Mike - Flyfishing on the bay ....
Mostly wet flies and streamers in the bay. I use mostly "muddler minnows' for rockfish/stripers .... tinsel wrapped hook, large deer hair 'head' and wet fly hen feathers for the wings. Plastic 'eye spots' on the 'head' increase the 'bite' rate. Depends on the 'year' as sometimes I need a blue side-stripe, other years better with a red side-stripe. SLOW retrieve. For White Perch ;;; maribou jigs / flys/streamers. Mostly white or chartreuse with a side-stripe of peacock (also with an eye spot). (will also pick up fluke when they are in the upper bay.) BLACK eye spot is important. Also I sometimes take a large glass jug, fill it with minnows, hung from a 'float', then fish along side of the jug. A lot of times I'll use small streamers or flies from a pencil bobber on an ultralight setup .... the colder the water the slower the retrieve. For stripers and WPerch simply find a bottom that is irregular (boulders, etc.) and fish it on an outgoing tide. Yellow Perch - same as white perch but with a red side-stripe. yellow dyed maribou is good for YPerch. Will occasionally pick up BIG carp and BIG cats on small maribou. Jigging, etc. for crappy (along marina walls, under boats, steep banks, etc.) .... very small, green & chartreuse mini-streamers ... 1/2 to 3/4" max. sometimes smalller. Sometimes very small green/chartreuse shad darts are better. Drop fly to bottom, let set, raise 1-2 ft. above bottom and jig. For late August & Sept. when the White perch are breaking water (dawn or dusk) .... white or chrome yellow 'wooly worm' dry flys on the surface .... or any good large dry fly .... sometimes no need to retrieve !!!. ALL of the above at twitching & very slow retrieve. Favorite spots: Still Pond Cr. entrance to CG sta., Worton Cr. dock ruins on south shore, under the big cliffs (boulders), Belly Button Beach, Worton Pt., Handys Pt. , outflow of Lloyds Creek. (all on outgoing tides). For Stripers ... any night there is NO moon, crack of dawn. ;-)
