A nice speckled trout pulled from the Hot Ditch.

There’s a lot going on in today’s column. Let’s start with the Hot Ditch and the efforts by VIMS and Dominion to get anglers to keep fewer big specks in that area. Click here for information on the game fish tagging program. Here’s a cool video of a guy fishing the Hot Ditch from his kayak. Here’s the location of the Hot Ditch on Google Maps

For more on the Virginia Saltwater Angler Registry program, click here.