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Late Summer Bounty on the Chesapeake: Stripers, Perch, and Catfish Await Bay Anglers

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 This is Artificial Lure with your Saturday, August 30th fishing report for Chesapeake Bay, serving Baltimore and Washington D.C. anglers—with plenty of action in store as we roll into the late-summer bite.

First light hit at 6:33 AM, and we’ll have daylight to fish all the way until about 7:35 tonight. Expect partly cloudy skies, mild winds, and temps climbing into the upper 80s—classic Chesapeake summer. Humidity’s sitting pretty high, so stay hydrated if you’re out for long stretches.

Here’s the tactical rundown on tides today, courtesy of Tide-Forecast.com. For Bayville and most of the mid-bay: we saw high tide at 3 AM and a dropping tide that bottomed out near 10 AM at 0.44 feet. Look for the next high at 3:32 PM—a great window for targeting ambush points, rips, and anywhere bait gets pushed. Another low wraps up the night at 11:05 PM. Structure and current edges are going to be key as fish take advantage of moving water especially in the rising afternoon[2].

Fishing activity’s strong across the upper and middle bay sections this week. According to Anglers Annapolis, the surface bite for **rockfish** (striped bass) is lighting up bridges, the Key Bridge pilings and the Bay Bridge, Love Point, and into Eastern Bay at Kent Narrows and Popular Island. Most fish are relating tight to structure, brush piles, and anywhere there’s hard current. Popper action has provided awesome explosive strikes—tsunami poppers with a rattle are drawing fish up. When that slows down, local regulars keep grabbing rock on G-Eye jigs, paddle tails, and straight-tail plastics jigged tight to pilings, or over shell beds[3][4].

The **perch bite** is picking up, especially around rock piles and riprap in creeks and river mouths. Beetle spins, small tubes, and live grass shrimp are getting the job done. Channel edges up the Patapsco and Magothy Rivers are starting to hold more **catfish**, mainly channels but some hefty blues are showing if you drift cut bunker or chicken livers. Flathead catfish seekers should push up the Patapsco or Susquehanna using live bluegill or sunfish, which is hands-down the top bait for those river monsters.

Recent catch reports back this up—Anglers Annapolis says most boats are limiting on school-sized stripers, with solid numbers and a few slot fish up to 28 inches this week. Sheephead, rockfish, and the occasional red drum have been bending rods around structure and oyster bars. Speckled trout and even some blues and Spanish mackerel are popping up, mainly around the mouths of Eastern Bay and toward Poplar Island, so keep a flashy spoon or soft plastic handy if you see breaking fish or bird play[3][8].

Hot baits right now:
- Tsunami poppers
- G-Eye jigs (chartreuse and white are deadly)
- Paddle tails (5-inch in blue-glow and rootbeer)
- Chunked bunker and soft crab for bait fishing
- Beetle spins and live grass shrimp for perch

A couple of prime hotspots to check out today:
- Love Point Light—early and late tide swings put feeding stripers on shallow structure here.
- The Bay Bridge pilings—big schools of striped bass, throw jigs and poppers tight to the pilings, especially as tide moves hard.
- Popular Island and the Kent Narrows mouth—good mixed bag on rockfish, perch, and the odd speck.

Remember, if you’re keeping stripers in Maryland waters, the slot is 19–24 inches, one per person, and do your part to get any over/unders back quick and healthy—the hot water is tough on them this time of year. Maryland DNR reminds us to revive fish boatside when possible and minimize unhooking time as much as you can[5].

That’ll cover you for the day, whether you’re in a kayak, skiff, or working the shoreline. Thanks for tuning in to your Chesapeake Bay report. Don’t forget to subscribe for more local fishing updates, and as always, tight lines! This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.

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