Fishing the Chesapeake

Captain Toby Lloyd and Jeff

On July 12 we finally had the opportunity to do some fishing on the east coast. A fellow FSA employee offered to take us out on the Chesapeake Bay near the Bay Bridge. Captain Toby has been fishing the bay his entire life and he showed us a great time. We were fishing for stripers but we were early as they really start to show up in this area in August.

Bay Bridge

Cindy catching the bait
The first thing we had to do was catch the bait. Here is Cindy holding what is considered a trophy bait fish called a spot. To catch spot we used blood worms which look like a regular worm but we came to find out that these critters bite. Yes they have mouths and teeth but they do work to catch spot.

Listening to the croaker
Along with the spots we also caught croakers which look pretty similar. To keep croakers they have to be a certain size and that would be too big to fish with. They do make a croaking sound when they are out of the water.

Toby's Boat

Although we had a riot we were unsuccessful in catching stripers. Toby said he would be happy to take us out again and I am sure we will take him up on his offer.