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We (George & Leon) made the trek to the Wicomico River for some perch action.

Of course, it's mandatory to stop at the Chaptico Market for breakfast sammies.



Leon commented on the size of the sausage chunk in the sammie. Don't get 'em like that anywhere. They were good and we were ready to splash the boat at Chaptico Wharf.

We were on the water at 8a.

And catching shortly thereafter. Skunks off!







Our 1st stop was on White's Bar. It's a nondescript area in the middle of the river but there is a shallow bar that runs out quite a ways. The fish are all over the bar both shallow and deep.

This happened a lot today...



...maybe 30-40 times. It was ridiculous. I lost count of singles when we each had a dozen. They I tried to count doubles but that was a waste. Triples? I was a broken record, "another triple!"

At the bar, we caught more perch. This one was 10.5"!



Some stripers were caught...nice battles!







Leon caught a croaker!



George caught a glove!



Never did check to see if there was a hand in it!

In a tree like this...



...George spotted a rod/reel combo so we got got it.



The reel was toast but the rod was fine. I'll clean it up and one of the HS kids will get it as a prize.

We basically fished 3 areas:

1. White's Bar was out of control!

2. Shoreline #1 was good and we caught many here as well.

There was a couple fishing (in a small boat) for perch with 3 hooks up from a weight. Probably usisng shrimp. They caught a few but left after they saw us catching a bunch.

Also here, we say a maroon pick up pull up on the field and a man got out. I said "hi" and he said, "hi Ernie, I know that Cuban voice anywhere". It was Dennis Fleming form Fishamajig Guide Service (although he does not guide any more).

We chatted a while and he told us some cool history of the property that he is working on. It was good to see him.

Small world.

George also caught a flounder here but it got off as he was trying to get it in the boat.

3. This last shore line spot is one of my favorites and we hammered the fish here. Lots of perch and 3 decent sized Puppy Drum (or redfish, spot tail, channel bass).

We were able to get a pic of this one.



The other 2 have a story.

I hooked in to a nice redfish and was fighting him on my UL setup. He was having his way with me and was all over the boat. He then darted to the front and I got tangled up on George's lure. I was also worried about the fish getting in the TM. It was controlled chaos. We saw the fish. It was nice! George cut the lure and I felt a fish but not the redfish. The redfish got off and a small perch took his place. What a joke!

Anyway, I threw back in the same place a couple of casts later and hooked the one in the pic above. Great fight.

Then, I get stuck near the shoreline and as I was getting close to getting the lure out, Leon gets smoked! The run was on! I told George to get the net and the fish did the same to Leon as he did to me. He ran all around the boat. I was worried that I was going to cut it off with the TM because I had to get out of the shallows and there was a huge rock in my way. Anyway, Leon gets control and George is on the way to net him. Almost. The jig came off the spinner just a few inches from the net. Aargh! We got to see it but we were  disappointed!

Cool to see these fish here.

We called it at 1p because we were hungry.

Lunch was:

Ernie- Southern MD stuffed ham sammie
Leon- fried chicken
George- Souse (head cheese) sandwich

All were good...too hungry for pics.

I picked up 6 lbs of their breakfast sausage but I need to get more to last me through the winter. We will be back in August.

Great day!