Back From Fishing

I answered a last minute call for a walk-on trip with Pete, for this morning. Daybreak found us out in the Chesapeake Bay outside of Solomons. Nothing on shore at Cedar Point, and too many boats at the lighthouse, so we headed south, where we shortly found Bluefish under birds in the main stem. We filled my limit with blues for the smoker, and headed on south where . . .

We found a pod of breaking fish under birds that were more Spanish Mackerel than blues, and stayed a while.

Once we were tired of that, we headed further south and across to South Marsh Island, from where we started to move north again, checking points and grass beds for Speckled Trout (specks) and stripers. Not much luck with stripers (lots of smalls), but at one grass bed we stopped at the Speckled Trout were remarkably thick. Between that, and a few more specks elsewhere we estimate we landed 40.

Guess who's having Speckled Trout and Spanish Mackerel for dinner. The blues are being brined for smoking.