Maryland

Matt and I spent the afternoon fishing for Croaker in James River Bay near Norfolk, Virginia. We caught lots of fish, took them to Matt’s house and ate them.

After sunset and a long nap, we went out again with a friend of Matt to fish the light lines of the causeway. The bridges over the bay are long with a good portion being over shallow water. We fished under the bridge as the tidal waters moved in. We fished where there was a street light on the bridge. One of us used a pole to hold onto the bottom of the bridge to keep the boat from moving. Another stood on the bow of the boat pitching a fly in the lit water just outside the bridge shadow. Striped Bass, hang out in the shadow and dart after the tied fly when it hits the water. Since you can see the fish, you toss the fly right in front of it. When you hook one, you work it around the side of the boat to play it and the third person goes up to the bow to look for another fish. We rotated positions, holding, fishing and waiting.

The next day, Matt and I drove to Salisbury MD where his sisters live. We accessed the Wiscomico River inside the city limits and fished from shore for about twenty minutes, each of us catching a Channel Catfish and each of us getting very cold. Fishing should be fun. If it’s not, quit. We did.