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Show Time: The Bay Bridge Boat Show at Safe Harbor Narrows Point
We love shoreline fishing and kayak trolling, but for many of us no form of fishing is quite as exciting as being on the Bay or along the coast while aboard a boat. And if you don’t yet have a boat or are looking to upgrade, no time or place offers better opportunity than the spring boat show — specifically, the Bay Bridge Boat Show at Safe Harbor…
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Spring Fling: April Trophy Rockfish in Maryland
April 9, 2026
Attention Maryland Anglers: It appears that we may once again legally catch and release rockfish during the month of April in Maryland waters. Chesapeake Bay anglers in the state of Maryland will…
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Snakehead Fishing the Spring Push
April 7, 2026
Snakeheads are a furious, frustrating, and fantastic fish to target. And although this species is still relatively new to Chesapeake country, at this point many of us have been targeting them for…
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Pair Customs 24 DV Center Console: Rugged Customer
April 6, 2026
Some center console boats are built to skim through the waves and some are built to hop across them, but a rare few (these days) are built to squash waves underfoot like bugs. Let me share my Pair…
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Grady-White Freedom 235 Review: Room to Roam
November 1, 2018
Dual console fishing boats work well for bay anglers for a number of reasons, but one of the biggest is that they give you both forward and aft cockpits to cast from. Cabin boats limit you to the…
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Fishing With Spot-Lock and Virtual Anchoring on the Chesapeake Bay
October 28, 2018
After spending the season with a new Minn Kota Riptide Ulterra equipped with Spot-Lock and integrated with a Humminbird SOLIX MEGA SI MFD, Capt. Pete Dahlberg has the scoop on how an electric…
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How to Winterize Your Boat’s Fuel System
October 25, 2018
How to Winterize Your Boat’s Fuel System: A Not-Awfully-Annoying Advertorial Article That You’ll Hopefully Find Helpful. We here at FishTalk believe that the very best way to winterize a boat and…
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Fishing The Eastern Shore Tributaries Part I: The Chester River
October 23, 2018
Thanks to the wonders of geology the Eastern Shore of DelMarVa doesn’t have as many tributaries as the western shore, and those that do exist aren’t as significant in terms of the volume of water…
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Fishing for the Mysterious: Alan Battista on Kayak Fishing
October 21, 2018
  We all fish for different reasons, and I’ve learned that those reasons change as we go through life. Fishing provides a refuge for anyone at any point in their lives, which makes it the greatest…
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Fishing Paradise: Costa Rica
October 19, 2018
Here's how I discovered that Costa Rica is a fishing paradise: the phone rang one cold winter day, and it was Captain Josh Ruskey. He was running the Penguin, a 48' Viking fishing out of the Los…
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