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Chesapeake Bay Fishing Report: Sheepshead, Tautog, and Bluewater Opportunities Abound

Chesapeake Bay Fishing Report: Sheepshead, Tautog, and Bluewater Opportunities Abound

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 Friday, June 13th, 2025—greetings anglers, this is Artificial Lure with your Chesapeake Bay, Virginia fishing report.

Sunrise came in early at 5:44 am, with sunset rolling in at 8:25 pm, giving us a full day of action on the water. Today’s tidal coefficient sits at 69, just a bit above average, which means you can expect decent tidal movement and current throughout the day, always a good sign for biting fish. For the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel area, the tides are running moderate, lending themselves well to both inshore and nearshore opportunities.

Weather-wise, we’ve got classic June conditions on deck—warm, muggy, with light winds and calm seas. Perfect for taking out the boat, kayak, or even hopping on a jet ski for some close-to-structure action.

Let’s talk fish. The southern Bay is really lighting up now. Sheepshead are moving into prime form, especially around the pilings at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel (CBBT). Several anglers have put together banner days there using frozen or live fiddler crabs on bottom sweeper jigs. Tautog are in the same neighborhoods, and black drum are active around the CBBT islands as well—peeler crab is your ticket for black drum.

Spadefish have locked in on inshore structures, showing up strong at the Light Tower and CBBT buoys. Clam pieces are the go-to, but some are taking small jigs. Flounder are coming in hot along inlets, especially at the CBBT and HRBT, and the bite is picking up around all three major southside inlets—try Gulp! Swimming Mullets or live minnows.

The drum scene is busy too. Bull reds are patrolling shallow flats and deeper structures near CBBT islands, and the bite’s best when you can find a school on your finder—drop down a big paddletail or straight-tail soft plastic on a heavy jighead. The same structures are holding black drum, and there are good reports as well near Fisherman’s Island.

For the bluewater crowd, the cobia are starting to show up in better numbers but the real boom comes with the season opener this Sunday, June 15th. Until then, keep a bucktail or a topwater handy—boats with towers are already spotting fish along the oceanfront and mouth of the Bay. When it opens, live eels will be hard to beat.

Bluefish are mixed in with the stripers around inlets and bridges and hitting metal spoons, while white perch and spot are showing well in up-Bay rivers—grass shrimp or bloodworms will land you a bucketful.

Hot spots this week:
- Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel (especially pilings for sheepshead and tautog, and islands for drum)
- Chesapeake Light Tower (spadefish)
- Fisherman’s Island breakers (red drum, flounder)

That’s the latest from Chesapeake Bay—tight lines and keep those nets handy! Thanks for tuning in, be sure to subscribe for your next local fishing report. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.
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