We left the Snow Hill boat ramp around 5:00a as the high tide was coming in. The Pocomoke River was like glass and the sunrise was beautiful as usual.
We didn’t go too far down river and fished right off the main channel. My first cast literally just hit the water and I had a Largemouth Bass on the line. I was using my Strike King Bleeding Buzz Bait. The lure hit the water and I thought I was caught on a lily pad but I was caught on a fish! Amazing!
It was a Thomas’ English Muffin kind of day because we spent the majority of it fishing nooks and crannies comprised of cypress stumps and pockets in the banks. Fishing these areas gave us the opportunity to hone our “skipping” skills which helps us maneuver bait into very tight spaces. Skipping a lure across the surface is somewhat like skipping a stone. The more splats and pitter patters it makes, the further it goes. The lower to the water you are, the easier it is to skip. Every target is different and you must analyze each situation. You can slam the bait on the water and get one jump over a rope, or you can direct a more glancing skip so the bait trickles a long distance across the surface like a pebble. It takes practice to get it just right.
Out by the main channel is where I caught my first Largemouth Bass and where John caught his first Largemouth Bass using a Bubble Gum Pink Strike King Ocho Worm.
The wind picked up a little bit so we tucked into the Nassawango Creek. There John caught a Chain Pickerel and a Largemouth Bass on a Bubble Gum Pink Strike King Ocho Worm. I caught a White Perch and three Largemouth Bass on a spinnerbait, and three Largemouth Bass and a Chain Pickerel on a chartreus Strike King Spinnerbait.
We accounted for twelve total fish this day! I know I keep saying it, but this fishery is simply remarkable!
One our way back to the dock we went a little further up river and saw the river boat that Snow Hill acquired from Havre de Grace. The name of the boat is the Black-Eyed Susan. It is a 111-foot paddlewheel driven riverboat that was built in the late 1980s. For many years it cruised around southern states and was eventually moved to Baltimore in 2000. From 2000 to 2016 you may have spotted this paddle boat around the Inner Harbor. In the spring of 2017, it moved to Havre de Grace where you could see it on the Susquehanna River. In late 2020 Snow Hill secured the boat and after some cosmetic improvements it is now docked at the Port of Snow Hill. Soon you will be able to see it on the Pocomoke River!
