I had several reports of bluefish action in North Ocean City on Sunday morning. Tautog fishing was up and down this week. Most of the days anglers caught some tautog if they worked at it, moved around, and tried several tides. These fish were biting along the bulkhead along 2nd through 4th Streets, the end of 6th Street, the Rt. 50 Bridge, Oceanic Pier, and the North Jetty.
Anglers use sectioned green crabs, speckled crab, marsh crabs, sand crabs, and clam for the tautog.
Generally they rarely take cut bait like squid or mullet, so if you want to catch tautog, you have to bait up with some kind of crab or clam. I was fishing with them for a while on the bayside Saturday morning. I had one and Mike then caught one too. The bite slowed up thereafter. We headed back up to inlet.