May 17th
 

Debated weather to run south today or stick closer to home. Ended up saving the fuel and fishing just south of the West River with several others. Boxed 4 fish under and 1 over and had a short throwback. Lost a nice fish due to a failed leader that got chafed thru. 3 fish came from Capt John's spoon umbrellas, 1 on reg umbrella deep, and one on FIsh On from Salisbury.
Fished 30'-40' of water and various lengths from 12 bars to 3 bars. I need to change over to smaller stuff and haven't done that yet. Shorter seemed to be a little better for us. Marked lots of stuff but they only wanted to eat for a small window it seemed. May go again tomorrow and Monday before heading north for the summer. :rolleyes: Thanks to Marty and Mark for helping me find some fish for today. My crew and I were still supposed to be in Watchaprauge but left early cause the bite stunk. The boys thought we made the right call after we had a few in the box!!

Thanks for the report. When you downsize, are you going to stick with chutes & shads, or are you going to go with the storms/tsunamis with in-lines? Are you still running boards?

Sorry to hear about Wachapreague. We're thinking about going down there, but only of there is a half way decent bite. Congratulations on finding them in the bay.

Don

River- I plan to run tsunamis, buck-tails, and prolly tandem Spankin Stripers (instead of BFGs cause everybody runs them and S S seem to work way better.). Most of the time during the summer, I like to leave the dock with a full cooler and come back when it's empty cause it is much less pressure then taking a empty cooler out and trying to fill it. :p

As far a Wach,VA goes, my boys that stayed did find a few today before coming home. Not enough that wish I had stayed for 3 full days. Mrs Paul's makes a great fish stick you know!??!!?!! Cheap......