Look for a Chesapeake Bay Conclave sometime soon. Many of these fish are being take in the regular hotspots by the time honored tradition here in the Bay of chumming. While this may seem like a foreign technique, usually reserved for shark fishing in the Northeast or tuna off Hatteras or Florida, it is a general practice in the Bay. There is something to be said for hundreds of stripers swarming around your boat. While many of the charterboats use chumming as a technique to lure stripers within fly casting distance, it is by no means the only way.
Sight casting to hundreds of breaking stripers is a regular occurrence on the Bay.
And from what I have been hearing, this type of fishery is just getting fired up for the season. The main difference between striper fishing here on the Bay and striper fishing the Northeast is the amount of wadeable beaches. With the endless tributaries and rivers draining into the Bay, there are endless opportunities for the canoe-bound saltwater fly fishermen. Look for an article soon on fishing Kent Narrows, one of my regular night fishing spots, safely , from a canoe. Now to the report.