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By: Keith Lockwood
We often consider our fishing buddies to be a special type of friend, usually because we often spend the best of times together in a type of brotherhood. Good fishing friends are a special lot and many of us have weeded through fishing partners over the years that didn't quite match up perfectly. Sometimes it is attitude, maybe ethics, being on the same page together and being able to read each other or just someone who loves to have a good fun time no matter what is going on. When you do find those special fishing buddies in your life, relish them and enjoy every minute of fishing together whether you catch fish or not. We all know nothing lasts forever and when we lose a fishing buddy who we've shared so much with; we are only left with the memories of fish and good times together and those memories are eternal. Hawaiian home boy charter captain and fun loving fishing buddy, Randy Llanes will be missed by all who knew or ever fished with him.
The Conowingo Dam has been on a late afternoon power generation schedule for a while now but recently the am water releases from the dam have been very low making for relatively calm waters in the dam pool and lower Susquehanna River. It has been a wonderful time to cast surface lures and crankbaits for striped bass and to fish swim shads deep for large flathead catfish. White perch are still being caught in the river on small jigs and the perch are beginning to fan out into upper bay areas near Havre de Grace to Turkey Point. This opens up a fun summer fishery of casting to shoreline structure with lures such as ¼ ounce spinners or small jigs or even fishing bait. This same area is also an open game now for striped bass fishing and some very nice fish can be found along the shorelines during the morning and evening hours. Casting surface poppers is always the most fun way to fish for striped bass in shallow waters but soft plastics and crankbaits can be good choices, especially near drop-offs. As always there are plenty of channel catfish in the region to entertain those fishing close to the bottom. Dylan Nickoles holds up a big flathead catfish he caught at the Conowingo Dam pool.
Photo Courtesy of Dylan Nickoles
