Fishing Articles

The thousands of rivers and streams in six states and the District of Columbia that drain into the Chesapeake Bay are like the complex network of arteries and capillaries that nourish a living body. When the Chesapeake’s tributaries are troubled, the Bay suffers too. A ripple effect spreads throughout the ecology and economy of the entire 64,000 squaremile Chesapeake Bay watershed.


Over the last decade, one of the most prized freshwater sport-fish species—smallmouth
bass—has suffered fish kills and perplexing illnesses in several Bay tributaries. These tributary rivers include the South Branch of the Potomac River in West Virginia, the Shenandoah and Cowpasture Rivers in Virginia, the Monocacy River in Maryland, and the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania. Problems with the fish have included ...

If there’s a singular concern shared by expert catfish anglers far and wide, it’s the need to keep hooks continually covered with fresh, ‘fragrant’ bait. Misguided notions about stinky stuff aside, catfish love their seafood fresh— as in, buy it right off the boat-fresh.

Where big blues and channel cats are concerned, newly caught fillets o’ fish—skipjack, sucker and shad— ...

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