Summer is now over, But what a great summer for fishing the upper bay it was. Even with a record heat wave with water temps from 80* to over 90* in some parts of the upper bay, there was still some awesome fishing for White perch, Catfish, Croaker and Rockfish, I had many days of constant action.once the temps started to cool down the fishing even got better, especially for Rockfish. I had some incredible days fishing for them. Every year just seems to get better and better with Rockfish, I never would had thought that this summer could had topped last year, but it did, I never thought last year could had topped the year before, and so on, but they did..I had many days where I caught one Rock after another until my arms got sore, A couple times I caught and released over a hundred legal sized Rock and I rarely fish longer then a few hours. A couple of my more memorable trips I caught more then twenty fish measuring near or over 30"!! Truly a year to remember. On one trip a DNR boat was approaching me while I was hooked up with a fish, I desperately wanted to release the fish before they got closer, but then the fish made another run and I was boating a 35" Rock right as they were pulling up (size is a guess,I didn't measure it). I told them that I was concerned that they would ruin my spot by reporting it in the DNR fishing reports and they said they wouldn't, they kept their word but must had told a few people because there was about 5/6 boats fishing the area after that. I guess it could had been worse, but I will have to learn to watch out for them better.
On Another trip my friend Tom came along, We got into some nice fish in the evening jigging metal jigs and he ended up catching the big fish of the day. He said it was his biggest Rock. Not bad for this time of year.
The fishing should only get better as the water cools.
We just recently had some major flooding around the Chesapeake area, Hopefully it won't ruin the fishing. I think I will at least have to start from scratch to relocate the fish. Most likely the fishing will be slow for a while, Hopefully the whole Fall season won't be a blowout
