April 9, 2025
The DelMarVa Peninsula’s Chester River, a major Chesapeake Bay tributary, runs about 43 miles from the entrance off Love Point past scenic small towns, villages, and farmlands. It’s navigable…
April 3, 2025
Catfish are the epitome of a mixed blessing: the blue cats are apex predators ravaging our native fisheries, but at the same time, they provide us with utterly epic fishing opportunities. Both blues…
March 15, 2025
When it comes to fishing for big blue catfish, trophy size fish are utterly huge. Fifty pounds… sixty pounds… topping the magic 100-pound mark—is there an angler alive who doesn’t dream of doing…
February 17, 2025
Upriver the pickerel are pouncing and downriver the redfish are raging. Bass are biting and crappie are cavorting, even as bluefish are busting and croaker are crushing it. When you’re an angler…
January 11, 2025
As a chill creeps into the air pickerel fishing in spots like tidal tributary rivers and the Eastern Shore millponds will only get better and better. And wherever you live in the Mid-Atlantic region…
November 21, 2024
You were heading out for some pickerel fishing and maybe the tackle shop was out of minnow, maybe you prefer fishing artificials, or maybe the bucket spilled in the back of your pickup and you…
November 13, 2024
Wherever you enjoy your Chesapeake Bay fishing and whatever species you hope to catch, when it comes to casting in the shallows, finding fish-attracting structure is often a key to success. And while…
August 21, 2024
Catch the biggest! Catch the most! Out-fish the other guys! Most anglers want to score big on their fishing adventures, with results like these as the goal. So we go cruising for the canyons or…
August 13, 2024
To the human eye, many areas look like good habitat for the fish. But fish are pickier. Typically, they inhabit only a small fraction of the available shorelines. There are things about those small…
July 27, 2024
Docks offer built-in habitat for small fish and crustaceans, which then attracts predator species like striped bass looking for an easy meal or a place to hide from the bright sun. Whether it was…
March 2, 2024
Wrecks and structure that we might routinely pass over in the Patuxent River enroute to the Chesapeake ruins are seldom fished. But when conditions on the Bay main stem are too rough for small…
February 19, 2024
As early spring dawns in the Mid-Atlantic region many anglers from Delaware to Virginia will have the same thing on their mind: the yellow perch run in tidal creeks and rivers up and down the coast…
October 19, 2023
What’s worse than waking up to discover a 20-knot breeze when you’re bound and determined to try some Chesapeake Bay fishing? Not having a backup plan. Push your luck and head for open waters on a…
October 12, 2023
Just south of Annapolis, MD, the South River can be a confounding place to fish whether your'e hoping to slam the stripers, whack the white perch, or set your sights on any of the many other species…
September 17, 2023
We all love Chesapeake Bay Fishing but there’s a huge diversity of Chesapeake Bay fish species to chase after and it can be tough choosing what to fish for on any given day. Catching fish takes a…
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…
August 24, 2022
Tributary light tackle trolling is an excellent tactic to apply when the water begins to cool, the bunker push out of the creeks and rivers, and the striped bass move in to intercept them. Since most…
June 4, 2022
My Brother once commented “Fish are where you find them.” We laughed, but what could be closer to the truth? Striped bass, rockfish as we call them in Maryland, are fairly easy to catch once you find…