[center][/center]Hi from Southern Maryland! We fish from aboard my boyfriend's Trojan 31 ft. cabin cruiser, so that makes me (in this case, anyway) female! Great boat...good wood []. We fish alot, and YES, I bait my own hooks and even take most fish off my own hooks (blues and toads are the exception cause they have chompers). Oh, and if I am honest, the deep throaters and the ones that require yanking out of eyeballs....those I tend to pass off to those who's feelings are less easily hurt. I have long since overcome my fear of the ejaculatory "thingy" on bloodworms. So, anyway, for my fishing report....we fish the Lower Patuxent River out of Calvert County and just about everything is running right now. Croakers, Blue, Trout (weakfish), Spot and the coveted Rockfish. Diehard Rockfishermen are holding off a bit to give the blues time to leave town, as they can wreak havoc on those white rubbery "thingys" that you hook to your umbrella rigs...Run through a school of blues and it can cost you. But for now, bottom fishing is great! We have been out several times last week, and I caught a 24" weakfish (that is citation and patch worthy!). Now, I have to admit, we had lost our net a few days before, so my boyfriend did have to literally hang himself over the boat, legs sticking just barely inside the boat, and manually catch the fish by the gills and bring him aboard, but we got him and I have to share the glory. We also caught a 22" weakfish that night. Spot are grown up now, and it is very easy to catch at least citation size (10") right and left. Throw out some bloodworms, catch some good eating spot, but keep the small ones to put on your steel leaders and throw the cut bait out and keep your eye on the rod for that little tug! Blues hit hard at times, then keep an eye out for slack in your line....they "wander". Being good fighters, they surface alot and fight you. Also, they tangle your lines up but our policy is to get the catch in and worry about the lines later[]. A good surprise is a nice trout...they don't surface during the reeling in like blues do. And the trout (weakfish) will also bite on your bloodworms. Oh, and we also caught a couple of red drumfish last week, none keepers, but drumfish nonetheless. We fish over on the St. Mary's county shoreline, close to the helicopter hangers of the base over there. Don't get too close, though! There are restrictions and these days, I would not want to be the one caught fishing too close to any Naval base. So have fun, fish responsibly. Oh, and expensive as bloodworms are, don't worry if your worm looks totally water-logged and you have to re-thread it on your hook. They bite anyway! One other thing, and then I will shut up. Last week, we caught a blue and as my boyfriend was removing it from the hook, he had ahold of it's belly and out popped a complete 1/2 of a crab. And then a day or two later, he caught a trout, and it seemed so firmly hooked (they have soft mouths), we were puzzled as to why he had a hard time getting it off the hook....mystery was solved when we got the trout off only to find that he had never bitten or been hooked by the hook at all!!! He had swallowed a little spot who had apparently been hooked for some time...so we caught doubles!

Have fun, bring a net, throw back the little ones, and make sure the running lights are on!

Belinda
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[cool]Just like the beer commercial"""It don`t get no better than this" What can I say, the lower bay around the cbbt is hot now and will only get better as the fall hits our va. waters...alook for bending rods all the way through december, as long as you can stand a little cold and a few high seas!!!!!!!!

Full coolers to ya, Big PaPa
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Bass are agressive early in 3 to 6 feet of water. Caught 7 in two hours up to 4 pounds. Several big hits that broke off 17 lbs. line. Bass are chasing shade. Water temp 73 degrees. Fish on edges of hydrilla.
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[]Had one of the biggest muskies of my life on the line yesterday till I reached for my net and accidently gave it some slack line and lost it at the side of the boat . All I have to show for it is a damaged lure
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If you want some action, check out Greenleaf Lake. The bass have been hitting hard on topwaters with a few dandy northerns grabbin', too![crazy]
Have a good one and keep your feet dry!!![]

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Well after a long absence I`m back under the name of
Big PaPa given to me by my grand-daughter.Nothing real hot
in the Cheseapeake Bay, except big flounder,Big spot and some real nice grey trout.The strippers are showing up but the no.`s and size are on the poor side. By the middle of Oct. things should be real "HOT" all over the lower bay. When things pickup I`ll keep a fresh post on the site. While I`m not the best at cbbt, I hold my own with the best.
The "old timmers" are hard to beat, but once in awhile I
tahe them to my school. Got questions about the cbbt, send
them on and I`ll share some info, but not my special places.
Full coolers to you all!!!!!!!!!1
Big Papa
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8-29-02 Thirteen catfish in three hours for a total of 53.1 pounds. All blues but one and it was a channel. On the bottom in fifty to fifty five feet of water. Chickamauga lake at the Sequoyah Nuclear plant mid river discharge. Night crawlers. Largest was 13.1 pounds. Have fun. Bill and Melvin.[email]bbeforec@cs.com
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Hello All,

I've been so busy with work this year I have done zero scouting, and have a zone D deer tag.

I usually hunt Palamor mountain (and was fortunate enough to have done well the last two times out) but haven't been in a few years. I heard they had a fire, anyone know how the hunting is at Palomar these days.

If Palomar hasn't grown back or if anyone has a suggestion, I was thinking I would do some scouting this weekend, any suggestions of good spots in zone D?
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[mad]Once again, I was able to cast about 50 times and avoid a fish at every cast. I was geared with an Alvey 650 on a custom pole I made from mudhole. A 12 foot rainshadow surf rod. At Point PLeasant, NJ I casted hopkins and diamond jigs at high tide and was able to avoid blues, stripers, false albacore and several high spirited small children. Maybe next time I can have a repeat performance.
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Just thought I'd share another map source. I like this one because it's the only one that I found that was able to find some difficult to find lakes in the Wind River area. Of course it has Willard Bay topos too. Don't need to be a member, just type in what spot you're looking for and state. It's [url "http://topozone.com"]http://topozone.com[/url]. Hope I put it down right! Enjoy!

[crazy]Leaky