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Fishing Forecast for August of 2025
This forecast is built from looking back at the past eight years of FishTalk's reports, and does not include the latest angling intel. For current reports please visit our Reports section which is updated weekly. Current reports will be published every Friday by noon and you can sign up for our email list to get an alert as they publish (it's free…
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The Bailing Battle: When Mahi-Mahi Fishing Gets Tough
July 29, 2025
Mahi-mahi may not enjoy the same status as tunas and marlin, but few things get the offshore adrenaline pumping harder than watching a school of green and blue missiles racing for your bait at warp…
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Notes from the Cockpit: Out of the Box Fishing
July 27, 2025
FishTalk’s intrepid Production Director, Kayak Sharpie, and all-around Tech Wiz Zach Ditmars has a chronic angling issue: he changes lures about every five casts. Perhaps a reflection of the ADD…
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Five Best Freshwater Fishing Lures for Beginners
July 25, 2025
What are the five best freshwater fishing lures that every angler should own, whether they usually fish lakes for largemouth bass, cast in creeks and rivers for snakeheads, or anything in-between?…
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Mid-Bay Scuttlebutt: Wrecks on the Chesapeake Bay
January 2, 2022
A common theme from commercial fishermen during the research phase of a 1990s national study of fishing vessel safety was, “We don’t go far offshore, so we don’t need new safety requirements.” Wrong…
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Fishing Videos
January 1, 2022
Rudow's FishTalk is the go-to source for the most accurate, timely, how-to and where-to information about Chesapeake Bay fishing and angling throughout Mid-Atlantic region. If you're looking for…
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Robalo Cayman 266: Hey Man, How ‘Bout the Cayman?
December 31, 2021
It’s easy to be a fan of Robalo boats, especially because they deliver a great bang for the buck, and this has always been particularly true of their Cayman line. When we spent a day aboard the…
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The Greening Ocean
December 29, 2021
Forty-one years reef fishing out of Ocean City, Maryland now. Never know when checkout time is, but I’d sure like to see a bluer ocean before my time’s up. It’s 100-percent doable. Repairing the Mid…
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Adding a Trolling Motor to Your Boat
December 27, 2021
It starts out innocently enough since you don’t need a trolling motor on your center console boat, and you have a Jon boat with a trolling motor for fishing the piers and rivers for white perch with…
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Bayliner E17: An Elemental New Boat
December 25, 2021
This fall Bayliner announced a new addition to their Element line, the E17. Wait a sec — the Element line consists of Bayliner’s deckboats, and their Trophy line is their fishboats. So, why would we…
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