Walk On Openings!!
Hi All,
I have added two dates – see below.
I have an open spot for a shared trip with one other angler next Monday, July 21 for a full day (8 hour) trip out of Crisfield. Your cost would be $250. This includes license, tackle, ice and cold drinks. Please contact me ASAP if interested. Speck fishing is picking up!
Update: I also have open walk on trips for Monday, July 28 and Tuesday, July 29. Same deal all three dates.
Kevin
A few nice specks made a showing this week, including Mike Anderson’s 26-inch, six-pound trophy pictured below. If the wind would take a break for more than a day or two I believe our catch numbers would increase as well. Bluefish of two to three pounds are slamming Yo-Zuri Crystal Minnows rigged with single hooks while casting to shallow water structure. What a blast this is on my feather-light G. Loomis spin tackle!
Come on down and fish my home waters of Tangier Sound during the CCA MD 2nd Annual Red-Trout Catch & Release Tournament to be held on September 20 & 21 in Crisfield, MD.
We’ve been catching a mixed bag of late. Rock, blues and specks are keeping my clients happy. While the specks show better on light wind days some nice size blues have been the crowd favorite. Averaging 18″-20″ these toothy speedsters pull drag and provide a fight to make you forget all about the slow start to the speck season.
Chris Harley with a nice rockfish
Kevin Gladhill and son Keaton show off Keaton’s speck
Osprey guarding her chicks
Rainbow in the morning, sailor take warning?
Sorry about the very short notice but I have another opening for one angler to share a trip with one other angler on Monday, June 23. The trip is a full day (8 hours) with a start time of around 9:00 am. Your cost will be $250 which includes license fees, tackle, ice and cold drinks.
We are currently catching rock, blues, speckled trout and flounder. Maybe a redfish or two!
If interested, please contact me via email or phone ASAP.
We’ve all been waiting for the speck fishing to heat up and with the recent spell of hot weather there is the anticipation of some North Carolina trout heading our way. Yesterday, while prospecting for a few of the spotted variety we happened across one of his cousin’s, the weakfish ; a.k.a. gray trout, grey trout, yellowfin, tiderunner, squeteague, or simply sea trout (This fish has more aliases than a bad rapper). Anyway, the six pound ‘weakie’ (had to throw that in there, sorry) was a pleasant surprise. Oh, and we did manage to land four ‘specks’ of 18 to 20 inches, so things are looking good for a summer run. Remember, all speckled trout caught in Virginia waters must be released until August 1st. Specks caught in Maryland’s portion of the bay may be kept, but the creel is now 4 per day.
Paul Anderson shows off his 27-inch ‘weakfish’
Chen Sun boated this fine redfish on a Berkley Gulp! Swimming Mullet
Sorry about the short notice, but I have an opening for one angler to share a trip with one other angler on Tuesday, June 10. The trip is a full day (8 hours) with a start time of 7:00-8:00 am. Your cost will be $250 which includes license fees, tackle and cold drinks.
We are currently catching rock, blues and the occasional speckled trout. We may even have some flounder or redfish by then.
If interested, please contact me via email or phone ASAP.
Capt. Kevin Josenhans
Josenhans Fly Fishing
10154 Grapevine Road
Mardela Springs, MD 21837
443-783-3271
kjosenhans@aol.com
Catching one here and there. Hope it improves soon. Hearing a few good reports from down south. And yes, I am trying my best to get a newsletter out. Sorry for the delay.
Bull red drum fishing on the Virginia Eastern Shore flats is as good as it gets! – at times. When conditions are right, this is world class fishing. In nine days of fishing the flats and shoals at the mouth of the bay my anglers boated 11 red drum of 43 to 50 inches. All but one were caught casting artificial’s, mainly 5″ Tsunami and Storm shads. Two gorgeous 46-inch reds were landed on fly. A four-inch half & half in white was the ticket.
Skip Powers proudly shows off one of six reds boated during his two day trip
Bob Lepczyk with a nice red after a hard-fought battle on a G.Loomis NRX 9 wt. Photo credit Bob Lepczyk
As an added bonus, we were blessed with four days of trophy stripers cruising the shallow flats of the nearby barrier islands. Looking not unlike dense schools of large bunker from a distance, upon closer observation it soon became evident this mass of fins and scales was anything but bait. This was flats fishing heaven. Forty-inch striped bass gently gliding around and under the boat in turquoise colored water was a site to behold. Large Stillwater poppers pulled through the tightly packed schools brought explosive strikes and long, hard runs from rockfish weighing upwards of twenty-five pounds. The Susquehanna Flats was never like this!
Skip Powers with a brace of trophy rockfish
John Nelson hefts a big rock fooled by a Stillwater popper
For more photos and details of the trip check out my soon to be published e-newsletter. You can subscribe by visiting my website at JosenhansFlyFishing
Photo Credit Kevin Josenhans
Red drum are just getting started on the eastern shore of Virginia. Rob McColligan managed to boat this 50-inch beauty after one heck of a battle near Fisherman’s Island. The big bull managed to get in the current between the breakers and almost spooled Rob before he managed to turn him. Shallow water drum fishing can’t be beat!
Photo Credit Ron Long
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