Know Your Quarry

What's swimming out there.

The Chesapeake serves up a different fish for every season. Here's what we chase and when they run.

Red Drum

Late summer – fall

Bronze-backed brawlers with a signature tail spot. Bull reds run big on the bay shoals.

Early – mid summer

Powerful, curious, and often sight-cast near the surface. The Chesapeake trophy everyone wants.

Spring & fall

The bay's striped-bass staple — dependable, hard-fighting, and great on the table.

Summer

Striped structure-lovers with a bait-stealing reputation and outstanding fillets.

Spring

Heavyweights of the bay — slow, deliberate fights that test your back and your gear.

Fall

Spotted silver light-tackle favorites found working the shallows and grass edges.