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A 6 species day it was!

David Policansky and I hit Spa Creek at 7 this morning for a day of white perch fishing all over the Severn. His goal was to catch some on the fly rod....which he did and then some!

Our 1st stop was by the condos as we generally take the skunk off the boat within 10 minutes of putting in.

That we did as we both caught a fish right away but it was the type of fish that was weird. Mine was a small flounder....





....and David's was a puppy drum.



That's 2 species down and 4 to go.

Our next stop was the Naval Academy wall and David got a few WP on a fly rod....

That is three species!

We then hit the towers but the wind and waves made it uncomfortable. Even thought we were catching fish, we left.



We decided to hit the bay since we were right at the mouth of the Severn but after looking around for 20 minutes we said the heck with it and went back for the perch bite. Since the wind was still kicking, we went in to Weems Creek. I had not been there for at least 2 years...

While the fishing was slow at 1st, it was in there that we caught the three other species. Starting with a croaker...



...and then David caught a small striper (no pic but no worries, we caught a few more and they were all smaller than the perch). When we 1st went into Weems, David pointed out a rock wall and asked me if I had ever fished it. The answer was no and I told him we would hit it on the way out of the creek. I am glad we did 'cause David nailed two nice pickerels in a fly!









And then a nice 11.5 inch white perch!



I caught a load of perch but my biggest was 11.25" which did not help me for the SRRKC Leader Board......I refused a picture unless I nailed a qualifier.

We had a great day out there, it rained for about 2 minutes and it never really got hot. The river was flat calm and we saw tons of bait in the main stem.

Good times for sure!