| |
|  |  | | |  | | | |
|
Your Guide to the Chesapeake Bay
Do you dream of the perfect Chesapeake fishing trip? We can help you find fishing reports, locate fishing charters, and check current conditions. Want to explore historic Chesapeake Bay towns? Or maybe you dream of owning a waterfront home, or retiring to the Bay. BayDreaming.com provides information to help Chesapeake Bay area residents and visitors explore the Chesapeake and make their dreams come true. | New - Navigate by Map
 | The New 2012 Cruising Guides are Here
Explore Chesapeake Bay Towns Chesapeake Bay Homes for Sale
Chesapeake Bay Boating
Fishing Charters
|
What's Your Chesapeake Bay Dream? Fishing - The fishing in the Bay is fantastic. Stripers, drum, bluefish, flounder, and the ever-present croaker are some of the fish to be caught in the Chesapeake Bay. The Bay is so nice and calm (most of the time) that even if you don't catch anything much, it's a nice day out on the water. Fishing is good just about anywhere in the Bay or it's tributaries but the hot spots change with the seasons as you'll see from the fishing reports. Visit our fishing page for regulations, links to reports, and fishing charter information. Chesapeake Bay Fishing Fishing Reports Fishing Charters Weather & Tides
| |
| |
Boating - The Bay's calm waters and many sheltered tributaries make it a great place for all kinds of boating. All the waterfront towns scattered up and down the bay are destinations for cruisers and you'll see the marinas filled up with both motor and sail boats during the warm season. Most fishing boats are relatively small with a shallow draft. These are best for navigating the shallows and marshy areas close to shore. Our boating page may help you get out on the water. Kayaks have grown in popularity on the Bay. They give you a nice close encounter with the water and are great for easing up on wildlife. You'll get closer to a heron in a kayak than you're likely to be able to do in a motor boat. Chesapeake Bay Boating Boating Schools Paddling Marinas Cruising Guides Travel - We provide information on over 30 towns and cities to visit in the Chesapeake Bay area. The places we've picked to feature are all accessible from the water. You can get there by car, of course, but since this site is about the Bay, we wanted to feature the waterfront destinations. You'll find everything from the urbanized areas of Baltimore, Norfolk, Hampton, and Portsmouth, with all the entertainment and activities they have to provide, to tiny little towns with a wharf and a small collection of shops on Main Street. If you take the time to visit, you'll find that each of these places has it's own charm and something to offer the visitor. That offering might not be much more than a chance to relax in a place that operates at a pace that's a little slower and calmer than you're used to. It today's hurry-up world, that's something to treasure. Use our map of the region to navigate your way around the Bay and explore all it has to offer. Travel Destinations Resorts Vacation Rentals Bed & Breakfasts | | | |
Choose your destination ... Our Chesapeake Bay Guide provides information on boating, fishing, travel, events, and history for many areas throughout Maryland and Virginia. Take some time to browse our site and discover the many things the Chesapeake Bay region has to offer. Click on a destination from the list below to start exploring a specific area, or select from the navigation bar for bay-wide information. Choose a town from the list below to see more information | Annapolis, Maryland Baltimore, Maryland Cambridge, Maryland Cape Charles, Virginia Chesapeake Beach, Maryland Chesapeake City, Maryland Chestertown, Maryland Crisfield, Maryland Deale, Maryland Deal Island, Maryland Easton, Maryland Hampton, Virginia Havre de Grace, Maryland Irvington, Virginia Kent Island, Maryland Norfolk, Virginia North East, Maryland Onancock, Virginia
| Kent Island, Maryland North Beach, Maryland Norfolk, Virginia North East, Maryland Onancock, Virginia Oxford, Maryland Poqouson, Virginia Portsmouth, Virginia Reedville, Virginia Rock Hall, Maryland Smith Island, Maryland Solomons Island, Maryland St. Mary's County, Maryland St. Michaels, Maryland Tangier Island, Virginia Tilghman Island, Maryland Urbanna, Virginia Virginia Beach, Virginia
| | Choose a destination from our interactive map |
| 
Chesapeake Bay Fishing
Fishing Charters
Fishing Reports
Chesapeake Bay Weather and Tides
| 
| | |
Bay DreamingOh, what a peaceful morning;
The Chesapeake at the break of day;
The tattered fog is starting to diminish,
In the twilight distance on the bay;
Facing the marina's fishing fleet,
I watch charter and sailboats dispatch;
Blue crabs, oysters, and rockfish,
Are most always a day-to-day catch.
A great white heron stands on a pole,
From a teetering pier that's sank;
It scans the wisps of wiry marsh grass,
That dances along the waterlogged bank.
There are dozens of winding passageways,
That branch off left and right;
Some of them just within my view,
While the others one's just out of sight;
The alluring twin spans of the bridge
Always tower above it all.
They muster several memories
And youthful times that I recall;
How fortunate we truly are,
To have been given this splendid treasure;
Its ambiance I hold near to my heart,
And being here is such a pleasure.
Poem by Andy Harley, from
"Till the Dreaming's Done: Poems Crafted for Thinking People"
Where is the Chesapeake Bay? The Bay is on the east coast of the United States, with shoreline in Maryland and Virginia. There are two outlets through to the Atlantic Ocean, the wide southern gap between the Virginia Capes where the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel is located, and the narrow Chesapeake and Delaware Canal at the northern end of the Bay. Map of the Chesapeake Bay.
 
Guide to Cruising Chesapeake Bay 2012 Edition The folks at Chesapeake Bay Magazine have produced a new, 2012 edition of their excellent guide to cruising the Bay. They've provided lots of updates and new content this year. This edition features larger NOAA charts, navigation guides for virtually every creek on the bay, updated tours of 30 favorite ports of call, waterfront restaurants, and more.  
Dozier's Waterway Guide Chesapeake Bay 2012 Updated annually, Waterway Guide's 2012 Chesapeake Bay Edition is a popular guide with Chesapeake Bay cruisers. The guide provides plenty of navigation information, with marked routes on aerial photos. There's also marina information and "Goin' Ashore" articles about Chesapeake Bay ports.  
Atlantic Cruising Club's Guide to Chesapeake Bay Marinas: Cape May, New Jersey to Hampton, Virginia The Guide to Chesapeake Bay Marinas includes full page marina reports, over 2,900 photographs. 253 marinas are reviewed and rated. A searchable CD ROM is included.
 
Cruising the Chesapeake: A Gunkholer's Guide By William H. Shellenberger. "Were it only a navigational aid, the book would be worth owning, but its introductory chapters and sidebars lift it into the realm of good travel writing as well." - Mid-Atlantic Country. Acclaimed as the ultimate guide to uncrowded anchorages, Cruising the Chesapeake is the reference of choice among sailors and powerboaters seeking to avoid the beaten path. This new Third Edition has been expanded to include coverage of the Atlantic coasts of New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland, including Delaware Bay. Plus, readers get a cruise planner for short or long itineraries, an expansive catalog of GPS coordinates, and major updates to all piloting and shoreside facilities.
Rudlow's Guide to Fishing the Chesapeake 
Rudow's Guide to Fishing the Chesapeake is the most comprehensive guide to angling on all of the Chesapeake's waters from main-stem Bay to tributaries and tidal creeks. Detailed charts show over 550 specific hotspots and 35 public shoreline fishing hotspots. Click here for more info or to order Rudow's Guide to Fishing the Chesapeake |
Learn About the Chesapeake BayHow much do you know about the Chesapeake Bay? Did you know that the Chesapeake is the largest estuary (a place where salt and fresh waters mix) in the United States? Did you know that the Bay supports 348 species of finfish, 173 species of shellfish, and over 2,700 plant species? Visit the Chesapeake Bay Program's About the Bay page for more Chesapeake Bay facts. About the Chesapeake Bay Links to more information about the Bay The Chesapeake Bay Program
A partnership of the conservation and restoration of the Bay. Wikipedia's Chesapeake Bay page. The Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network.
The National Park Service's guide to the Bay |
| |
|
| |  | |  |
| |
Chesapeake Bay
Retirement
Living |
