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Chesapeake Bay and Mid-Atlantic Charter Fishing Guide
It's not easy to find the best Chesapeake Bay fishing charter, especially because the Bay is full of knowledgeable guides and charter captains ready to show you the ropes. Narrowing it down to just one can be tough. To help, we've put together a directory of top professional light tackle guides, charter fishing boats, and head boats that can get…
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Spring Fishing Tips for Beginners
April 5, 2026
We’ve been bottled up indoors, the rods and reels have been gathering dust, and the tacklebox is serving as an end table ever since the late fall light tackle bite wound down—but all that’s about to…
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Makaira Boats Gen3 26: Shock and Awesome
April 3, 2026
Where can you find a splash of North Carolina in the southwestern Pacific? Simply head for the Makaira Boats plant in Northland, New Zealand, where the hulls feature Carolina flare. Wait a sec—it…
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LIVE with Lenny
April 2, 2026
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…
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Kayak Camping
February 20, 2021
As an angler who primarily enjoys kayak fishing I’ve spent years exploring the Chesapeake Bay region, and that includes lots of kayak camping trips. Many of my fishing trips start out with long hours…
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FishTalk Magazine Wins Two BWI Awards for 2020 Publications
February 18, 2021
The winners of the 2020 Boating Writers International (BWI) writing contest were announced today, and not one but two awards were bestowed for editorial content appearing in FishTalk Magazine during…
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Notes From the Cockpit: Fishing in the Age of Information
February 16, 2021
It’s been said that a lie travels halfway around the world before the truth can get out of bed and put its pants on in the morning, but we anglers might instead say that the word of a good bite…
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Cedar Point Area Fishing Wrecks and Obstructions
February 14, 2021
Where the Middle Bay ends and the Lower Bay begins depends on one’s point of view. Although I worked in Maryland for a decade while supporting management of dredged material for the Port of Baltimore…
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Mercury V12 600 Horsepower Verado Outboard
February 11, 2021
In February of 2021 Mercury Marine introduced the world’s first V12 outboard engine, the 600 horsepower Mercury Verado. This outboard has been a raging success, changed the outboard engine market as…
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Winter Wreckfish
February 9, 2021
There’s a good weather-window, and you have a serious hankering to run offshore even though warm-water species like tuna and billfish won’t be back for months? If you can make the run to the Norfolk…
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