Oyster Bay Tackle Shop report OCMD 1-12
Ocean City Maryland & Assateague Island - Delaware Beaches - Ocean n Bay Fishing Report
By Sue Foster, Oyster Bay Tackle Shop, Ocean City MD - Fenwick Island DE
Jan 11th, 2011
Fishing Report by Sue Foster
(On a very sad note, my mother, Juanita Mumford, lost her battle with cancer
on January 10th. She was 79 years old. Our customers, friends, and family
will miss her smiling face in our Oyster Bay store. "It will never quite be
the same without you Mom..." )
Water Temperature (WTMP): 40.8°F
The water temps are very cold and little is happening on the fishing front
in Ocean City. Offshore tautog fishing is your only bet right now.
Shop Online !
Priority Mail shipping on most items weighing more than a pound. Smaller
items and gift cards are sent First Class Mail. Large packages may be sent
FedEx or Parcel Post.
T-shirts! We still have 2010 White Marlin Open T's on sale starting at
9.99!
Tire Buddy III
Tire Deflators
CLOSE-OUT STAR BOAT SPIN RODS FOR ONLY 19.99. Regular retail was
49.99.
Flounder and
Surf Packages, complete with sinkers.
Gift Cards
(Oyster Bay Tackle and Fenwick Tackle are now closed for the season. I'll be
"in and out" of Oyster Bay Tackle but there will be no set hours until
March. If you have questions or want to order over the phone please e-mail
me your name and phone number and I will call you. Email Sue at
sue@oysterbaytackle.com.) 410-524-3433).
I'm starting to get a lot of e-mails about the new Maryland Saltwater
License and I'm doing my best to answer them. (Please don't send me e-mails
venting anger. Something the federal government mandates is way beyond my
control.)
Anglers fishing in Ocean City will need to purchase a saltwater fishing
license. This license will cover both the Chesapeake Bay and the coastal
waters of Ocean City. Thus if you already have a Chesapeake Bay Saltwater
license you are good to go! Anglers will be able to purchase the license online. The
license you want to choose is "Bay and Coastal Sport" You can either choose
a year-round or 7-day. The online site will add $1.00 plus 2.5 per cent.
But so will the tackle stores until the state sets us up. Unfortunately,
this may not happen until sometime this summer. We tackle stores are going
to have to go to the same web site you would, and use our own credit cards
to purchase a license for you until the state sets us up. (Some time between
April and Sept!) Oh boy... So as you can imagine, it will be time consuming
as we have to punch in our credit card and billing address every time we do
a license for the customer. SO, if you know you are coming to Ocean City, it
would be to your advantage to get it done ahead of time. Right now, you can
also call a toll free number (1-800-918-2870)
or print and mail in an application (the
least expensive way to go!) If you know you are going to buy a boat license,
this would be a really good way to go. $50 and everyone on your boat can go
fishing without a license. They will send you your sticker for your boat in
the mail.
Mail the application to their main office:
Maryland Dept. of Natural resources
Annapolis Service Center
P.O. Box 1869
1804 West Street, Suite 300
Annapolis, MD 21401
If you are going to be fishing on a private boat with someone who has a Boat
License, you don't have to buy a license, but you do have to register online. This
is free but cannot be done over the phone. (The state says it has no money
for a phone line.) So do it now. Do it anytime. But don't wait till you get
to Ocean City without a computer. Print out your number and keep an id with
you when you go fishing. It only takes a couple minutes.
Another interesting note about the license is that if you buy a VA license,
it is good in MD, and vice versa. If you are fishing in MD with a VA licence
you do need to register with MD online. Again, this is free. This is so each
state can "try" to figure out "how many" fish are being caught in their own
individual states.
If you want to go fishing in Ocean City without a license, your choices will
be the "Oceanic Pier" or to go fishing on a party or charter boat. You can
also go crabbing and clamming in Ocean City without a license.
Contact Info
If you have any questions regarding Maryland's sport fishing license
requirements, you may contact Fisheries Service via e mail:
customerservice@dnr.state.md.us or by calling (410-656-9526).
Following is the fee schedule for 2011:
Senior License (year round) - $5.00
Resident License (year round) - $15.00
Resident License (7-day) - $6.00
Non-resident (year round) - $22.50
Non- resident (7-day) - $12.00
Pleasure Boat Decal (covers everyone on boat - year round) - $50.00
Commercial Fishing Pier License (year round) - $290.00
No license is required for:
Boat decal passengers
Those fishing in "free fishing" areas
Those fishing from their waterfront properties
Anglers under 16 years old
Anglers fishing on a licensed charter, party or guide boat
Anglers fishing commercially under a valid license
For more information, log onto www.dnr.state.md.us
Reports from Assateague and Ocean City Beaches were "zip" again this week.
If you find it hard to hold bottom try using a " sputnik
sinker if you can't hold with a regular surf sinker. I always carry a 3
1/2 or 5 1/2 ounce sputnik in my tackle box.
Many anglers ask about reading the beach when surf fishing. "Poppy" a very
good angler has posted another very good description with pictures on
Stripers Online. Check it out:
Reading the Beach He draws it out completely! If you're not catching
fish in the surf, you need to study this!
Need surf
rigs? We have plenty in our shops or buy online! Shop Online
Larry Jock of the Coastal
Fisherman had his last reports near the first of the year. SATURDAY,
January 1, 2011: Stripers vanished at the Jackspot. There was a rumor that
anglers found stripers at the Sliver a few days ago. I haven't confirmed it
with any anglers who were there.
FRIDAY, December 31, 2010: Nice calm day on the ocean. Water temp was a
chilly 39-degrees in tight to the beach.
Anglers in search of bluefish stumbled upon schools of striped bass at the
Jackspot. Fish were small... 27 to 30-inches. Only a few were larger. They
were getting hooked on jigs. Water temperature at the Jackspot got as high
as 44-degrees."
Clark from Old Inlet (302-227-7974) had no new fishing reports. It's been
very cold.
Bill Sports Center (302-645-7654) didn't have any recent fish reports
either.
E-mail Sue Foster at: Oyster Bay
Tackle with your pictures and/or reports. Vacation Pictures are
welcome! (Please send me a real picture and not a link to a "Kodak moment!")
Phone pics are fine.
E-mail me your name and where you are from so we
can put you in our weekly fish reports and/or Gallery!
Anglers now need a DE Fishing License to fish, crab, and clam in DEL:
Delaware Fishing Licenses are available
online.
The Judith M is going out for tautog. Here's their report from Jan 2nd:
"The 2011 Tog season opened on Jan. 1st and the "Judith M" sailed. Quality
not quantity was the way to describe the trips. We had some very nice sized
tog up to 11 pounds. On Sunday we had some even larger fish as Andrew Kim of
Glen Burnie, MD nailed a nice 12.5 pound Tautog. Soo Yoon from Silver
Springs, MD had an 11.5 pound fish as well. We also had 4 Codfish and one
pollock caught. Hi hook for the weekend was 6 fish. We will try again next
weekend ; Sat Jan. 8 and Sun. Jan 9. We sail by reservation, fare $65, 7am
to 4pm and we supply green crabs for bait. Call 410-251-5859 for details or
visit us at www.judithmfishing.com.."
Capt. Monty on the "
Morning Star" is now tautog fishing. Here's his report and comments.
"Fish Report 1/08/11
Tagging Tog
Next Trip?
Saving Sea Bass
A Letter You Should Read
How hard is it? If you have trees and some level of management you'll have
squirrels: If you have reef and some level of management you'll have fish.
If you knock the trees down to get to the squirrels it will be a long time
before you have squirrels again..
And, if you plant more trees than you had, squirrels might very well
flourish.
Rocks bought from idled quarries & rolled off barges manned by idled
tug-boat crews can make cleaner waters; can make fish populations soar:
Combined with management, those rocks & boulders can make reef ecologies and
fishing economies thrive from estuary to canyon's edge.....
Hi All,
Had a beautiful day Thursday. Light winds, calm; Just what we'd want.
Burnt a little fuel, dropped in over 90 feet of water; Caught some keepers
and some throwbacks.. Brr.. Chilly down there.
Bite so-so, we tagged a number of shorties, had some 8s & 10s too; Dennis's
15 pounder topped 'em all..
You know, It almost seemed like he was making sure a certain Russian knew
there was no second place in the pool..
It's all in fun.
And fine dining!
Togging can be a tough though.. In an hour late on an 11 hour trip, Thursday
was just that. Had 3 good anglers goose-egg on keepers and 4 or 5 limit-out.
All went home with fish.
Going to try to catch good fish again soon but do not see a weather
opportunity any time in the next few days.
In fact, I think I'll sell my boat & get a snow-plow.
Ehh, not yet!
Will continue to announce trips via this medium....
Was up to the 'sustainability conference' Friday. Had great opportunities to
put artificial reef in front of government --Fantastic-- even directly to
our Governor..
Hundreds of people - Microphones for public comment - I told him that the
estuaries' water quality was affecting marine water quality, That 4
generations ago men had caught white marlin within sight of land, That
accelerated restoration efforts were indeed necessary to restore the
fisheries.
One man from deep inside the .gov eco$ystem told the crowd that constituents
wanted more ecosystem 'assessments'..
I took the mike again: "You could fill this room with assessments and it
would never help a fish. Governor, You and Secretary Griffin are doing it
better than ever before. We want you to keep doing what you're
doing--Ecosystem Restoration--just a lot more of it."
Then, in front of hundreds of people, the Governor looked at Secretary
Griffin, pointed his finger at him and said, "I like artificial reef."
Perhaps it was with a wink; To me it seemed like Mission Accomplished.
Yesterday's mission anyway.
Today its back to saving sea bass.
We really do need to save sea bass
..from management that's not working.
(If you're leaving at this point, There is a boldened section in a letter
below that everyone who is affected by fisheries management should
read--otherwise read on..)
We need to restore sea bass, need to make fishing a lot better: Using
sensible catch restriction combined with habitat protections and
restorations--by building reef--we can take ANY reef-fish species to far
higher populations than we have ever known to exist.
We can--actually did once--restore our region's sea bass to our habitat's
potential while still catching--and with scarcely a closed season. Simple
regulations can work fine again.
Reef & reef building not understood; Tautog are going to get creamed by
regulation next.
Over the years people have told me stories of my tog tags being ripped-out
and thrown overboard: The har-de-har-har bravado of men who know remaining
ignorant of our fisheries will best protect us; That bolstering science--in
this case the growth, fidelity & migration of tautog--is of no use to Real
Fishermen.
Ah well, managed a bunch of good tag returns anyway. Still ongoing.
I'm finding it does take a while, but if know something to be true you can
convince government of it..
A decade?
Not quite there. Little more time perhaps.
One of the illusions that plague our reef-fish restoration efforts is in the
population estimates--the Stock Estimates--which are partly done with a
trawl net. Sea bass of today often live on wreck and rockpile, on our
remaining corals where no trawl can go. Tautog have always lived where
trawls can travel only to the fringe, and that with trepidation..
Because trawl-net and robust reef do not mix, our reef-fish population
estimates are done with lots of statistical conjecture. That's why they're
called the Data-Poor fisheries.
Shadowy data far worse is the Marine Recreational Fishing Statistics
Survey--MRFSS--catch estimate system. Even a student of Plato's Cave could
never have anticipated actual governance by this devilment of delusion in
perfect illusion that is MRFSS.
Below is a letter I sent to a Senator who had requested more information.
Not long ago, I haven't heard back yet; I just hope I brought this problem
down to earth.
It's complicated.
More catch-restriction isn't going to accomplish Magnuson's goals.
Habitat does matter--A lot.
In that letter are 3 data sets that cost Maryland's coastal fisheries
dearly.
And still didn't help the greater goal of restoration much.
Sea bass may be closed from now to July..
We tagged and threw back two jumbos on Thursday's trip. Good management?
Our ignorance vast, We don't even know how they spawn. I think they nest.
"Reef? Coral Reef? In the mid-Atlantic? In less than 50 fathoms? Ha! That's
a laugh!" "..Let me show you these catch estimates."
Governing with just shadows of truth is difficult. The "har-de-har, keep 'em
in the dark" strategy does neither fish nor fisher any good in the long run.
The data causes regulators to shoot at shadows on steel walls; Ricochets
have crippled industry and threaten its death.
I'm a fisherman.
Want to remain a fisherman.
The MRFSS lie denies us real restoration. Catch restriction based on lies of
catch -and that on a coastwide basis- leaves management stuck, going deeper
& deeper into a bottomless rut..
To fishery managers MRFSS screw-ups are just data-sets that, right or wrong,
they have to use; It's scarcely a real concern.
Let me tell you - Three years running this garbage is killing the
recreational sea bass industry: It Is A Very Real Concern.
If a science can not be proven, then to believe it requires faith. Hmm..
There is no test MRFSS must suffer for truth. Regulators simply have faith
in the statistics below.
Copernicus' work on the paths of planets does not require faith. It did
require many, many tests of proof, of truth..
I assert that for MRFSS to be used as "The Best Science Available" it should
first have to qualify as science.
"It's all we have! What else can we use!"
Umm, common sense? Large collections of firmer catch-data given in Vessel
Trip Reports over any span of time will certainly illustrate real abundances
of fish.. Will reveal management that worked.
Despite MRFSS' many failings, it can be used in broad-scope to illustrate,
say, the success of Government Regulation on the atlantic mackerel fishery:
Where MRFSS has New Jersey and points south catching lots and lots and lots
of fish --their exact estimates meaning nothing-- Then those catches taper
to nothing, to ZERO.
That use of MRFSS is true.
Guvmint: "Hurray! Atlantic mackerel are restored! Over-fishing is not
occurring!"
I'm telling you -- This isn't working.
Regulators ritual use of MRFSS as the very foundation of recreational
fisheries restoration must end.
It is a foundation built on falsehood.
To find our way out of this maze built with deceitful fabrications will
require truth: Or at least as few falsehoods as possible.
Please allow me to show you how the use of very poor data & ignoring sound
fish restoration science have brought us here.
Please allow me to show you three crucial data sets....
Regards,
Monty
Capt. Monty Hawkins
mhawkins@siteone.net
Party Boat "Morning Star"
Reservation Line 410 520 2076
http://www.morningstarfishing.com/
Sent 1/4/11
Greetings Senator Mikulski, Senator Cardin, State Senator Elect Mathias,
Secretary MD DNR Griffin, Director MD Fisheries O'Connell, NOAA Assistant
Administrator of Fisheries Schwaab.
Thank You all for your attention. I really think this particular fishery
issue can be used to illuminate many other troubles in our struggle to make
fishing better. I hope for the day when my clients are too busy catching
fish for me to trouble you.
Sea bass have been knocked hard these last three years; Not by recreational
fishing, but by recreational catch estimate data--by MRFSS estimate.
We really don't have a fish restoration issue that can't be overcome. In
fact, I'm quite confident that exploring actions in this letter can take
many fisheries beyond any know historical base.
However, there may be ingrained management styles that finish off industry
before we can begin.
I watched the sea bass fishery climb from its crypt in the mid-80s to, in
2003, honestly thinking our region's sea bass were at habitat holding
capacity.
Oh, the fishing was beautiful..
I had self-imposed catch regulations long years before management took
notice of our sea bass and tautog.
A few months after that '03 population peak, winter trawl effort --the big
boys-- smoked through their sea bass permits off our coast in early '04;
Were calling trap fishers -any who held a permit- to come get cbass, much of
which was bycatch in the flounder fishery.
I'm sure many were simply shoveled overboard dead--as regulatory bycatch,
especially in foul weather..
Because of that surge, our region's fishery took a nose-dive. In the spring
of '04 we caught half of what we had in '03.
I had predicted habitat fidelity's importance; Soon after felt it.
I have tried for over a decade to get our corals explored & listed as
Essential Fish Habitat. There has been great forward motion with the help of
Secretary Griffin's MD DNR Fisheries Service; the new XO of the MAFMC, Chris
Moore; and, just lately, from NOAA's Habitat Conservation Chief, Tom
Bigford.
Please see my reef video from the recent Ecosystems Workshop: Google search
YouTube 'Maryland Corals.' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cMC8JVa2Bk Our
corals filmed from a bouncing boat: Be careful if you get seasick..
How hard is it? If you have trees and some level of management you'll have
squirrels: If you have reef and some level of management you'll have fish.
If you knock the trees down to get to the squirrels it will be a long time
before you have squirrels again..
And, if you plant more trees than you had, squirrels might very well
flourish.
Rocks bought from idled quarries & rolled off barges manned by idled
tug-boat crews can make cleaner waters; can make fish populations soar:
Combined with management, those rocks & boulders can make reef ecologies and
fishing economies thrive from estuary to canyon's edge.....
First we must comprehend this: Just as salmon have natal fidelity & will
return to the stream of their birth, We've discovered sea bass have site
fidelity too. I personally tagged over 5,000 of them, Woods Hole 16,000
more.
We know beyond a doubt that sea bass move offshore in winter and return to
the exact same reef come spring: That they have habitat fidelity.
And, just as in the salmons, managing fish removals by that fidelity is
crucial to real & sustained population growth; That whether controlling
fishing effort on eco-regions of Reef or winding River: Fidelity is a key
player in effective management.
In no part of our sea bass management do we factor in habitat: There is no
Essential Fish Habitat off Maryland's Coast, There are no "Reef Forming
Corals" in the mid-Atlantic, and therefore no 'habitat forming' corals ..Yet
in that video I show beautiful corals no more than 8 miles out.
Sure look like 'Essential Fish Habitat' to me.
In no part of the recreational "coastwide quota" do we factor in fidelity
either.
This is fishers greatest hope, that regional sub-quotas can be developed as
was pushed hard by the Maryland delegation at the recent Council &
Commission meeting.
We have a chance; If a political solution can be crafted for a biological
problem, Recreational businesses may endure another year in these
challenging times.
A fully integrated/regionalized sea bass plan would never have allowed that
surge of winter-trawl effort in early '04..
A recreational sea bass plan that recognized regional fidelity would never
shut down the whole coast because recreational fishers in Massachusetts and
Rhode Island have "miraculous" spikes in sea bass catch..
Southern New England's fish will never-ever grace our reefs; They are a
product of their rocky habitat protections spurring fishery production; So
too will we never see the product of fantastic reef building in northern New
Jersey's state waters..
A sea bass plan that recognized fidelity would strive to improve and protect
reef habitat in every way: Reef is where sea bass Feed, Spawn, Shelter, and
Grow to Maturity as is set forth in the EFH section of the Magnuson Act...
No: We have none of that.
We have MRFSS.
The Marine Recreational Fishing Statistics Survey. Some say Murfis, others
Murfs.
I hold that science is founded in skepticism, That "Prove It" lays at its
core; That those who hold MRFSS as "The Best Science Available" are doing a
terrible disservice to all involved.
You see, the National Research Council ordered MRFSS phased out for its
obvious failings in 2006. It is being replaced with MRIP.
Statistics are the science of uncertainty: MRFSS is science so bad that our
nation's finest said to have done with it.
Its use should have been barred then.
Many in fisheries dislike the MRFSS data. Still, it is virtually the only
data that is pre-packaged by middle-management and fed to Council &
Commission.
And, its always given to Councilmen & Commissioners with this predicate:
"Angler effort is difficult to predict."
Actually, No: MRFSS is difficult to predict.
I will show you just 3 MRFSS data sets: Three data sets that monkey-wrenched
Maryland's coastal fisheries; Three data sets that made good people order
fishers before an economic-firing squad.. Three very poor data sets among
dozens if not hundreds..
In these charts PSE is as in a political poll (percentage standard error)
..the plus or minus percentage that the poll might be off by. All these
charts are what MRFSS says was put in a cooler and taken home to fry--It
gets much worse when factoring in release mortality of fish thought to have
been caught and thrown back. Watch for missing years too.
Species: TAUTOG - Maryland - Private Boat Catch Only - Sept/Oct Year
HARVEST (TYPE A + B1) PSE
2005 16,943 99.7
2006 0 0
2007 31,023 70.3
2009 1,451 93.3
2010 12,907 66.6
There it is. That '07 set stole December from me in a fishery I practically
hand carved over two decades.
Looking at the little sets shows MRFSS for what it is.
Angler effort did not shift like the pogo-stick that data set implies; Not
even during the '09 emergency cbass closure--which the MRFSS misses
entirely.
Species: SUMMER FLOUNDER - Shore Fishing Only - Sept/Oct Year HARVEST (TYPE
A + B1) PSE
2005 12,773 58.8
2006 0 0
2007 36,017 48.4
2008 14,962 51.8
2009 0 0
2010 0 0
This data set created an Emergency Regulation shutting down Maryland's
recreational flounder fishery. Apparently, while the private boats were
fishing down the jetties' and bulkheads' tautog population, Shore fishers
were casting overtop the boats and catching flounder the private boats had
elected to leave alone..
"Angler effort is difficult to predict" must be an incredible understatement
if you believe these data sets.
What poppycock.
But its effect are real enough: Still being felt in the fishery.
Rubbish.
Terrible to make good people act as this data makes them.
Species: BLACK SEA BASS - Massachusetts - Private Boat Catch - May/June Year
HARVEST (TYPE A + B1) PSE
2005 53,349 32.3
2007 28,281 85.3
2008 65,376 29.1
2009 26,827 38.9
2010 218,790 31.3
Here is a crucial data set to the assertion that the entire coastwide sea
bass quota has been overfished: This is why I may have to declare bankruptcy
if no solution can be found; why Emergency Federal Fishery Disaster Relief
may be my only hope..
There are others like it.
Yet for all these data sets' two-month periods, charter & partyboat catch
stays fairly consistent. Professional skippers turn in catch reports. The
MRFSS WAGuestimate is then made to suffer some truthing.
Private boat and shore effort data is FULL of wild swings. The data causes
regulators to shoot at shadows on steel walls; the ricochets have crippled
industry and threaten its death.
I assert that MRFSS' bad recreational catch estimate data is about to
destroy the southern sea sea bass fishery.
If Maryland's efforts to regionalize the recreational sea bass quota at the
Council & Commission level are not succesful, fishers will have to endure
another 90 days of closed season--A fatal blow.
This situation needs a very firm hand.
I beg your attention.
The corals, the fidelity, the data: I plead for your help.
Thank You,
Monty
(addresses below)
Capt. Monty Hawkins
mhawkins@siteone.net
Party Boat "Morning Star" Ocean City, MD.
Reservation Line 410 520 2076
http://www.morningstarfishing.com/
Please look-up your DC reps online.
Secretary Locke
U.S. Department of Commerce
1401 Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20230
Secretary Lubchenco
NOAA
1401 Constitution Avenue, NW - Room 5128
Washington, DC 20230
CINC NMFS Eric Schwaab
NOAA Fisheries Service
1315 East West Highway
Silver Spring, MD 20910
E-mail Capt Montyfor more info.
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Capt. Monty Hawkins
mhawkins@siteone.net
Party Boat "Morning Star"
Reservation Line 410 520 2076
http://www.morningstarfishing.com/
Watch the
weather.
Check out the link on our web site to the local chapter of the MSSA. They are keeping us
abreast on all the Fishing Issues. From our Oyster Bay Website, go to "More
Fishing Info" on the left hand side, and click on "MSSA Atlantic Anglers".
Check the weather before driving hours to go offshore or fish the surf. Go
to
Coastal Marine Forecast to get an idea of the weather and height of the
waves.
Capt. Rick Yakimowicz of the "Thelma Dale V" Reports from Fisherman's Wharf
on Dec 14th:
" We will start back fishing For the Tog in the Spring.
If you would like any more information about trips sailing out of the Wharf
or you would like to reserve space for a special sea bass trip or to book a
private charter please give us a call at (302) 645-TUNA."
His full report and boat info is
here.
Capt. Rick Yakimowicz
Thelma Dale V
catchfish@verizon.net"
Capt.Dan Stauffer (866-623-4746) of the Fin Chaser does wreck,
inlet and trolling trips. If you would like more info on these trips please
check out our website or give us a call.
Capt. Dan -phone: 866-623-4746 -www.finchasersportfishing.com
VA
charters.
(Wilson Cropp Charters and Guide Service. Cape Charles, VA- 1-434-531-6376)
Stripers...
Eco tours as well.
CHECK OUT the Fish Talk Forum - At
The Beach - Fishing Ocean City MD Assateague Island - Delaware Fishing
Beaches
(Just a note to say to my readers that many of my fishing reports are from
other anglers and party boats that come over my e-mail. When I "copy/paste"
their reports I try to leave them intact. It keeps the fishing reports
lively and interesting. But any comments/politics within the quotes are
their comments and views, and not necessarily mine.)
Need info on where, how, when to fish, crab, and clam? Go
to
Drifting Easy Archives and READ UP! It's all in there and it's
FREE!!!!!!
James A. Donofrio, executive director of the Recreational Fishing
Alliance
has been actively working on the summer flounder, sea bass and "lead ban"
crisis. The RFA believes the future of our fisheries is dependent on fixing
the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act which has laid
down strict time-frames that do not take into account livelihoods and that
a fishery is rebounding steadily.
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Big surf box for 49.99- a $56 value- available on line, at both our
stores, or call 410-524-3433.
We offer a great value in our stores or on our web site of
a package of 12 assorted surf rigs. (Value $28.28) for $23.99.
Surf rigs buy online or call 410-524-3433.
To buy a big stuffed Flounder box
for 49.99 stop in our stores, Shop Online, or call 410-524-3433.-
We have
6-packs of bucktails and we
have fishing
books.
There's a new product out called "Rod Log." It is an affordable storage
system for your rods and reels you can set up in your garage or carry with
you to your boat. Check it out.
Visit our online mall year
round. Check it out and
e-mail me with any comments or suggestions.
We have a
Australian Gold
Suntan Lotion web page that shows all the Australian Gold Suntan
Products available in both our retail stores. Oyster Bay Tackle~410-524-3433
and Fenwick Tackle~302-539-7766. E-mail
Sue for pricing and availability or call 410-524-3433. (During the
winter season (Jan-Feb) it is best to e-mail.)
Visit our Website.
Visit our
Drifting Easy Archives to learn where and how to crab, clam and fish in
our area.
Sale!
We have lots of rods and reels out for this season by
Daiwa, Tica, Sea Striker and Okuma.
If you have any fish reports please share them with us on our Fish Talk Board or e-mail
Sue Foster at: Oyster Bay
Tackle. E-mail me your name and where you are from so we can put
you in our weekly fish reports!
Visit our
T-shirt page of our Online Mall to see all the t-shirts available
including this year's popular Calcutta T-shirts and our new Inshore-4
T-shirt.
Tire Deflators, Calcutta t-shirts, 2009 White Marlin Open,
Storm Wild-eyed Shad lures, Gift Certificates, Got-cha Plugs, Ugly Sticks,
Tica rods, new Okuma surf rods, Daiwa reels, Windcheaters, Mann's, Stretch
25 lures, Mullet Rigs,
Aqua-Clear Tangle free Rigs, Tsunami Shads, Tandem Rigs, Spec Rigs,
Beach Runner surf rods on sale, Penn Reels, Okuma reels,
Collapsible Bridge and Pier Nets, Rat-L-Traps, Calcutta Hats, Stuffed Tackle
Boxes and more. Stop in to our shops or Order Online.
E-mail Sue Foster at: Oyster Bay
Tackle
if you have any questions about our inventory or if you want to place
an order for an item we do not have on-line.
Shop Online
