posted by John on Jan 1
Well Happy Bleeping New Year!!! We go all the way down to the sunny little town of Kiptopeake, VA, a suburb of the bustling VA eastern shore tip hotspot of Cape Charles, VA and we caught nothing.
For those unfamiliar with the area, Kiptopeake is the last town before the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel which connects the Eastern Shore of Virginia to the Norfolk – Va Beach metropolitan area.
We fished from 7:00 am to about 2:00PM. The outcome was dismal. A Nor’ Easter raked the area for 24 hours the day before and pushed the bait south and the striped bass out to sea. There must have been 500 boats out there. Radio traffic from the day was showing most boats did the same as us. A few eelers by bouy 18 reported fish, some keepers, some not. Additionally, fisherman around ocean bouy 4A reported sporadic action. We traveled from Kiptopeake State Park to the Bouy 18, then we tried the area west of Plantation Light, producing nothing we raced down the CBBT and worked it from the high-rise to island 4 and back.
One person reported a 40 pounder over the radio, but based on our experiance and that of about 480 fisherman around us we think they might be a rumorfish, who knows?
Enjoy the pictures
posted by John on Nov 26
Our friend Dan invited Stephen and I to an outing from the South River on Saturday November 24. The temperature hovered around forty degrees, the tide is low and starting to rise. He owns a 22′ Grady White dual console with a 225hp four stroke outboard.
The intrepid fishermen rolled out to Thomas Point light and cast various jigs, topwaters and swimbaits. Nada.zip! We decided to work the shelf off of Kent island about 3 miles south of the CB bridge. We found a school of small feeding rockfish accompanied by a few private boats. Twelve fish were boated, 14″ may have been the largest. Forty minutes of frenetic activity followed by nothing.
The last place we tried was near the green can ‘1’ at the mouth of the West River, again stumped we returned to Dan’s house.
posted by John on Nov 4
I have no excuse for no pictures on Thursday Nov. 1. I had the camera in the truck, but I forgot to put it on the boat. First, we fished around love point. Bad mojo here, due to the fact there were a few boats around the bridge, off we went. We caught about 10 fish in and around the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. We fished the far west rock pile, but schools of rockfish were all over the area on the outgoing tide. All the fish were sublegal with the biggest being about 16″. We tried to get under the smaller ones with different baits and retrieves to no benefit. No matter what bait or depth we caught the same size.
Sunday Nov. 4 started out cold. The twenty-seven mile per hour run to the bridge was a bit chilly. Here is what we saw on the way
Sandy Point Light
In short order we were going to start at the east rockpile and work our way west under the bridge. We noticed that a flock of birds was working school of bait north of the bridge on the outgoing morning tide. The sublegal rockfish we caught took everything we tossed except white shad swim baits. We used some smack-it topwater lures and bass-assasin green shad plastic swim baits. Twenty five fish were caught and released as we chased the school around, but no keepers. There were about eight boats working the area.
We were leaving when this huge ship blasted through the fishing armada.
Due to the fact that we had no fish to grill, I consoled myself with some Whole Foods sausages.
The Redskins just went ahead of the Jets 20-17. Redskins won in overtime 23 -20.