Fishing News for Mid-Atlantic Anglers

October 14, 2018
How to stop a Boat From Sinking: A FishTalk Actually-Helpful-Not-Just-Annoying (we promise!) Special Advertorial Section, including 5 tips on how to keep your boat from sinking. If you ever…
October 4, 2018
Fall is an awesome time to buy a new boat. Some dealers are looking to unload last year’s models so good deals abound, and other have just received hot new offerings for the next model year that are…
October 2, 2018
Most people outside the marine industry don’t pay attention to the National Marine Electronics Association’s annual trade show (the NMEA show) but this is where some hot news gets made each and every…
September 29, 2018
My Chesapeake Bay fishing fishing friends, it’s time to rejoice! Fall is here and the surface of the Chesapeake is alight with boiling stripers. Sweetwater and salty species alike are feeding hard…
September 13, 2018
Call them dolphinfish, mahi-mahi, dorado, doe-does, or whatever you like, if you enjoy fishing for mahi-mahi you’ll find the discoveries made by the Dolphinfish Research Program over the past year…
August 22, 2018
One of the best things about living in this region is the cuisine, especially enjoying our catch after a day of crabbing, and today we're going to bring a brand new recipe to the world: the…
August 6, 2018
As we’ve stated time and again, FishTalk’s overarching goal is to help you catch more, bigger fish, particularly by feeding a steady diet of how-to fishing and where to fishing articles on top of…
July 21, 2018
With the Mid-Atlantic summer offshore fishing season in full swing, we wanted to follow up on earlier articles like How to Catch Tuna: Trolling, and Offshore Trolling: The Art of the Mixed Spread,…
July 7, 2018
If you pay any attention to the never-ending struggle to improve water quality, wildlife populations, and the environmental health of the Chesapeake Bay – and as an angler in the Mid-Atlantic region…
July 2, 2018
Dirty little secret time: I hate fishing tournaments. Yup, it’s true. If there’s one thing I don’t need to add to my fishing-time, it’s stress. And I have to admit that fishing tournaments do bring…
June 19, 2018
The fastest growing collegiate team sports in America are rugby, lacrosse, and… bass fishing? Yes, bass fishing, which first became a college sport of sorts in 1992 when students from Purdue…
June 15, 2018
It’s important for participants in the CCA Maryland tagging program to understand how to tag striped bass, so FishTalk angler in chief Lenny Rudow brought aboard Mike Brupbacher, CCA Maryland’s…
May 19, 2018
Mercury Marine introduced a new line of V6 four-stroke outboard engines in 2018, followed that up with a new line of V8 outboards in 250 FourStroke and 300 FourStroke sizes, then a lineup of V10 350…
May 18, 2018
The Yamaha F425 XTO Offshore V8 outboard eclipsed the Yamaha F350C as this engine manufacturer's biggest offering on the water when it was introduced, but then it didn't take long for the F450 to set…
May 14, 2018
On top of the how-to, where-to fishing info found at FishTalk, you may have noticed that we usually try to include at least one feature article in every edition that has an environmental and/or…
May 9, 2018
As you all know by now, Lefty Kreh left this earth on March 14, 2018. He took his last breath around 1:30 p.m. surrounded by his family, without pain or suffering. The loss to the fishing community…
May 3, 2018
5/16/2018 Update: Mandatory circle hook use is now officially in effect! 5/3/2018 Update: The DNR announced today that the Joint Committee has approved the regs outlined below, and will put them…
March 30, 2018
The Bay Bridge Boat Show is coming up, and anyone shopping for a hot new ride should check out our Fishboat Reviews, read up on the latest in marine powerplants, and walk the docks with an in-depth…