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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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Paddlers Edge: Winter Kayak Safety
November 9, 2020
When I go fishing I primarily fish out of a kayak, and for that reason I am on the water a lot. In fact, in 2019 I fished over 140 days on a watercraft with another 110 days of stream and pond…
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Winterize a Boat, Chesapeake Angler Style
November 7, 2020
There are many good reasons to winterize your boat: to prevent freeze damage, preserve vulnerable parts and pieces through their winter slumber, and to reduce the boat’s overall weathering. There’s…
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Fishing Foibles
November 5, 2020
There are certain to be a few fishing failures, flops, and fiascos you wish you could forget. You say you want to minimize the mistakes you make and become a better angler? No problem, we’ve got you…
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Notes From the Cockpit: Fish For A Cure is ON!
November 3, 2020
It’s rare that you can get a dozen-plus people to agree on something, and it’s virtually impossible to get tens of thousands to agree on anything. But I’ll bet my bottom dollar that each and every…
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Edgewater 340 CC Center Console: Go Big or Go Home
November 1, 2020
Yeah, size does matter. At least, it does when it comes to center console fishing boats that you’ll want to run in snotty seas and open oceans. But size isn’t everything. The way a boat’s built has a…
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Airplane Wrecks in the Chesapeake
October 30, 2020
There’s nothing plain about three plane wrecks in the Chesapeake Bay, which have turned into fishing reefs. One went down in 1944, another crashed in 1945, and the third in 1989. Other plane crashes…
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