Chesapeake Bay Virginia Fishing Report: Stripers, Trout, Perch, and More on the Move

Good morning anglers, this is Artificial Lure bringing you your Chesapeake Bay Virginia fishing report for Saturday, October 11, 2025, at 7:24 AM. First light hit right around 7:08 AM, with sunset rolling in at 6:32 PM. We've got about 11 and a half hours of daylight to work with, so make the most of those prime fishing hours. Weather today is holding partly cloudy skies over the Bay, with temps comfortable in the upper 60s to low 70s. Winds are currently moderate, but keep an eye on those gusts, especially approaching the afternoon; according to the National Weather Service, minor tidal flooding is possible in some low-lying areas, especially around high tide, due to an elevated tidal coefficient and some leftover coastal swell from yesterday's storm. Tidal action today is robust. Virginia Beach and lower Bay waters are showing a tidal coefficient around 98 at dawn, climbing even higher by midday, which means big swings and strong currents—expect that to really kick up fish movement during the key feeding windows: mid-morning and late afternoon. High tide for much of the region settles in around 11:32 AM, with low tide at 5:04 AM and again at 6:13 PM. Fish activity is up with the cooler water: striped bass (rockfish) are hot targets in the early morning hours, especially around the Bay Bridge Tunnel pilings, the mouth of the James River, and Love Point rocks. Reports from Anglers Sport Center and Maryland DNR say folks have hit decent numbers early, using live spot and eels, drifting cut bait, or tossing out jigs. Trolling umbrella rigs along the main channel edges is getting results as the stripers suspend on those steep ledges—try Bloody Point south to False Channel. Night bite is solid with dark paddletails and live bait fished around illuminated piers and bridge lights; FishTalk Magazine swears by live eels or dark lures when the sun drops. Speckled trout and slot-sized red drum are mixing in around Tangier Sound and Cedar Point. Soft plastic paddletails and shrimp imitations are landing trout, with a few red drum coming on gulp mullet or cut crab. Bluefish are still chewing in the middle and lower Bay—troll silver spoons or surgical tubes behind planers near St. Georges Island and the lower Potomac. White perch action remains steady along knolls and hard-bottom spots in the Chester and Magothy Rivers, and grass shrimp on bottom rigs is putting big perch in the bucket, especially at Kent Narrows. If you’re out for largemouth bass on tidal creeks, the bite is strong—casting frogs over grass or working spinnerbaits and jerkbaits along spatterdock fields is the ticket. Those Bitsy Bug Mini Jigs are a secret weapon when it gets slow, especially up toward Susquehanna Flats. Today’s hotspots: - Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel pilings: Stripers and blues early and late. - Tangier Sound: Speckled trout and slot reds on moving water. - Kent Narrows: Big white perch. - Bloody Point Channel edges: Trolling for rockfish and bluefish. - Susquehanna F This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.