Norfolk, Va. -- Virginia's trophy season for striped bass is open in the waters of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. Angles are finding plenty of school-sized stripers around the three bridge-tunnel spans with largger fish often being caught from over the tunnel tubes.
During this season, stripers have to be at least 32 inches long and anglers can keep only one. Beginning May 16, anglers can keep two fish between the 18- to 28-inch slot limit, with one of those two fish allowed to measure 32 inches or longer. That season runs through June 15.
Remember, all striped bass longer than 32 inches this time of year must be reported to the VMRC.
In other angling actions, flounder can be had throughout the lower Chesapeake with the best action so far at the bridge-tunnel and along the edges of some channels. Anglers are also finding keeper-sized flounder in the inlets with some impressive catches coming from Rudee Inlet.
With Saturday's full moom, this could be a big week for red and black drum catches. Drum are often caught in the Inner Middle Grounds and the Nine-Foot Shoals. Red drum can be found roaming the surface throughout the mouth of the Chesapeake and along coastal waters.
The best croaker action is reportedly coming from near the James River Fishing Pier and over old oyster beds around Ocean View.
Offshore tilefish and grouper are being reeled in along the edge of Norfolk Canyon.
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