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Read more about the article Hooked on Carp

Hooked on Carp

  • Post published:January 6, 2025
  • Post category:Reports

As 2024 came to a close, we lucked into a cove of carp, igniting a new angling pursuit for the year ahead!

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Read more about the article Yellow Perch and Pickerel Season Fires Up!

Yellow Perch and Pickerel Season Fires Up!

  • Post published:November 26, 2024
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As the Thanksgiving holiday approaches, both species tend to get frisky, feed hard, and offer anglers excellent fishing!

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Read more about the article Disappearing Act: Schooling Stripers a Rare Sight

Disappearing Act: Schooling Stripers a Rare Sight

  • Post published:November 10, 2024
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It's been a tough fall for striper anglers in the mid-Bay, but there's still more than a few out there

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Read more about the article Light Tackle, Light Fish

Light Tackle, Light Fish

  • Post published:September 13, 2024
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It's mid-September and fish activity is picking up. Fishing from the community beach with a handful of go-to lures brought in a couple species

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Read more about the article Pre-Fall Stripers: Slow Start, Strong Finish

Pre-Fall Stripers: Slow Start, Strong Finish

  • Post published:August 23, 2024
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Early signs of autumn and the week's full moon spurred striped bass activity; the bite was good, but took effort to find!

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Read more about the article Severn River Sunsets & Fishing

Severn River Sunsets & Fishing

  • Post published:August 16, 2024
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Evening boating in late-summer offers excellent sunset views and the opportunity to hook into feeding fish!

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Read more about the article Striped Bass Topwater Fiesta

Striped Bass Topwater Fiesta

  • Post published:July 5, 2024
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A new moon, plus a favorable tide, temperatures, and cloud cover create the recipe for great fishing at dawn!

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Read more about the article Night Moves: Stripers at Dusk

Night Moves: Stripers at Dusk

  • Post published:June 14, 2024
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The best striped bass fishing in the middle Chesapeake Bay is happening in the rivers during dusk, dawn, and overnight

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Read more about the article Pleasant Start to Summer Striper Fishing

Pleasant Start to Summer Striper Fishing

  • Post published:May 24, 2024
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On a beautiful morning, the Severn River produced a few schools of striped bass

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Coaxed this little one w/ a clouser, trying my nov Coaxed this little one w/ a clouser, trying my novice hand at fly casting an 8w for schoolies. Got a ways to go. Tried poppers in morning. Then clousers. Arms are sore. A fun and frustrating challenge sheesh. Pretty morning tho 😎

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Sunrise over the Severn this morning. Gave fishing Sunrise over the Severn this morning. Gave fishing a shot with friends Erik and Lucas before the wind won the day. It was really blowing out there but we tried some protected areas. Didn’t get on any—there will be a next time. Beautiful day otherwise 

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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
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