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Fishing Forecast for January, 2026
Our timely, up-to-date Fishing Reports are delivered via email and the interwebs every Friday by noon, just in time for weekend fishing adventures. Meanwhile, here's our forecast for the upcoming month of angling based on the recent weather patterns and what we've seen on a month-by-month basis looking back at our eight years of weekly fishing…
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Notes from the Cockpit: Where are the White Perch?
December 28, 2025
Where are the white perch? That’s a question we’ve heard over and over again for several years running. You don’t have to be an old-timer to remember when white perch were so plentiful that catching…
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Paddler's Edge: Dry Suits
December 26, 2025
I have this itch to get out and take a few casts on pickerel at a local lake. Even though it’s cold outside pickerel are still active and relatively easy to catch. But it’s the middle of winter and…
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Winter Blue Catfish: Felines in the Frost
December 22, 2025
We’ve all heard an awful lot about catfish in Chesapeake country the past few years, but even after all the bashing on blues and fixating on flatheads, we’re returning to the topic once more. Why?…
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The Artful Angler, Part I: Custom Fishing Rod Parameters & Parabolics
December 9, 2025
Maybe you prefer custom over mass-produced, maybe you want to give an angler a gift with real meaning, or maybe you just like fishing with the best, and in any of those cases you might want to build…
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White Perch for Christmas
December 7, 2025
As temperatures begin to plummet and anglers start thinking about winter fishing options, we're reminded once again that there's no such thing as the end of the fishing season. Any Chesapeake dweller…
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Cotton Thomas Calvert 16 Skiff
December 5, 2025
After walking through row after row of big, bodacious, multi-engine center console fishing boats at the Annapolis Powerboat Show, it was one of the smallest boats tucked back in a corner that got me…
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Electric Boats for Fishing?
December 3, 2025
If you’ve done any fishing on electric boats you already know that doing so is a tremendous pleasure, as is shutting off the outboard and fishing with an electric trolling motor doing all the…
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LIVE with Lenny
November 30, 2025
Join us on the first Thursday of each month at 6 p.m. for new episodes of LIVE with Lenny. Tune in for an interactive live stream with Angler in Chief Lenny Rudow where he discusses various seasonal…
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Fishing Forecast for December, 2025
November 30, 2025
Most fishing reports that appear in print are generalized, and days or even weeks may have passed before the report gets into your hands. Not so, with our timely, up-to-date Fishing Reports delivered…
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