It is starting to feel like summer with some of the summer migratory fish starting to show all over the chesapeake. For us in the middle/upper bay area we started to see spot showing up all throughout the area as well as white perch showing up all around the typical summer areas. Fishing hard or sandy bottom is the key to finding spot. Some of the common areas are Hacketts point, Tolly point, and the oyster reefs south of the bay bridge. Blood worms fish bites, bloodworms, and lug worms are going to be the best baits to use when bottom fishing for spot or white perch.
Catfishing is still what most anglers are doing in till the opening of striped bass season next Thursday the 16th. There is a mix of channel, white and blue catfish in some areas in the upper bay. The cannel edge right in front of sandy point is holding some nice blue cats up to 40 pounds. Mud shad, bunker and shrimp have been the prefer baits when targeting catfish.
There has been some reports of speckle trout beginning to snow up in the lower bay around the tangier sound in the lower eastern shore and lower Potomac on the wester shore.