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This perch hit a grass shrimp baited on a tiny hook and lowered below a shallow pier.

Target Species During Striper Shutdown

  • Post published:July 16, 2025
  • Post category:Tactics

Maryland DNR shuts down striped bass fishing in the Bay and all tribs 7/16 to 7/31; here's what species we're targeting during these next two weeks

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Weekly Fishing Report

  • Post published:September 13, 2023
  • Post category:Reports

Chesapeake Bay angling summary of what's biting and where throughout the watershed

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Weekly Fishing Report

  • Post published:August 30, 2023
  • Post category:Reports

Chesapeake Bay angling summary of what's biting and where throughout the watershed

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Weekly Fishing Report

  • Post published:August 23, 2023
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Chesapeake Bay angling summary of what's biting and where throughout the watershed

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Weekly Fishing Report

  • Post published:August 16, 2023
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Chesapeake Bay angling summary of what's biting and where throughout the watershed

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Weekly Fishing Report

  • Post published:August 2, 2023
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Chesapeake Bay angling summary of what's biting and where throughout the watershed

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Weekly Fishing Report

  • Post published:July 26, 2023
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Chesapeake Bay angling summary of what's biting and where throughout the watershed

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Weekly Fishing Report

  • Post published:June 21, 2023
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Chesapeake Bay angling summary of what's biting and where throughout the watershed

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Three Times Tryin’

  • Post published:September 2, 2022
  • Post category:Reports

Triptych of fishing trips target striped bass, spanish mackerel, bluefish, and white perch

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Coaxed this little one w/ a clouser, trying my nov Coaxed this little one w/ a clouser, trying my novice hand at fly casting an 8w for schoolies. Got a ways to go. Tried poppers in morning. Then clousers. Arms are sore. A fun and frustrating challenge sheesh. Pretty morning tho 😎

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Sunrise over the Severn this morning. Gave fishing Sunrise over the Severn this morning. Gave fishing a shot with friends Erik and Lucas before the wind won the day. It was really blowing out there but we tried some protected areas. Didn’t get on any—there will be a next time. Beautiful day otherwise 

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Plenty of stripers runnin’ around the rivers right Plenty of stripers runnin’ around the rivers right now (crowded charters too). Packs here and there, in the mid-Severn for example. Found em several times over on a Sunday morning. Target shallows adjacent to deep water access. They roam and feed. I slowly cruise ideal areas with the quiet troll motor. Cast to likely spots for fun, then occasionally the schools show up in full force, some larger than others. Fun time to fish before the summer heat picks up. Most of these came on a white paddletail or a small bucktail

#stripedbassfishing #severnriver #chesapeakebay #annapolismd #fishingisfun
Run to Assateague Is. this wknd was cold, rainy, w Run to Assateague Is. this wknd was cold, rainy, windy, worthwhile. Nice fish hit (peeler crab, clams, sandfleas), birds everywhere, my brother joined for a night, campfires, heart healthy breakfast (egg whites and Gimme Lean “sausage”), a rainbow, sunsets, and them horses. Swell time

#stripedbassfishing #assateagueisland #surfcasting #oceanbound
Found a spritely school of striped bass up to 30”i Found a spritely school of striped bass up to 30”ish, more or less. Not the giants, but fun to catch and release for about an hour in 3-6’ of relatively clean water over an expansive shoal. This was an early morning this week. The new moon helps. Interestingly, the bass were hitting the silver SP minnow but not fully taking it. So I tied on a smaller silver jerkbait. No hits at all. Hmmm. Switched back to the SP, but in gold bunker color. The fish ate it time and again! Go figure. When things aren’t quite working, change something. Colors, retrieve, scents, location, etc., etc.

#stripedbass #springfishing #chesapeakebayfishing #baylife #marylandstyle
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