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With a favorable
weather forecast, we
put the battery on
the charger last
night in
anticipation for our
first day on the
water for 2007. The
temperature was
59-degrees at game
time and the air
temperatures ran
from between 59 to
61-degrees all day.
The water
temperature was from
between 48 and
52-degrees depending
on where we were at.
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The first fish
of the day was a
chain pickerel,
a toothy
critter! Mark
stuck with a
Blakemore Road
Runner all day,
matched with his
ultralight
spinning rod.
Mark caught
seven bass and a
pickerel, with
all of the bass
between one and
three pounds.
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Mark said that
all of his hits
were aggressive,
and I noticed
that he really
mixed up his
retrieve, never
just a slow
return to the
boat, but rather
an occasional
twitch, jerk,
pause and
retrieve,
anything
erratic.
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Most of the fish
came from the
shallows along
the shoreline,
in stick-up's
and grass. The
deepest fish
came from seven
and ten feet of
water. We were
looking for
deep, schooling
fish in the
hopes for
crappie and/or
bluegill, but
never got
either. We were
pleasantly
surprised that
the bass were
'turned-on'.
Maybe they know
that we are
going to have a
lunar eclipse
this evening?
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I on the other
hand, worked
between three
rod and reel
combo's and used
a Berkley
Batwing Frog (no
fish), Senko
Worm (1 fish),
Reaction
Innovation Sweet
Beaver (one
monster hit with
the tail torn
off), and six
bass coming off
of a BooYah
Boogie Bait
(in-line
chatterbait).
Mark and I both
used MegaStrike
fish attractant,
which we swear
by.
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Can you say
BooYah! I nailed
this 5-pound
bass on the
boggie bait in
tall reeds (soft
rush and
cattail). We had
to use an anchor
to work each
good looking
stretch of water
because it was
quite windy. My
two biggest fish
of the day came
from the
windswept, fetch
side of the
water and in
flooded grass.
Most of Mark's
fish came from
the mouth of
small streams as
they entered big
water
(opportunistic
fish).
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Check out the
black spotted
tail. We could
hear both spring
peeper and wood
frog in the
flooded meadow
swamps and as
the evenings
warm up more
herps
(herpetological
amphibians/reptiles)
will start
singing and
breeding. We
also watched and
listened to
bluebirds
flitting through
the meadow
saplings.
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Mark pretty much
caught fish on
most every piece
of textbook
structure he
cast into. These
fish behaved as
if they have not
seen artificial
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Again! This
never gets old,
and with a
nearly
barb-less, tiny
Blakemore,
4-pound test
line and
ultra-light,
Mark really
worked those
fish back to the
boat. |
First
Day of Spring Fishing Maryland
