Catching PB Drum and Sheepshead at CBBT

We spent a beautiful Saturday afternoon this past weekend fishing with Capt Jesse Hudgins of Southern Reels Charters at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel (CBBT). Jess, my Navy buddy Nino, and myself all got PB sheepshead and managed to fill up a cooler full of the tasty fiddler crab thieves. Towards the end of the trip, we tossed jigs at some large drum on the livescope. Nino managed to catch not one, but two(!) citations on jig and Jess reeled in a 48" whopper!! It was really fun and memorable day out on the water.
Capt Jesse Hudgins
Southern Reels Fishing (out of Virginia Beach)
www.southernreels.com/
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[@SteveOllice]

LOL, the construction crew was awesome!

[@kayak_chris]

Yea, that was a nice surprise, lol… I’m sure that we provided some relief from the boredom of pounding steel pilings all day long…

[@kenshamrock7395]

If you look at some of Jesse's old videos, he used to kayak fish around the concrete ships at Kiptopeke State park and fished out of Wise Point boat ramp and would go back to the last bridge before you get to the Eastern Shore. Some good fishing up that way, wish North Carolina had the same good fishing.

[@kayak_chris]

Yes it does... we ran into several friends of Jesse's at the ramp and also reading some comments on the photos on his FB page... seems like others that went out that day were struggling to put fish in the boat, and while we were initially, it was mostly because we were just feeding the sheepshead (and not for lack of fish). Good guides make fishing look easy and I can't recall catch so many large fish in such a short span of time. We'll be back again soon!