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Fishing Report: Chesapeake Bay Fishing
Lower Chesapeake Bay fishing report
Fishing in the Chesapeake Bay has been slow to crawl out of winter and Spring. I have heard reports from charter Captains and guides of the same thing as far south as Sarasota Florida. Seems like they were saying the same thing - "Fishing is a month behind" or "we hit the current water temperature 6 weeks earlier last year" which is what I also said.
Well better late than never, right?
Reports have been coming in of Cobia finally starting to hit aggressively and in a recent report on the Fin Forum from long time member 'Megabite' he claimed to have caught a very large Cobia last week.
For those who care to read what Megabite said you must go to the FinTalk Fishing Forum and register. Then you can go to the Chesapeake Bay Angler forum and see what is being caught in the Bay.
Gray Trout - Reports of large gray trout being caught around the man-made islands more specifically the fourth island have been coming in lately. Upon a visit to Bubbas marina on Wednesday I saw two boats come in with nice gray trout in the 5 - 7 lb range. As scarce as trout are nowadays that is some very encouraging news.
Flounder - Co-owner Jeff, fishing aboard the Fintalk this past week scored a few nice flatties last Saturday and went back out later in the week to hit 2 more semi doormats with flounder that weighed in at 4 1/2 lbs and 5 lbs. He was fishing his favorite honey holes along the span of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel.
Croaker - Spot Not much to report here yet around Lynnhaven and Little Creek for Croaker and Spot fishing. Most everything is really to small for the frying pan but whats to small for the fryer is PERFECT for flounder bait. Those pinhead croakers make excellent live bait for flounder fishing.
Striper Many small Striper - Undersized being caught around all four islands.
Bluefish - Bluefish up to 3 lbs are being caught at Cape Henry and in the hard tide rips around the Bay Bridge Tunnel, especially as the fast moving water comes around the backside of the islands. For some fun fishing try catching a 3 pound tailer blue in the rip currents around the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. I have never been one to eat blues because there are so many better tasting fish to me but I sure enjoy fighting one on very light tackle.
Drum, Tautog, etc should start to be on the way out as the water warms while we should start to see many more flounder, Cobia, trout, sheepshead, spadefish, spot and craoker. Fishing is just getting started in the Chesapeake bay so get out there and get that trophy fish and stay tuned for more reports later this week. 
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