Often colder water heats up freshwater fishing, especially at Lake Anna, when the big bass bite begins as the water temperature goes south of 50. The striper bite is better, as well. Jerkbaits, spoons and vibrating baits are productive when it gets chilly. Crappie are biting as well, but they are deep, clinging to bridges and deep structure. The lower ends of Lake Gaston and Buggs Island … [Read more...]

From the Potomac River to Oregon Inlet, the word on the saltwater streets is “stripers”. The Virginia season is winding down (ends on Dec. 31), but some big stripers from the ocean have moved within the bay. Umbrella rigs have been effective weapons. The rivers are also giving up nice fish to 10 pounds. In North Carolina, there are scads of stripers back in the sounds, mostly hanging near … [Read more...]

  Giant bluefin tuna have shown up in numbers off Virginia Beach. The fish are strung out from Morehead City, NC to Maryland. Slot size fish have been caught in 50 to 60 feet of water off Smith Island, where there are a lot of Omega Menhaden boats competing for their food source. Oversized fish have been released to the south, near the Chesapeake Light tower. Catches have come from as … [Read more...]

  The Bay’s water temperature is currently hovering in the high 50s, which means that the trophy speckled trout are on the feed. Specks like cold weather and they are hitting bais under popping corks, swim baits and Mirro-Lures in most of the tidal inlets, creeks, and rivers. Captain Todd Beck with Knot Wish’n charters reported a fantastic trout bite at Rudee Inlet on Friday, with … [Read more...]

One of the best eating saltwater fish of all – the black sea bass – is tugging on rods in deeper water, over wrecks. Quality Triggerfish are also being caught. Other boats have successfully been targeting Swordfish. Quality Speckled Trout are being caught in local creeks and inlets. Prolonged, unseasonable warm water temperatures have held smaller speckled trout longer than usual. Larger … [Read more...]

It’s fall on the Outer Banks and the next few weeks will provide some of the best fishing of the year. Blues, drum, specks, and stripers will be cruising the beaches so get ready to rumble. A bitter cold snap slowed the action during mid-week, but as the weather improved, so did the fishing. Surf anglers were beaching sea mullet, drum – big and small, some specks and lots of sharks. … [Read more...]

  One of the most exciting and rewarding feats in outdoor sports is battling a red drum in the surf. Not only do you have to fight the power of the surf itself, you also are charged with beaching one of the hardest fighters that swims – a red drum. But it’s happening right now, all the way from the beaches of Sandbridge to Hatteras on the Outer Banks. At Sandbridge last week, numerous … [Read more...]