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Harbor Tackle’s Fishing Report, April 17, 2006

The blues are here! Don Brown caught 4 bluefish in 45 minutes on Sunday about 1:30 PM at Assateague. Sizes were 23, 23, 28, 30 inches. The Gary family, Matthew, Dametrius, Randall, Leah and their dad Tony, had a great day fishing Assateague Island Sunday. They hooked up about 40 blues. The average size was 5 pounds. The blues were pushing bunker so hard that the bait fish were beaching themselves to get away from the blues. A few stripers were taken from the Assateague surf. Of course there were lots of skates to play with and some dogfish. Some bluefish were taken in the Ocean City Inlet and stripers at the Rt. 50 Bridge. Shad have started to show up. Some flounder hooked up in the flats in about 3 feet of water. One boat caught 20 fish with 9 being keepers. Tog are showing up in the Inlet, between 2nd and 4th Streets, and the 5th Street bulkhead. Steve Karafa took 2 tog 15 and 14 inches from the 5th Street rocks. Wachapreague, Virginia is still hot spot for flounder. Harbor Tackle has fresh bunker, live minnows, eel, and green crabs.