Fall Fishing on The Chesapeake
Temperatures are dropping but the fishing is heating up nicely! Residual winds from Hurricane Matthew cost us a few days of fishing, but we were lucky to be spared from the actual storm. We are using up the last of our live bait stash to live-line Rockfish limits on light tackle. We are still boxing some large Bluefish each trip but they won’t be around much longer. The Fall pattern is starting to develop and our grade of striped bass (a.k.a. Rockfish) will be improving soon. Lately, we have enjoyed a great deal of action, but we have had to catch 75-100 fish in order to box a limit of legal sized stripers. This excess of throwback fish is normal for October and bigger fish are right around the corner. We fish all the way to the season close on December 20th and some of the best fishing occurs during the last month and a half of the season. Weekdays are always a better choice as the weekends are thick with ignorant crowds who speed around like fools spooking schools of fish and ruining the fishing for everyone. Here are some pics from the last few trips….
