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Rudee Inlet to Chincoteague
Where Virginia's charter fleet docks
Rudee Inlet's canyon boats, Lynnhaven's inshore fleet, the Eastern Shore back-bay captains — every working dock we cover, with the boats that run from it. You book the captain; nothing sits between you.
Ocean-side
Rudee Inlet, Virginia Beach
The oceanfront inlet is the offshore hub. Canyon boats clear the jetty and run east toward the Norfolk Canyon for tuna, wahoo and white marlin; the inshore half-days work the Chesapeake Light Tower and the shipping lanes for kings and Spanish when the weather window allows.
Bay-side
Lynnhaven & Hampton Roads
The protected side of the mouth. These are the boats that flounder the Lynnhaven shallows, set cobia slicks off the Bridge-Tunnel, and pull tog and sheepshead off the CBBT rock — and the ones worth calling when the ocean is blown out but the Bay is fishable.
Eastern Shore
Seaside villages & Bayside ramps
Wachapreague, Oyster and Chincoteague put you into the back-bay flounder and drum fisheries behind the barrier islands; the Bayside ramps at Kiptopeke and Cape Charles sit directly under the spring black-drum run and the fall rockfish migration.
Questions worth asking before you book
Slack-tide windows at the Bridge-Tunnel can decide an entire charter day — ask a CBBT captain how the current figures into the plan. If it is cobia you are after, ask whether they run chum slicks or sight-fish the flats, because the two demand different patience. And confirm what the fare covers: bait, licenses, fish cleaning, and whether the boat carries a head.