http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com Light Tackle Fishing Reports & Information Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:55:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2012/01/18/virginia-coast-stripers-video-report/ http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2012/01/18/virginia-coast-stripers-video-report/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:53:35 +0000 Shawn http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/?p=4878
Share Tweet Last December, I caught up with my friend Gaylon Thompson at one of my light tackle seminars in Severna Park, Maryland.  During the few minutes we had to talk, we wondered if we might be able to get in a fishing trip in early 2012.  I was very excited when Rich Jenkins called [...]]]> http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2012/01/18/virginia-coast-stripers-video-report/feed/ 25 http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2012/01/09/a-good-start/ http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2012/01/09/a-good-start/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:12:56 +0000 Shawn http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/?p=4831
Share Tweet If the next 51 weeks of 2012 go as well as the first one, this promises to be a very good year for light tackle fishing on the Chesapeake Bay. I’ve fished four times and caught a Diamond Jim qualifying citation fish on each trip including three rockfish in the mid 40-inch range. [...]]]> http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2012/01/09/a-good-start/feed/ 12 http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2012/01/02/the-right-stuff/ http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2012/01/02/the-right-stuff/#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:14:44 +0000 Shawn http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/?p=4787
Share Tweet “One last drift,” I called up. My son was casting from the bow while I piloted the boat. It was getting dark and we had New Year’s Eve dinner plans in Annapolis, so we had to go. The better fish were holding in a warm water pyconocline; a spot no bigger than a [...]]]> http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2012/01/02/the-right-stuff/feed/ 21 http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2011/12/15/fair-weekend-at-the-bridge-tunnel/ http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2011/12/15/fair-weekend-at-the-bridge-tunnel/#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:11:16 +0000 Shawn http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/?p=4735
Share Tweet I’ve just spent an extra long, extra fun weekend at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel (CBBT). Connecting the Delmarva Peninsula with Norfolk and Virginia Beach, the CBBT is 23 miles of high-current structure that is prime habitat for striped bass. Rich Jenkins and I trailered my Judge 27 center console Thunder Road down [...]]]> http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2011/12/15/fair-weekend-at-the-bridge-tunnel/feed/ 25 http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2011/12/07/re-creational-fishermen/ http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2011/12/07/re-creational-fishermen/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:27:10 +0000 Shawn http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/?p=4689
Share Tweet Thanks to everyone who made it to the re-creation of the Annapolis chapter of the Coastal Conservation Association (CCA) at the Boatyard Bar & Grill last night. There was a big turnout and we had a lot of fun. As I was driving to the meeting, I considered the concept of re-creating something [...]]]> http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2011/12/07/re-creational-fishermen/feed/ 12 http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2011/10/20/more-on-patterns-places/ http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2011/10/20/more-on-patterns-places/#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:07:56 +0000 Shawn http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/?p=4509
Share Tweet Since I’ve reported bigger fish on recent trips, I’ve been overwhelmed with questions from fishermen who want to know where the fish are. The big fish are moving around very quickly and they are rarely at the same place twice. Even on days when I find them right back where I left them, they’ve [...]]]> http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2011/10/20/more-on-patterns-places/feed/ 12 http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2011/10/04/october-skies/ http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2011/10/04/october-skies/#comments Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:04:14 +0000 Shawn http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/?p=4415
Share Tweet There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!  ~Percy Bysshe Shelley Is there anything more dramatic than an October sky? If I had my way there would be [...]]]> http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2011/10/04/october-skies/feed/ 15 http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2011/06/28/wanna-get-lucky/ http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2011/06/28/wanna-get-lucky/#comments Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:50:51 +0000 Shawn http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/?p=3732
Share Tweet Have you heard?  Light tackle casting is producing big fish lately on the Chesapeake Bay.  Some lucky anglers are catching fish over 30-inches on almost every trip. Sometimes they get three or four. Most of the fish I’m catching are coming off cover like rocks or bridge pilings, but some have been hooked [...]]]> http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2011/06/28/wanna-get-lucky/feed/ 23 http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2011/06/21/name-that-fish-fathers-day-weekend/ http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2011/06/21/name-that-fish-fathers-day-weekend/#comments Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:23:05 +0000 Shawn http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/?p=3694
Share Tweet I recently found some old pictures of myself in diapers, standing beside a small wooden boat parked in front of a Tennessee farmhouse. Towering above me was my father, and at my bare feet was a nice stringer of fat largemouth bass.  Did I catch them?  Probably not, but like any good fisherman, [...]]]> http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2011/06/21/name-that-fish-fathers-day-weekend/feed/ 5 http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2011/06/06/needs-salt/ http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2011/06/06/needs-salt/#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:50:41 +0000 Shawn http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/?p=3617
Share Tweet Channel catfish at Hackett’s Bar, carp at the Bay Bridge, snakeheads in St. Jerome’s Creek, and very few stripers in their usual haunts around Kent Island – what’s up with all this late-spring craziness in the Chesapeake Bay?  Most fishermen are blaming salt, or more specifically, a lack thereof.  Very wet weather in [...]]]> http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2011/06/06/needs-salt/feed/ 13