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.
There is some scattered seagull activity over schools of bait
with striped bass picking at them here and there. Most of the striped bass are
holding close to the bottom in the deeper areas of the channels.
Trolling with heavy inline weights and umbrella rigs is a very
popular way to target these deep-water fish; trailers are a mix of swimshads
and bucktails. A single swimshad can also be pulled behind a planer and
sometimes a tandem-rigged pair of swimshads or bucktails with a larger planer.
Chartreuse and white tend to be the favored colors.
The shipping channel edge from the Gum Thickets south past
Bloody Point to Buoy 83 and the Sharps Island Light has been an excellent place
to look for striped bass recently. The western side of the shipping channel in
front of Chesapeake Beach south to Parkers Creek has also been providing some
action.
Jigging is a very good option for light tackle anglers and the
deep channel edges are where most of the action is occurring. Most are jigging
with large soft plastic jigs in white or chartreuse, but metal jigs are working
well also. The fish are holding close to the bottom so jigs must reach the
bottom.
There have been some white perch holding in 35 feet to 50 feet
of water off Matapeake, and holding tight to oyster bottom in the lower
Choptank River between Castle Haven Point and Horn Point. A bottom rig baited
with pieces of bloodworm or a dropper rig with small flies or soft plastic jigs
are the best ways to fish for them. The rock piles at the Bay Bridge often have
large white perch holding deep in the current this time of the year. Those
using dropper rigs have not come up with much except small striped bass, but
hopefully that will change.
Anglers in the lower Bay are targeting striped bass by trolling
and jigging. Those trolling are pulling umbrella rigs with heavy inline weights
to get them down close to the bottom where the striped bass are holding. Those
who are jigging are working the same deep channel edges.
Trolling
along the deep channel edges is a very effective way to fish right now. Colder
waters are causing many striped bass to move deep, looking for slightly warmer
temperatures. The channel areas at the mouth of the Potomac River from Point
Lookout to Smith Point are good to target. The western side of the shipping
channel near Cove Point to Cedar Point and the eastern side of the channel from
the HS Buoy south to the Middle Grounds have been good places to fish, whether
trolling or jigging.
There
is sporadic seagull activity being reported with striped bass pushing schools
of bait to the surface. There are still some juvenile menhaden making their way
through the region. The fish on top tend to be smaller striped bass, but larger
ones often lurk deeper underneath the surface action.
Anglers
who are light-tackle jigging are using a mix of large soft plastic jigs and
metal jigs to reach the striped bass holding deep and close to the bottom. A
watchful eye on a good depth finder is essential this time of the year. The
classic colors of white and chartreuse tend to be the most popular colors for
soft plastic jigs, and chrome and chartreuse for metal jigs.
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.
3 Oz. Purple Head White and Purple Hair
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