Ocean City Fishing - Capt Skip’s Bait & Tackle

This week with all the storm surge and such, fishing was a little off from last week - however fishing was still very good for tog. Many over 8 lbs came over the rail including a 12 pounder caught by a 13 year old young lady from Baltimore. The first time she has ever been […]

Capt. JW, Boog Powell, and Capt. Skip took a Sea Bass, Flounder and Tog trip on Wednesday June 6th. It was Boog’s first trip of the year, and his first ever trip on Capt. JW’s newly re-powered and customized Mako.
Our game plan targeted the Delaware Artificial Reef System. We started at reef site […]

Capt. JW Powell fished with “Cork Bar” Billy Wilkins and Richard Hastings of Ocean City at the OC artificial reefs on Wednesday 5/30. The sea conditions were perfect, a light breeze and 1-2ft waves, we set a world speed record getting to the African Queen reef!
Billy Wilkins broke the ice with a beautiful […]

Capt. J.W. Powell and his crew experienced another productive day of bottom fishing on the Ocean City artificial reef system.
The group today included our friend Wayne Hartman from Ocean City, his step-father Lefty “Hotlips” Merling (86) of Baltimore, and his brother In-law John Stewart from Ocean View, DE. The weather was beautiful early in […]

From our good friend Captain B:
This week on the Ocean Princess we saw good trips for seabass to 4lbs with people on Friday and Saturday close to limits - we also saw some nice tog, all the way to 13 lbs. On Sunday, we had our first flounder of the year (23 inches) and also […]

We fished offshore today in a terrible fog. It wasn’t the greatest day, but we caught some nice fish. Most boats didn’t even leave the dock! There was large swell generated by the coastal low pressure system that hammered the lower SE states, other than that, the sea conditions were beautiful! […]

Another great day, more Tautog.
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We chartered our first bottom-fishing trip of the year yesterday (May 1st), it was a little bumpy out, but we had a great day.