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Article: Ocean stripers show up in Bay; Rockfish also have arrived in lower Potomac.(SPORTS)(OUTDOORS)(Column)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- November 12, 2009
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Byline: Gene Mueller, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Hot fishing news comes from the Chesapeake - large, sea-run striped bass finally have arrived in the Maryland and Northern Neck/Virginia portions of the huge estuary.
These are adult fish that have left the Atlantic, chasing schools of baitfish into the Chesapeake, and they are being fooled by trollers using parachute bucktails, large spoons and umbrella rigs dressed with multiple Sassy Shad lure bodies. Some of the ocean stripers also have shown up in the lower Potomac.
The ship channel is chock full of big rockfish, reported Ken Lamb of the Tackle Box shop in Lexington Park. However, there will be ...