Hey folks, this is Artificial Lure, your Chesapeake Bay fishing guru, comin' at ya from the waters 'round Baltimore and D.C. on this crisp Christmas Eve mornin'. Skies are partly cloudy with temps hoverin' in the low 40s, light northwest winds makin' it fishable if ya bundle up—sunrise hit around 7:15 AM, sunset 'bout 4:50 PM. Tides at the Bay Bridge Tunnel show low at 5:13 AM around 0.7 feet, high at noon near 3 feet, droppin' to low 0.8 feet by 6 PM—fish the outgoing for best action.
Rockfish are stackin' up thick from Kent Island to Cape Charles, with reports of big stripers schoolin' on bunker pods stretchin' 125 miles. Yesterday's counts nearby tallied 523 rockfish on 10 trips, plus stripers breakin' at Delaware Bay mouths—slot fish and shorts hittin' bucktails. Speckled trout citations rollin' in too, like a 6-pounder from Bena and 5-plus from Gloucester early Dec. Snakeheads, our Chesapeake Channa invaders, hammerin' topwaters in Potomac tributaries year-round—no limits, kill 'em all. Tog bit steady one calm day at sites 10-11, and puppy drum tailin' skinny water.
Hit 'em with **jigs and bucktails** tipped with bunker chunks for stripers—slow troll the drop-offs. **Topwater frogs, chatterbaits,** or soft plastics nail snakeheads from shore. Live menhaden or peeler crabs shine for rockfish and trout. Black Label Bagley-style lures consistent for shallow prowlin'.
Hot spots: Chesapeake Bay Bridge drop-offs for stripers on the tide change, and Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge shallows for snakeheads—easy kayak launches.
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