How To Catch Blue Catfish In The Chesapeake Bay
Aug 26 2014 You wont have to go far up the James to catch some nice blues and flatties.
How to catch blue catfish in the chesapeake bay. This is simply due to its diet of shellfish and other prized Chesapeake fish. But for a couple of weeks early in the summer rockfish season blue catfish and snakeheads were leading Doyles fishing report. Mar 20 2018 If you catch a catfish in Chesapeake Bay theres a good chance its an invader from the Mississippi River drainageprobably a blue catfish though it could be a less common flathead catfish.
Would love to hook up with you when you get here. Now a new study from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science VIMS shows that blue cat population may reach even further thanks to the warming waters along the Atlantic Coast. I have fished as far down river as Surry but I am sure plenty lower than that.
Did you know that a serving of Blue Catfish is low on calories yet high in nutrition. The Chesapeake Blue Catfish are caught wild year-round by local Chesapeake fishermen who have seen their numbers skyrocket over the past few decades. Remove the fish from milk 1 fillet at a time letting the excess milk drip back into the dish.
Flathead catfish can reach sizes in excess of 100 pounds but much smaller specimens have been encountered in the Chesapeake Bay region. Rockfish are biting now. Having fresh bait is essential to catching blue catfish plain and simple.
I recommend bringing a pair of medium-heavy to heavy action rods one equipped with a topwater bait and one with a swimbait. Blue catfish are among the most sensitive fish out there when it comes to incoming colder weather and barometric changesthey just shut down. Tim Shugrue is vice president of Congressional Seafood in Jessup MD which is the largest processor of blue catfish around the Bay.
The invasive blue catfish is already spreading throughout the Chesapeake Bay eating a great deal as it goes. Flathead are an introduced species and are currently found in only a few places in the Chesapeake Bay. In a second dish mix the flour cornmeal old Bay or Cajun seasonings cayenne and salt and pepper.