February 28, 2018
Welcome to almost-spring, fellow FishTalkers! Though standing on frozen lakes and rivers while punching holes through the ice and shivering for hours on end was an awful lot of fun, I can’t say I’m…
February 20, 2018
As we mark our first year of publishing, Rudow’s FishTalk Magazine is overjoyed to announce that we’ve been recognized for editorial excellence thanks to our winterizing article and the Notes from…
February 15, 2018
Editor's note: Since this article was published Seven Marine ceased operation.
Seven Marine shocked the boating world when they first introduced the 557 hp outboard, and today, they roll out the…
February 15, 2018
The big news from the Miami International Boat Show is the introduction of 175 horsepower, 200 horsepower, and 225 horsepower versions of a new V6 Mercury FourStroke outboard engine, complementing…
January 24, 2018
When you shop for a new boat, you’re putting a lot on the line: your hard-earned cash, your future fishing experiences, and your sanity, for example. How can you be sure you make the ideal choice?…
January 22, 2018
Maryland blue crabs are thought to live out their lives mostly in and around the Chesapeake Bay, especially males, which don’t normally migrate beyond the Bay’s confines. Sure, an occasional specimen…
December 21, 2017
NOAA has announced new regulations for anglers who fish for sharks, which become effective on January 1, 2018. These aren't completely unexpected and NOAA has been talking about initiating these…
November 21, 2017
If you enjoy fishing in the Mid-Atlantic region you might just be thinking: to heck with a Christmas goose—what better meal could there be to celebrate the holiday season with, than fresh fish? Crabs…
November 3, 2017
Whether you do your fishing from a 16-foot skiff or a 60-foot battlewagon, it’s likely that as winter draws near you’re thinking about winterizing your boat. The best way to winterize a boat is, of…
September 29, 2017
The Annapolis boat show, properly called the United States Powerboat Show, the first big fall boat show of interest to anglers, is coming our way October 12 – 15. If you’re on the lookout for a hot…
September 26, 2017
This weekend the Coastal Conservation Association of Maryland (CCA MD) hauled their reef ball building trailer up to the Bass Pro Shops in Hanover, MD, where they set up shop and started building…
September 24, 2017
Anglers fishing the Chesapeake Bay for stripers just north of the Severn recently hooked into this rather usual looking mutant rockfish.
This mutant fish was caught on the 40-foot Reel Time, which…
September 11, 2017
At present, the Mid-Atlantic region’s many depleted fisheries are being 'rebuilt' by effort reduction and catch restriction, which amount to regulatory-enforced increases or decreases in our fishing…
August 21, 2017
Honda has just announced that they're introducing three new jet drive outboards, the Honda 40 Jet, Honda 65 Jet, and Honda 105 Jet. Anglers who focus on running rivers with rocky bottoms, like the…
August 16, 2017
Competitive anglers had better look out, because the Woman's Offshore Alliance (WOA, for short) is now entering fishing tournaments in this neck of the woods. And although their tournament debut in…
July 5, 2017
A lot of effort goes into striped bass management in the Chesapeake. Every possible user group clamors for just a bit more of the pie, whether to sell these fish commercially, leave as brood-stock,…
June 8, 2017
When we first dropped a camera to the seabed in 2001 it was because our bottom sampling Ponar Dredge (a small sampling device like a clamshell bucket) was coming up empty—what we called a "water grab…
April 8, 2017
Reefs attract fish, period, and more of them mean more fish, so we were happy to hear today that the Ocean City Reef Foundation hauled a load of 6.8 tons of block to one of their reef building sites…