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Read more about the article Halloween Week: Are the Fish Scared?

Halloween Week: Are the Fish Scared?

  • Post published:November 4, 2022
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We target pickerel, panfish, striped bass, and snakehead, and the results were...uh...something

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Read more about the article Streamin’ on the Fly

Streamin’ on the Fly

  • Post published:October 18, 2022
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A trip to Savage, Maryland on a bluebird day offers a peaceful fly fishing experience

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Read more about the article Post-Frontal Fishin’

Post-Frontal Fishin’

  • Post published:October 9, 2022
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After periods of rain and cold weather, the bite can be downright difficult

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Read more about the article Football Season!

Football Season!

  • Post published:September 30, 2022
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Chunky largemouth bass hit topwater on this spooky morning at Governor Bridge Natural Area

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Read more about the article Play Your Cards!

Play Your Cards!

  • Post published:September 21, 2022
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When weather conditions speak to you, "Go fishing," you darn well better get out there

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Read more about the article Hit & Miss Stripers

Hit & Miss Stripers

  • Post published:September 10, 2022
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How to fish the Chesapeake tributaries in early autumn, when the fish feed upriver

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Read more about the article Fish in a Barrel

Fish in a Barrel

  • Post published:September 9, 2022
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Tried and true tactics catch a mess of freshwater panfish at the local reservoir

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Read more about the article Three Times Tryin’

Three Times Tryin’

  • Post published:September 2, 2022
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Triptych of fishing trips target striped bass, spanish mackerel, bluefish, and white perch

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Read more about the article Follow the Birds!

Follow the Birds!

  • Post published:August 25, 2022
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Seagulls overhead pointed us in the right direction to catch many schooling stripers

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Plenty of stripers runnin’ around the rivers right Plenty of stripers runnin’ around the rivers right now (crowded charters too). Packs here and there, in the mid-Severn for example. Found em several times over on a Sunday morning. Target shallows adjacent to deep water access. They roam and feed. I slowly cruise ideal areas with the quiet troll motor. Cast to likely spots for fun, then occasionally the schools show up in full force, some larger than others. Fun time to fish before the summer heat picks up. Most of these came on a white paddletail or a small bucktail

#stripedbassfishing #severnriver #chesapeakebay #annapolismd #fishingisfun
Run to Assateague Is. this wknd was cold, rainy, w Run to Assateague Is. this wknd was cold, rainy, windy, worthwhile. Nice fish hit (peeler crab, clams, sandfleas), birds everywhere, my brother joined for a night, campfires, heart healthy breakfast (egg whites and Gimme Lean “sausage”), a rainbow, sunsets, and them horses. Swell time

#stripedbassfishing #assateagueisland #surfcasting #oceanbound
Found a spritely school of striped bass up to 30”i Found a spritely school of striped bass up to 30”ish, more or less. Not the giants, but fun to catch and release for about an hour in 3-6’ of relatively clean water over an expansive shoal. This was an early morning this week. The new moon helps. Interestingly, the bass were hitting the silver SP minnow but not fully taking it. So I tied on a smaller silver jerkbait. No hits at all. Hmmm. Switched back to the SP, but in gold bunker color. The fish ate it time and again! Go figure. When things aren’t quite working, change something. Colors, retrieve, scents, location, etc., etc.

#stripedbass #springfishing #chesapeakebayfishing #baylife #marylandstyle
It was a good Friday morning. Goals met. April c+r It was a good Friday morning. Goals met. April c+r is the real deal. Found a couple packs of chunky stripers in the Severn/Whitehall area, cruising in 4–6’. Got a few fish to eat. All on the SP minnow pictured. A bit foggy through morning and overcast, which was great. Calm water until 10:30am. Fish seemed to bite about an hour into the tide turning. Bite lasted maybe an hour tops. Give it a shot when the conditions align—the opportunity is out there…

#stripedbass #chesapeakebayfishing #chasingtail #fishon #stripedbassfishing
More signs of Severn R. spring: snakehead in a tre More signs of Severn R. spring: snakehead in a tree, osprey return, skunk cabbage, redbuds, red-shouldered hawk, carp carcass. Lots going on—live, dead—circle of life is only going to move faster as the weather warms…

#severnriver #circleoflife #fishing #snakehead #chesapeakebay
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