This Monday Bill Johnson and I planned to fish from 9:00am until the dusk in the Upper Chesapeake Bay. The water temperature was 50 degrees and the weather was mild, in the mid 60's. The skies were cloudy, with little wind making it a very comfortable day to be out on the Bay.
The ebb current was to peak at 12:31pm and the catching started around 10:00am, and lasted until 2:00pm. From then on catching became slow. During the 4 hours of catching we landed countless number of striped bass from 20" to 27". These fish were fat and hard fighting on the light spinning tackle we were using.
What a Beautiful Sight
Large Stripers on the Sonar
The past couple of weeks we had been fishing the Lower Chesapeake Bay and it sure felt good not to have to travel so far to get into some quality stripers. My boat is still down at Buzz's Marina since I know I'll be back down there before the New Year sets in.
Bill Johnson Landed this Nice One
I was using a 1 oz. pearl spoon and Bill was casting a Spro 3/4 oz. white bucktail. Bill was out- catching me 5 to 1, so I asked, and he was nice enough to give me Spro bucktail.
There were times when the stripers wanted the lures to be moving swiftly in a horizontal motion while jigging them, and other times they would take them when just jigged off the bottom.
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