Great Fall Fishing
Rockfish are active in the Patuxent and Potomac for trollers using white bucktails with white plastic curly tails and no weight on the edges of the shallows.
The fish can be cast to with poppers and lures. The action is good above Half Pone Point in the Patuxent on both sides of the river. The Potomac is consistently productive from Ragged Point to Dahlgren. There are blues and redfish and some flounder mixed with the stripers in the Potomac.
Capt. Greg Buckner is catching plenty of Rockfish live lining spot.
Miss Susie Charters getting rockfish and white perch.
Redfish are everywhere as puppy drum and slot reds. The big bull reds are still cruising the bay and lower Potomac ready to bust some tackle most any time. Set your drags accordingly.
Eric Packard shows off a pair of redfish.
Josh Procura caught slot reds on peeler crab in the St. Mary's River.
White perch are in the creeks and rivers for lure casters and bait fishermen. The perch will now require high tides for feeding time and will be active on the warm afternoons as opposed to cold early morning. They are beginning to gather in the deep holes in the rivers and will hit small shiny metal jigs with gusto.
Jim Proctor leads October big perch contest with this 11 incher at The Tackle Box.
Live liners using spot are scoring on stripers in the upper bay. The Nuclear Power Plant outfall is loaded with rockfish and red fish.
Mixed catch from trollers in the Potomac on Capt. John's spoonbrella rig.
We are in transition to fall patterns. By the end of next month we will all be trolling in the bay and rivers for the excellent rockfish bite.
Small trout are plentiful now in the rivers and creeks.
There are a lot of flounder on a fall run on the bay and rivers.