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01 May 2004
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Work Slow, Work Hard, Don't Give Up!
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 Sassafras River, Galena, MD.
4/20/04
We launched at Duffy's Marina at sunrise, and the water temperature was 55.2 degrees at the ramp.
We started at Lloyd's Creek at the sand point with Terminator spinnerbaits to check for males staging at the mouth. After 20 minutes of spinnerbaits and crankbaits we had no takers and moved into the wood and docks. We had 2 bass pick up a Terminator snap back plastic tube in watermelon with a Tungsten weight in the current and one more in the back of Lloyd's Creek by the retaining wall (Tomato Barge), on a Yamamoto IKA tune with a 1/4 ounce weight. We worked spinnerbaits, crankbaits, and a variety of traditional springtime baits at that water temperature with no more success.
We realized that this would catch some bass of 12-15 inches, if you worked hard all day in these areas, but it would not impress anyone, or win a tournament!
We left Lloyd's and went to Turners Creek where we were stopped by a beautiful Marine Police woman named April. She was very friendly and knowledgeable, and was very interested in doing a TV show with the Maryland Police on the upper bay there. She said if we would contact her in the next week or so, she would see if they would let us go with a shock boat and ride along with the Marine Police in their boat and bring a camera boat also to film anything that happens. She was very nice and excited that this may be a possibility.
We left after talking to her for an hour and taking her picture as she drove away for McGill to check boats.
We decided that the bass were on a dock/wood pattern since they would not hit anything else in the traditional spots, and we started flipping all the docks from Turner's Point down to Freeman with a black/blue Terminator jig with a Bearpaws black trailer loaded with MEGASTRIKE, and I followed up in the back of the boat with a tube bait with a 3/8 ounce Tungsten weight, loaded with MEGASTRIKE also.
We caught 13 bass doing this in the next 5 hours, all the way down to DuPont Creek, when we left at 4 PM. None of the bass were over 3 pounds, but they were all keepers except for 5 of them, and they were 14 inches, which will keep soon.
The water temperatures went as high as 65 degrees in the shallows by the end of the day, and some of the bass were flipped out of water that was less than one foot on a falling tide.
Soon, the pads will be up, and the bass will hit even harder, and then it will be time to do a TV show, but for now, we will just keep plugging away, and waiting for the hottest bite of the year at any time.
Work slow, work hard, and don't give up. You WILL be rewarded |
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