The Great Outdoors

[Diomedes]

took a 20 inch rock today while rowing around perching.  29 nice white perch, the rock..and my friend gave me 8 jumbo crabs from his live box....gonna be a nice family dinner tonight.

time to start cleaning fish.

[Seabiscuit36]

Awesome Dio.  I've been slacking on getting out this year.  I'm going out of Rockhall on a charter in a few weeks to hopefully get some good Chessie action. 

[Diomedes]

Perch cleaned out to 41.5 ounces of delicious fee-lays.  I'm staying in a nice house on the South River over Labor Day with some friends.  I'm hoping to catch enough perch while I'm there to cook dinner for everyone (six adults, five children) one night but if that doesn't work out, I'll have today's catch frozen as a back up.  Either way, we'll have a nice fish fry.

The guy I was fishing with caught a monster white perch yesterday, same place we were today (Severn River).  13.25 inches, 1lb 4oz.  He took it to Angler's to get it certified. 

Off to my Mother's for family dinner, bringing the crabs to steam off as an appetizer before burgers and hot dogs.

[Seabiscuit36]

Went out rockfishing last Sunday out of Rock Hall, and had a blast.  Went out on the Miss Caroline, Captain had us on the fish from the get go.  Limited out in just under 45 minutes.  After that we went  jigging for perch and blues.  I've never been put on the fish that way where it was a given as soon as your line hit the water it was fish on. 

[Diomedes]

Word I hear is that it's a banner season for rockfish.  I've limited both times I've been out for them this year.  Caught my first croaker this weekend.  He was maybe eight inches, not a keeper.  Great fight and pretty fish.  Getting ready to fry up dinner for six caught in the Rhode river south of Annapolis over the last two days.  Took twenty one white perch so far.  Good times.

[Seabiscuit36]

Word I hear is that it's a banner season for rockfish.  I've limited both times I've been out for them this year.  Caught my first croaker this weekend.  He was maybe eight inches, not a keeper.  Great fight and pretty fish.  Getting ready to fry up dinner for six caught in the Rhode river south of Annapolis over the last two days.  Took twenty one white perch so far.  Good times.

That's what the captain said.  We livelined spot, first time I ever fished that style.  I'm hoping they may their way up north soon since the crabs never came in  at the top of the bay.  Rain has killed the crabbing season, but the fishing in general has been phenomenal.  I personally caught 5, there was 8 of us on the charter.  I had a sick 30 incher, but it had some nasty lesions on the side and we threw it back. 

[Seabiscuit36]

Last week in finally got a good sized buck that i've seen for the past two years.  Atypical rack, 9 point, 8 points on his regular antlers, but he has a completely separate antler making him a 9.  Maybe he was a unicorn?  Either way, ended up with over 100lbs of meat and viddles.  Going full redneck and getting him mounted much to the wifeys chagrin. 

[smeags]

guess i should post this in here. this is the biggest fish i caught on my recent salmon/steelhead trip. 40in 26lb male king. caught in a run off of the main river in about 2 11/2 foot of water. 10 minute plus fight to land him and didn't use a net. didnt land any steelheads this year but i got my daily salmon limit (3) everyday and then was letting kings go.

if you've never tried salmon fishing during the spawn run you are missing out on one of the best experiences you can have in fishing IMO.

[Seabiscuit36]

Where did you go for that trip Smeags? 

[smeags]

Pulaski ny. Right above syracuse.

[Seabiscuit36]

Pulaski ny. Right above syracuse.

Nice, wasnt sure if you went to the west coast for that trip.  I've attempted to fish for landlocked salmon up  in Maine, but they're difficult to goad out after April. 

[smeags]

yeah the fight these fish put up is amazing. these roll right in out of lake ontario. if you're lucky you may hook into an atlantic but thats rare. it's usually the kings, cohos, steeheads and borwns that are in the river during the spawn.

i finally broke down and upgraded my rig on the last day this year, bought a noodle rod (10ft)with a nicer shimano sedona reel. up till then i was using a 6.5ft ugly stick and a entry level shimano 4000 series reel. catching these fish was a challenge to say the least on such light tackle. the new set up felt great. my son nailed one the last day on the new rig. said it felt great. stoked for next year. may do a spring trip for the steelhead spawn.

[Diomedes]

http://vimeo.com/86466357

[Diomedes]

[ice grillin you]

thats awesome

do they say why wolves brought back the trout tho?

also i would think more birds and fish would mean less frogs