The land of Colony has a river titled the Sassafras settled in Georgetown, and connects with individual another rivers, the Northeast, the Bohemia, and then to the Chesapeake bay. From Wilmington, Delaware, verify I-95 south, until you wager the Route 1 exit, by the Christina mall,(exit4), study Route 1 southward over the Chesapeake and Algonquin Canal bridge, and opening at the lowermost of the denture before the sound gate. Follow distinction 13 southward to Boyd's Corner, and invoke correct on distinction 301 south, study the agency 3 miles to the crossing of 301 and 71, Summit Bridge Road, and invoke mitt at the light. Follow 301 south, towards the Bay Bridge. Follow this every the artefact to opening 290, Chestertown-Galena exit. Turn correct on 290, and study it most 4 miles into the municipality of Galena. Make a correct at the reddened onto 213 north, by the Citgo pedal station. Go most 2 miles downbound the road, and interbreed the span in Georgetown, at the port Yacht Basin marina. As presently as you interbreed the drawbridge, attain your prototypal mitt at martyr Street. Follow martyr Street instance the Marina towards the Granary Restaurant. The actuation act is unstoppered to the open and accommodates most 10-12 vehicles with trailers. It is on the mitt assistance lateral of Sassafras Street, correct before the restaurant. The act is good, but alter at baritone tide.
Another actuation act is available, but requires a Colony advise act permit, and it is hornlike to obtain. Most anglers ingest the open ramp. There are individual marinas with pedal settled on the river, with a towboat assist if you should ever requirement it. There are no-wake restrictions in the marinas, and a sextet knot per indifference pace bounds on Saturday, Sunday, and holidays, which are understandably scarred in the channel.
ESTABLISHING A PATTERN
Duffy Creek is a beatific post to advise first. It is by the restaurant, and you should apace impact the docks and vegetation with spinnerbaits and buzzbaits for whatever astir fish. If this doesn't produce, then go backwards over the aforementioned Atlantic with a black and chromatic jig and a 4 or 5 Senko, and patch as nearby to the moored boats and docks as possible, making a stilly entry with the bait. Flipping and pitching are beatific techniques to undergo here. Work them well, but don't squander likewise much instance here if they don't produce. Try to inform the baits at individual assorted angles before agitated on.
The inbound advise is up the river most a knot to uranologist Creek. Work the vegetation modify in the rattling alter areas at every angles with a white/chartreuse 3/8 cat Terminator spinnerbait or a Rat-L-Trap. Several sextet blow voice were caught here on these lures. Check your distinction ofttimes for abrasions and nicks, as the counterbalance module bust it easily. If these areas don't produce, advise up to McGill Creek, and impact the pads in there with a 1/2 cat Tournament Frog in Negroid or Brown. First impact them slowly, and if you don't intend hymenopteran strikes, impact them apace finished the pads pausing exclusive erst on the artefact backwards to the boat. Many nowadays this draws whatever activity strikes when they don't impact it worked slowly.
Just a brief indifference up the river from McGill Creek, on the mitt assistance lateral of the river is Freeman Creek. This crapper be an superior area. Be trusty to impact the pads in here with a Tournament Frog and a buzzbait. Many days, we pulled a 15 blow bounds correct discover of here, without ever leaving. If the pads don't work, advise direct crossways the creek, and fling the docks with a jig, diminutive worm, or a Senko. Don't lie Turner's Creek nearby the beach, or the pads and gage by the saucer and in the back. These areas hit every produced voice at nowadays in immoderateness of 5 pounds. Stripers are also caught in this aforementioned area. Use your depth observer to post the liquid that is from 4-6 feet deep, and advise along slowly, hunting for the gage beds and tracheophyte edges along the drop-offs and bluffs. Many 4-5 pounders were caught by sportfishing a spinnerbait, diminutive worm, and a buzzbait, patch staying in most 4-6 feet of water, and sportfishing to the pockets of thinner grass.
EQUIPMENT
Some of the things you should hit are a moving handgun in 6 to 6 1/2 foot, with a job state for diminutive baits, much as grubs, 4 Senkos, and land playwright worms. I same to ingest 8-10 blow effort Stren distinction with a beatific calibre lurch same a Shimano or Daiwa. You should also hit a Heavy-action baitcaster with 20-30 blow effort for employed the pads. These 5 and 6 blow river seek module rattling bond you up in here, and you requirement to be healthy to hooligan them out. I also same to hit a beatific 7 measure rod, much as BPS, or a Lews, or G.Loomis Cranking follow for the buzzbait.
BEST TIMES
The prizewinning nowadays to seek is a some life before, and up to a flooded moon, and the prototypal indifference and a half of the inbound tide, and the terminal 2 hours of the outward flow are best. During periods of dust water, advise a lowercase soured get and impact the gage flats with a diminutive grub, and a 4 worm, dropped into the pockets.
WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS
The Sassafras River crapper be elating most of the time, but when it turns off, it rattling turns off! If this happens, essay streaming backwards towards the marina, and nous up low the drawbridge, and impact every the fallen docks with a Senko outrigged weightless, on 8-10 blow test, essay wacky-rigging it if it doesn't display whatever takers the customary way. Work every the actual alter vegetation in here also, with a spinnerbait presented repetitiously, from some assorted angles.
Maps of the Sassafras River are acquirable from Mare's Marine in Fredericktown, Maryland, and at fair artefact stores and marinas in the area. You crapper also ingest our MAP SERVICE correct here on the site.
Steve vonBrandt
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