Tammy's Tackle, Home of Calvin Tyler's Tackle Shop. We are located in Charlotte Hall, Maryland and we sell all kinds of fishing supplies and tools. We also provide fishing reports for the Southern Maryland area. We have rods, reels, hooks, sinkers, rigs, steel leaders, lures, bucktails, parachutes, spoons, planers, fishing bags, tools and much more.
Trollers and jiggers
are finding rockfish in the Potomac and Patuxent.
The
fish are breaking on the Chinese Muds daily in the mouth of the Patuxent. The
thrash of feeding fish chasing the bait to the surface is drawing flocks of
gulls. Boaters using light tackle find the working birds and drop their jigs on
the bottom seeking keeper-sized rockfish 18 inches or better.
The smaller fish are on the top. Trollers are bouncing their lures on the
bottom and circle the breaking fish. Catches of 26 to 32 inch stripers are the
reward in the 5 to 7 pound range.
The same pattern extends up the Patuxent with
plenty of rockfish feeding on small alewives that are very plentiful. Those not
chasing birds are trolling up fine rockfish on the edges of the oyster bars and
dropoffs in both the Patuxent and Potomac.
The bay shipping channel has rockfish breaking and trollers catching plenty
from the PR to the HI buoys and both north and south of those markers. Reliable
locations for schools of rock include the artificial reefs below St. Jeromes
Creek and the Middle Grounds. The Triangle area from Point Lookout to Smith
Point out to buoy 60 has schools of hungry rockfish
Crappie
are biting now in St. Mary's Lake with catches of 20 or more caught in a single
outing being common. The crappie will take crappie jigs and live minnows
readily. Bass and pickeral are also eager to take lures in the lake.
There
are active schools of rockfish in the Potomac from the mouth to the bridge.
Catches are very good. From Piney Point north there are hungry catfish of
considerable size taking trolled lures aimed at stripers.
Catfishing is very good in both the Potomac and Patuxent. Both shore fishermen
and boaters find catfish hitting cut alewife and mud shad. Some shore fishermen
in the mouth of the Patuxent have found both rockfish and catfish taking cut
bait at night. The catfish are 7 to 10 pounds with one 40 pounder surprising
the surfcasters. We had no idea these big cats were cruising around after dark
this close to the open bay, but we saw the photos along with the 28-inch
rockfish.
The later part of this
week will resemble summer just as we approached some nighttime temps in the
40's. So, the fish may act like it's the Fourth of July one day and like it's
Thanksgiving the next.
Night fishermen at the head of Helen's creek off
the Patuxent caught a couple dozen big spot, plenty of perch, and some keeper
rockfish on bloodworms last Friday.
Spanish mackerel and bull redfish were caught near
buoy 72A on Saturday in the afternoon when the gale winds subsided.
Slot redfish were consistent all week in the
Potomac's Cornfield Harbor for lure casters from Harry James Creek to the tip
of Point Lookout. Plenty of undersized puppy drum are there too.
Speckled trout were caught by savvy fishermen
trolling bucktail tandems in the Patuxent from Sheridan Point to Half Pone
Point. That stretch of water is about 12 miles long and I have heard tales of
catches all week of rock and trout mixed throughout that area.
Hefty rockfish were reported caught at Benedict
both north and south of the bridge and under the bridge by trollers bouncing
bucktails on the bottom.
Crappie
fishermen using jigs and swimming lures caught as many as twenty good-sized
fish at St. Mary's Lake. The bass and pickerel fishing there is excellent, too.
Shore fishermen using live minnows fished under a bobber can get a good mess
for dinner.
Rockfish
on the points and creek mouths are playing hide and seek for lure casters. One
day they are plentiful, and the next they are few and far between. The very
high tides followed by very low tides have both fish and fishermen confused.
The trollers using tandems and small umbrella rigs of bucktails and small
surgical eels are doing very well in both the Patuxent and Potomac. The fish
are all over, from 15 feet to the very depths of the channel in 50 feet or
more. Bigger fish seem to be deeper.
Shoreline fishermen casting swimming plugs, bucktails, and spoons are still
doing well at dusk and dawn. Light trollers using bucktails in shallow water
are scoring. This fishing will dwindle as the water cools and clears. Old
school thinking is that shallow water fishing is done by Halloween, and the
deep trollers take over with good catches.
Bottom fishermen in the Patuxent at Hawk's Nest and in front of the Navy Pier
report spot, perch, and hardhead. But, it is very inconsistent.
Trollers in the Potomac are doing very well catching stripers in the deeper
water. There are big catfish taking those lures too. The aggressive catfish are
mostly active from St. George Island and north. The farther up the river, the
more catfish.
The fishing is really excellent now and we have great weather in the forecast.
Old man winter is coming; now is the time to go fishing.
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