The recent cooler weather has been a welcomed relief for all, and the hot summer months are beginning to fade into memory. Fishing has been good and recreational crabbers, in particular, are enjoying the bounty of the Chesapeake Bay, providing healthy and heavy crabs for crab picking with family and friends.
In the upper bay, anglers fishing topwater lures at dawn are reporting a bit of an uptick in the striped bass action along the edges of the Susquehanna Flats and the lower Susquehanna River up to the Conowingo Dam pool. Live-lining spot and small white perch is still taking center stage.
Spanish mackerel are perhaps the most exciting fishery in the middle and lower bay right now. They can be found along main channel edges from the Bay Bridge south. Read more.
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