Aaron Martens would prefer to "run the tide" on Chesapeake Bay. There seems to be a one-hour prime time when the tide is right. In a perfect world, Martens would have fish-holding spots from north to south on Chesapeake Bay, and he would move from one to the next as prime time vanished in one and appeared in another, much like Mike Iaconelli did last year on the Delaware River.
"I don't have enough spots," Martens said. "If I had enough spots to run the tide, I think I could catch them really good. But I don't have enough spots to run the tide. It's either there (north) or here (south – with nothing in between)."
"There's about an hour window in that tide where they bite almost anywhere. An hour window, and it's crucial. You can see it. You can just tell the way the water is getting. I caught two during that (Thursday). It was about noon until one."
That's noon until 1 p.m. where Martens fished yesterday, which was an hour south of the takeoff area. So it that spot today, prime time should be about an hour later – from 1:00 until 2:00.