As we get to the striped bass closure things are picking up with other species around the region. We been having some heavy rain at times but before the rain most rivers had some good action going on with some left over white perch spawning and more shad showing.
The Patuxent river still has some left over white perch pushing up north of jug bay, most been in the 7-10 inch range. Using grass shrimp on a bottom rig was the ticket to get them to bite or a tandem rig with two shad darts also tipped with grass shrimp. The hickory and even some American shad have been pushing up river in the Patuxent river as well casting gold spoons or tandems with a 1 /16oz- 1/8oz shad darts had been a good option when targeting shad. The Potomac river has also been producing a good amount of hickory shad and some American shad .
We had the opening of trout fishing for all of the areas that had been stocked in the past week or two. Most anglers got to enjoy some of the trout fishing before the streams got flooded. Most creeks and rivers got stoked with rainbow, golden and some brown trout. Power bait on the corm or garlic flavor is a good option if you want to sit and wait for a bite on a deep pool if you want to cast and move around casting small in line spinners is can produce some fish as well.
Blue catfishing around the chesapeake bay has been productive. Fishing in front of sandy point on the drop offs next to the bridge and podickory point have been producing blue cats up to 30lb on cut bunker on the bottom. Shore fisherman are also getting a good amount of catfish specially the ones fishing from the beach at sandy point state park.
Fishing Report Written By: Alex Gallardo Perez, an experienced local Angler and Anglers Prostaff!