Hey, I grew up on the Chesapeake Bay, and fished there all my life. The best advice I can give you is go to the mouth of the Potomac river with a couple of pallets of fresh ground chum, menhadden, and get them to cut the backs out for you, anchor, start a chum line, put a back on a circle hook, let it drift out in the chum line and hang on, once the strippers start hitting it will last a while. This time of year you don't catch real big ones, but you will catch them as long as the tide is moving. It's a blas. Hope this helps. If you don't have a boat, get you a couple of soft crabs, and some blood worms, with a double hook rig and try fishing when the tide is high, and you should be able to catch some spot, and croakers. Good luck, and I hope this helps some.