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Upper Chesapeake Bay Fishing Report
By Keith Lockwood of The Maryland DNR
This information is provided as a public service of the
Maryland Department of Natural Resources. www.dnr.state.md.us
Dec. 16th, 2009
FROM THE CHESAPEAKE BAY BRIDGE NORTH, INCLUDING THE SUSQUEHANNA FLATS AND RIVER
Water temperatures continue to drop and are holding at 37-degrees at the moment. Fishermen are still casting for walleyes in the lower Susquehanna River and catch and releasing a few striped bass. Yellow perch should start to show up in the lower part of the Susquehanna and Northeast Rivers in the next month or so. Fishermen looking for a little catch and release striped bass angling will be trying jigging at their favorite warm water discharges from power plants and industries in the Baltimore area throughout the winter months.
Upper bay fishermen enjoyed a pretty good fishing season this past year. The waters at the mouth of the Susquehanna River were fairly clear during the Catch and Release Season and most fishermen enjoyed good fishing. The hickory shad, yellow perch and white perch showed up on time for some spring fishing. Fishermen trolling the shipping channel had a good trophy season and when the season settled into summer and fall; jigging, live lining spot, trolling and chumming all produced striped bass for area fishermen. Croakers, spot and even a few flounder and Spanish mackerel made forays into the upper bay during the summer. Small bluefish moved into the upper bay region early on in the summer and decided to stay and fatten up through the fall months. Blue crabs seemed a little tardy in arriving into the upper bay tidal rivers and creeks but once they arrived by mid-summer recreational crabbers enjoyed good crabbing until the middle of fall.
UPPER CHESAPEAKE BAY MAP
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Map courtesy of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. www.dnr.state.md.us
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