Most anglers have been keeping busy with the pre season trout stocking that goes on during this time of the year. With lots of ponds in the central Maryland region being stocked this past week. Power bait and small inline spinners are the trick to get them rainbow trout to bite. The yellow perch run has begun as well in most of the region with the Easter shore having most of the action in the middle sections of the rivers like the Choptank and Chester River. The striped bass bite has been up and down with most still fishing the power plant and finding some schools of mix size fish around the hot water discharge at Calvert cliffs.