Bloodworms, peeler crab, clam

Bottomfishing with bait; anchored or drifting from boats, also caught from docks, piers, shore and surf; big runs of fish in the fall in lower Chesapeake Bay and in surf and piers of Virginia Beach

Chesapeake Bay and Bay tributary rivers, coastal ocean waters, inlets — all inshore coastal waters

June — October; peak July — September for Chesapeake Bay and tributary rivers; peak middle August - middle October in lower Bay and coastal ocean areas

8 – 12 ounces

2 lbs., 6 oz.; caught at the Egg Island Bar in Chesapeake Bay in 1980 by Nathan Dryden