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Outdoors:To catch mackerel, be prepared for resistance

Published 08/05/07

While heading down the Chesapeake with Hank Wallace of Silver Spring to try live-lining for stripers, we came across a few schools of breaking fish, a welcome sight for all bay fishermen. We slowed down to take a look-see at one surfacing school and quickly noted that there were three different fishes on the chase for small baitfish under a patch of screaming gulls.

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We expected to see the small rockfish and blues, but this early in the summer there was a third fish that we could identify instantly. Unlike blues and stripers when it came to the top it didn’t take an arc-like path as do most fish snatching fleeing silversides.

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