Unfortunately, however, science declares that many undersize stripers caught and released die because of the high water temperatures we may have in August and some folks may want to come up with an alternative, productive, and rewarding technique to catch a limit of Chesapeake Bay rockfish.

Not that there’s anything wrong with fishing like that, it’s legal and produces fish for sure. Running around Chesapeake Bay as a light tackle guide who has never considered summer chumming, I have to produce all summer without ever slinging a scoop of chum or chunk of bait.