but I couldn't had been more wrong, I had one of my best days of fishing the very next day. The fishing stayed very good for a good part of the fall, with many large schools of fish, but the cold weather came earlier then usual, I had to start finding fish farther and farther south, But luckily as the schools of fish migrated farther south, there were a few spots where the fish stayed around in the Upper bay until the seasopn ended, and the fishing was very reliable. Actually a lot of the spots 
where I was finding fish was after spotting working terns, some call them "liar birds" because they are known to dive where there are no Rockfish, but not this fall, Most of the fish under them weren't very big, but you could quikely get a limit if you wanted.I was also lucky enough to find some large Rockfish that migrated in from the ocean. My biggest was caught trolling down by the bay bridge. overall it was another great year of fishing the upper chesapeake. There was a lot of extreme weather events, Historic heatwaves, Very cold weather that came early and fast, and a pretty big flood, but the fishing stayed strong considering all that.
I have heard some complaints about this years Rockfishing, And I can understand how some could have had trouble, I had to do some things differently, changing tactics a
nd locations, ect..If you didn't adapt to the different conditions and made the wrong choices you could easily have trouble catching. The fish really aren't hard to figure out, if you have faith and don't give up
