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/2012/01/09/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/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/2011/04/17/jesus-loves-the-little-rockfish/ http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2011/04/17/jesus-loves-the-little-rockfish/#comments Mon, 18 Apr 2011 02:53:35 +0000 Shawn http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/?p=3338
Share Tweet At least they must have been precious in his sight last weekend when an epic spring storm kept many fishermen off the Bay on the opening day of Maryland’s striped bass catch-and-kill season.  Water temperatures are lower than usual this April, so there are lots of pre-spawn fish still moving up the Bay.  [...]]]> http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2011/04/17/jesus-loves-the-little-rockfish/feed/ 11 http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2011/04/10/farmers-fishermen-lucky-ducks/ http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2011/04/10/farmers-fishermen-lucky-ducks/#comments Sun, 10 Apr 2011 05:53:20 +0000 Shawn http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/?p=3298
Share Tweet If you’ve ever traveled to Memphis, Tennessee, chances are good that you visited the Peabody Hotel lobby to see the world-famous mallards march down the red carpet. It’s a time-honored tradition that dates back to the 1930s when a couple of hunters from Arkansas decided it would be funny to put some live [...]]]> http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2011/04/10/farmers-fishermen-lucky-ducks/feed/ 5 http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2011/02/28/sneak-up-on-em/ http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2011/02/28/sneak-up-on-em/#comments Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:00:40 +0000 Shawn http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/?p=3069
Share Tweet “Show me a fisherman and I’ll show you a scoundrel and a sneak,” says well-known outdoor writer Bob Lawless. I don’t hang out with too many scoundrels, but every good fisherman I know is a sneak.  In an article about newly-invented trolling motors, the April 1960 edition of Popular Mechanics offers this observation:  [...]]]> http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2011/02/28/sneak-up-on-em/feed/ 13 http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2010/11/24/channel-locks/ http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2010/11/24/channel-locks/#comments Thu, 25 Nov 2010 03:30:59 +0000 Shawn http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/?p=2638
Share Tweet Maybe I’m getting better, but more likely I just got lucky.  Either way, I called this last pattern change pretty close.  As the water cools, big fish move closer to the main channel of the Chesapeake Bay.  There’s still plenty of smaller fish in the rivers and the nearby flats, but since it’s [...]]]> http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2010/11/24/channel-locks/feed/ 12 http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2010/03/09/thunder-road/ http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2010/03/09/thunder-road/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:30:11 +0000 Shawn http://chesapeakelighttackle.com/?p=1387
Share Tweet If the tail slaps of big rockfish can be compared to the rumble of a Chesapeake storm, I spent this past weekend riding on thunder road.   We’re seeing the first signs of spring on the Bay resulting in some fun fishing. The good times this weekend were especially sweet because I just took [...]]]> http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2010/03/09/thunder-road/feed/ 11 http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2010/01/29/wintering-over/ http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2010/01/29/wintering-over/#comments Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:52:06 +0000 Shawn http://chesapeakelighttackle.com/?p=1324
Share Tweet I’ve mentioned in previous reports that there are an extraordinary number of striped bass in the Bay this winter.  It’s never been unusual to find a few big fish here and there during cold weather, but each year there seem to be more nice fish wintering over.   I’ve managed a couple of trips this week [...]]]> http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2010/01/29/wintering-over/feed/ 17 http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2009/12/31/catch-release-season/ http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2009/12/31/catch-release-season/#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:07:36 +0000 Shawn http://chesapeakelighttackle.com/?p=1276
Share Tweet Gone are the fair-weather boaters with their blaring radios and boats bristling with broomsticks.  No more planer-board trollers claiming 300 foot right-of- ways, or obnoxious broadcasters insulting everyone with a VHF radio within 50 miles.  Catch & release season is the time of year when the one-man-one-rod concept reigns supreme.  It’s when you [...]]]> http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2009/12/31/catch-release-season/feed/ 10 http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2009/08/26/hooked-on-lure-making/ http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2009/08/26/hooked-on-lure-making/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:55:47 +0000 Shawn http://chesapeakelighttackle.com/?p=749
Share Tweet I can’t remember when I first learned to make fishing lures, but it seems like I’ve always made them. Some of my earliest childhood memories include the times my brothers and I spent with our father in his garage workshop in the hills of Tennessee.  There were always lures lying around in various stages [...]]]> http://www.chesapeakelighttackle.com/2009/08/26/hooked-on-lure-making/feed/ 13