Live bait (eels, spot, menhaden, mullet); artificial lures (large spoons, white buck tails, plastic eels, swimming plugs); cut bait (menhaden or spot)

Cast, drift or slow troll live baits around buoys, underwater obstructions and schools of fish swimming on the surface; anchor, chum and fish live baits, fresh dead baits and cut bait in chum slick and on bottom; cast and troll lures around buoys, obstructions and to schools of bull fish (rays) or schools, pods or individual cobia swimming on surface

Buoys in lower Chesapeake Bay, at the mouth of the Bay and along coastal beaches; CBBT; Bluefish Rock off Hampton, Cabbage Patch and Kiptopeake areas off Cape Charles, and York Spit area; coastal buoys and wrecks; Chesapeake Light Tower; Latimer Shoal; Inner Middle Ground Shoal; York Spit area

May — September; peak mid-June — mid - September

20 – 50 pounds

109 pounds, 8 ounces; caught at York Spit by Joseph F. Berberich, III in 2006