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