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For early-May 2005

Salisbury City Park: Bass are spawning as are some monster bluegills.  Fish the shallows for both with small offerings.  Check the deeper parts of the pond for both late-prespawn largemouths and postspawning ones as well.  This place is probably your best bet for a big spring chain pickerel.  Smartly moved soft jerkbaits and spinnerbaits will take pickerel throughout the lake.  Try shallow running crankbaits for largemouths in the shallows.

Upper Tonytank Lake: Bass are currently spawning and are reluctant to bite.  Entice them off of their beds with small plastics and be sure to put them right back in the water!  Pickerel are active as well. 

Lower Tonytank Lake:  The deeper half of this lake is holding some really big crappies moving into their early summer haunts.  Minnows and small jigs around hard cover should be the ticket for slabs.  Bass fishing has slowed due to major spawning activity surrounding this phase of the moon.  Postspawn action on this part of Tonytank is always productive, look for this to develop within the next few weeks.  Try crankbaits and large jig/plastic combinations.

Wicomico River:  I spent two days on this river last weekend and was pleasantly surprised with its productivity, even with the high pressure and cold front which moved through.  Bass are spawning in on hard bottom areas and can be found on channel drops in about six feet of water on a falling tide adjacent to flats.  Spinnerbaits account for the largest bass (up to 5 pounds), but texas rigged plastics produce just as well.  Don't overlook the pad fields!  Look for action to get better as the spawn ends.

Assateague Island Surf:  Rockfish should be here any day now.  Dogfish are in the surf and are willing to eat anything you get in their faces.

Ocean City (Bulkhead/Bayside):  Some big tautog have decided to move into the inlet and can be caught on sand fleas.  Not much else happening.

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