Pacemaker Fishing Forum

My former VP from work came into town yesterday for a day of fishing and it was up to me to make it happen. When someone goes to that much effort and scheduling, I really feel the pressure to show them a good time. Recently, the only sure thing seems to be Solomons Island. We launched at 5:00 am on a smooth river. The tide was due to be full crest at 7:30 so we would be fishing the incoming for about two and a half hours and three hours of outgoing. I knew that by ten or eleven it would probably be too hot to stay out on the water. My guest began by hooking a ray which we followed until we could make a possitive identification. Damn---it is hard to break braided line when you need to! We then began catching some quality white perch. Kevin had never caught a croaker so it was good to see him catch a nice eleven incher. Before the sun came over the horizon he caught a beautiful twenty one inch striper. There were the usual number of hand-sized bluefish which seem to delight in collecting or destroying our grubs. At 10:00 am we came off the river with twenty-four white perch, one croaker and one rockfish.