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  • New Data Buoy Coming to Annapolis Area

    Chesapeake Bay Fishing Reports, Maryland Fishing Reports, Virginia Fishing ReportsAnglers in the Annapolis, Maryland area will soon have another NOAA buoy to consult for near-real-time wave height & direction, wind speed & direction, current speed & direction, water temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, and other measures, as well as information about its place on the Captain John Smith National Historic Trail, the ecology of the area around the buoy, and what is going on in the water around it in each season of the year.


    Access to the information the Annapolis buoy puts out comes the same way as from the NOAA buoy off the mouth of the Patapsco and the other five up & down the Bay--1-877-BUOYBAY and here.

    Look for two more NOAA buoys in the spring, one on the Upper Potomac, just below the Wilson Bridge and another on the Gooses/Dominion Reef....

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Saltwater Fishing

  • Live-lining Spot for Stripers is the Ticket to Summer Fun!

    By Lenny Rudow

    Live Bait Fishing,Live Lining Spot for Striped Bass, Chesapeake Bay Fishing Reports, Virginia Fishing Reports, Lenny Rudow Fishing, Saltwater Fishing live bait, live bait fishing techniquesFrom the Bay Bridge to the Choptank to Cove Point to Point Lookout, summer fun begins with a livewell full of spot and ends with a cooler of kickin’ stripers. You want to get the fish snapping this season? Live-lining is the ticket to bent rods—here’s how it works...One question regularly heard when discussing live-baiting: how do you hook the baitfish? Through the jaws, or the back? Actually, the answer is both and one or the other, depending on where in the water column the fish are feeding... 

Fishing Tackle and Gear

  • NEW 3D Chesapeake Fishing Maps - A MUST Have to Find Fishing Spots

    By Brandon White

    The maps that we are all accustomed to are your traditional NOAA bottom contour maps that show depths and bottom features in two-dimensional form. Commercial fishermen have long known that being able to see maps in a 3D visual display enhances the ability to see the bottom in a way which many times leads to seeing drops, dips, ledges, humps...

Fly Fishing

  • Successfully Targeting Summer Croaker on the Chesapeake Bay

    By Brett Gaba

    Typically in saltwater fly fishing, and more specifically with fly fishing on the Chesapeake Bay, heading out into the big water and searching for breaking blues and stripers is option #1, and fishing underwater structure is option #2. Both of these options require a boat that’s capable of moving from spot to spot, or from school to school.
    I personally own a small, humble boat and I am on the water often, or as often as time and work permit. On good days, my boat is capable of getting from spot to spot, but not when the winds are over 10mph. Because of my restrictions I’m not typically in the open water of the Chesapeake Bay proper, or even the middle of Tangier Sound, but mostly about as far as my 16’ johnboat will take me on a nice day—maybe to the mouth of a river, or near a rip that sets up in a tributary creek....

Knots & Rigging

  • The Ultimate Spreader Bar Tuna & Billfish Can't Resist

    By Lenny Rudow

    yellowfin tuna, bluefin tuna, blackfin tuna, sailfish, blue marlin, white marlin, black marlin, striped marlin, pelagic fish, saltwater fishing, trolling, spreader bar, artificial bait, sport fishing, offshore fishingYou want a volcano-like explosion 30’ behind your transom? Tuna fish to come flying out of the water in attack-mode? Billfish to rise with their weaponry swinging? Then I sure hope you’re pulling spreader bars, because these lures will trigger more pelagics to attack than any other single lure in the water today.
    Spreader bars consist of multiple chains of baits—usually plastic squid, but also skirts or rubber ballyhoo in some cases—rigged to a single bar, which keeps them in an organized pattern as they troll through the water. The farthest aft bait should be...