Bay Bridge to Calvert Cliffs · Maryland
Mid-Bay Angler
Live water temperature, tides and wind for the middle Chesapeake, read through a seasonal playbook — then a plan built around the hours you actually have.
Your home base
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Conditions · Sunday, August 23
Updated 10:17 AM ET81.9°F
Annapolis · steady
W 9 mph
Sunny
76°F
No precip expected
Low 8:07 PM
Annapolis
Best time to fish
Tide, light & wind scored 1–104 AM – 9 AM peak 10/10
6 PM – 11 PM peak 8/10
3 PM – 5 PM peak 8/10
Scored from today's NOAA tide stages at Annapolis, sunrise/sunset for your home base, and the hourly wind forecast. Hover a bar for the reasoning.
Next 14 hours
10 AM
76°
W 9
Sunny
11 AM
78°
W 10
Sunny
12 PM
79°
W 10
Sunny
1 PM
81°
W 10
Sunny
2 PM
81°
W 10
Sunny
3 PM
82°
W 10
Sunny
4 PM
83°
W 10
Mostly Sunny
5 PM
83°
W 9
Sunny
6 PM
81°
W 8
Mostly Clear
7 PM
80°
W 7
Mostly Clear
8 PM
78°
W 6
Mostly Clear
9 PM
75°
NW 5
Mostly Clear
10 PM
74°
NW 5
Mostly Clear
11 PM
72°
NW 5
Mostly Clear
Tides
AnnapolisToday
- High2:33 AM · 1.7 ft
- Low9:28 AM · 0.9 ft
- High2:01 PM · 1.2 ft
- Low8:07 PM · 0.5 ft
Tomorrow
- High3:22 AM · 1.7 ft
- Low10:13 AM · 0.9 ft
- High3:00 PM · 1.2 ft
- Low9:02 PM · 0.5 ft
Marine-adjacent forecast
NWSToday83°F · W 10 mph
Sunny, with a high near 83. West wind around 10 mph.
Tonight67°F · W 3 to 8 mph
Mostly clear, with a low around 67. West wind 3 to 8 mph.
Monday82°F · W 3 to 9 mph
Sunny, with a high near 82. West wind 3 to 9 mph.
Monday Night65°F · NW 7 mph
Mostly clear, with a low around 65. Northwest wind around 7 mph.
Summer playbook
76-86°FFish dawn and dusk. Oxygen and heat push stripers deep or very shallow at night.
What's around
Striped bass
Best at night and first light; deep cool water near channel edges by day
Night casting to lit structure, live-lining spot, deep jigging
Spanish mackerel & bluefish
Prime - speed trolling small spoons over open water
Drone/Clark spoons at 6-8 knots, planers
Spot & croaker
Loaded on hard bottom, great for kids and live bait
Two-hook bottom rig with bloodworm
Cobia (southern edge)
Occasional sight-fishing near buoys and the channel
Live eel or bucktail cast to sighted fish
Blue catfish
Everywhere in the tributaries, no limit
Cut bait on the bottom in river channels
Gear
- Trolling rods with planers for Spanish/blues
- Live-lining setup: light circle hooks, 20 lb fluoro, no weight or small split shot
- Night casting gear plus headlamp and PFD discipline
- Aerated livewell for spot
Baits & lures
- Small gold/silver Drone and Clark spoons
- Live spot and small white perch
- Live eels for the biggest fish
- Cut menhaden or gizzard shad for catfish
- Bloodworm and Fishbites for panfish
RegulationsMaryland has used summer no-targeting closures for striped bass during heat waves, plus circle-hook requirements when using bait. Check DNR before the trip.
What's biting & where
Full pageScans a curated list of public Maryland sources — Maryland DNR, FishTalk, The Hull Truth Mid-Atlantic reports, Tidal Fish (Chesapeake Angler), PropTalk, Chesapeake Light Tackle, the Maryland fishing subreddits and local tackle shops — and boils them down to species, spots and presentations near Rhode River. Runs only when you press the button. Because this respects the scraper's rate limit, the full scan can take ~2 minutes.
Plan my trip
Tell it what you've got"I'm fishing three hours this afternoon out of the Rhode River" — that's all it needs.
Daily report — Rhode River
Today's predictive read plus a hindsight look at yesterday, built from live NOAA data and the seasonal playbook.