Cooler weather is in the air! Water temps have come done and the days are cooler! Striped bass are staring to transition to fall patterns. We have seen some very nice healthy Stripers the past few trips. Jigging structure has been productive and so has been live lining. Its not a home run right away as conditions have to be right for live lining. But we have been making it work. Bottom fishing is still decent. But the fish have moved a little deeper. Still some big jumbo spot still around tho. This weekend we had some Whiting show up and even a Flounder. Bottom fishing should be good for a while and Striper fishing will get better as the fall goes on. Birds are starting to work but not real consistent yet. But it is only a matter of time. November is when we usually see some Big migratory Stripers start to show back up. Its isn't a given as every season is different but you don't know if you don't go. If your looking to catch a monster Striped Bass late November thru March is the best time on the Chesapeake! Message us to setup your fishing adventure today! We trailer our boat to be as close to the fishing action as possible and give you more time fishing then running.

Here is a video of the top water action from Saturday’s trip. I absolutely love this style of fishing. You get to watch the strike and feel the hookup! Absolutely awesome. That fish was 26 1/2 inches!

The weather has been hot and this weekend so was the fishing! Roberto joined me for a full day fishing trip this past Saturday. We started out bottom fishing for spot. We have been catching some really nice big spot. They did not disappoint this day either. We used a mix of blood worms and fish bites in blood worm flavor. We bailed spot for 2 hrs some 2 at a time. Michele the fisher girl even got a 12 1/4 white perch. That’s huge! Roberto also got a 22 inch channel catfish. Nice perfect diner size! After the tide died out the bite slowed way down. We had a few small spot that we kept to live line for Rockfish. So off we went. Our first stop was an old light house ruins. It’s a perfect spot for Rockfish but they aren’t always there. Unfortunately they have tails that they like to use to swim around. They love to make you work for them. We put out 2 lines with live spot and the wait began. We dropped the bottom rigs over also just see to if anything else was willing to bite. This spot can be good for catfish sometimes also. Me being impatient and not 1 willing to wait for the fish to decide to bite I pulled out a rod with a top water lure. The wind was perfect causing the boat to lay stern to the rocks on anchor. I had my doubts they were there. They usually bite pretty quick when using live spot if the current is moving and it was. First cast as I worked the lure past the corner I had a blow up. Then another and then another. He just didn’t take it. I cast back and on the 2nd blowup he came tight. I handed the rod off to Michele who fought the fish just like I instructed and she was reward with a nice 22 inch Striped Bass. Next cast bam fish on I handed the rod to Roberto and he had a fat 18 1/2 incher. Back he went as the size limit is 1 fish per person 19-24 inches. I asked who wanted to learn how to do it. Michele was first up. I showed her how to work the lure and she was getting multiple blow ups but they just wouldn’t come tight. She got tired so I asked who else wants to try Roberto was up next. It didn’t take long and he was hooking up constantly. The ladies and his nephew didn’t want to cast so he would hand the rod off to someone when he hooked up. After 2 hours of non stop action they had their 6 fish limit. With many many throw backs over the 24 inch mark. The biggest was a 28 1/4 incher. With a limit finished and time to spare we went back and bottom fished some catching more spot and white perch. We ended the trip with them taking home a lot of fish. They had 92 spot all over 8 inches 12 white perch, 1 catfish, and 6 rockfish! The have enough fish for quite some time. Rockfish season close on the 15th and reopens on Aug1. Will be targeting bottom fish during that time. Then pick back up hopefully where we left off with Rockfish . Summer is going fast so book a trip before it’s to late.