Some spot and sea trout have also shown up. The spot are big, but the trout are small. Bottom fishing is heading for a banner year. Head boats are running out of Solomons at Bunky's, and out of the lower Potomac at Scheible's on the weekends now. Best baits are bloodworms and squid.
Peelers are next to impossible to get with current restrictions and the high price soft crabs.
Peelers will be difficult all year, but the fish are so plentiful and hungry the other bait works fine Paul Swann landed theis 30 pound rock Snapper bluefish are scattered about and shore fishermen are catching them on cast sassy shads off the beaches at Cedar Point and Point Lookout. Trollers are taking a few, but the rockfish lures are too big for the average blue and no one is concentrating on these little fish yet. The piers and beaches have tons of croaker and the best time to catch them is between 7pm and 10pm. Remember if you go out in the heat of the day and come home with only a sunburn that you heard it here that timing is everything and high noon is bad. The rockfish season opens in the creeks and rivers on June first, and the size limit reduces to 18 inches and bag limit becomes 2 per day.