[MVP]

It feels good to post a report as my last trip was on 1/23/2015. Received a last minute invite from friend Donald to fish 6 pack out of OC, MD 4/11-4/12
My Calendar was full for sat and had blocked out my Sunday to get my tax papers in order. Go togging or being stuck at home all day doing paperwork. With killer forecast and chance to fish one of the top big blackfish capts. in MD you can guess what my choice was. GOING FISHING.

Saturdays group had slow fishing as they only had a few keepers targeting the deeper water, topped off by Donald's 10 pounder on his new super light outfit he purchased from Yong at jigging world. (Cheap plug for sponsor) Water temps just not right yet as fish were cold and not chewing. They did some drops on the way in and found water to be warmer in 4the shallower stuff. Not what the guys were hoping for but that is why they call it fishing.

Left my house at 2 am for the drive down for Sundays trip. Arrived at the boat about 5:45 am. Within the next 15 minutes the rest of the crew showed up (Donald, Bucktail Bob, Tyrone and Ken Westerfeld the new pending blackfish world record holder. First time fishing with Ken so it was a pleasure to relive the catch we all dream off with him. Super nice guy so I am very happy for him as he has put in his time and knows his stuff.

Being water temps were warmer in the shallow water, Capt decided to focus in that area as fish in the deep previous day were not on the chew. Weather was warm, winds were light and had crew of really good fisherman. Could not have asked for better bait as we had (Whiteleggars, Greens, clams and giant hermits) One thing I did notice were the whites were very light. I guess from hanging and not eating all winter there is not much meat on them.

Overall fishing was a grind. Never could get a real good bite going as we would get a few on each spot before bite died and we would move on.
Capt is one of the best so it was not for lack of effort. Capt gave us extra 2 hours and worked his ass off making 9 drops.

I managed 6 keepers with pool fish going around 6 pounds. Changing bait helped as I caught on all 4 baits as I would switch things around as the bite died and seemed to put a few extra fish in the box. We ended the long day with 11 keepers for 5 of us. Numbers were not good and no big fish but it was nice to knock the rust off and fish with great Capt and crew of guys. Will be doing a 3 day trip early may so water temps and bite should be much improved by then. Expect to add to the double digit count on one or a few of those days with the hope of getting into the 20 lb club. Till next report