This is Artificial Lure, your Chesapeake Bay angling expert with your local fishing report for Monday, November 10th, 2025.

Sunrise hit at 6:38 AM with sunset coming early at 4:58 PM—short days mean timing’s everything out here. Tidal conditions today show a low at 5:21 AM, high tide peaking around 11:56 AM, and another low at 6:29 PM, according to Tide-Forecast.com. For you dawn launchers, you’ll find that first push of rising water just right for stripers feeding along the channel edges near the Key Bridge and Love Point.

Weather’s brisk, classic fall, with WNW winds at 10 to 15 mph, so dress in layers and keep an eye out for gusts drifting your drift. WBOC News and the National Weather Service report mostly clear skies and chilly breezes—great for working the open water but tuck into the leeward side of points for comfort and clearer drifts.

The bite is still hot, mainly with schoolie **striped bass** stacked up around river mouths and near bridge pilings. Reports from local charters say 18 to 28-inch fish are common, and a few fish over 30 inches have come up close to the Bay Bridge’s deeper pilings and along the mouths of the Patapsco and Magothy. Don’t overlook white perch, which are still around in solid numbers, along with the occasional late-season blue catfish if you’re soaking bait in deeper holes upriver.

For those vertical jigging, local experts and the latest YouTube sessions recommend pairing 1- to 2-ounce metal jigs or paddle-tail soft plastics in bunker or chartreuse. Swimbaits—the FishLab Nature Series in particular—are working well for casting to breaking fish on the surface, while the reliable white bucktail tipped with a curly-tail grub is outfishing fresh menhaden on some days.

If live-lining bunker or spot, focus near deeper dropoffs or around the pilings—live bait still draws quality fish in these colder flows. Got bloodworms or soft-shell crabs? Shore-bound anglers and pier regulars have been filling buckets with perch and catfish using just those. For artificial, stick with inline spinners or small spinnerbaits if working from shore.

For a couple of hot spots, I’d point you toward:
- **The Bay Bridge pilings and eastern rock piles**—both the anchored and drifting crowds are catching here, especially on an incoming tide.
- **Mouth of the Patapsco River** between Fort McHenry and the Francis Scott Key Bridge—the schoolies have been chasing peanut bunker in the current seams.
- **Bloody Point and Poplar Island**—the birds are working and so are the stripers, breaking water with surface blitzes mid-morning and again before dark.

Angler chatter and this week’s tackle shop runs confirm solid amounts of keeper stripers and full coolers of perch out there this weekend. If you’re chasing the last flounder, the bite’s almost done, but you might luck into one sliding a minnow or Gulp! bait along sandy drop-offs.

Bundle up, be safe on the water—the wind makes for choppy runs—and remember: November means having the right size gear and a plan for handling bigger fish. Let’s make the most of it while the stripers are still stacked up and the perch are thick!

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