1) Kinda of an umbrella for the following parts that briefly sums it all up…… Our motto is “We will be where the fish are” when broken down this specifically means at all times, I wish to have my boats fishing out of a port that provides the very best fishing opportunities for that time of year and I spare absolutely no expense making that happen.

2) The BlueCatfish bite out of Fort Washington is so consistently good right now and our clients are having so much fun catching 50 to 100 plus BlueCatfish 3 to 25 lbs every single trip and occasionally landing a giant 30 to 70 lbs that I would be crazy to leave Fort Washington right now. When the BlueCatfish are bled properly as we do with every BlueCatfish as soon as it is landed they are excellent table fare & my clients absolutely rave about how good they are to eat.

3) May 1 to May 31 the Areas where Striped Bass can be caught and kept on the Chesapeake Bay are incredibly limited with all rivers closed, and the Upper Chesapeake from about Tolchester north being closed as well. This would not be an issue normally but the past few years and this Spring Included the unbelievable massive abundance and Early arrival of porpoises forces the Striped Bass that would be in legal fishing waters to head North up the Chesapeake Bay and up the tidal rivers earlier than years past. Porpoises are huge and they are in massive pods and they feed ravenously, so when they arrive in an area, the Striped Bass are GONE and gone fast! So in general the Striped Bass Chesapeake Bay harvest opportunities are slim when the areas where Stripers flee to when avoiding giant Porpoise pods are closed to fishing to harvest.

4) Since the Striped Bass charter boat regulations went down to one 19 to 24 inch Fish per customer 3 years ago, I have done all I possibly can to put lots and lots of effort into either landing piles of White Perch or piles of Channel/Blue Catfish after limiting on RockFish/Stripers. Well to be blunt, the big boat White Perch opportunities in May and very early June are just not reliable or consistent. By mid June the White Perch bite for larger boats generally gets really good as the Perch move out on the Main Bay hard bottom areas. The Blue/Channel Cats are biting in May on the Upper Chesapeake Bay but those area are closed to Striped Bass fishing so it is impossible to do both till June 1 when all waters open for Striper Harvest.