Fishing was sluggish on Talking Trash Charters off Maryland till the skipper worked his magic.
“We had a long earlymorning trolling with no bites,” London J. Anthony informed the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. “Later in the day, Captain Chris Little…pulled a bunny out of his hat and put us all on a stack of tilefish.”
And one of them was a state record.
On what was a double hook-up on blueline tilefish, Anthony captured a 20.6-pounder that determined 37.25 inches; the other fish was 24 inches.
“I felt like I was reeling in 3 cinder obstructs,” Anthony stated.
The captain turned away from trolling and had his customers start deep-dropping a cut ballyhoo portion bait utilizing a hand-cranked co