Ocean City Md Fishing Report Sue Foster Updated

Ocean City Md Fishing Report Sue Foster

Line-fishing in September

September is the calendar month I love to become line-fishing. The atmospheric condition is well-nigh like summer except the days are a little shorter and non quite so hot. The air is commonly clear and the breezes are mild. Occasionally at that place is a hurricane scare, so you always have to go on your heart on Mr. Weather Channel just in case. But as well that, information technology's a wonderful time of twelvemonth to go fishing.

Since nosotros take a flounder closure in Maryland beginning on Sept 14th, most anglers in boats volition be giving their all to catch flounder until that date. Flounder tend to stack upwardly near the Route 50 Span, so anglers will exist drifting from 14th Street to the draw of the Span on the slacking tides. Anglers also drift from the draw of the Bridge to the Inlet. Live minnows and frozen shiners tipped with a strip of squid, larger alive bait such as spot, finger mullet, or peanut bunker volition work for communicable chump flatties. Berkley Gulp! has become a very pop allurement for flounder. Yet, don't just use it solitary! Combine it with a alive minnow, shiner, or strip of cutting allurement. It works great and presents a larger bait. Experiment with the different varieties.

September is a practiced month to buy a bandage net and aerator bucket and search for peanut bunker and alive finger mullet. Lagoons, marina basins, edges of sand bars, the Commercial Harbor and the waters around Northside Park at 125th Street and Homer Gudelsky Park are all places you tin can requite the cast internet a try. Hint: Exist careful in canals in Due north Bounding main Urban center equally droppings such every bit shopping carts may be in the h2o.

Alive spot tin be caught on hook and line with piddling pieces of bloodworm on tiny hooks. The shallow waters effectually the Route xc Bridge are a skillful place to endeavour for spot. This yr hasn't been the all-time for small spot, so if you get spot that are too large, fillet and cut the spot into long strips for flounder allurement. From the shore, places to try to catch spot for bait are Northside Park at 125th Street on high tide, whatever canal or lagoon or marina basin around Body of water City, 9th Street Pier, anywhere that anglers clean fish, the Oceanic Pier, behind the Convention Center at 41st Street and the South Point Boat Ramp.

"Where'due south the all-time place to fish for flounder from the shore?"

Fish are on their way out towards the ocean, so you desire to fish the deep waters close to the Inlet. The ninth Street Pier, the bulkhead betwixt 2nd and 4th Streets (simply when the h2o slacks up can y'all cast out without snagging), the Route l Bridge and the Oceanic Pier. Flounder can too be caught in the Inlet on the slacking tides. It's best to walk downward the cement ledge and fish close to the Oceanic Pier for the best results.

"What do we fish for in these areas when the flounder flavor closes?"

Starting September 14th 2009, stripers will exist the fish of the 24-hour interval in the deep channels. Anglers will switch to live eels, big live spot and larger sized finger mullet to grab ever increasing amounts of stripers. Usually, this is the fourth dimension of year the anglers starting time fishing for stripers anyway. At that place volition likewise be some pretty good sized bluefish in the deep channel of the bay and Inlet.

"Information technology will merely break my heart to have to release a big flounder!"

Well, unless you lot want to hang up your boat for the year, you'll just have to get over information technology, savour fishing, and target other fish. It's really a "mind set." Anglers don't listen releasing stripers or bluefish only get all goofy virtually having to release flounder. Shoot, nosotros've been releasing squeamish 17 ¾ inch flounder all summer anyway. Angling with larger live eels or lures, such as swimming shad lures, will cut back on your chances of hooking flounder. Apply big size live spot and spend time line-fishing the inlet and merely outside the inlet for stripers. Of course, a skillful corporeality of those stripers are going to be in your favorite flounder holes close to the draw of the Road 50 Span, so, fish the deepest holes, agree your jiff, and call back…. stripers.

If you actually want to catch and continue flounder, yous can take your little boat, put it on a trailer, purchase a angling license for Delaware and fish the Indian River Inlet or Bay where the flounder flavor is open year round. You can besides become a angling license for Virginia and have a little drive. Virginia'southward flounder season is also open yr round only remember, Delaware'south size limit is eighteen ½-inches and Virginia's size limit is xix-inches.

Try casting small lures such equally four-inch soft bodies on lead heads or MirrOlures or Rattletraps around the sandy islands in the bay, or around the pilings of the Route 90 and Road 50 Bridge and accept fun with stripers, bluefish, redfish, and trout. Y'all'll be surprised what fish might exist lurking around that yous didn't even know existed considering you've never tried it. Tie some lightweight Fluorocarbon leader (12-xx#) to your line so the leader shy fish won't be spooked when fishing shallower water places.

Tautog come up back in September. As the days get shorter and the bay waters start to cool, tautog return from their offshore hiding places and seek refuge in rocky areas of debris.
Anglers catch them from the bulkhead from 2nd through 4th Streets, well-nigh the pilings of the Route 50 Span, 9th Street Pier, at the cease of the Oceanic Pier and the inlet rocks. Sand fleas, green crabs, or mollusk all work for tautog. Flip your allurement away from the rocks or bulkhead, but not so far that the tide will take information technology into a snag. It'due south an art and information technology takes some practice. It is a lot of fun in one case you go the hang of information technology! Tautog really fight!

Night fishing! Dark angling in September usually turns on expert with stripers and bluefish. Anglers fish the Route 50 Bridge at night with pond shad lures, lead heads with 5 to 7-inch soft bodies such as Zoom or Fin-Southward Fish, and Got-cha Plugs. The last three hours of the incoming tide and the first hour or two of the outgoing tide after dark is good for the stripers. Bluefish will likewise seize with teeth during the day on Got-cha Plugs if they are schooling. Blues are a lot of fun and cracking if y'all swallow the smaller (12-18-inch) ones and cut the nighttime meat out.

Surf Fishing!!! Ah, September through November is fabricated for surf fishing. Every bit soon as the lifeguards become off duty for the season, (afterwards Labor Twenty-four hour period except for weekends) and vacationers are out of the water, anglers can fish all day in unpopulated areas. Stay away from Condo Row between 94th and 119th Streets while the weather is still warm. This surface area by and large stays crowded with vacationers.

Cast out finger mullet on whole finger mullet rigs for schooling snapper blues. You can also take the finger mullet and cutting it into one-inch chunks and put them on bones top-and-lesser surf rigs for bluefish. Hold the rod in your manus this time of year then you can feel the bites. Set up the hook, and reel the fish in! Anglers fish with bloodworm or Bogus Fish Bite Bloodworm tipped with a little triangle of squid or strip of fresh mullet or spot fillet on kingfish/whiting surf rigs with #vi hooks to grab kingfish, Norfolk spot, croaker, and small trout. Stripers also choice upward in September, though communicable keepers usually doesn't happen until October.
Surprise catches of speckled trout, red drum, and pompano tin happen in September. Surf line-fishing is lots of fun and VERY relaxing.

Political party gunkhole fishing! September commonly sees an upswing in bounding main bass catches. Croaker are all the same effectually and until the 14th of September, some dainty flounder should still be around! Delaware party boats volition proceed to catch flounder through September and into October.

Fishing in September is sweet!

Skilful angling!

Sue Foster is an outdoor writer and co-owner of Oyster Bay Tackle in Ocean City, MD and Fenwick Tackle in Fenwick, DE.