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Fishing Forecast for June, 2023
Fishing reports published in print are generalized and weeks may have passed before the report gets into your hands, so for timely up-to-date reports, visit our Fishing Reports online. Current reports will be published every Friday by noon — just in time for your weekend fishing adventures. In the meantime, here’s our monthly prognostication.…
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Retrieving for Ribbonfish
May 28, 2023
As the summer sets in and waters warm up, an interesting returning visitor to our Bay in recent seasons has been the long, skinny, indisputably weird ribbonfish (also known as cutlassfish). Many are…
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Defiance 22 Admiral: All Season Angler
May 26, 2023
If you want a fishing boat for Chesapeake Bay fishing with a cabin protecting the helm your choices are pretty limited in this day and age. And if you also want a boat small enough to be easily…
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Fishing Inside the Yeocomico River
May 24, 2023
Among the Northern Neck, VA, tributaries which have extensive oyster farming operations is the Yeocomico River, a small tributary to the Potomac River near its junction with the Bay. This practice…
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Rediculous MRIP Numbers: Notes from the Cockpit
May 22, 2023
We have proof: after years of bemoaning wildly impossible numbers presented by the Marine Recreational Information Program (MRIP) to no avail, there’s now solid evidence that at least some of their…
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Kayak Fishing for West Side Speckled Trout
May 20, 2023
Speckled sea trout, spotted trout, specks, yellow mouths, or whatever you may call them are a fun fish to catch out of a kayak, and you can catch them in relatively shallow water on the central…
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Putting the (Fish) Meat in Meteorology: Fishing and Weather
May 18, 2023
Whether you spend your time Chesapeake Bay fishing or trolling for yellowfin at the canyons, we all love beating up on the weatherman. He’s incessantly inaccurate, speaks with asinine assuredness,…
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Five Critical Fishing Boat Maintenance Tips
May 16, 2023
Whether it’s a brand-spanking-new triple-engine Glitzcraft 1000 or a chalky water-stained wreck of a fishing machine, your fishboat is your fishing freedom. It gets you access to endless angling…
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Suspended Spring Stripers: Catching the SOS
May 14, 2023
Late spring can be a tough time for jiggers, as many of the Chesapeake's striped bass are in small, highly mobile pods that haven’t yet joined up to form big schools. They’re often in open water,…
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Maryland Spring Snakeheads
May 14, 2023
Butch Huber of Reel All American Fishing Ventures on Maryland’s Eastern Shore is a licensed snakehead fishing guide. Butch has a great rep for catching fish and generously donated to FishTalk’s Fish…
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