Piney Point 5/18

[Big Mike]

Got to Piney Point this morning a little before 6 and knew I had a small window before dead low tide set in at 8:30. Caught 7 stripers by 7:45 with the biggest being 19" and most in the 14" to 16" range. The current slowed and so did the fishing. Didn't want to hang around for 2 hours waiting for the tide change so came back in. The bait of choice was a 5" Z-Man paddle tail in a white/blue pearl color. The fish were pecking at it instead of inhaling so having a rod in hand was critical to catching them. Going back out tomorrow morning as there will be an additional hour of current before low tide.

[Yakinzak]

Good job! The zmans are really working this year! I was using an opening night and an electric chicken this Saturday and I usually only use electric chicken in the late summer/fall. But I was completely thrown off when I got ahold of a nice one on the electric chicken and not the opening night (which I've caught over 100 stripers on this season). So now I just need to make up my mind on which combo I want to throw at them this summer

[ronaultmtd]

I fished Piney Point on the 14th the last hour before low tide- had 6 fish - two over 20, one 28 inch keeper I used two rods trolling the edges of the channels 3/4 oz. chartreuse bucktail with a 4 inch Fat Sammy Shad (chartreuse) double rig with a 1/4 oz. wide gap jighead with same Sammy Shad body...on the other rod all white same setup- 3/4 oz. bucktail (barbs mashed flat on all rigs) and 1/4 jighead rigged exactly the same as the chartreuse setup only white.

[Big Mike]

Good info. I found them close to the launch and didn't venture out to the channel edge. I think you can now have barbs in the Potomac.

[Vindi]

nice. too bad piney pt is way to far for me. =(