Big stripers continue to come to the scales from the lower Chesapeake. Stripers to 50 pounds and more are active around Buoys 38 and 40 on the Eastern Shore. Live eels are the most productive baits. The Virginia Beach area and around the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel is showing schooling stripers in the 22-38 inch range. Best success is also from drifted live eels, but umbrella rigs are also taking good fish.
There have been no reports of stripers off Virginia Beach. At Rudee Inlet, it’s been specks, pups and bluefish. GULP baits on jig heads have been productive. Offshore boats out of the Virginia Beach are returning with Mahi and Wahoo, when they can get out. Deep prop fishing is productive in the Norfolk Canyon and some nice Black Sea Bass have been caught recently.
Nags Head
Monday was a beautiful day. Jennette’s Pier caught keeper Trout and keeper Drum There was a Keeper Black Drum caught in Kitty Hawk and a slot size red drum caught at Oregon Inlet between ramp 2 and 4.
Stripers are biting in the sounds.
Hatteras
Bluefish were caught on metal in Rodanthe. Trout, Black Drum, and Puppy Drum were caught in Buxton. The Point had the same, adding some Bluefish to the mix. The Jetties and Ramp 43 produced Spot.
It was a rainy, nasty day on Wednesday, but the fish didn’t seem to mind. There were puppy drum and black drum on the Point, black drum and speckled trout at the jetties, speckled trout and gray trout along with some sea mullet and small blues up at Ramp 34, and some speckled trout on the south facing beaches
Offshore, commercial boats going out are catching lots of kink mackerel. One charter boat managed to find a party, then proceeded to load on up on blackfin tuna and had some huge shark releases.
