Well I’ve been out a couple of times this year on the Great Wicomico down by the 200 bridge and we picked up a couple here or there but today the bite finally turned on. There is a neighborhood chili cookoff that I would normally go with a bunch of my friends but this year we were not able to attend. Alyssa has an upcoming medical procedure and we had to quarantine ourselves. So I took advantage of the great weather day and set out by myself this morning after the fog cleared.
As a general rule I never leave the river if I am by myself and I always wear my life jacket. I didn’t expect to catch much if anything but just getting out is enough for me. Fish is just a side benefit if they come. Well I went about where Green Number 9 but on the north side of the channel and dropped in two umbrella rigs with two hooked trailers. Both were chartreuse in color with white head but chartreuse 4 inch swim shads.
And here we go, I no more than got the bait wet and one rods went down. I really thought they were bigger but it turns out I had 2 on at one time. Neither of them were a keeper so I set them back out. About 5 min later they both went down with two on each. One keeper to the bunch.
I called Scott because I know he was dying to go but he had set up duty for the cookoff. Well he, Bryan, and Sara came over because they had about 2 hours to spare. We were dumping one rod after the next. Panderlerium was the tale of the day, we either lit them all up or nothing. Sara finally pulled in a nice one.
We had to come back so they could get back to work and have the cookoff but I ate lunch and Chuck and I went out. We caught even more than the other two times. In total for the after we had 16 for a grand total of 28 for the day.
The weather was absolutely perfect, the water was 59 degrees and little wind.