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LIVE with Lenny
Join us on the first Thursday of each month at 6 p.m. for new episodes of LIVE with Lenny. Tune in for an interactive live stream with Angler in Chief Lenny Rudow where he discusses various seasonal fishing tips and tricks for targeting a variety of fish species. Live viewers can comment on YouTube or Facebook to ask questions in real time, and …
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Fishing Forecast for April, 2026
April 1, 2026
Here's our forecast for fishing in the upcoming month of April based on what we've seen on a month-by-month basis looking back at our eight years of weekly fishing reports, as well as the current…
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Notes from the Cockpit: Change is Coming
March 30, 2026
Greetings, FishTalkers—spring is finally in the air! This winter was a long, tough slog, with fishing somewhere between impossible and miserable much of the time. But in the coming days perch will be…
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New Fishing Gear, Spring 2026
March 28, 2026
Kayak Fishing Book Alert! There's gobs of kayak fishing intel in FishTalk's new kayak fishing guide. You say you wish you had all of the kayak fishing intel ever produced by Team FishTalk within…
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Best Super Cooler Test: Yeti vs. Dometic vs. Engel vs. Otter Box vs. Pelican
July 23, 2022
Yeti, Dometic, Engel, Otter Box, and Pelican, prepare yourself to enter the Thermal Thunderdome and compete in a killer cooler cage match for super coolers. Like it or not, in our gladiatorial arena…
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Urban Opportunity: Baltimore’s Best Kayak Fishing Launches
July 23, 2022
Striped Bass, snakeheads, blue cats, and perch, oh my! The Patapsco’s waters in the shadow of Baltimore provide a ton of potential to score and score big, when you set out from these metro-angling…
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MONSTER Spanish Mackerel
July 21, 2022
Forgive me if you have heard this before, but a long time ago someone told me that the progression from beginner anglers to the uber-experienced goes from any fish to many fish, to big fish, and then…
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Angler's Quiz: Guess the Fish
July 17, 2022
You think you can ID a rockfish from a mile, and can tell the difference between yellowfin and bluefin tuna at a glance? Okay, let’s see what you’ve got. We put the three pictures below in the July…
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Hot New Fishing Gear, June 2022
July 15, 2022
Tackle manufacturers keep up a steady stream of new and improved products, and we keep bringing you the latest and the greatest as quickly as we can. Last month we told you about some cool new…
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The Current State of the Striper Fishery, Habitat, & Forage
July 14, 2022
Part 2 of The Past, Present, & Future of Striped Bass: Chesapeake Perspective focuses on The Current State of the Striper Fishery, Habitat, & Forage. We were very fortunate to have an expert…
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