Warm weather and no rain has made for the perfect conditions for the beginning of the snakehead and large mouth bass spawns. Most areas are seen snakeheads paired up and even some early season fry balls. Thats not always good news since snakeheads become harder to catch when they are in full spawning mode. The best area to target them has been most of the rivers in the upper bay like the Gunpowder river, Bush river, and Middle river.
Most tidal rivers, ponds and reservoirs have seen bass in beds for the past week of so. Most reservoirs like loch raven, liberty, and pretty boy have seen a good bite over the past week.
Shad fishing is down to the tail end of it in most southern rivers and creeks in the state with the susquehanna river been the last one to get a push of mainly hickory shad and a few American shad.
Most anglers await the re opening of striped bass season coming on May 16th. Most anglers are still chunking for blue catfish and still catching good numbers and some quality fish up to 40 pounds. The mouth of the Magothy is still one of the hot spots in the middle bay area. Anchoring up in shallower water has been the ticket to get more bites over the past week anywhere from 5-15 foot of water.
Fishing Report written by Local Angler and Anglers Prostaff Alex Perez!