Artificial lures (bucktails, lead jigs with plastic tails, metal jigs), live bait (spot and small mullet), peeler crab, squid, cut bait

Jigging or casting artificial lures to schools of fish on bottom or suspended above the bottom; bottomfishing with live and natural baits from anchored or drifting boat; surfcasting with cut bait or squid

Large fish: Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, Chesapeake Bay over deepwater rocks, and along channel edges, and occasionally in Eastern Shore seaside inlets, Small fish: Coastal ocean waters and inlets of Eastern Shore seaside, Chesapeake Bay along channel edges and over deepwater rocks, Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel (especially between 4th Island and High Level Bridge), Chesapeake Bay tributary rivers (especially James, York and Rappahannock)

May — November; peak at Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel May June and October; peak in Chesapeake Bay, Bay tributary rivers, and Eastern Shore seaside inlets June - September; peak in ocean waters off Eastern Shore
from middle September - November

1 – 8 pounds

19 pounds; caught at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel in 1983 by Philip W. Halstead