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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 The Invasive Blue Catfish of the Chesapeake Bay

The Invasive Blue Catfish of the Chesapeake Bay

  • Post published:June 19, 2024
  • Post category:Resources/Tactics

Introduced to the Chesapeake Bay in the 1970s, blue catfish have exploded throughout the watershed, concerning biologists but exciting anglers

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Read more about the article Shad Fishing Slam

Shad Fishing Slam

  • Post published:April 19, 2024
  • Post category:Reports

The upper Patuxent River continues to offer a glimpse of how well the shad runs have been this spring throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed

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Read more about the article Spring Shad Runs Starting Early

Spring Shad Runs Starting Early

  • Post published:April 3, 2024
  • Post category:Reports/Tactics

The reports are in...early! Hickory and American shad are showing up weeks ahead of schedule in the Potomac, Patuxent, and throughout the Bay watershed

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Read more about the article Weekly Fishing Report

Weekly Fishing Report

  • Post published:March 21, 2024
  • Post category:Reports

Spring arrived this week, so did cold weather. Fish are biting throughout the Chesapeake, but it's been a challenge.

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Read more about the article Chasing the Spring Run

Chasing the Spring Run

  • Post published:March 21, 2023
  • Post category:Reports

Several exciting fish species zip through Chesapeake tributaries each Spring and we tried to intercept a few

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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
  • Post category:Reports

We target pickerel, panfish, striped bass, and snakehead, and the results were...uh...something

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Read more about the article The Spring Shad Run

The Spring Shad Run

  • Post published:April 29, 2022
  • Post category:Reports/Tactics

Locations, tackle, and techniques for catching the very exciting "poor man's tarpon"

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Read more about the article Keep On Keepin’ On

Keep On Keepin’ On

  • Post published:April 22, 2022
  • Post category:Reports

Persistence pays off with our target species caught, but on the most unlikely lure

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šŸŽ£ Angling, adventure & conservation!
šŸ“ Severn River, Maryland
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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 šŸ˜‰

#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 3ā€ paddletail gently worked in shallow water. Beautiful stuff

#chainpickerel #fallfishing #autumnvibesšŸ #severnriver #fishon #tugisthedrug #pickerelfishing #catchemifyoucan #chesapeakebay #angling #fishing #reelchesapeake
Fished the home creek and it took a while to find Fished the home creek and it took a while to find them, but in the last hour of light, I moved to the very back of it, where the bit of sun we had today shone the most, and found a bunch of em. A bunch. Landed 5, another 8 shook off. Largest landed only 22.75 but thick and healthy. All hit a white 3ā€ paddletail. It’s so peaceful this time of year. Good clean fun!

#pickerelfishing #severnriver #chainpickerel #slimedarts #novemberfish #ccamaryland #angling #reelchesapeake
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