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Chesapeake Bay Fishing Report: Trophy Rockfish, Tautog, and Speckled Trout Bite in Winter's Chill
# Chesapeake Bay Fishing Report – December 1st
Hey folks, Artificial Lure here with your Monday morning Chesapeake Bay fishing rundown. Bundle up—we're officially in prime winter fishing season around the Bay, and the action is heating up as water temps drop into the 40s.
**Tidal Conditions & Timing**
We're looking at slack tides early this morning around the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel area, which is excellent news for tog fishing. If you're targeting trout, you'll want to hit those flood tides—that's when they bite best in the shallower creeks. Low tide's coming in around 5:08 AM in some of our key spots, so get on the water early.
**What's Biting & Where**
December is absolutely prime time for trophy rockfish—we're talking 20 to 40 pounders staging hard around the Bay Bridge-Tunnel pilings and the deep holes in the lower Bay. The concentrations are building right now. Troll artificial spoons, bucktails, and swimming plugs near those structures, or bottom-rig eels in 30 to 50 feet of water.
Tog fishing is firing up too. The cooler water has them aggressive around ocean wrecks, the CBBT rocks, and those artificial reefs off Virginia Beach. You'll pull steady 3 to 8 pounders on green crabs, fiddler crabs, or clams. This is a GPS-marked structure game—mark your spots.
Speckled trout are thinning out as waters cool, but holdouts are still hanging in protected areas like Lynnhaven Inlet, the Piankatank River, and Mobjack Bay. Target those 18 to 25 inch fish over grass flats with MirrOLures or soft plastics on the outgoing tide.
**Your Best Lures & Bait**
For rockfish, those artificial bucktails and spoons are money right now. For tog, nothing beats live crabs—green or fiddler crabs on a fish-finder rig. If you're chasing winter redfish, DOA Shrimp soft plastics in natural pearl or brown colors work wonders drifted along grass lines with 10 to 15 pound test.
**Hot Spots to Hit**
Get yourself to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel—it's absolutely loaded with rockfish. Second choice: those artificial reefs off Virginia Beach for tautog. Both spots are producing solid limits right now.
Stay safe with shorter daylight hours, check your VMRC regs, and thanks for tuning in! Don't forget to subscribe for your daily fishing intel.
This has been a Quiet Please production. For more, check out quietplease.ai.
Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
Hey folks, Artificial Lure here with your Monday morning Chesapeake Bay fishing rundown. Bundle up—we're officially in prime winter fishing season around the Bay, and the action is heating up as water temps drop into the 40s.
**Tidal Conditions & Timing**
We're looking at slack tides early this morning around the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel area, which is excellent news for tog fishing. If you're targeting trout, you'll want to hit those flood tides—that's when they bite best in the shallower creeks. Low tide's coming in around 5:08 AM in some of our key spots, so get on the water early.
**What's Biting & Where**
December is absolutely prime time for trophy rockfish—we're talking 20 to 40 pounders staging hard around the Bay Bridge-Tunnel pilings and the deep holes in the lower Bay. The concentrations are building right now. Troll artificial spoons, bucktails, and swimming plugs near those structures, or bottom-rig eels in 30 to 50 feet of water.
Tog fishing is firing up too. The cooler water has them aggressive around ocean wrecks, the CBBT rocks, and those artificial reefs off Virginia Beach. You'll pull steady 3 to 8 pounders on green crabs, fiddler crabs, or clams. This is a GPS-marked structure game—mark your spots.
Speckled trout are thinning out as waters cool, but holdouts are still hanging in protected areas like Lynnhaven Inlet, the Piankatank River, and Mobjack Bay. Target those 18 to 25 inch fish over grass flats with MirrOLures or soft plastics on the outgoing tide.
**Your Best Lures & Bait**
For rockfish, those artificial bucktails and spoons are money right now. For tog, nothing beats live crabs—green or fiddler crabs on a fish-finder rig. If you're chasing winter redfish, DOA Shrimp soft plastics in natural pearl or brown colors work wonders drifted along grass lines with 10 to 15 pound test.
**Hot Spots to Hit**
Get yourself to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel—it's absolutely loaded with rockfish. Second choice: those artificial reefs off Virginia Beach for tautog. Both spots are producing solid limits right now.
Stay safe with shorter daylight hours, check your VMRC regs, and thanks for tuning in! Don't forget to subscribe for your daily fishing intel.
This has been a Quiet Please production. For more, check out quietplease.ai.
Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
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By Inception Point Ai# Chesapeake Bay Fishing Report – December 1st
Hey folks, Artificial Lure here with your Monday morning Chesapeake Bay fishing rundown. Bundle up—we're officially in prime winter fishing season around the Bay, and the action is heating up as water temps drop into the 40s.
**Tidal Conditions & Timing**
We're looking at slack tides early this morning around the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel area, which is excellent news for tog fishing. If you're targeting trout, you'll want to hit those flood tides—that's when they bite best in the shallower creeks. Low tide's coming in around 5:08 AM in some of our key spots, so get on the water early.
**What's Biting & Where**
December is absolutely prime time for trophy rockfish—we're talking 20 to 40 pounders staging hard around the Bay Bridge-Tunnel pilings and the deep holes in the lower Bay. The concentrations are building right now. Troll artificial spoons, bucktails, and swimming plugs near those structures, or bottom-rig eels in 30 to 50 feet of water.
Tog fishing is firing up too. The cooler water has them aggressive around ocean wrecks, the CBBT rocks, and those artificial reefs off Virginia Beach. You'll pull steady 3 to 8 pounders on green crabs, fiddler crabs, or clams. This is a GPS-marked structure game—mark your spots.
Speckled trout are thinning out as waters cool, but holdouts are still hanging in protected areas like Lynnhaven Inlet, the Piankatank River, and Mobjack Bay. Target those 18 to 25 inch fish over grass flats with MirrOLures or soft plastics on the outgoing tide.
**Your Best Lures & Bait**
For rockfish, those artificial bucktails and spoons are money right now. For tog, nothing beats live crabs—green or fiddler crabs on a fish-finder rig. If you're chasing winter redfish, DOA Shrimp soft plastics in natural pearl or brown colors work wonders drifted along grass lines with 10 to 15 pound test.
**Hot Spots to Hit**
Get yourself to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel—it's absolutely loaded with rockfish. Second choice: those artificial reefs off Virginia Beach for tautog. Both spots are producing solid limits right now.
Stay safe with shorter daylight hours, check your VMRC regs, and thanks for tuning in! Don't forget to subscribe for your daily fishing intel.
This has been a Quiet Please production. For more, check out quietplease.ai.
Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
Hey folks, Artificial Lure here with your Monday morning Chesapeake Bay fishing rundown. Bundle up—we're officially in prime winter fishing season around the Bay, and the action is heating up as water temps drop into the 40s.
**Tidal Conditions & Timing**
We're looking at slack tides early this morning around the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel area, which is excellent news for tog fishing. If you're targeting trout, you'll want to hit those flood tides—that's when they bite best in the shallower creeks. Low tide's coming in around 5:08 AM in some of our key spots, so get on the water early.
**What's Biting & Where**
December is absolutely prime time for trophy rockfish—we're talking 20 to 40 pounders staging hard around the Bay Bridge-Tunnel pilings and the deep holes in the lower Bay. The concentrations are building right now. Troll artificial spoons, bucktails, and swimming plugs near those structures, or bottom-rig eels in 30 to 50 feet of water.
Tog fishing is firing up too. The cooler water has them aggressive around ocean wrecks, the CBBT rocks, and those artificial reefs off Virginia Beach. You'll pull steady 3 to 8 pounders on green crabs, fiddler crabs, or clams. This is a GPS-marked structure game—mark your spots.
Speckled trout are thinning out as waters cool, but holdouts are still hanging in protected areas like Lynnhaven Inlet, the Piankatank River, and Mobjack Bay. Target those 18 to 25 inch fish over grass flats with MirrOLures or soft plastics on the outgoing tide.
**Your Best Lures & Bait**
For rockfish, those artificial bucktails and spoons are money right now. For tog, nothing beats live crabs—green or fiddler crabs on a fish-finder rig. If you're chasing winter redfish, DOA Shrimp soft plastics in natural pearl or brown colors work wonders drifted along grass lines with 10 to 15 pound test.
**Hot Spots to Hit**
Get yourself to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel—it's absolutely loaded with rockfish. Second choice: those artificial reefs off Virginia Beach for tautog. Both spots are producing solid limits right now.
Stay safe with shorter daylight hours, check your VMRC regs, and thanks for tuning in! Don't forget to subscribe for your daily fishing intel.
This has been a Quiet Please production. For more, check out quietplease.ai.
Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI