Capt. Pete Ide, Charter Fishing, Solomons, MD

Well, just when it looked like we wouldn’t have any big rockfish to speak of for a third straight year, it seems they fell out of the sky and now we are in the midst of the best run of big migratory fish we’ve seen in years. Virginia and the Potomac River are open until Dec. 31 and I have openings if anyone wants to try to sneak in one more trip and catch some big rock! Check out the video of us catching some nice fish. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBn838dk52g

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Croaker fishing is fantastic right now. Come get some!

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Fishing great yesterday. It was pretty choppy in the morning, but the wind settled down and the fish started biting! We had a few big ones as you can see. I’m hearing some reports of good croaker fishing. We begin in earnest next Saturday night.

Fish weren’t as big today, but we had a limit and everyone had fun!

These bigger ones are likely resident fish. Great to see them!!

Photo Album of 5/11 fishing trip

We had a fair day today. It was pretty rough out there but we scratched out a few. Hoping for improvement tomorrow!

More good news today. The boats that went out did really well so hopefully the fish are getting their act together.

Also, saw a good talk today at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory by Eric Schwaab, a NOAA big wig and Baltimore native, about threatened fisheries.

Ah, there is hope yet… Sounds like there is a slug of big fish on the way down. They were caught between Bloody Point and the Bay Bridge the last couple of days. Hopefully they will be within range by the weekend…

Ugh! Tough weekend of fishing. We managed to have a couple of good trips, but it was a tough weekend overall. We may have won the Frederick, MD division of the MSSA tournament, however. Kind of stumbled into that unknowingly. Anyway, it looks like the big fish have left, but it was so sudden that I have a hard time getting my head around it. Perhaps they went into the shallow water? Maybe they took the weekend off? I’m not sure. Things started off so great, but went into the toilet over the weekend. Eh, we’ll see what happens this week but I think everyone is looking forward to May 16th when we can keep 18-inch fish (and I’ll be a year older, btw). There are tons of them around. We are all seeing them on our depth finders so we have high hopes!

We had another good day, but my friend Jay got a 9/0 trailer hook in his finger. He must have been a hockey player in a former life. He stayed out and caught 4 more fish and hung out for a while and had a few beers before heading to the ER!