Tidewater area, virginia fishing

[evilgli]

a good friend of mine and myself are going out to the chesapeake bay bridge tunnel tomorrow in his 28' albemarle express for stripers and wanted to know if anybody would like to join us. we are still learning to fish for stripers, so someone with experience would be awesome. let me know if anybody is interested and i'll call you. thanks

[randlemanboater]

Good luck with your trip!

I'd go but I don't know stripers, I don't live there, and I have to work........other than that, I'd be on that offer like a fat kid on a cupcake.

[evilgli]

thanks, just want to get some fish and have fun

[csvencer]

Good Luck! I was out at the CBBT about 3 weeks ago and it was slow but I have heard it has picked up a lot lately. Make sure you catch a nice current in there and you will grab some nice stripers and bluefish (I know nobody eats bluefish but me, but that **** is good). If you like seabass you can drop some squid to the bottom and grab some good size bass too. Catch 'em up!

-Svence

[evilgli]

thanks for the advice csvencer.

boat is full guys. thanks

[Stillrunning]

I just saw your thread. I live in the area and we went Sunday 11/2 and had our limit in a couple of hours. Nothing very big but with the temps droping they should show up in a couple of weeks. How did you guys do?

[csvencer]

What did you grab them on? I haven't had any luck with stripers this year so any help would be great. I got out Sat night and grabbed a couple nice trout so the weekend wasn't a total bust, but I am drooling over some of these striper pics people are posting!

-Svence

[evilgli]

my buddy bailed on us saturday to go offshore with someone else. so my dad and i went out in the V to the HRBT saturday night around midnight. it was almost high tide, hit high tide about 1230 and they started rolling on top of the water and hitting the jigs. took two home with us, both 20". my dad lost one and so did i. where you saw the birds were where the fish were. you have to fish the outgoing tide from what i understand. we were catching them on white jigs with white bass assasin tails in about 5 feet of water anchored between the bridges, casting to the pilings. about the 11th light back from the tunnel.

should be heading back out there this weekend when i look up tides to see if we can get some of those BIG ones i keep seeing pictures of.

if any of you guys local to me want to meet up at the launch that would be great. i need all the help i can get, but atleast i didn't get skunked my first time out.

[Stillrunning]

CSVENCER, Your best bet right now is one of the three bridges at night either trolling or anchoring up and casting toward the bridge. Trolling you can use like a stretch 25, shades, or just a buck tail with maybe a few ounces of added weight. You troll down the bridge allowing the tide to pull your baits closer to the pilings. I perfer to anchor and cast if the stripers are hitting the surface. I just anchor up about thirty feet or so from the bridge with the current pulling the boat toward the bridge. I try to anchor between to pillings (more to cast at) under a light. Daytime fishing you need to chum with menhaden while floating chuncks back on a large hook. The big stripers are not here yet but they should be here pretty soon.

Evigli, Good to hear you found a few. Out going seems to work the best at the HRBT and most of the time they do not hit on a slack tide. The bigger ones are not here yet in any real numbers but you can get lucky. Remember to keep an eye on the regulations for stripers as they change from month to month or atleast it seems that way.

We all need to hook up one night and go fishing. We are within miles of each other and Evigli you have to head by our area to go fishing.

[evilgli]

looking at the weather i'm going to say that i will be headed back out friday night if any of you guys want to get together with the V's