I Fished the Eclipse

Type: Chesapeake
Region: Southern
Location: Cobb Island

We decided to check out how the fish would react to the 80% solar eclipse. So, we hit the water at Cobb Island around noon. Normally we would drift fish but decided to anchor just to see if the fishing results would change in a single location as the eclipse got underway. The bite started very slow and actually did heat up quickly during the eclipse. We fished this same location 1 week ago and caught fish but this time the quality was better and we caught more species as well. We caught perch and spot and keeper croaker but this is the first time we caught catfish and toadfish in this location. Storms chased us off the water around 4:40 pm but the fishing did appear to slow down before we left. High tide for this location was scheduled to peak at 3:11 pm but it was still very high when we hit the ramp. Today's lesson, the sun is super powerful even when it is eclipsed by the moon. It certainly didn't get as dark as I thought it would.