized trout have come from the same spots that produced years ago. The submerged jetties at Roosevelt, the Ferry Wall and Inner Wall were likely haunts. Soft artificials like Gulp!, Bass Assassins and paddletail worms were effective offerings. Francis Walsh was tossing a Pink Ghost Bass Assassin Shad at the Ferry Wall when he hooked a beautiful 4.05 pound weakie. Dustin Schell captured a 4.1 pound seatrout while working a jig and bunker strip combo from a pier inside Cape Henlopen. Kingfish are another Bay species that seem to more plentiul this year. Numerous kings have been caught on live bottom in The Shears and on the Coral Beds, and also from Broadkill Beach. Bloodworms, Fishbites and bits of clam were favorite baits. Patrons on the Angler headboat have done well with kings, returning with buckets of the tasty panfish. The Bay is also holding plenty of spot, croakers and blowfish. These should offer great action for anglers of all skill levels this summer, especially kids. Some uncommon species have made an early appearance in the Bay this spring. Taylor Deemer spotted a big Spadefish swimming around the pilings of Cape Henlopen Pier, and tempted the 4.72 pound beauty with a small piece of clam. Striper fishing has been good in Lewes Canal. Guys baitng with clams or peeler crab on bottom rigs got into bass. Many were shy of the 28 inch minimum, but some were keepers. "Rick" weighed in an 11.9 pounder he took from the Canal using frozen peeler. Drifting eels or casting RatLTraps around the drawbrdge resulted in legal rockfish too. The 20 to 26 inch slot limit for stripers goes into effect July 1. Sea Bassing was fair at Site 11, but better for those willing to travel farther off to structure in 120 foot depths. On Sunday, bassers aboard Katydid had a banner trip. They boxed 240 quality blueheads, and nearly 60 ling. Bernie Smelstoys and friends had their limit of 140 bass and 26 plump ling Sunday on the Grizzly. Offshore trollers found yellowfin tuna in the past few days. On Monday, the charterboat Moore Bills out of Ocean City returned to the dock with 15 yellowfins they landed while trolling 200 fathoms in the Baltimore Canyon. Other crews reported tuna catches from 50 to 70 fathoms of the Washington." Anglers need a DE Fishing License to fish, crab, and clam in DEL: Individual Delaware Fishing Licenses are now available online Stop by to the Oyster Bay Tackle location and buy your 2013 Ocean City Reef Foundation Charts. The donation fee for these charts are $50. $54 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. Come to Oyster Bay Tackle or buy online. (They are up in price, but all the numbers have been redone and the charts are in book-form.) Check out the 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. Capt. Rick Yakimowicz of the "Thelma Dale V" fishes out of Fisherman's Wharf. Here's his report from June 12th: Other than the weather you won't hear any real complaints about the fishing this past week at the Wharf as far as I am concerned. I was able to mix it up a little over the week with the anchoring over structure and I was also able to do a little drifting the few times the wind gave us a break. At times the action was very good with the Sea Bass and Ling and we even managed quite a few nice Flounder for our efforts during a couple of our trips. We are basically in our full season schedule now with All-Day trips sailing daily and Half-Day trips running twice a day. All-Day trips depart at 7:00 a.m. and will be targeting Flounder and Sea Bass and possibly some Ling if we venture further offshore. Half-Day trips depart the docks at 8:00 a.m. and then again at 1:00 p.m. and they will be targeting the Croakers, Kingfish and Trout. If you would like any more information about trips sailing out of the Wharf or you would like to book a private charter or reserve space on a special trip 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" Old Inlet Bait and Tackle (302-227-7974) reports on Lots of small fish on the beach typical in the summer heat. Mixed bag of spot kings and croakers. Occasional black drum in the mix too. Have to heard about a striper on the beach in roughly ten days but this is to be expected when the water gets warm. Surf water temp is in the mid sixties. Very few blues around on the surf. It's been a strange year for them. Fresh bunker, bloodworms (real and fake), and surf clams are the best baits. No hot spot to report. 3R's gets fished the most so that is where most of the reports come from, but the fish are spread out up and down the beach. Loads of rays and skates around. Its migration/mating season. So be ready on the beach! Rays are a problem in the Inlet and bays as well. The flounder bite has picked up but you'll have to deal with the rays. Gulp Alive swimming mullet in white on a lead head are like flounder candy. Just weighed a 3 lb 6 oz trout from the Inlet. Craig Manning, of York PA landed it on a saltwater fly. The Inlet bite has been hit and miss. They are picking up a few stripers here and there on swim shads and bucktails. A few blues and shad around on the incoming tide during the day time." Bill's Sport Shop (302-645-7654) in Lewes, DE reports on June 15th: Paul P caught a 18.5” keeper flounder at Massey’s Ditch on a bucktail and Gulp. Also, reports of keeper sized trout being caught. Bill Jr., Ellie White and Kieth Tolley fished the south side of IRI, back by the condos. Bill Jr caught a horseshoe crab, a turtle, a crab and 2 cow nose rays. Ellie had 2 short flounder, and Kieth was high hook with 2 short flounder and a 19”’ keeper. All on spec rigs and Gulp! ’Fran the Man’ Seiver called while fishing the IRI last evening and told me that everyone was catching blue fish, and that there was a blitz occurring. They were biting on Gulp, bucktails and flies. He said that he only kept what he wanted. He said that six of them were in the 18 to 22” range. Fishing at Conquest Rd., a small group of seniors caught flounder, king fish and small blues on fresh bunker on a #6 top and bottom rig along with skates and rays. Justin Pastoriua, Plymouth Meeting, stopped in for more equipment and mentioned he caught a 30” striper at 3Rs today on fresh bunker." Capt.Dan Stauffer (866-623-4746) of the Fin Chaser does wreck, inlet and trolling trips. Here's one of his reports from this week: "06/15/13 Ran east to the Baltimore Canyon looking for the fish. The morning was slow, boats were scattering trying to find a bite. We were pulling 10 rods but still had room for one more in the spread. I decided to go “old school” and throw out a set of cedar plugs tight to the transom. Less than 30 minutes later we get hit by the yellowfin. Five rods go down and one by one the fish make it to the boat. Problem is these are the small guys and only one is of legal size. Still lots of fun for the charter. The next attack is about 45 minutes later. This time six rods go down and immediately the lines get crossed into a big tangle. By the time the mess is straightened out, one tuna has already thrown the hook and another is lost in mid fight. Two make it in the box, both around 30 lbs. The last fish is less than two feet from the gaff when one of the guys knocks the drag button and the fish takes off and throws the hook. About 30 minutes later we get jumped by a pair but only one comes tight and this is a better class fish. After a great battle, the mate has the 65 lb. fish on the gaff. Back in the slip with four yellowfin in the box and a very happy bunch of guys. Oh, about that “old school” fishing, those cedar plugs were the first thing to get hit all three times." His picture is in our Offshore Photo Gallery. Larry Jock of the Coastal Fisherman reports: "BIG news today... the first white marlin was released by Tim Hawn while fishing on the charter boat, "No Quarter". Fish was released in 1,000 fathoms outside the Poor Man's Canyon in 79-degree water. This fish earns Tim and the crew $10,000."

WEEKLY “Gone Fishing” AT THE BEACH By Sue Foster June 17th, 2013

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THE RESTLESS LADY - Fishing Report For: June 10, 2013

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Captain Todd and a crew of  military guys from southern, MD went out to the Washington 100 fathoms had 15 fish 6 keepers thru back 9. Had fish on the teaser, lots of fun.  Guys had never been before, coming back for a 30hr trip in September. Great trip, plenty action today.

Thanks from Capt.Sean and THE RESTLESS LADY 443-373-3413

 Report Courtesy of THE RESTLESS LADY

THE RESTLESS LADY - Fishing Report For: June 10, 2013

Maryland DNR Weekly Fishing Report Overview | June 12, 2013

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Maryland Weekly Fishing Report Overview | June 12, 2013

I was doing something the other day that I don’t do very often and that is cleaning my office. Chronologically deep in a corner of rolled up charts I found an old Water Works Wonders promotion poster by RBFF with an image of a grown son and an aging father with these words. “Take me fishing because I miss my boy. Take me fishing like I used to take you. Take me fishing and we’ll give the fish a good laugh. Take me fishing because it is easier to talk on the boat. Take me fishing because I miss my boy.” Those words hit me right in the heart and wanted to share them with all of you that still have your dads around. Fishing together is one of those rare opportunities for close one on one relationships between a father and son or daughter. Rekindle those relationships or build new ones if you have young children. Ken Kopro took the opportunity to take his 90-year old dad out on Loch Raven recently for some simple fishing together watching bobbers and having a great time. You can catch his story in his June 19th angler’s log. To all the fathers, sons and daughters out there have a wonderful Father’s Day this Sunday.

 

Photo Courtesy of Ken Kopro

 

The lower Susquehanna River continues to provide excellent White Perch fishing this week for fishermen casting small lures such as shad darts, small jigs and weighted spinners. There are plenty of Channel Catfish in the river for bait fishermen and Flathead Catfish at the Conowingo Dam pool. Striped Bass are being caught at the dam pool and the lower river on swim shads. A few fishermen are live lining White Perch and rumor has it that some enterprising fishermen are transporting live Spot from areas farther down the bay and using them with great success near the dam pool. There are plenty of White Perch, Channel Catfish and enough Striped Bass to keep things interesting in the channels around the Susquehanna Flats, Elk River down to the Sassafras and Pooles Island area.

Water temperatures in the bay are in the low 70′s this week and some of the upper bay areas such as Baltimore Harbor can offer good fishing opportunities this time of the year. Casting around shoreline structure can offer some good fishing for Striped Bass and White Perch. Jigging along channel edges can also offer good fishing for the same species and for shore line anglers who like to relax a bit while fishing, casting out a bottom rig baited with bloodworms, grass shrimp or similar baits can also offer good fishing.

Fishermen in the upper bay are starting to poke around some of the traditional locations such as Swan and Love Points, the Triple Buoys, Dumping Ground, Baltimore Light, Sandy Point Light and Podickory Point looking to chum up some Striped Bass. For the most part many have been reporting successful trips with some nice fish coming from baits allowed to drift back in the chum slick and close to the bottom. As most know, a good tide is always important and spotting fish suspended near edges beforehand certainly helps. Fishermen describe trolling swim shads and bucktails behind umbrella rigs along channel edges and lumps as a slow pick. Live lining Spot or jigging near the Bay Bridge piers or rock piles has also proven to be successful for fishermen. Joel Henderson of Baltimore spent the day with his daughter at the Matapeake Fishing Pier and shows off a nice 30″ Striped Bass to his daughter.

 

Photo Courtesy of Joel Henderson

 

There is plenty of bottom fishing action being reported this week at locations such as Hackett’s Bar and Dolley’s Lump for a mix of White Perch, croakers and Spot as well as Striped Bass on the deeper outside edges. Fishermen have been taking advantage of the abundance of Spot in the middle bay region and live lining them on the deeper edges of drop-offs such as Thomas Point, the Hill, Buoy 83 and the Clay Banks as a few examples. Jigging and trolling along these same edges has also been productive and also in Eastern Bay. In the middle to lower bay region fishermen have been working the western edge of the shipping channel out in front of Chesapeake Beach for Striped Bass, trolling and live lining Spot have been the most productive ways to fish. Captains report that it has been tough fishing out in front of the Gas Docks this week; the Striped Bass seemed to have moved north. Fishermen in the lower Potomac River have been enjoying good fishing for Striped Bass along the channel edges by either trolling or chumming.

Water temperatures are still cool enough that the shallow water fishing for a mix of Striped Bass and White Perch in the upper and middle bay regions extends further into the morning hours and earlier into the evening hours this week. Casting a variety of swim shads, topwater lures and spinnerbaits with light tackle offers a relaxing and fun way to fish. In the lower bay region fishermen will see Red Drum and Speckled Trout thrown into the mix.

Fishermen are reporting the fishing for croakers and Spot improving significantly in the last week with good catches in tidal rivers from the lower Potomac eastward to Tangier and Pocomoke Sounds up to the Bay Bridge. In most tidal rivers White Perch are a very big part of the action. Most fishermen are using bottom rigs baited with bloodworms, pieces of wild grocery store style shrimp or squid. In the lower Potomac River fishermen will find small Blue Catfish to be a large part of their catch and Channel Catfish show up in rivers such as the Nanticoke or Choptank. Recreational crabbers are reporting that catches of good crabs is slowly improving in the bays tidal rivers and creeks. Crabs are putting on weight from the May shed. Kirk Ingram was fishing with friends near Cobb Island when they got into the croakers and White Perch for some good eating.

 

Photo Courtesy of Travis Franklin

 

Freshwater fishermen are reporting some fun fishing opportunities at Deep Creek Lake for Largemouth and Smallmouth Bass near floating docks. They also report that Bluegills are moving into the shallower waters of the lake and offer some fun fishing with bobber and bait or small rubber-legged poppers. The upper Potomac River and trout management waters in the western region will most likely see some high water as we expect some more heavy rains later on this week. Recently fishermen have been reporting a lot of Smallmouth Bass in the 12″-14″ size range jumping on baits; larger fish have been harder to come by.

Largemouth Bass are doing a good job of entertaining fishermen this week as most are in a post-spawn feeding behavior except those in the coldest waters of the extreme western region. Fishermen are having fun casting a variety of lures from topwater buzzbaits to soft plastic jigs and catching bass around shallow structure. Grass, spatterdock fields, fallen tree tops, old docks most any kind of structure will hold Largemouth Bass who are inspecting these areas for small baitfish and crawfish. When fishing tidal waters it is often the case that fishermen will find Largemouth Bass in the cover of grass and spatterdock at high tide and on the outside of these areas as the tide drops. Fishermen often use buzzbaits and weedless lures when fishing in the cover at high tide and lures such as spinnerbaits and crankbaits on the outside edges of the cover at low tide. Steve Goldberg was fishing the shallows of Black Hills Regional Park Lake when he caught and released this nice Largemouth Bass.

 

Photo Courtesy of Steve Goldberg

 

Ocean City fishermen are reporting fewer large Striped Bass this week in the surf as the main body of the northward migration may have slipped by. Enough large Striped Bass are being caught though to keep fishermen going through the onslaught of skates, rays, dogfish and inshore sharks that are chewing up baits. Everyone has been saying “bring plenty of fresh menhaden with you, you’ll need it”. Those fishing with smaller baits of bloodworms, Fishbites or squid are catching a mix of blowfish, kingfish, sea trout, Spot and a few flounder.

In and around the inlet the action is large Bluefish and Striped Bass at night and flounder, croakers and tautog during the day. A lot more fishermen are live lining spot now and with great success for large flounder and Striped Bass. Casting Got-Cha lures or swim shads is the other alternative for Striped Bass and Bluefish. Action in the back bay areas focuses mostly around flounder this week and there is plenty of good fishing occurring. Croaker, Spot and sea trout are now adding to the mix as well.

Outside the inlet fishermen are finding good fishing for sea bass at the wreck sites with tautog and flounder taking up some space in ice chests as well. The traditional fishing locations along the 30-Fathom Line are producing a mix of Mako, Tiger and Blue Sharks with some large Bluefish and Bluefin Tuna at times. At the canyon regions there were some impressive catches of Yellowfin Tuna and at least one large Bigeye Tuna made this week.

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Monday, June 10, 2013

Coastal Fisherman - Fishing Report Week of June 3rd - June 9th 2013

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Coastal Fisherman – Fishing Report Week of June 3rd – June 9th 2013
SUNDAY, June 9, 2013

Final day of the Bahia Marina Mako Mania Shark Tournament is today and it is wide open. The 12.8 lb. bluefish will be tough to beat, but other than that, there is nothing on the board. All 30 boats should be fishing today.

At 9:00 AM, the charter boat, “Restless Lady” reported that they have a 75-inch mako on the boat. Caught outside the Hot Dog.

At 9:30 AM, Capt John Oughton on the charter boat, “That’s Right” reported in. It was a slow start, but they have caught 3 out of 5 yellowfins, deep in the Baltimore Canyon (37.974973/-73.598313)

Rumors have it that yellowfins and bluefins are being caught in 200 fathoms on the northeast corner of the Wilmington Canyon.

Chadd Lucas caught a 5 lb. weakfish in the West Channel in front of Gudelsky Park.

“Ridin’ Thirty” weighed a 100 lb. mako shark caught on a whole bluefish at the Hot Dog.

Charter boat, “Restless Lady” weighed a 123 lb. mako shark, caught

“Tuna Box” brought in the heaviest thresher caught this year, a 485 pounder caught on a bonita fillet outside the Sausages.

Walter Moore caught a thresher shark, estimated at 500 lbs., while fishing at the Fingers with cut mackerel.

Charter boat, “Skip’s Charter & Guide Service” had another good day striper fishing around the South Jetty. They caught numerous short stripers and put a couple of keepers in the boat. Largest measured 46-inches. Caught on live spot.

“Dawg Haus” ventured out to the Baltimore Canyon (100-500 f) and ended up with 6 yellowfins and a dolphin. Largest YFT weighed 70 lbs.

“Old Skool” released 7 dusky sharks at the Fingers.

It was a busy day at the Mako Mania Shark Tournament. Here’s what we saw:

Charter boat, “Moore Bills” weighed a 209.5 lb. mako shark, caught on a bluefish fillet at the Rockpile. Fish ended up in 1st place in the Mako Division.

“Sea Ya” weighed a 112.5 lb. mako shark, caught on a whole bluefish at the Rockpile.

“First & More” weighed a 143.2 lb. mako shark, caught on a whole bluefish at the 30 Fathom Lump.

“Mycin” weighed a 108.1 lb. mako shark.

Charter boat, “Reel Addiction” caught a 108.1 lb. mako shark, caught on a whole mackerel in 30 fathoms inside the Washington Canyon.

“Stress Reel-ief” weighed a 144.8 lb. mako shark caught on a bluefish fillet at the Lobster Claw. This fish ended up in 2nd place. The crew also won the WW Harman award for most mako releases (5).

“Runnin’ Late” weighed a 95.6 lb. mako shark that did not qualify. Caught in Massey’s Canyon.

SATURDAY, June 8, 2013

The 2nd day of the Bahia Marina Mako Mania Shark Tournament was held today. Pretty uneventful. “No Limits” weighed a 94 lb. mako that fell short of the 100 lb. minimum. They did weigh a 12.8 lb. bluefish to sit in first place in the Bluefish Division. Guys were fishing around the Hambone.

Reports were that it was very rough today with a very big swell.

Tonight around 8:30 PM, Capt. Skip Maguire called in to report that the striper bite around the tip of the South Jetty was red hot. They had already caught many fish, including a 40-incher they had in the box. All were caught on live spot.

FRIDAY, June 7, 2013

The Bahia Marina Mako Mania Shark Tournament started today. 29 boats are registered. Due to the crappy weather, only 2 boats are signed up to fish today. Weigh-ins are from 3:30 to 7:30 PM.

The South Jersey Shark Tournament out of Cape May, NJ, originally scheduled for this weekend, has been rescheduled for next weekend.

Charter boat, “That’s Right” went shark fishing around the Hot Dog and didn’t have any bites.

The 2 boats that fished today in the Bahia Marina Mako Mania Shark Tournament didn’t have any fish to be weighed.

THURSDAY, June 6, 2013

Small stripers, with an occasional keeper, were caught last night around the South Jetty. Bite wasn’t as good as the previous night. Better bite was around the Rt. 50 Bridge.

At 11:00 AM, Capt. John Oughton on the charter boat, “That’s Right” reported that they have a 130 lb. mako in box. They are drifting in 30 fathoms above the Hot Dog. Fish ate a bluefish. (38.184 / 74.236)

Charter boat, “Skip’s Charter & Guide Service” fished the South Jetty from 5:30 PM to 10:00 PM last night. Anglers hooked 30 stripers, all too short to keep. All bit live spot.

Charter boat, “Restless Lady” caught a 100 lb. mako and released 2 duskies and 3 tiger sharks. They were fishing around the Hot Dog.

“Thrillseeker” released 4 makos and 3 duskies at the Hambone. All were hooked on bluefish fillets. On dusky was estimated at 200 lbs.

Anglers on the charter boat, “Skip’s Charter & Guide Service” hooked 58 stripers and ended up with 3 keepers, all on live spot around the South Jetty. Several of the fish were very close to the 28-inch minimum, but were released.

Charter boat, “That’s Right” had a 145 lb. mako shark, caught in 30 fathoms at the Hot Dog.

Michael Hoyt caught a 20.5-inch flounder while fishing on the head boat, “Morning Star” at an artificial reef. Fish was fooled with a chunk of clam.

WEDNESDAY, June 5, 2013

Capt. John Oughton on the charter boat, “That’s Right” reported in at 8:00 this morning to say that they hd 9 yellowfins in the box, but they had to travel 135 miles south to get them.

Capt. John Oughton on the charter boat, “That’s Right” reported in at 11:00 that they had a box full of yellowfins (18) and were heading home. They were off Wanchese when they started for home.

There was an excellent striped bass bite on the South Jetty yesterday afternoon and evening. You had to weed through a lot of short fish to get your keepers, but they were there to be caught.

Charter boat, “Skip’s Charter & Guide Service” hooked 60 stripers with 2 keepers, all on live spot at the South Jetty late in the afternoon.

Charter boat, “Get Sum” had 8 keeper flounder caught on Gulp Swimming Mullets at the South Jetty during their morning trip.

Head boat, “Happy Hooker” returned with 3 flounder from the bay behind Assateague Island. Largest was 19 3/4-inches.

George and Jonathan Ganzzermiller caught a pair of flounder during the outgoing tide off the Rt. 50 Bridge. Fish measured 19 1/2 and 22″.

“Muff Diver” returned with a 125 lb. mako shark from 30 fathoms outside the Hambone.

Charter boat, “Lucky Break” had 6 flounder, up to 22-inches, 1 weakfish (21″) and 1 striper (29″). All were caught on Gulp! Swimming Mullets at the South Jetty.

Big Bird Cropper hooked 15 stripers on his Roy Rig at the South Jetty this morning at the end of the incoming tide. All were short except for a 33-incher.

Charter boat, “OC Guide Service” returned with 4 flounder in the box. All were caught on white Gulp! Swimming Mullets at the South Jetty.

Donna Matarese landed 2 nice flounder (18″ & 22″) at the South Jetty on a bucktail tipped with Gulp!. Donna was fishing on the charter boat, “OC Guide Service”.

MONDAY, June 3, 2013

Ed “Greenie” Greene boated a 40-inch striper this morning while tossing a Rat-L-Trap around the South Jetty

 

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WEEKLY “Gone Fishing” AT THE BEACH By Sue Foster June 10th, 2013

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WEEKLY “Gone Fishing” AT THE BEACH compliments of: Sue Foster, proprietor of OYSTER BAY TACKLE, Ocean City Maryland, and Fenwick Tackle, Fenwick Island Delaware. Sue provides us hopeful fish catchers with a timely UP TO DATE FISHING REPORT and other handy fishing advice. Courtesy of At The Beach Featured Photo From Oyster Bay Tackle Photo Gallery

Ocean City Maryland & Assateague Island – Delaware Beaches – Ocean n Bay Fishing Report By Sue Foster, Oyster Bay Tackle Shop, Ocean City MD – Fenwick Island DE  June 10th, 2013 Water Temp: 65.5 Fishing Report by Sue Foster Fair flounder fishing in the bay. First reports of croaker from the Ocean Pier. Mixed bag of fish from the surf including sharks, skates, rays, kingfish, spot, sea trout, and blowfish. Sea bass fishing is improving offshore. Crabs are showing up the bay. Oyster Bay will be open 7-7 or 8 Mon through Thursday...-Friday-7-9 and Sat- 6-9 & Sun-6-7 or 8. Fenwick Tackle will be open 7-7 weekly and till 8 or 9 on Fri and Saturday nights. E-mail Sue Foster at: Oyster Bay Tackle. The online mall is open. We sell MD licenses and 2013 boat stickers at our Oyster Bay and Fenwick Tackle locations. De Licenses are sold at our DEL location. IF YOU WANT A BOAT FISHING LICENSE PLEASE TELL US THAT WHEN YOU GET TO THE COUNTER. Voids are no joy! For DEL boat fishing licenses you MUST bring in a current boat registration and a driver's license. (For MD boat stickers, all you need is a driver's license.) MD fishing licenses are really quick and easy once you're in the system. If you have last year's license, bring it in with you, and all we have to do is punch in the DNR ID number Otherwise, bring in your Driver's License. BTW, There's a mistake in the MD Fishing Guide about clamming. If you are out of state it IS legal for you to catch clams in Worcester Co. The state fixed the mistake online, but of course, thousands of Guides were already printed! I have had several e-mails about this. The Bulkhead at 2nd thru 4th Street is open and anglers caught a lot of tautog down there this week. Not many keepers, but the action was there. Flounder are also caught from the bulkhead along with a few bluefish. The Ocean Pier it also open. Anglers there caught sharks, skates, blues and croaker this week. Both of these are places you can fish without a MD license. If you fish the bulkhead you still need to obtain a free registry. We can do that for you at Oyster Bay Tackle or call 1-855-855-3906. If you fish the Ocean Pier they will register you for you. 2013 Tide Charts are now available in our stores and online. Go to our website and click on More Fishing Info. Flounder season is now open in MD- Minimum Size - 16" Creel - 4 fish open all year. New Ocean City chart by Capt Seagull available: Buy at Oyster Bay Tackle or online. The bay portion of this chart is a little small, but it shows the nearshore Reef Sites with numbers. 2013 White Marlin Open T's are here! Instore or Online. > 2013 Shark T's! In store or on Online. We also have the 2013 Shark Tank Tops. Got a few left. Get them quick. Stopping in to Oyster Bay Tackle or Fenwick Tackle? Clip out a coupon for xtra savings! Coupons Surf fishing saw a mixed bag of fish. Kingfish, blowfish, croaker, spot, sharks, sea trout, skates, rays, and a few blues were the reported fish. We didn't get a lot of feedback this week because of the stormy weather. Most reports were a little bit of this and that. More smaller fish than larger fish have been biting unless you are into the shark fishing! MDT35 posted on Stripers Online on the 6th (Thursday): "The beach is definitely transitioning from spring to summer. Got the pass to make one final overnight trip yesterday...I fished 6 rods, 1 of which was setup for panfishing. The skates and doggies were relentless. On the 1 rod setup for panfishing I had a real steady pick of Whiting, Croakers, spot, and a couple blowfish. Some real nice size to the Whiting and Croakers. My setup consisted of 40lb braid running line, 30lb mono tied with 2 dropper loops snipped with a #1 Kahle hook snelled in, no floats. Fishbites Blood Worm was the ticket. Tossed several of their heads way out but got no visits from the biters." 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! Our online mall is now open and we have: Trailhead Tire Deflators! We also carry the Oasis Trailhead brand. Surf Packages, complete with sinkers. (Also flounder, Aqua-Clear, Swim Shad, and Got-cha Plug Packages.) J.J. from the Oceanic Pier (410-289-2602) reported flounder biting. There were skates, shad both day and night, a few stripers, some blues, and a scattering of sea trout. (You do not need a fishing license to fish the Oceanic Pier.) Larry Jock of the Coastal Fisherman reports on Saturday: "Tonight around 8:30 PM, Capt. Skip Maguire called in to report that the striper bite around the tip of the South Jetty was red hot. They had already caught many fish, including a 40-incher they had in the box. All were caught on live spot." On Tuesday, Larry reports: "Michael Hoyt caught a 20.5-inch flounder while fishing on the head boat, "Morning Star" at an artificial reef. Fish was fooled with a chunk of clam." Ed Dorsch e-mailed in his fishing report from Saturday: "My son and I bought a new boat at the boat show in March and FINALLY got the chance to take her out for her maiden flounder fishing voyage yesterday. The weather obviously wasn't the best and we were forced to fish all outgoing tide. Seemed like the storm held up the afternoon incoming quite a while. Anyway, despite dodging the big afternoon storm by deciding to have lunch, we managed to land a couple of keepers ...17" and a real nice 19.25" drifting minnows near the OC Airport. Nice that the first fish landed on the "Net Flounders" was a keeper. Oyster Bay Tackle and Fenwick Tackle snapped a couple pics of fish this week: On Thursday, Jim Patton from New Market, Md caught a 24 inch Flounder weighing in at 4.6 pounds during a outgoing tide around the East Channel using a Aqua Clear rig with Minnow and White Gulp. He also had another keeper. It wasn't the most pleasant of days, so it certainly was a great catch considering the weather! Jason C Hughes from East Berlin, PA fished the RT 50 Bridge during the evening for Striper on High Tide using Storm Lures and came up with this 22 inch Flounder weighing 4.5 pounds These pictures are in our Inshore Photo Gallery. Ed Bush from Selbyville, De caught a 19.5 Pound Black Drum during low tide using Grass Shrimp as bait near Rt 54 on Friday. On Tuesday Ed Bush of Selbyville, DE came into Fenwick Tackle with three Black Drum caught from the Rt 54 bridge in the "ditch" on grass shrimp. Largest was 3 pounds 12 ounces (19-inches). Caught on grass shrimp. His pictures are in our Delaware Photo Gallery. Some nice sized bluefish was the Route 50 Bridge at night. Stripers were spoty this week from the Bridge. Some shad reported caught and released from the Homer Gudelsky Park. Some really big rays in the bay this week as well. Jeff Grimes Of Helbent Charters reports on the 3rd: "I just wanted to let you know we fished 8 hours last Saturday and we had one keeper Flounder. We were forced to fish the out going tide which lasted all morning. The water in the inlet and out behind the island all the way back up to the campground was very dirty. We fished in both those areas with no luck. The other thing was the water depths out in both those areas has changed. The inlet at low tide was 30 feet all the way out and almost all the way to the south jetty. The other area that was a big change from last year was the out side of the commercial harbor near the sunken ship New Hope at the end of the dock. You used to be able to drift to within about 20 feet of the boat and now you can only get within 50 yards of the boat. That area really filed in. We had no choice but to fish the Captain Hill area all afternoon to stay out of the wind and there is where we caught our one keeper Flounder. We saw no other fish caught all day so the bite was very slow. The bay and especially the inlet was covered with large rays. They were everywhere and we only hooked one all day we saw hundreds of rays on the surface and heaven only knows how many more under the surface. The wind made for a tough day and Sunday had even more wind projected do it was a no go on Sunday. Live bait was the choice over Gulp on Saturday. Lets hope once again for the winds lay down. On the 9th Capt Jeff reports: "Finally a day without wind and rain! We fished the last several hours of the incoming tide this morning which was slack for almost 90 minutes and for a few hours of the out going tide. When the tide finally turned the fish continued to have lock jaw! We did pick up a weak fish and another short fish in the inlet but we did not see any flounder caught all day! Even with all the rain the last few days the water quality was very good today at least while we were out today which I thought may have been a problem. It was a great day on the water today but it looks like we have a chance of rain three out of the next four days so keep the rain gear close by. The fish we caught today preferred pink Gulp. There is still time to book a trip this summer so give me a call at 717-574-4010 or email me at helbentcharters@hotmail.com. You also reach me thru my website helbentcharters.com or thru facebook. See you on the water." Capt. Jeff has one of the few charters going out of North Ocean City. Dave Beall of Dave's Delmarva First Mate Service reported: "This week started out like last week but it seems like the new moon brought a little more action to Indian River Inlet. The bite at tide change would only last for about 30 minutes most days if you were lucky. There was still an occasional Gray Trout, Flounder seemed to pick up some and there are still Rockfish in the dark from the bridge out to the jetties. It looks like the spot have decided to finally show up although they are not here in huge numbers yet but I am sure that there are rockfish, flounder and trout following them. I caught several Flounder in dirty water this past week with a 1/4 oz. bucktail (use a heavier bucktail in deeper water) with a white head red wrap and a chartreuse skirt and I added a trimmed chartreuse gulp sand worm to the hook. Cast and retrieve the bucktail very slowly with a short erratic jerk every 2 to 3 seconds. Remember that flounder will sometimes follow a bait for a while before it hits it so you want to make the bait look injured. Have a GREAT WEEK, Dave" Check out his new web site. Flounder and Surf, Rig and Lure Packages, Selection of Swimming Shads or Gotcha Plugs! Homeowners are catching blue crabs behind their houses. One group caught one and a half dozen in an hour and had dinner. Crabbing has started late, but now that we have warmer weather, we should have some good crabbing. (You can handline or use traps at the Northside Park at 125th Street.) Capt. Monty on the " Morning Star sends us his update and comments on June 2nd: "Fish Report 6/7/13 Cbass: Steady If Not Great Hooked On OC Victories Of All Sizes X-Long Cbass June 13th 5:30 to 4:30 - $150.00 — Big Boat Ride — Relentless Anglers Preferred! Sailing Everyday Reservations For Sea Bass Trips at 410 - 520 - 2076. See much more info at http://morningstarfishing.com Regular 8 Hr trips $110.00 - 7AM to 3PM – Saturdays 6AM to 3:30PM - $125.00 LEAVE YOUR BEST POSSIBLE CONTACT NUMBER - Weather Cancelations Are (far too!) Common - I Make Every Attempt To Let Clients Sleep In If The Weather's Not Going Our Way.. Be A Half Hour Early - We Like To Leave Early. Clients Arriving Late Will See The West End Of An East Bound Boat.. Hi All, It was comforting to come across a section of reef & paint many sea bass 10 to 30 feet up in the water on my depth sounders; great to see schools of cbass up off the bottom. When we anchored they followed our baits down and CHEWED for a while. Happened a couple times this week. Nice. Everyone likes drop & reel fishing — especially the captain.. Mostly though we're still, and will remain, working for a catch. Sending very nearly everyone home with dinner plus a few. Every once in a while someone will push into the high teens. Catching a lot of fish & keeping dinner. Did have a young man catch two flounder. One was a keeper, the first filleted on my rig this year. Hoping for a good season on fluke/flounder. Should start biting well in a few weeks. Still seeing a couple ling (red hake) almost every day. That's a huge increase from recent years past. Scientists blame our region's ling demise on climate change. Odd: I think water's warming is mostly up-top thus far – on the surface; that we often have cooler than average bottom temps as ice-melt waters seep low & south.. The boat's sailing extra-light with people during the week while I'm canceling sold-out trips for weather on weekends. What could go wrong? Ahh, it'll come around.. We did increase the amount of substrate available for naturally occurring corals & mussels to attach too this week. OC Reef Foundation put a barge-load of concrete pipe right on target at Ake's Reef 4.5 NM SE Ocean City Inlet. Almost adjacent to the last bargeload of pipe & nearly hitting the steel boat we sank last November; Ake's Reef footprint was expanded. We'll do it again soon. Get out to Jimmy's too. Ours is a small barge, but four bargeloads since spring is a great start on 2013. See ocreefs.org to contribute, or just play the Reef Raffle when you're aboard. See you on the rail.. Regards, Monty Capt. Monty Hawkins mhawkins@siteone.net Partyboat Morning Star http://morningstarfishing.com Ocean City, MD" Go to " Morning Star to read Capt Monty's entire newsletter... E-mail Capt Monty at: Capt Monty about upcoming trips or to subscribe to his newsletter: mhawkins@mediacombb.net Capt. Monty Hawkins mhawkins@siteone.net Party Boat "Morning Star" Reservation Line 410 520 2076 http://www.morningstarfishing.com/ Watch the weather. Help and Donate to the Ocean City Reef Foundation! http://www.ocreeffoundation.com/ It's a 501c3 tax deductable .org Joe at Lewes Harbour Marina (302-645-6227) reports on June 6th: "Twenty fathom structure looks pretty sharky so far this season. Good numbers of Threshers have been reported from The Fingers over the past two weeks. Several have been sizeable specimens, over 200 pounds.....Regarding other Ocean opportunities, sea bass were available on reef and wreck structure between 100 and 150 feet of water. Captain Brent on Katydid said bass had been spotty since the season opening, but they finally showed signs of starting to stack up around certain spots. Brent bassed yesterday, and his nine guys returned with their boat limit of chunky knotheads, many close to 2 pounds. They also had several quality ling. A few days earlier, Captain Brent hosted the fishin' Falgowski family for a wreck trip. The group came in with 105 bass and 20 ling. Kenny Luckanish stopped by to weigh a 3.95 pound citation sea bass he decked aboard the Thelma Dale IV. Offshore bottom bouncers had success too. Captain Pete and the boys on Candy's Reel Choice deep dropped in Baltimore Canyon for 15 golden tilefish to 30 pounds, plus a mix of sea bass, ling and black belly rosefish. Back in Delaware Bay, drum fishing held up well through the past week. Fish continued to come from the Coral Beds area, but a good bite also developed northeast of Brandywine. .... Drum should be available through this new moon, but catches normally fade out by mid June. The return of weakfish continues to please Delaware Bay fishermen. Numerous seatrout have come from the submerged jetties at Roosevelt Inlet, the Ferry Wall and Inner Wall. Soft artificials such as Gulp!, Bass Assassins and paddletail worms worked well. Jeff Purdy used a purple and pink paddletail on a red jighead to tempt a 5.6 pound trout from the Ferry Wall. Not to be outdone, Jeff's Dad Vince Purdy took a 5.3 pound trout and a bonus 1.9 pound speckled trout using the same jig and paddletail combo at the same spot the next day. Glenn Barrett brought in a 3.5 pound weakie that swallowed a spot he was reeling in from the Cape Henlopen Pier. Chris Huk had a 28 inch trout that blasted a topwater plug he was working along the grass in Lewes Canal. Flounder catches in the Canal improved the last few days. Some flatties were also caught along Lewes and Broadkill Beaches. Karen Revis stopped by with a pair of keepers to 19 inches she got drifting minnows in Broadkill River. Croakers and spot have been plentiful around the Henlopen Pier and along Lewes Beach and will jump on pieces of bloodworms or Fishbites on small hook rigs. Kingfish and blowfish have been caught in the Ocean surf with the same baits." Anglers need a DE Fishing License to fish, crab, and clam in DEL: Individual Delaware Fishing Licenses are now available online Stop by to the Oyster Bay Tackle location and buy your 2013 Ocean City Reef Foundation Charts. The donation fee for these charts are $50. $54 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. Come to Oyster Bay Tackle or buy online. (They are up in price, but all the numbers have been redone and the charts are in book-form.) Check out the 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. Capt. Rick Yakimowicz of the "Thelma Dale V" fishes out of Fisherman's Wharf. Here's his report from June 5th: After Two and a half weeks of fishing over the wrecks rocks and artificial reefs targeting Black Sea Bass since the season opener on the 19th of May there are a few things that I can say with certainty. There are definitely some nice Sea Bass around but not like years past, if your looking for freezer packing action and limit catches of fish I'm not your guy, and last but not least - does the wind never stop? The Delaware Bay has been pretty lively with the Drumfish on both sides of the Bay and there are also more and more reports of Croakers being landed in several locations. There also seems to be a lot of Kingfish around for those targeting them and some of the sharpshooters continue to catch some nice Trout jigging around the structures. The Croakers being around this early should bode well with the inshore fishing and with the Half-Day trips as we roll into Summer. The plan for my All-Day trips is simple we are going fishing. On days with just a few anglers we will likely be doing some drifting the open bottom and we will see a variety of fish with both the Flounders and the Sea Bass when the conditions are good. On Days where we have a decent crowd or the wind is blowing it is still likely that we will be anchoring over the wrecks and the reefs targeting the Bass and some Ling. Trips depart the dock at 7:00 a.m. and we generally return around 4:00. Half Day trips will be targeting Croakers, Kingfish, and possibly a few Trout and Flounder in the Bay. If you would like any more information about trips sailing out of the Wharf or you would like to book a private charter or reserve space on a special trip 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" Old Inlet Bait and Tackle (302-227-7974) reports on It's official - New Summer Flounder regulation is 17" minimum size with a 4 fish a day limit and no closed season. This goes in to effect Tuesday June 11. June 6- News Flash: Spot and Croakers is the Inlet. On June 6th: Surf fishing has come on pretty good lately. We have been getting southeast wind on the incoming tide and it is pushing warm water and fish our way. Starting to see the switch to what we call "small fish season" typical of the warm water summer months. The surf action is dominted by small fish: kings, spot, croakers etc. They are hitting just about everything; bloodworms (real and fake), clams and fresh bunker. Not too many bluefish around on the beach right now as has been the case so far this Spring. Still the occasional striper in the suds. We saw two 20 pounders early in the weekend. The striper bite on the beach will slow down as the water warms. Horseshoe crabs and cow nose rays are migrating now so don't be surprised if you get hooked up! The striper bite in the Inlet has been at night and the early morning hours. Swim shads and bucktails. The fish have been tight to the rocks. North side on incoming and south side on outgoing. Eels will become increasingly effective as the water warms. Daytime incoming water has produced bluefish and shad. Flounder are still in the bays with the cooler water temps hanging around. The VFW slough and Masseys are the hotspots. Minnows and Gulp Alive are working well. B Buoy and the Old Grounds are the best destinations for seabass. When the wind is not blowing. Which has been rare." Bill's Sport Shop (302-645-7654) in Lewes, DE reports on June 4th: Various reports from yesterday: croaker, spot, weakfish, kingfish, puffers, striper and keeper flounder were being pulled from the surf. Anglers were using blood worms, Fishbites, bunker and clams. Customers have been reporting many stripers being caught at night from the jetty at IRI. Sea bass have been reported at Site 11 and the Old Grounds. Mako and thresher are being reported from the Baltimore.." Capt.Dan Stauffer (866-623-4746) of the Fin Chaser does wreck, inlet and trolling trips. Here's one of his reports from this week: "06/08/13 First shark trip of the year. We’re greeted by weather that is much better than the forecast is calling for. Baits hit the water and the wait begins. After about 90 minutes drifting in all kinds of crazy directions we have our first shark in the line. The 60 lb. dusky is released after a short battle. Almost immediately we have another shark messing with a bait but after a 15 second run the shark drops the bait and doesn’t return. The next few hours see’s more clouds and only a few bites. Shortly after noon a big thresher grabs our floater and the fish is on. After about 20 minutes the main line breaks for no apparent reason. The shark might have caught it with his giant tail. The guys decided to wrap things up a little early due to heavy rain that moved in while we were doing battle with Mr. Tail." Lots of sharks offshore. Our own Walter Moore of Oyster Bay caught a huge 18ft thresher shark estimated at 500lbs. It took 3 hours and 30 minutes to bring in on his boat "Moore or Less". It was caught on a Shimano TLD25 reel spooled with 50lb mono on a 20-50lb class rod. The fish was so big he had to have it towed in on another boat. Caught on a Tahoe 215cc deck boat. Pictured at Advanced Marina using their boat forklift. Chum: Captain Mac's monster mash. Bait: Boston mackerel His picture is in our Offshore Photo Gallery. Larry Jock of the Coastal Fisherman reports from offshore on Sunday: "At 9:00 AM, the charter boat, "Restless Lady" reported that they have a 75-inch mako on the boat. Caught outside the Hot Dog. At 9:30 AM, Capt John Oughton on the charter boat, "That's Right" reported in. It was a slow start, but they have caught 3 out of 5 yellowfins, deep in the Baltimore Canyon (37.974973/-73.598313). Rumors have it that yellowfins and bluefins are being caught in 200 fathoms on the northeast corner of the Wilmington Canyon."

WEEKLY “Gone Fishing” AT THE BEACH By Sue Foster June 10th, 2013

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