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Maryland Fishing Reports: Chesapeake Bay and Inshore and Offshore Coastal Fishing Reports Updated August 16, 2009
By Brandon White Published: August 16, 2009  Print  Email The Spanish are invading Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay, Spanish Mackerel that is. Reports are in with excellent catches of Spanish Macs from the Maryland line all the way up to in and around the bay bridge area. Flounder pounding reports are in the from the middle and lower Chesapeake. It’s been a few years since I’ve heard such good reports coming in, but keeper flounder are back in Maryland’s Chesapeake waters. Punk (ie undersize) striped bass are all over the bay along with their friends the bluefish. The action has mainly concentrated from Sharps Island, Popular Island up to Thomas Point, mostly on the... Read More...View Comments (0) Maryland Fishing Reports: Chesapeake Bay and Inshore and Offshore Coastal Fishing Reports Updated August 2, 2009 By Brandon White Published: August 2, 2009 Print Email Fishing has not been as hot as the weather, but it’s been consistent though out Maryland’s portion of the Chesapeake. The hottest fishing for striped bass has been in the middle of Maryland’s Chesapeake, while the lower... Read More...View Comments (0) Maryland Fishing Reports: Chesapeake Bay and Inshore and Offshore Coastal Fishing Reports Updated May 16, 2009 By Brandon White Published: May 16, 2009 Print Email
View Comments (0) Maryland Fishing Reports: Chesapeake Bay and Inshore and Offshore Coastal Fishing Reports Updated May 2, 2009 By Brandon White Published: May 2, 2009 Print Email Tons of fishing reports this week from all over the Maryland portion of the Chesapeake. Reports from different tributaries around the Maryland bay region suggested a large amount of spawning activity took place. Once these striped bass “do their thing” in the tributaries, it generally means the stripers are hungry and heavily feed as they make their exit out of Chesapeake. This most likely is what we can account for the hot bite that has been happening up and down the bay. We received our first reports from some light tackle jiggers who found good concentrations of stripers below the Choptank River. Trolling anglers have been having their best luck with fish hitting in the upper part of the water column and fishing in less then 40ft of water... Read More...View Comments (0) Maryland Fishing Reports: Chesapeake Bay and Inshore and Offshore Coastal Fishing Reports Updated April 14, 2009 By Brandon White Published: April 14, 2009 Print Email So, here we are, Easter is already over, opening day of Striped Bass season is fast approaching, the cherry blossoms in bloom, the yellow perch run is towards the tail end, the white perch run, depending on where you are is doing OK, the herring are starting to run up the creeks in waves, I hear its just a matter of days before... and opening day of rockfish season opens this Saturday April 18th.. I wanted to say some things in regards to catch and release fishing since it has been recently debated on the Tidal Fish message boards, mentioned in the press, and generally garnering quite a bit of attention lately... Read More...View Comments (0) Maryland Fishing Report: Covering the Maryland Chesapeake Bay & Ocean City Offshore and Inshore: Updated November 23, 2008 By Brandon White Published: November 23, 2008 Print Email Do not put those boats away just yet, if you have not heard the Maryland Striped Bass Season has been extended through December 31st. The recent cold front has lowered water temperatures, but there are still breaking stripers to be found and trolling anglers are picking up some very nice stripers. If you are looking for the bigger striped bass make your way to... Read More...View Comments (0) Maryland Fishing Report: Covering the Maryland Chesapeake Bay & Ocean City Offshore and Inshore: Updated September 1, 2008 By Brandon White Published: September 1, 2008 Print Email Labor Day comes each year with mixed emotions. It marks the end of summer, summer vacations are over, summer hours at the office are over, the kids go back to school, work seems to get more serious, the traffic on rt50 through Easton lightens which I greatly welcome, the Canada geese start to tickle in their annual winter migration and as importantly it marks some cooling weather and schooling, breaking fish throughout the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. And in the fishing reports this week we see just that, breaking keeper stripers, nice sized bluefish and nice catches of Spanish mackerel from the upper reaches of the Chesapeake in and around the Chesapeake Bay Bridge all the way down to Point No Point. Read More...View Comments (0) Maryland Fishing Report: Covering the Maryland Chesapeake Bay & Ocean City Offshore and Inshore: Updated July 11, 2008 By Brandon White Published: July 3, 2008 Print Email The summer striped bass pattern is here and live lining spot has taken over as the hot method for rockfish anglers through out the Chesapeake Bay region. Hot reports this week come from in and around the Bay Bridge area, the western shore from Breezy Point down to the Gas Docks and Cedar Point area. The southern Maryland waters have seen some breaking striped bass and smaller bluefish. Red drum fishing has picked up. There are some reports coming up the bay from south of Smith Point that there are some bruiser bluefish making their way north that has people getting excited in the southern Maryland waters. We went out this week and hit the Gas Docks with some live spot and put a whipping on some stripers. Check the reports for full details... Read More...View Comments (0) Maryland Weekly Fishing Report: Covering the Maryland Chesapeake Bay & Ocean City Offshore and Inshore: Updated June 28, 2008 By Brandon White Published: June 28, 2008 Print Email We are now settling into to the summer patterns of fishing in the Maryland Chesapeake Bay waters. Striped bass have left the river systems from their spring haunts are and now chasing bait in the main portion of the bay offering light tackle and fly fishing anglers some fun chasing breaking fish. Anglers are still doing the trolling thing, however most anglers who are not fishing artificals on light tackle or the fly have taken up live lining now that the spot have moved up the bay in good numbers. Some anglers have started chumming, but from the reports it seems more anglers are opting for live lining right now. Schools of striped bass have been sharing the waters with feisty bluefish, some with some size on the lower Maryland Chesapeake waters. Black drum fishing has dwindled from the few good weeks we had, but their not so distant relatives, although smaller, croaker have invaded most of the area. In the lower Maryland waters there have also been good reports of keeper flounder being caught. On the Atlantic Coast off Ocean City there are reports of yellowfin tuna, bluefin tuna, lots of bluefish and some dolphin. Read More... View Comments (0) Maryland Weekly Fishing Report: Covering the Maryland Chesapeake Bay & Ocean City Offshore and Inshore: Updated June 6, 2008 By Brandon White Published: June 5, 2008 Print Email Wow, what a week. I wish I was talking about the fishing, but instead I am talking about the weather that has been keeping a lot of anglers off the water over the last few days. We have had some wicked storms. As for the fishing in and around the Chesapeake Bay, well I think Richie Gaines summed it up when we were talking today when he said, “It’s transition time for striped bass right now. It’s one of the toughest times of year for light tackle and fly striped bass anglers in most of Maryland tidal waters ” This is the time of year striped bass (or rockfish as we sometimes call them) move off the structure that they were holding on in the river systems and start moving out onto structure in the main stem of the Chesapeake. While the striped bass fishing has slower then it has been, black drum have been getting some attention in and around the Stone Rock area. The key to catching these fish has 1) been locating them and 2) getting them to eat your bait. Just in on Friday night, the spot are here, you know what that means, live lining time... Also this week we got a new fishing shop at Kent Narrows... Read More...View Comments (0)
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The Spring Trophy Striped Bass season ended Friday May 15th and we now move into a new set of regulations that last until Dec.15th: The striped bass season regulations are now 2 stripers 18”-28” or 1 striper at 18”-28” and 1 larger than 28” per person per day.While the big spawning striped bass are making their way out of the Chesapeake there are still good sized fish around. What is really exciting is that this time of year the stripers start to school a bit more which brings on the ability to target stripers with my favorite methods, light tackle and fly fishing. The light tackle bite reports are pretty hot this week. Anglers are doing well from Breezy Point all the way down to Cedar Point Rip working the western edge of the bay in 30’-45’ of water. The key is to cruise this area and watch your fish finder for some good marks. Once you find the marks, drop the jigs and you are in business. There have also been some reports...
