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Saltwater Updated:
October 14, 2020 by Stan Cobb
(Next
Update: October 21, 2020)
Saltwater – Speckled
Trout are biting throughout the Chesapeake Bay and its
tributaries. Anglers are enjoying fantastic action with
paddle-tailed
soft plastics, jerkbaits,
topwater
baits, and live bait. Good numbers of fish as well as
sizable fish are being caught in places like Lynnhaven Inlet,
Mobjack Bay, The Rappahannock River, and the James River along
with its tributaries just to name a few.
There have been some
sizable Sheepshead caught from within the Chesapeake Bay over
the last few days with peeler
crab being the bait preferred.
Folks are finding
Tautog here and there. And there's still some large Drum being
encountered in the lower bay. Flounder catches are thriving on
ocean wrecks but there haven’t been many reports of
Flounder from within the bay. >>>>>>>continue
Freshwater Congratulations
to Chris Daves of Spring Grove, Virginia for winning the Bass
Fishing League® regional on the tidal James River over the
weekend. His 3-day total was 50.1 pounds. Daves reported
catching his fish with a square-billed
crankbait and a ribbon-tailed
worm.
Keith Estes of Spring
Grove finished 4th with a 3-day total of 44.4 pounds. Both
anglers will advance to the All-American, which is the grand
finale of the BFL Division and usually a stepping stone to the
big leagues. Good luck gentlemen! During the 3-day tournament,
many chose to fish the Chickahominy and James Rivers. Both
rivers have been fishing very well and the bite usually
increases as we enter November.
The upper James has
risen again with the level at the Westham gauge being at 7.3
feet. This is a bit fast and stained for Bass fishing. The
upper James usually fishes better when the levels are between
5-6 feet.
Kerr Lake is currently
at an elevation of 300.71 feet. This may increase over the next
few days depending on the rainfall amounts received to the Kerr
watershed.
The Crappie fishing has
been good for numbers of fish as they are being found along the
bridges under boat docks and relating to brush piles in depths
of 12-24 feet.
Bass are being caught
at various depths also. Brush rocks and docks are all
attracting the Bass. A lot of the bigger Bass have been caught
on topwater baits. Soft
plastics and jigs
have been good also. In many places, roaming Bass can be found
chasing and surfacing on schools of baitfish. A general rule
during the fall period is “Find
the bait, find the Bass.”
The same applies to
landlocked Stripers. But that’s easier said than done
sometimes. Fall Bass and Stripers can become size-specific.
Smaller baits are often the key to success at this time.
Weekly
Fishing Report:
Steve
Chaconas National Bass
Guide Service
Covering
Water
Weather might be a factor this week. Better
days will be when it’s cloudy. But every day, finding the
right speed will produce fish in grass or wood.
Overnight
lows in the upper 50s to highs in the upper 70s. Water
temperature is in the mid to upper 60s. A few clouds will come
through.
Line is key as well! Try downsizing to 10
pound test Gamma Edge Fluorocarbon. This is very strong and
sensitive line. It also has low stretch, making it more
sensitive for feeling cover and bites, but also for hooksets on
long casts. This is key especially when using swim jigs. Grass
cover that is left is holding fish and swimming a jig trough it
will produce bites. Use a 7 foot medium heavy rod. This will
enable long casts and better hooksets. Try black/blue and craw
patterns A craw trailer adds action. Trim with claws just
beyond the skirt, also trimmed to just about ¼ inch past
the jig hook.
Squarebill crankbaits, lipless
cranks, bladed jigs and spinnerbaits also cover many depths,
speeds and conditions. Crankbait colors vary on water clarity
and cloud cover. For stained water, craw patterns on cranks and
jigs are best. Firetiger is good for cranks with moderately
stained water with shad patterns better for clear water. While
spinnerbaits are gold blades with white skirts in most
conditions, low light and stained water. Outside of that,
spinnerbaits become tricky. Use Colorado/willow blades to add
speed in clearer water.
During fronts, go to
finesse soft plastics, shaky head, drop shot and Neko rigs on
spinning rods with 15 pound braid with 10 pound fluorocarbon
leaders.
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FISHING
REPORT
By
Charlie Taylor
CONTAINS
REPORTS FOR MOST LAKES, RESERVOIRS
AND
RIVERS AROUND THE STATE
Fishing Report - October 23, 2020
OVERVIEW - With night temperatures in the 40s for
the next week, water temperatures will be dropping as well.
This means that the fish will be feeding heavily AND
hypothermia will begin to play a much bigger part in the lives
of anglers. Layer up and WEAR you PFD. It cannot help you if
you don't have it on.
POTOMAC RIVER - D.C. - Smallmouth and
largemouth bass will be hungry and taking live bait, fished
along the Virginia shoreline, from Key Bridge to Chain Bridge.
Downstream, bass will be orienting around bridge pilings and on
dropoffs throughout the city. Washington Channel, Blue Plains,
The Spoils and Washington Sailing Marina should be the more
productive areas. Plastic grubs, crankbaits, jig 'n pig and
live bait are the most productive baits. Large bladed
spinnerbaits, slow-rolled down the dropoffs near downed wood or
points on moving tides, should produce some large bass for
patient anglers. Crappie schools will continue roaming, but
never far from submerged cover or creek channels. Live minnows
are the ticket. Trolled broken-back minnow imitating baits will
take some stripers in the Washington Channel and under the
Woodrow Wilson Bridge.
POTOMAC RIVER - BELOW WOODROW WILSON BRIDGE -
Largemouth bass will be orienting to very shallow cover in the
cooler water. They may be taken on jigs and colorado bladed
spinnerbaits, worked slowly around the heavy cover. Most of the
fish seem to be larger than average, as 2-5 pound bass seem to
be more common. When the dropoff is adjacent to rocky or gravel
shorelines, with some flat, try a slowly retrieved crankbait or
slow-rolled spinnerbait. Baits with a wide wobble seem to be
more effective. Some of the better areas are the mouth of Swan
Creek, Belle Haven Cove, Mount Vernon dock area, Pohick Bay,
Mattawoman, Aquia and Nanjemoy Creeks. Crappie are schooled in
the creeks and will take small minnows fished over submerged
brush or around boat docks. Stripers are being caught
throughout the area, but most are small and there is no
consistency. Catfish anglers are taking good numbers of blue
catfish on cut shad in less than 20 feet of water on outgoing
tides.
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Posted on October
21, 2020 by Capt.
Art
Capt. Art Conway of Conway’s River Rat Guide Service
(804-514-1486) out of
Ed Allen’s Boats and Bait
reported that Chickahominy Lake mid-day water
temperatures
were in the mid to upper 60’s in the central lower lake
on
Wednesday (10/21/2020). The lake level was about 6 inches
above the top of
the dam and the water was light brown and
very slightly cloudy in the
central lake, with much more
murky water near windy shorelines.
Many blue cats and bullheads were along drop-offs and in
channels in the
main lake, but some were on flats and in
creeks. When active, cats were
hitting live minnows and cut
bait. Most crappie were on deeper main lake
flats or on
channel edges, frequently near brush piles, and were
becoming
more active with cooler water. Active crappie were
hitting live minnows,
Wright Bait Co. and Southern Pro curly
tail jigs, small tubes, Kalin crappie
scrubs, and small swim
baits. White and yellow perch were scattered or in
loose
aggregates on deep flats and drop-offs in the main lake and
when
active were hitting small live minnows, swim baits, and
jigs. Larger
bluegill and shellcracker were in 5 to 12 feet
of water on channel edges,
frequently on wood cover. When
active, bluegill and shellcracker were
hitting live worms,
Nikko nymphs, flies, and small swimbaits. Pickerel and
bass
were located along a few shorelines, around cypress trees, on
flats,
and on channel edges, especially near the mouths of
creeks. When active,
bass and pickerel were hitting live
minnows, spinnerbaits, swim baits, stick
worms, crank baits,
jerk baits, and jigs.
Fishing with Capt. Conway, Tom Porter had 4 bluegill, 28
crappie, 1
pickerel, 1 blue cat, and 1 bass.
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