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While striped bass stocks may be depressed and our summer fishery certainly isn’t what it once was, we here in Chesapeake country are still major-league lucky. Even though the big, beautiful trophy fish head north every year they’re also guaranteed to come back. And while we can’t be assured of the exact timing, we know for a fact that we’ll get a…
November 23, 2025
You say you want a center console fishboat big enough to sport triple-wide seating at the helm, room for multiple anglers on the bowdeck, livewell space for dozens of baits, and tuna-sized fishboxes…
November 21, 2025
Knowing how to fish a warm-water discharge stream greatly increases the probability of a successful fishing trip, which ceretainly applies to fishing at the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant (CCNPP…
November 19, 2025
If you read the FishTalk fishing reports on a regular basis there’s a good chance you’ve seen the term “jerkbait” pop up plenty of times, and if you want to catch more, bigger fish, jerkbaits…
October 12, 2025
We interrupt our regularly scheduled boat reviews to bring you this news flash: OOPS! We haven’t covered a bass boat in years, and there are gobs of anglers in our region who find these finely honed…
October 10, 2025
The month of Rocktober used to bring wide-open bites with frenzied striped bass churning water under diving birds all up and down the Bay. And this year we might see that happen, but during the last…
October 8, 2025
It’s Saturday, July 19. The weather forecast is for low winds, calm seas, and cooler temps than we’ve been having all summer thanks to cloud cover, but no chance of rain. I’m taking a few friends…
October 6, 2025
If you’ve never been waist deep in a river battling with an angry smallmouth bass as he barrels his way downstream, don’t fret. In just a few minutes, you’ll have everything you need to start wade-…
October 4, 2025
What happens when you take a boatbuilding team with multiple lifetimes of experience, give them a blank slate, and tell them to design the most magnificent no-holds-barred fishboat on the face of the…
October 3, 2025
You say you plan on wrangling rockfish and chasing cobia from a red-hot new fishing boat next season, but you’re not sure what to get? Never fear, dear boat shopper: the Annapolis Powerboat Show is…