Artificial lures (spoons, plastic eels, bucktails, surface plugs, swimming plugs), peeler crab, bloodworms, eels, cut bait, live bait

Troll artificial lures around bridges, piers, Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, jetties or troll in vicinity of schools of fish (where gulls diving and slicks on the water); cast bucktails and plugs around bridges, piers, jetties and CBBT; bottomfishing with bloodworms in deep holes, creeks and rivers that flow into Chesapeake Bay during winter months and in Assateague surf during late fall and early spring; peeler crab baits fished in tributary rivers and creeks near shore during summer

All coastal inshore and Chesapeake Bay waters (tidal waters, including Bay tributary rivers and Eastern Shore bayside creeks); best concentrations of fish in main portion of Chesapeake Bay and around Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel; large fish most often found along CBBT, main portion of Chesapeake Bay and off the Virginia Capes at the mouth of the Bay; Assateague surf in late fall and early spring

January — December; peak for large fish in November and December; peak fishing for school fish generally in spring and fall

5 – 25 pounds

73 pounds; caught near the 4A-Buoy by Frederick Barnes in 2008