Bluefish fishing7/31/2023 If you’re not chipping paint off your jigs, you’re not getting close enough to the bridge piers. Casting soft plastic jigs near the bridge piers during the early morning hours can also be productive. The best action occurs during the morning hours. Most are drifting back to the pier bases with live spot or soft crabs on a good running tide, with good results. Striped bass anglers are finding some striped bass action on the east side of the Bay Bridge, near the rock piles and the bridge piers at the 30-foot drop-off. The catfish will chase down soft plastic jigs, crankbaits, or any kind of live or dead bait near the bottom. All are being caught on bottom rigs baited with pieces of bloodworm.Ī mix of blue and channel catfish are ready and willing to go after anything that looks or smells like something to eat from the Conowingo Dam pool, down the Susquehanna River, and throughout all the upper Bay and tidal rivers. White perch are being found in the same areas as well as the western side of the lower Susquehanna and all the region’s tidal rivers. Upper Bay anglers can gather up their spot at the western end of the Bay Bridge in about 15 feet of water, off the north end of Sandy Point State Park and the mouth of the Magothy River. There is also some striped bass action at Swan Point and near the Love Point rocks for those live-lining spot or jigging with soft plastics. These efforts are yielding a nice grade of striped bass that are usually measuring 20 inches to 26 inches in length. The area continues to offer the best fishing for striped bass by live-lining spot, jigging, or trolling. Lift operators also removed 1,300 invasive fish, and returned 1.8 million gizzard shad to the Conowingo Dam pool.Ĭharter and recreational boats from the middle and upper Bay continue to form up a large fleet near the Key Bridge, Patapsco River, and Hart-Miller Island. A total of 10,022 American Shad and 400 river herring were captured and transported above the dam. The 2023 fish passage report at the Conowingo Dam lifts has been released. All commercial fishing, including placement of crab pots, is prohibited in this area during these exercises.īilly Griffin caught this whopper size northern snakehead in the Middle River recently. Watercraft will be escorted by Aberdeen’s patrol boats, which will also ensure the area is clear of other boats. The operation area includes the water near Bear Point, proceeding southeast towards Aberdeen’s K Buoy, southward along the restricted water boundary to H Buoy, westward to the mouth of Delph Creek, and then returning to the Bear Point area. Mariners are advised that the Aberdeen Test Center will be conducting live fire exercises and operational testing of various watercraft, through October 1, 2023. Recreational boaters and anglers are advised to watch out for a prohibited entry area near Aberdeen Proving Ground. The fishing for striped bass at the edges of the Susquehanna Flats has slowed down this week, most likely due to diminished cool water flows from the Conowingo Dam. The best fishing success occurs in the early morning and evening hours while casting paddletails, jerkbaits, and poppers. Īnglers are reporting good fishing for striped bass at the Conowingo Dam pool this week flows at the dam are down so anglers are casting as close to the turbine discharge as possible. Īs always, the best fishing areas could be further refined by intersecting them with underwater points, hard bottom, drop-offs, and large schools of baitfish.įor more detailed and up-to-date fishing conditions in your area of the Bay, be sure to check out Eyes on the Bay’s Click Before You Cast. To see the latest water clarity conditions, check Eyes on the Bay Satellite Maps. Expect average water clarity in Maryland’s waters. There will be above average tidal currents through Saturday as a result of the June 18 new moon. However, there are still plenty of cool, well oxygenated areas in the Bay to pursue Maryland gamefish, including the main Bay on the western side from Tolchester north to the Susquehanna Flats, and the area from Gooses Reef south to the Virginia line.Įxpect below average flows all week. Avoid fishing below 25 feet in these areas. Some areas of low oxygen are present in bottom waters from Love Point down to Bloody Point, as well as in the Potomac River near Colonial Beach. Main Bay surface water temperatures are holding in the low 70s. A partly cloudy week is ahead with continued warm weather and a chance of rain most of the next week.
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