Posted on June 16th, 2018
The weather was absolutely beautiful again today and because of that and the fact that fishing has been stellar there were a ton of boats on the water. Throw in the fact that the Air Show was going on in Ocean City this afternoon and you can imagine how packed the bay was. All of the boat traffic and angling pressure both inshore and offshore definitely made fishing tougher today, but it was still really good for some.
Captain Joe Drosey on the charter boat Rhonda’s Osprey was able to find some good tuna fishing today despite the busy offshore waters. Captain Joe put his crew on six nice yellowfin tuna for the box.
Captain Jeremy Blunt on the Wrecker agrees that the heavy boat traffic turned the insane bite off, but he still managed three yellowfin tuna and two nice gaffer mahi.
Captain Chris Watkowski and mates Ayrton “The Kayak Kid” Pryor and Jacob Lewis put angler Will Freng on three yellowfin tuna today in the Washington Canyon.
Austin Ensor and his crew on the Primary Search returned from a successful overnighter today. Austin, mate James Dozerbach, Jordan Bosse, Brian Suske and Andrew Suske had great fishing in the Washington Canyon. At one point the crew had 13 rods go down at the same time where 10 stayed glued and they landed 9 of the 10. Austin also reported the craziest bite he’s seen as an estimated 40 tuna were in the spread with multiple fish trying to gang on spreader bars.
Ocean going party boat anglers got to experience flat calm, beautiful sea conditions today and on board the Ocean Princess with Captain Victor Bunting they also got to experience some good fishing for sea bass.
Captain Jeff Coats of Pitboss Fishing had an inshore shark fishing trip today and he made the most of it putting Ben Pickney, his dad and his uncle on some awesome catch and release shark fishing. The crew caught six sharks in just a few hours including a 6′ tiger shark that is pretty rare so close to the beach.
My buddy and local educator Ryan Cowder had Andy Gibson and his son Ian on board today and put a couple of flounder in the boat. The guys had five throwback flounder and three keeper flounder from the east channel and behind Assateague.
Captain Marc Spagnola of Dusk to Dawn Bowfishing had a couple more good trips last night and today for cow nosed and southern rays. He also put his shooters on a couple of tough to shoot houndfish.
Doug Ruth caught this and one more keeper rockfish while throwing lures at the south jetty this afternoon.
Bear down at the Oceanic Pier saw some keeper flounder this morning. Here’s a shot from Bear of a nice keeper that went in the cooler.
Today was day 1 of the 39th Annual Ocean City Marlin Club Small Boat Tournament and there were a bunch of fish weighed. 38 of the 46 boats total fished today…..here are the standings after the first day of fishing. Click the photos to enlarge.
