November 10th
15th Annual Chesapeake Bay Fall Tournament NC Trip

This is a 1 day event and see your Ttidelines for details or go to www.mssa.net. You can fax your registration into the main office.

November 17th
Go rock fishing with the chapter for $55. The headboat trip changed so you can still attend. See Walt Shaw at the meeting to sign up and pay or call him at 301-662-4481.

2007 Captain of the Year Results
Bay Captain Bryan Etzler is sitting in 6th place with only the fall tournament to go. He is only 22.1 points behind the leader. Bluewater Captain - Bryan Etzler finished 6th overall and this is final. Congratulations to Bryan. Overall Captain - Bryan is in 5th place and Rob Pellicot is in 6th.

MSSA Crab Feast
Oct 6th: For those of you that cannot attend the NC Trip this is an excellent opportunity to meet fellow fishermen and get some crabs cheap. The cost is $20 per person and feel free to bring anyone you like but sign up now as tickets will go fast. It's being held at the American Legion Post 175 on Manhattan Beach Rd in Severna Park (right off Rt2). There will be door prizes as well. For more information and tickets call the MSSA Office at 410-255-5535.

MSSA Scholarship Foundation
Dinner
Mark your calendar now for the MSSA Scholarship Foundation's fund raising dinner on Saturday, Nov. 4th at Fleet Reserve Club in Annapolis. The dinner is $25 per person & features an all you can eat buffet. There'll be a silent auction along with the dinner that afternoon. These silent auctions often yield items, fishing trips, prints & pictures well below retail value so you have a chance to cash in on some great bargains, while helping fund the education of a deserving student. Call the office at 410-255-5535.

Dinner in January
Come and join your fellow fishing partners for a night of fine dining and dancing. We will be holding our annual dinner at Dutchess Daughter on Friday January 11, 2008. This year the club will have a DJ for your listening and dancing pleasure. The party will start about 7:00 PM and last until midnight. The cash bar will be open throughout. Ticket prices are $30.00 per person. Many Raffle prizes will be presented to the lucky individuals who's ticket is drawn. It's on a Friday so come and have a good time. Tickets will be available starting with the October meeting, remember no tickets will be sold at the door.

Membership Coordinator
Jay Betts has graciously accepted to take on this position on work with Ken Wheeler. If you have any suggestions please let Jay or Ken know and hopefully you may hear from Jay as he updates our membership rolls and
works to get more people active and increase our meeting attendance.

Chincoteague Island, VA
Fishing Report by Charlie Koski

Well fall is upon us and as far as I am concerned this is the best time to go fishing, no crowds and less pressure on the water. As far as in the bays we have had a pretty good flounder showing the past few weeks along with some small blues and a trout or two. We had 19 throwbacks and three keepers on Tuesday. The wrecks off the beach are holding good numbers of flounder, triggerfish and the sea bass are starting to turn on also. If you are into the surf fishing thing there are Red Drum and plenty of nice blues being caught.
Now lets talk blue water, not much on that subject at least on the Tuna side. Very few boats are going meaning very few fish to be seen. The 'Hoo bite has been better than the Tuna and there have been days when many White Marlin were in the spreads. One Captain told me he had two on his teaser squids and had a hard time gettim them to let go. Two hook-ups minus the hooks, oh well!!! Come on down and enjoy the fall fishing.
Tight Lines

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Chesapeake Bay Fishing Report
by Captain Ed Susa
Seems with the warm weather continuing the spot have remained in the mouth of the Choptank around Buoy # 10. I had the opportunity to live line the last couple of weeks & tried to load up on the small spot, but what we found were HUGE spot to 10-11" in 50 ft of water just southwest of the #10 buoy. Once we did get some small spot we live lined in the False Channel at buoy # 4 with mixed success. We caught our limit of 20-22" rockfish on the incoming tides. Also, we boated several large bluefish in the 6-10# range. They were actually caught on the larger spot. In addition, we had the opportunity to do a little flounder fishing with about 15 fish being boated & we were able to limit with fish to 19". They were found on the ledges just across from thee live lining area at Green can # 3. We ran the ledges towards red can # 80 looking for bait stacked on the bottom using a double hook setup with a minnow & squid combo. Once we found the bait hugging the bottom, hook ups were frequent. Some are beginning to troll medium tandem bucktail rigs on the channel ledges from Deale south to Point Lookout with fish being caught to 30". One fella from Hooper's Island told me he had 3 fish in the 30" range with sea lice on them. Most have been fishing around buoy # 72 & definitely working the deeper water as well.

Schools of breaking fish have been reported just about everywhere. Look for the diving birds & you'll find about the same thing in each pod, Rockfish below some nice size bluefish. We got on a breaking school around Green can # 5 in the False Channel & jigged up some keeper rockfish to 22". Use a 2oz short stingsilver or a 1-2oz bucktail trimmed with a 3-4" motor oil colored grub. After I lost 3 or 4 of them I put a short sliver colored wire leader on to prevent the bluefish from biting through the line. The fish are there so fire the boat up and hit 'em hard.