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FISHING
AT CONOWINGO
Utility company begins work
on $4 million wharf
near dam
on the Susquehanna
By next spring, anglers will likely cast their lines
into the Susquehanna River from a $4 million fishing
wharf now under construction near Conowingo Dam.
Read about it from the
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Man
uses Barbie
fishing rod
to make record catch
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Tidal Potomac Bass
on Feeding Spree
The largemouth bass of the
tidal Potomac have tied on the
feed bag, so to speak. If you
can't get a bite, you're using
the wrong lures or you're
fishing
in the wrong area. Earlier this
week, two of us began the
morning in the Mattawoman Creek
amid a high tide, which normally
is not recommended.
Yet we found some 20 bass using
3/8-ounce Thin-Fin crankbaits in
chrome
with a blue back. All we did is
cast the lures toward a flooded
shore or open
lane in the hydrilla and milfoil
beds, turn the reel handle three
times, then allow the lure to
rise to the top. If nothing
happened, we repeated the three
handle turns. By the second or
third time, a bass had slammed
into the lure.
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9/28/08
Crane Fly
Tipula
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I took this photo of a
cranefly
on the wall of my garage.
A cranefly is an aquatic
insect that spends a good
portion of
its life in the substrate of
streams and is a biological
indicator of fair water
quality.
It looks like a mosquito but
does not bite, and has a
monstrous 3-inch wing span.
Sometimes in the summer
craneflies swarm around our
driveway light at night, as
we have two perennial stream
in
the back-end of our
property.
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(with diesel tractor
on drums)
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Giant prehistoric geese
the size of small plane |
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Coleman Fish
Pen
Micro-Ultralight
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Temperature dip
picks up bay fishing
action |
With Chesapeake Bay
water
temperatures already
slipping
below 80 degrees in
some places, we can
expect
catching to
gradually
improve from now on.
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Optifade by W. L. Gore
Makers of GoreTex
Elkton, Maryland
The Science of
Nothing
Hyper Stealth
BioTechnology
with Science-Based
Validation
For now, thanks to decades
of research into ungulate
vision combined
with the latest in military
concealment technology,
hunters can don a
computer-generated
camouflage with fractal
designs that look nothing
like a shrub or a tree, at
least not to the human eye.
Named Optifade,
it’s being introduced this
fall by
W.L. Gore
(the makers of the
breathable
Gore-Tex rain gear) and
promoted as the first
camouflage scientifically
designed to make hunters
invisible to deer.
http://www.optifade.com/
Recent DNR Meetings with
Recreational and Commercial
Fishermen Leave Yellow Perch
Advocate Hopeful
Being allowed to catch
them for profit is a
privilege, not a right, and
it is up to DNR to “fairly
and equitably” allocate the
resource for various
uses. “Fair and equitable”
are hard to define in
objective terms but most
would agree that what we
have had for decades doesn’t
pass any test for
either term.
The 2008 regulations started
the ball rolling with
significant
cuts in the commercial
effort. By not allowing nets
to be fished for yellow
perch until March 15, many
fish that would otherwise
have been netted
were allowed to spawn first.
Some undoubtedly even made
it past the net gauntlet as
they swam back downstream
toward brackish water to
live for another year and
return to spawn in future
years. Now, DNR is using
2008
data and new analytical
tools to refine regulations
designed to increase the
number of fish and ensure a
sustainable resource for
everyone to enjoy.
Thanks to dedicated leadership
in the fisheries service,
they just might
make it this time. If we
take care of the resource,
we all win. If we let it
die, we all lose. The future
is looking brighter already.
Read More from thebaynet.com
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Snakehead Observation -
Prince George's County, MD
This snakehead was caught Monday morning,
5/19/08 by consultants performing routine
sampling on Northwest Branch in Hyattsville, MD,
a tributary of the Anacostia River. |
 SNAKEHEADS
EVERYWHERE
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