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Chesapeake Bay Fishing Report: Stripers, Blues, and More in the Bays and Rivers
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Good morning anglers, this is Artificial Lure with your Chesapeake Bay fishing report for Friday, October 10th.
We've got partly cloudy skies today with surface water temps in the low 70s and slowly cooling. Sunrise was at 7:08 AM and sunset will be around 6:32 PM, giving you a solid fishing window. The full moon from October 7th is still giving us above average tidal currents, so time your trips accordingly.
The black sea bass season reopens today in Maryland's Atlantic waters, so offshore boats will be heading to the wreck and reef sites when conditions allow.
Let me tell you where the fish are biting. Up in the Upper Bay near Pooles Island, striped bass action has been excellent. Anglers are live-lining with spot and eels with great success. The Love Point rocks and Sandy Point lighthouse are also producing. If you're heading to the Bay Bridge, get there early morning and line up on the east side to live-line spot and eels or drift cut spot back toward the piers. A moving tide is crucial here.
For you trollers, the channel edge from Bloody Point south past Buoy 83 and Sharps Island Light has been hot. Umbrella rigs are working well along these channel edges, and you'll pick up bluefish mixed in with the stripers.
Down in the Lower Bay, the Potomac and Patuxent rivers are producing limits. The channel edge from the Route 301 bridge south past St. Georges Island is money right now. You can live-line spot, jig, or troll umbrella rigs. Same tactics work below the Route 4 bridge on the Patuxent. You'll catch stripers plus some speckled trout, slot red drum, and blues.
For lures, topwater poppers and jerkbaits are working the shallow shorelines early morning. Paddletails and soft plastic jigs are effective around Point Lookout, Cornfield Harbor, and Cedar Point. If you're after bluefish, troll surgical tube lures or spoons behind inline weights.
White perch are stacked up on hard bottom areas in the Chester River, mouth of the Magothy, and various shoals. Grass shrimp on bottom rigs are killing it. Kent Narrows is producing big white perch right now.
The catfish bite remains strong at the mouths of the Susquehanna, Elk, and North East rivers for both blues and channels.
My hot spots for today: Pooles Island for stripers on live bait, and the Lower Potomac channel edge from Route 301 to St. Georges Island for mixed bag action.
Thanks for tuning in, and don't forget to subscribe for your daily fishing updates. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.
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This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
This episode includes AI-generated content.
We've got partly cloudy skies today with surface water temps in the low 70s and slowly cooling. Sunrise was at 7:08 AM and sunset will be around 6:32 PM, giving you a solid fishing window. The full moon from October 7th is still giving us above average tidal currents, so time your trips accordingly.
The black sea bass season reopens today in Maryland's Atlantic waters, so offshore boats will be heading to the wreck and reef sites when conditions allow.
Let me tell you where the fish are biting. Up in the Upper Bay near Pooles Island, striped bass action has been excellent. Anglers are live-lining with spot and eels with great success. The Love Point rocks and Sandy Point lighthouse are also producing. If you're heading to the Bay Bridge, get there early morning and line up on the east side to live-line spot and eels or drift cut spot back toward the piers. A moving tide is crucial here.
For you trollers, the channel edge from Bloody Point south past Buoy 83 and Sharps Island Light has been hot. Umbrella rigs are working well along these channel edges, and you'll pick up bluefish mixed in with the stripers.
Down in the Lower Bay, the Potomac and Patuxent rivers are producing limits. The channel edge from the Route 301 bridge south past St. Georges Island is money right now. You can live-line spot, jig, or troll umbrella rigs. Same tactics work below the Route 4 bridge on the Patuxent. You'll catch stripers plus some speckled trout, slot red drum, and blues.
For lures, topwater poppers and jerkbaits are working the shallow shorelines early morning. Paddletails and soft plastic jigs are effective around Point Lookout, Cornfield Harbor, and Cedar Point. If you're after bluefish, troll surgical tube lures or spoons behind inline weights.
White perch are stacked up on hard bottom areas in the Chester River, mouth of the Magothy, and various shoals. Grass shrimp on bottom rigs are killing it. Kent Narrows is producing big white perch right now.
The catfish bite remains strong at the mouths of the Susquehanna, Elk, and North East rivers for both blues and channels.
My hot spots for today: Pooles Island for stripers on live bait, and the Lower Potomac channel edge from Route 301 to St. Georges Island for mixed bag action.
Thanks for tuning in, and don't forget to subscribe for your daily fishing updates. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.
Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
This episode includes AI-generated content.