Tangier and Lower Shore Fishing Reports

Tangier, Pocomoke, and Lower Shore Fishing Report, February 6 Update: 

The start of the spring spawning runs is on our doorstep and action in the lower Eastern Shore tribs is heating up. The Angler in Chief says the bite up the Pocomoke was okayish earlier this week, the action wasn’t hot but there was a great mix of species with a few bass, pickerel, crappie, and catfish all willing to bite. The bass came on minnow on shad darts suspended under a bobber and all the other species hit the same baits jigged on bottom in the channel in 10’ to 12’ of water. A reader found that yellow perch, pickerel, crappie, and bass were all biting strong this week, up one of the creeks on the southernmost portion of the Eastern Shore. He noted that many of the perch were females fat with eggs so he let them go; look for skinny males to drop in the frying pan. We should start to see yellow perch get more active this month as they get ready for their spawning run up the tributaries. Mid to late February and early March is usually when we see these fish make their push and white perch follow shortly after them.