He ditched his 25 foot Whaler and put on waders to explore the Patuxent River on foot. Stripers reaching 24 inches slammed his big Deceiver, but when one fish was cleaned for dinner its stomach was full of small crabs, not fish. At the mouth of the Patuxent and in the surrounding bay waters, gray trout, blues and stripers are more likely to bite around deep structure. Captain Brady Bounds was shut down this week by sloppy conditions on the bay. When winds are light Brady fishes deep water structure and open water.
Big fish are still scarce.
Brady has added dark green to the top of his favorite chartreuse on white Clousers. Jim Suite at Anglers Sport Center is still optimistic about catching big breaking stripers. They are schooling up at the mouths of Annapolis area rivers. So far it's just little fish, but there are lots of them. Hackets point and Tollys Point are good shallow water spots.