Father's day Weekend - Ocean City MD Part 1

[Johnsfolly]

I'm still in Maryland and will be until the 23rd of June. So as a Father's day gift my family agreed to pay for an offshore fishing trip on a party boat leaving out of Ocean City Sat morning. Had to meet at the dock at 7 to 7:30 am. With a 90 minute drive I left at 5 am to get to the dock. There was a medium fog over the bay as I headed into Ocean City. I'm glad that I was wearing jeans and a long sleeved t-shirt. That was good for the sun protection as well as helping with the chill in the air. Only expected to get to 73 deg and on the ocean probably wouldn't get that high.

We only went about 17 to 20 miles offshore before we started fishing. This wasn't going to be a sophisticated fishing tackle situation. Cut squid, clams and frozen minnows on double hook rigs. Even so, I was looking forward to catching some marine species. First drift had some folks catch a few sea bass in the bow, but none in the stern of the boat where I was fishing. We pulled up the lines and headed for a rock pile. After anchoring, we dropped our lines and we were getting bit pretty regularly. I was hooking sea bass and had a couple of nice ones. I even had a double with two 9 to 10" bass on at one time. The seas bass were in spawn mode and this male was pretty vividly colored.

Pretty much sea bass were the takers throughout the day. One guy caught a flounder. My self and  couple of others in the stern caught sea robins. Now this is the face only a mother or a Folly fisherman could love .

The mates were somewhat dumbfounded that I was that excited about a sea robin. It represented my 36th different species caught since March 1 and was the first time I could get a picture to good with my life lists. We headed back to port by one. All in all I enjoyed the trip. Caught some new species for the year, saw a couple of new sea birds and bottlenose dolphins as well. I also boated the largest sea bass of the trip. The pool money paid for this trip and the one I will post about next.

[BilletHead]

  Neat John!

Will be waiting for part two,

BilletHead

[JestersHK]

Nice John!  Stinks you missed Father's day with the fam, but looks like you had a good time.  I'll be in the Salt here in 3 more days!  Can't wait to fish the ocean again.  Never know what you'll catch!

[bkbying89]

Nice day on the ocean. I always enjoyed my saltwater fishing trips. Always have good memories of those trips. Watched My Mother land a huge, (40#) Mahi Mahi. Complete with a giant backlash in the reel.