March 3, 2025
One of the biggest mistakes anglers chasing slot redfish in the southern Chesapeake make is hanging up their rods in the winter. While it can be a bit tougher to locate them in colder weather, once…
March 1, 2025
Remember, folks, this is a forecast as opposed to a current report, which is built from looking back at the past eight years of FishTalk's reports, so for current reports please visit our Reports…
February 19, 2025
Fishing reefs attract a lot of attention, but natural features abound in the Chesapeake Bay. The Susquehanna’s riverbeds snaked their way around many ridges as they cut their way through the coastal…
December 30, 2024
Good news, people! It seems that the Maryland Department of the Environment and Norwegian salmon aquaculture company AquaCon have come up with a foolproof way to save the flagging Chesapeake Bay…
December 6, 2024
December of 2023 and into January of 2024 was utterly epic striped bass action for Middle Chesapeake Bay anglers, as swarms of massive 40-plus-inch rockfish flooded the area and chewed on plentiful…
October 28, 2024
Are you up for a new Chesapeake Bay fishing adventure? Well, of course you are! And in this day and age it’s easier than ever to make it happen thanks to services like Airbnb and VRBO. In fact, in a…
October 22, 2024
For this Ask an Expert we speak with Captain Chuck Jones of Salty Siren Fishing. Our topic: Catching fish when they're breaking water.
Captain Chuck is ready to put us on the fish!
Q: What's your…
October 20, 2024
Greetings FishTalkers, welcome to the winding down phase of summer and the ooh-it’s-about-to-bust-loose anticipation of Rocktober fishing. As for now it’s still a bit warm out there, warmer than it…
October 17, 2024
Check out our Multispecies Fishing at Artificial Reefs on Chesapeake Bay video, and know that most of the action you'll see here came at Tilghman Reef.
This site, about 1.5 miles due west of…
October 12, 2024
Epic angling awaits fishermen heading down Route 50, which you could follow into Maryland all the way from Sacramento, CA, if you so desire. Stop number one is Annapolis, then it’s on to the Choptank…
October 12, 2024
These days, Chesapeake Bay anglers face a real problem when it comes to catching a striped bass for dinner: Argh — it stretches to 18.75! Argh — the tape shows 24.25! With a slot limit of 19” to 24…
October 9, 2024
Facing a current that leaves you at a standstill while paddling at Olympic levels makes for a tough day of kayak fishing. Same goes for getting stuck in a marsh with water falling so fast you’ll soon…
October 3, 2024
Large natural formations along with wrecks and obstructions along the lower east side of the Bay provide good structure for everything from croaker to cobia. In fact, this portion of the Bay is so…
October 1, 2024
We all know printed fishing reports are generalized and weeks have passed before the report gets into your hands, so for timely, up-to-date reports, visit our Reports section. Current reports will be…
September 19, 2024
The open exposure of marsh mudbanks makes them ideal for kayak trolling. Mudbanks are vertical walls of mud that are generally four to five feet deep on a high tide. They have a step down and/or…
September 8, 2024
During 1969 the USS Manta became the fourth demolished submarine to adorn the Bay’s bottom, when it was blasted into oblivion by the Navy as a bombing target and sunk somewhere in the area we report…
August 27, 2024
We get just three months to target cobia on the waters of Chesapeake Country and for many anglers, those 90 days are more exciting than any other season. As we go to press with the September edition…
August 19, 2024
The hunt for speckled trout during the warmer months can be particularly tricky. Many of our shallow water grass flats are ghosts of what they were in the spring, and increasing water temps have left…