Ocean City Maryland & Assateague Island - Delaware Beaches - Ocean n Bay Fishing Report
By Sue Foster, Oyster Bay Tackle Shop, Ocean City MD - Fenwick Island DE

March 1st, 2010

Fishing Report by Sue Foster

Water Temperature (WTMP): 39.2 °F

Capt Monty on the Morning Star caught some tautog up to 16 pounds this
week! No salt water inshore fishing reports in Ocean City. We did hear of
some stripers from boats in VA around Rudee Inlet. Fresh and brackish water
fishing is starting. Maryland Flounder Options are Here! Please cast your
vote and please send me your comments.The March on Washington had a really
good turn out, but no MD or DEL politians bothered to show up in support.
Letters are still being written supporting the "Flexibility in Rebuilding
American Fisheries Act."

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(Oyster Bay hours- No set hours for a few weeks until the weather breaks.
We'll be open Saturdays 10-2, weather permitting. I'll be in and out during
the week doing internet orders. Call 410-524-3433 to see if we are there or
to place an order. E-mail sue@oysterbaytackle.com if you want to order
something over e-mail or want to set up an appointment at the store.

No surf reports this week. Water temps are the lowest we've seen all winter.
It can only go uphill from here!

Many anglers ask about reading the beach when surf fishing. "Poppy" a very
good angler has posted another very good description with pictures on
Stripers Online. Check it out:
Reading the Beach He draws it out completely! If you're not catching
fish in the surf, you need to study this!

Things are starting to happen to the south of us.

The Virgina Beach Sport Fishing Report
reports on February 26, 2010

" Offshore folks are getting excited about the bluefin tuna coming from the
Carolina coast right now. These fish are basically on time, and will make
their way up north to Virginia waters into April or May. Carolina reports
also tell of a few blackfin tuna, as well as makos and bull sharks in the
mix.

Inshore folks are still finding a few agreeable speckled trout within the
hot ditch and hot water discharge area in the Elizabeth River.

With the more temperate temperatures, striped bass are showing a more
positive trend. Boats are reporting more catches within legal waters this
week, although the fish are still hanging in warmer Carolina waters near
Corolla. Working birds reported within 2-miles of the beach are giving up
rockfish up to around 40-pounds. Hopefully this trend will continue to move
northward as these fish head closer to the Bay as they think more about the
impending spawning season.
Oyster bay tackle
11615 Coastal Highway
Ocean City, Md
410-391-0222
http://www.oysterbaytackle.com/