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1. Way South Chesapeake Bay Fishing Report, October 2019

   … to focus on the mackerel before they head south have been trolling the channel edges with small Drones, Clarks, and … scoop up a few more mackerel as they head south have been trolling the channel edges with small Drones, Clarks, and … some striper around, too, with anglers slinging jigs and/or trolling in the lower James and at the CBBT catching a few …

2. Ranger Z520CI: Bass Boat or Bay Boat?

   … or dropped on it. On top of that, the bow-mounted electric trolling motor is switched to a RipTide SF80, which is … shallow-water casting and useable for open water jigging. Trolling or bait fishing, however, is a bit of a stretch – …

3. The Best Batteries for Boats: LiFePO4 Play

   … to crank over that boat’s engine, power your electric trolling motor, and feed juice to everything from … us enjoy their benefits in the form of bow-mounted electric trolling motors. A single 36-volt, 60 amp-hour battery … battery that works out so well on boats with electric trolling motors? It’ll cost you over $1700, as compared to …

4. Crappie Fishing Spider Rigs: Creepy Crawlie Catching

   … sonar, and if there was a school under the boat, would stop trolling and monitor all 12 rods while drifting. Any number … would get strikes and once the bite stopped, we resumed trolling. The bait that got hit most was a 1/16th oz … of Eric Packard. For this trip we were slow trolling. Once a bobber went down we would simply lift the …

5. Bass 'N Blue: Sea Bass and Blueline Tilefish

   … Whenever you see them mark the spot - even if you're trolling for pelagics or running to a completely different … fish, so many areas traditionally thought of as good for trolling or chunking can also hold bass and blueline …

6. Middle Chesapeake Bay Fishing Report, September 2025

   … have been enjoying a great bluefish bite in the area. Trolling hoses, spoons, and spoonbrella rigs has been the … for Blues, mackerel, and cobia. They had limited success trolling for toothy critters, only catching a handful of each. Adam says that while they were trolling, they spotted a few cobia up top, so they switched …

7. Upper Chesapeake Bay Fishing Report, October 2021

   … week, striped bass action in the bay was good, as anglers trolling and jigging were reporting solid hits. Trollers … and anglers in search of bigger fish are switching over to trolling tactics. Bowleys Bait & Tackle let us know fishing … Brad Spittel reported catching a few keeper sized rockfish trolling small umbrellas near Love Point this past week. …

8. Paddler's Edge: Kayak Fishing Lessons

   … Paddlers may actually have an advantage over peddlers when trolling, because the more erratic nature of that form of … wrong – I think the pedal yaks are awesome – but when trolling you might find the bite’s a bit stronger if you … run, my guess is that a kayak is probably a more effective trolling platform than a boat which pretty much always …

9. December Way South and VA Fishing Report, 2018

   … purple and gray when the light is low, umbrellas, and slow-trolling live eels.The hottest zones still seem to be around … if, that is, you aren't too tempted into eeling and/or trolling for the big stripers that are around in these … with some boats finding only schoolies but some others trolling up one, two, three, or possibly even more monsters. …

10. Coastal Fishing Report, July 2020

    … Chuck Harrison checked in this week and let us know that trolling around the CBBT didn’t produce them on a recent … poses with her catch, a beautiful yellowfin tuna caught trolling near the canyons on the Double J . … are enjoying slow but steady yellowfin and bigeye bites. Trolling a spread of skirted ballyhoo and plastic lures has …