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Fishing Advisory Forecast – From Anglers Sports Center
Rockfish: Rockfish have been pretty hit or miss when live lining from the bridge, Love Point, Podickory Point, Hacketts and Tollys. For a better chance, try further north at Hodges Bar and Poole Island or the Eastern Shore side of the northern bay. If you want to move south instead, there has been a decent bite at Thomas point and in the shallow water around Popular Island in the early morning or evening.
Mackerel and Bluefish: Mackerel and Bluefish are on their way back up the bay. Use troll size 1 or 2 spoons on #1 planers at about 7mph.
Perch: The Perch are really biting right now and fill the shallows of the rivers. There are larger sized ones at Hackett’s Point and around the bay bridge pilings.
Speckled Trout: As it gets warmer, these fish will be harder to find, use paddle tails in the shallow grass beds.
Snakehead: Same as Speckled Trout, the warm water makes these fish harder to find. Early morning or evening at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge will be the best place to find them. Try Bow fishing at night in the western shore rivers.
Fishing Overview from FishTalk:
Boats trolling and live-lining have had decent fishing in the Middle Bay, collecting a lot of stripers from dinks to keeper size. The bites along the channel edges has been picking up. Trollers hitting the channel edges around Hacketts and Bloody Point are pulling up umbrellas, Sassy Shads, and large bucktails between 25 and 30 feet. The most active colors have been white, chartreuse, and occasionally pink. Small perch have been biting near the shore and at the river mouths in the shallow water. They have mainly been biting on bloodworms. Shallow water striped bass has been scarce this week.
Crabbing Repots: Crabbing has been on the upswing, bringing in loaded bushel baskets coming out of the South, West, and Patuxent rivers as well as the Eastern Bay.
Sports Updates:
Baseball: Last Tuesday, MLB finally announced that their 2020 season will consist of a 60-game schedule starting with a second “spring” training on July 1st. A new Opening Day is set for July 23rd or 24th. Other important dates announced by MLB is a trade deadline of August 31st, end of regular season around September 27 and an end of postseason likely before November 1st.
Basketball: During this sports hiatus, a lot has been going on in the NBA from players taking this time for surgeries they have been putting off to players opting to sit out the restart or testing positive for Coronavirus. Along with that, we have recently found out that the 2019-20 season comeback will begin July 30th. To keep stringent health and safety protocols, all games will take place at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida