St. Mary's River

Type: Tidal
Region: Southern
Location: St. Mary's River

I fished with friends Zach and Brad on 8/3/24. Zach wanted to get Brad on his first red fish and trout. And Brad�s birthday is just around the corner.

Anyway, Zach asked about the fishing down this way because they were camping and fishing this weekend. He said I could jump on the boat with them if I liked. So I took him up on the morning trip.

Meeting them at 5:30 we set out. We didn�t have to go far before we saw action on the surface. Casting into bait under attack is fun. I caught a small drum. We moved on though, the wind was up and blowing us into super shallow water. I suggested we fish in an area where I caught before. This is the same location Vadim and I fished earlier in the year.

It wasn�t long before Brad was on, a nice 21.5� trout. His first. Then his second fish was a red drum. He was stoked!! His third fish was a keeper striped bass. The cooler was filling up.

We were catching fish on Popping cork, well I was. Also a 3/8 jig, with electric chicken or pink 4� plastics. In 2.�-8� of water over grass. Catching at the bottom of the outgoing and the start of the incoming tides.

We caught 9 red drum, 2 trout, two 11+� perch and a single striped bass. Big drum was 24�.