Chesapeake Bay

[bobby2400]

Fished the False Channel out of Breezy Point. First over to the Choptank for a few spot then out to the channel for some live lining. Ended up with our 4 stripers and some nice blues.

 

[macojoe]

Thats not a striper? Come on show us the real Striper!!

 

[tsubaki]

If the bluefish got that big around here, we might think about eating them. ;D

 

[Sean]

Sound like you guys had a good time ;D
You guys dont start heating up down there until Oct/Nov??
Good start!

 

[bobby2400]

I know how everybody likes pic's around here so here you go.  .  We hope to get into the larger ones later in Sept-Oct

From The Rt 50 Bridge last Oct.

If you look hard you can see the Bow Rail of the V

Here's my buddy Pete with 2 we caught in May

This was a couple of weeks ago near Baltimore Light

And here is yesterdays Stripers.  Nothing big but good eating

 

[reelapeelin]

Great pix, Bobby!!... 8) ...that's some pretty good schoolin' action ya got goin' on up there ...

 

[bradford]

Nice pics!

 

[Blue_Runner]

Wow that action shot of the school is da shizzle.....needs to be in a magazine!

 

[bobby2400]

That was only about 1/4 the size of the entire school. They were surrounding my V. My daughter was casting a surface lure and catching on every cast. They were all around 14" stripers.

 

[macojoe]

whats the size you can keep there?? They look small??

Here we can keep 2 at 28" Recreational and 30 at 34" commercial

 

[Giorgio]

In New York it's 1 fish from 28 to 40" and the second fish has to be over 40"

 

[bobby2400]

2 Fish 18"-28" a person or 1 fish 18"-28" and one over 28"

 

[macojoe]

I wish we could take the small ones!! I like them better then the big ones.

 

[Airslot]

Fish in the Chesapeake leave the bay when they reach about 26", then they return in the spring to spawn and soime years make a fall showing to feed for a few weeks. As far up the bay as Bobby is, they have 6 weeks a year with a shot at big fish...

 

[shore-power]

striped what?

 

[Blue_Runner]

Fish in the Chesapeake leave the bay when they reach about 26", then they return in the spring to spawn and soime years make a fall showing to feed for a few weeks.

Yeah after they reach 26" they come down here and bless us with thier presence. Its pretty rare to catch schoolies in the ocean down this way but there are some resident fish that are schoolie size in the sound and around the bridges. I've caught several ocean fish and only 1 or two that didn't make keeper size at 28".

 

[Airslot]

And that, sir, is the reason for having an enclosure ;D

 

[Blue_Runner]

Yep, I'll agree with dat! Heck last winter the tuna bite was on strong off the outter banks of NC all winter but it worrys me to think about going 20 or 30 off with 40 - 50 degree water inshore.....however the stream was a warm 70 something Plus I don't have enough gear to put out a full tuna spread just yet :-/

Quick, somebody buy me six 50 wides!