Water-body hub
Chesapeake Bay
The defining estuary of the mid-Atlantic — striper country.
From the Susquehanna flats to the mouth at Virginia Beach, the Bay drives almost all mid-Atlantic tidal fishing. Rockfish run the spring and fall migrations, white perch work the tributaries year-round, and blue cats have become one of the largest inshore fisheries on the East Coast.
Species
Best conditions today
All public access points
- Sandy Point State Park — Anne Arundel, MD
- Conowingo Dam Tailrace — Harford, MD
- Susquehanna Flats — Cecil, MD
- Havre de Grace Fishing Pier — Harford, MD
- Rocky Point Park — Essex — Baltimore, MD
- North Point State Park — Baltimore, MD
- Kent Narrows — Public Fishing Pier — Queen Anne's, MD
- Romancoke Pier — Queen Anne's, MD
- Matapeake Pier — Queen Anne's, MD
- Choptank River — Cambridge — Dorchester, MD
- Blackwater NWR — Fishing Area — Dorchester, MD
- Solomon's Island Fishing Pier — Calvert, MD
- Point Lookout State Park — St. Mary's, MD
- Flag Ponds Nature Park — Calvert, MD
- Chesapeake Beach — Rod N' Reel Pier — Calvert, MD
- Kiptopeke State Park — Northampton, VA
- Cape Charles Town Pier — Northampton, VA