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Read more about the article 2025 Angling & Adventure Review

2025 Angling & Adventure Review

  • Post published:December 25, 2025
  • Post category:Adventures/Latest/Reports

From January through December and season to season, we fished for various species in many locations using multiple angling styles!

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Read more about the article Wonderful Pickerel Fishing!

Wonderful Pickerel Fishing!

  • Post published:November 23, 2025
  • Post category:Latest/Reports/Tactics

Several outings produced a creek pattern that's fairly easy to replicate, given the right conditions, for very good pickerel fishing

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Read more about the article Rocktober is Here!

Rocktober is Here!

  • Post published:October 10, 2025
  • Post category:Features/Reports/Tactics

The autumn season of quality fishing for striped bass has arrived in the Severn River, and throughout the Chesapeake Bay!

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Read more about the article Cool in the Creek

Cool in the Creek

  • Post published:October 1, 2025
  • Post category:Features/Reports/Tactics

Water temperatures continue to dip lower as autumn sets in, contributing to an improved bite in the feeder creeks of the Severn River

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Read more about the article Return to the Millponds

Return to the Millponds

  • Post published:September 15, 2025
  • Post category:Features/Reports

Largemouth bass fishing is the order of the day, but would the Eastern Shore millponds serve 'em up?

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Read more about the article Dude, Where’s My Fish?

Dude, Where’s My Fish?

  • Post published:September 5, 2025
  • Post category:Reports

The bite in the Severn River has been tough at best, but a few fish are starting to show as we inch toward fall season

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Read more about the article Grind on the River

Grind on the River

  • Post published:August 4, 2025
  • Post category:Reports

Striped bass action resumes across the Chesapeake Bay watershed, but would I find life in the Severn River?

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Read more about the article Bass Fishing at Wye Mills

Bass Fishing at Wye Mills

  • Post published:July 20, 2025
  • Post category:Adventures/Reports

We catch a bag of largemouth bass at a centuries-old mill lake on Maryland's Eastern Shore using a tried 'n true technique!

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Read more about the article Perch Poundin’

Perch Poundin’

  • Post published:June 27, 2025
  • Post category:Reports

White perch are, perhaps, the most reliable species to target during the hottest days of summer...if you know where to find them

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Nice day for a shakedown cruise to the head of the Nice day for a shakedown cruise to the head of the Severn, to fish for…..gizzard shad?! Bleh 🤮😂 All good fun regardless, but maybe I should have ventured to the mouth?

#fishin #anglin #feelslikespring☀️ #severnriver #chesapeakebayfishing
HNY! Hiked into the headwaters today to find carp. HNY! Hiked into the headwaters today to find carp. Found a good number of them—all sizes, with some bigs in the mix. I tried method feeding and got them to nose the bait but couldn’t entice a really good take/hookset. Still learning this species and different techniques. Also saw the remnants of carp the eagles and hawks have been picking off. This is a fun winter pursuit! 

#carpefishing #commoncarp #carpangling #chesapeakebayfishing #winterseason #januaryhikes #hiking #bankfishing #reelchesapeake
2025 was a chill year of mixed adventures, a few f 2025 was a chill year of mixed adventures, a few firsts, and plenty of family fun outdoors. Lots of places explored throughout Maryland and beyond. As for the fishing…wrote a recap and posted to the site—thoughts on what was caught, not, and reasons/opinions why. Your mileage probably varies 😉

#goodbye2025 #fishonward #exploreoutdoors #bootsontheground #linesin #fishingadventures #chesapeakebay #maryland #familyfishingfun #reelchesapeake
Swirls and smiles today with these silly sallies. Swirls and smiles today with these silly sallies. From high noon tide til about 4pm, I searched for the esox in the little creeks of the upper Severn from the lil jon. Tough go but found a couple players when I switched from a white paddletail to dark gold. Nothing crazy or specimen size. Just simple winter fishing. There was more wind on the water than anticipated tho. H2O was 39F. These are such beautiful, wily fish. 

#chainpickerel #esoxfishing #winterfun #fishhard #pickerelfishing #chesapeakebayfishing #severnriver #reelchesapeake
Another gorgeous afternoon of pickerel fishing. It Another gorgeous afternoon of pickerel fishing. It was a repeat performance—multiple fish in back of creek, hitting a white 3” paddletail gently worked in shallow water. Beautiful stuff

#chainpickerel #fallfishing #autumnvibes🍁 #severnriver #fishon #tugisthedrug #pickerelfishing #catchemifyoucan #chesapeakebay #angling #fishing #reelchesapeake
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