The bottom fishing the past 2 weeks has simply gone wide open. Bigger spot are showing up more and more each day in the Bay off of Gwynns Island. Shell piles in 20-27 feet of water have been the ticket lately for the bigger spot. Our charters this week have averaged numbers in the low 100's per person with our group on Saturdays charter having individual anglers reaching the 200 fish count. That is one cooler full of spot folks! With the impressive numbers we are seeing so far this early fall we have still yet to register our first citation spot of the season nor have we seen any of the infamous "yellow bellies".

In my opinion we are still a bit too warm with the water temperature yet to make these fish want to school and start to migrate out of the bay. Ive seen this pattern before over the many years I have been fishing. If we do not experience dramatically cooler temperatures soon we will have some outstanding bottomfishing through October. We'll take it!

Even though we have the numbers of good quality fish now the best is still yet to come.

The trout bite is also hot right now. We have been consistently limiting out on trout up to 18 inches while we are spot fishing. Thats an extra bonus to take home the 7 per person limit of trout while toting a cooler full of spot back home. Our night charters are really racking up on the spot, trout, bluefish and stripers. The stripers are going back but its an encouraging sign for the upcoming season in October. WE CANT WAIT!

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About The Author: Captain Jeff Adams

Company: Adams Fishing Adventures

Area Reporting: Chesapeake Bay

Bio: I was was born on Gwynns Island in Virginia and grew up in a commercial fishing environment and I still currently hold commercial fishing licenses. I have been fishing the Chesapeake Bay and Virginia Beach waters for many many years, in fact my entire life from when I was a little boy growing up on Gwynn's Island, Virginia. I started chartering part time in 1997 before going full time into it in 2000. I am on my 3rd boat as of now and each time I moved up to a bigger and better charter boat. I started out with a six pack boat (6 persons max), moved into an inspected boat in 2001 (6 plus anglers) and had my current boat custom built in 2006. During my fishing and boating career I was at one time a mate and engineer on a tugboat which was really tough but exciting work. I am proud to say I was once featured in Bay Splash Magazine as a Chesapeake Bay Captain and I also write fishing reports for "Rivah" Magazine. I love to fish and meet new people especially when I am turning them on to the sport. Because of my strong commercial fishing background I have alot of respect for those guys which is also where I got much of my fishing experience. I am on the water at least 320 days of the year every year. I hope you find or take the time to enjoy yourself by taking a fishing trip with me, I will put you on the fish and send you home with some great memories to talk about with all your friends.

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