Open Season: The Fish Are Here!

Well, today is June 1st that means the entire Chesapeake Bay and it’s tributaries are open the Striped Bass fishing… including the Susquehanna River. Timothy Smith and I have been waiting on this day for several months. At 6 am we launched his “ROCK-PROOF” jet boat at Port Deposit and headed up river. Our first…

Open Season On The Flats!

Good morning from the Susky Flats…May 22, 2016 I was thinking that I wanted to get back out on the fish before they moved… When John Rogers called last night and asked me to fish, I could not say no. We launched at 6:30 am and fished until 10… caught about a dozen each. The…

Fish Don’t Care If It’s Raining!

I fished the flats this afternoon with my friend Sonny and his Uncle Al. Timothy Smith gave us some intel and we launched at 2pm fished to about 7 pm, catching well over a hundred Rockfish of all sizes up to 30″. We had 4 fish over 26″ with the largest fish of the day…

April Fishing in the Upper Bay

April 2016 had some excellent fishing! The cold rainy weather has kept the fish here longer than usual. Many of our migratory fish like Shad and Stripers came to the upper bay area early and stayed late thanks to the cooler weather. Our best fishing occurs when the waters are cooler. In fact the warmer…

The Yack Report: Trophy Season!

Striper Trophy Season Opens April 16th, 2016   This is my Friend Ron Mcmorrow…He and his friends are the “Young Guns” of the light tackle jigging style that is becoming so popular. Most all of these fish were taken by jigging 10″ BKD’s near a warm water discharge over the course of the winter. Ron…

The Yack Report: Light Tackle Fishing

April 12th, 2016 While I was chasing Hickory Shad with Phil Kerchner, Ange Harclerode and Larry Perch were fishing near Ange’s house for White Perch and catching some good ones,too! Larry was my first customer when I started working at Sarge’s Bait and Tackle. He bought 2 of these little “Crappie rods” as he called…