Eastern Shore Fishing 3/14/21

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Region: Eastern
Location: Tuckahoe River, Choptank River

My friend, Bryan Meade, came up from NC with his flats boat to fish the Tuckahoe. He asked if I�d like to tag along. I said sure!

We got on the water around 6:30, fishing for an hour or so off the boat without much luck. We couldn't get far enough up the Tuckahoe river in the flats boat due to the train trestle. I believed the fish moved up the river on the tide and were actively spawning north of 404.

The shoreline in Hillsboro was lined with anglers also. We didn�t witness or hear of any catches while we were there. We then parked along 404 and fished at the foot of the north end of the bridge crossing Tuckahoe. There we ran across Bill Snyder, (wearing the gray Adidas sweat shirt) who introduced us to his method for catching yellow perch. Night crawlers on bottom rig. He had a stringer of fish and continued catching fish. He shared his night crawlers with us, we then caught a white perch and a few yellow perch too.

My buddy Cliff was fishing off his kayak on the Tuckahoe too, he caught 9 yellow perch and two pickerel further north of the 404 bridge, on minnow on jig under a bobber. My friend Jonathan let me know he was fishing the Choptank River just north of the 404 bridge and caught white perch on almost every cast. I believe he was casting small jigs. He only fished for an hour.

Bryan and I then drove up to Greensboro to fish the Choptank. There we fished for a short while off the boat without any luck. There were anglers fishing the river from shoreline, kayaks and boats. I spoke to several of those anglers, hearing of only one yellow perch a few white perch and a few bass being caught. We didn't any have luck out Greensboro. The river herring were actively spawning too.