The return of chilly and rainy weather could slow the spawning run of rockfish for a few days, which is the good news. On the flip side, it obscures the fishing outlook for the weekend.

Surely there will be hungry white perch in the tributaries. In the Chesapeake proper, early rockfish will be available for any catch-and-release striper-chasers unwilling to allow a bit of sour weather to keep them ashore. It's a typical spring on the bay

Yet, there is a non-typical aspect to this particular spring. It involves either a fish that - if caught during open season would be a world record - or one of the biggest fish catching hoaxes...