Windy Day and Catching Fish
The winds were not to exceed 5 knots all day coming out of the south according to the forecast I read before leaving home. Wrong!
Ivan Hawtof, from California, Jeff Albaugh, from Middle River, and I left Sandy Point State Park at 07:10am and headed east. The wind was blowing out of the south, as the current was ebbing. The seas were rolling a foot and a half to 2 and a half feet. This made it a tough day to fly or light tackle fish. Ivan was fly fishing and he took the skunk off the boat on his first cast. The water around the pipe was too rough so we went to the east side of Love Pt. We got some relief from this for about an hour as the wind shifted to north.
There was no bird action as we moved between structures and the fishing was slow.
Getting Started
After lunch the current was flooding. The catching started after we moved behind the rockpiles. The large concrete piling on the north bridge cut the wind, making fly and light tackle catching to finally speed up.
Jeff landed this nice striper on a
Z-Man, Scented, Jerk ShadZ, in Pearl, 5" on a
BKD, 3/4 oz. jighead. The pictured fish were in 50' of water and were suspended at 20 feet.
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