Features (Fishing)

Article - Sporting Life by Dennis Doyle; , Fishing; by Dennis Doyle - 10/24/13

The Secret of Bait-Casting Reels

Sweet success takes tuning

Easing my skiff up near a Bay Bridge support, I launched the lively Norfolk spot toward the sweet spot where the water eddied behind the down-current side of the concrete pier. I thumbed the spool, directing the baitfish to just the right place, inches from the support.
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Article - Sporting Life by Dennis Doyle; , Fishing; 10/17/13

Bait and Switch

If a rock won’t bite, maybe a bluefish will

Moe and I imagined a fantastic day for rockfish. We had done well the previous afternoon with limits of bright, healthy stripers 26 to 28 inches. Hoping the pods would remain close to those same Bay Bridge structures overnight, we were back on the water early the next morning.

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Article - Boating; , Sporting Life by Dennis Doyle; , Fishing; by Dennis Doyle - 10/10/13

The Father of Bay Charter Fishing

Almost 100 years ago, peolpe were astounded to find such large fish

When Lester Trott, 95 years old this year, was born in Annapolis, the capital city had scarcely 9,000 residents.
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Article - Sporting Life by Dennis Doyle; , Fishing; by Dennis Doyle - 10/3/13

The Deadliest Lure on the Bay

Soft plastics have proved irresistible, with Bass Assassin the tastiest

This early morning I was prospecting for stripers beside a long bulkhead reinforced with large rock piled along the base. The water there was five or six feet deep, then dropped off gradually all the way to the 30-foot depths of the channel 100 yards away.
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Article - Sporting Life by Dennis Doyle; , Fishing; by Dennis Doyle - 9/19/13

White Perch a Pair at a Time

Catch some for now and some for later

It was well after low slack when the incoming tidal current finally began to push me upriver. A light, soft wind from the south drifted my skiff diagonally cross channel and made everything just perfect for what I intended.
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Article - Fishing; , Creature Feature; , News; , People; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 9/12/13

The Capture of Diamond Jim

A first-time Chesapeake fisherwoman from Virginia beats the odds

Diamond Jim has been caught.
True to the legend tagged to him by Maryland Department of Natural Resources, he brought riches to his captor.
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Article - Cooking; , Sporting Life by Dennis Doyle; , Fishing; by Dennis Doyle - 9/12/13

Catch a Big Rockfish?

Try roasting it on a Caja China

We’d had a great day on the water. The bite was good, and we had boated a gorgeous pair of fat stripers, one 27 inches and the other just over 30. It seemed a shame to reduce them to fillets, so I didn’t. Scaling the hefty fish, then eviscerating them and removing the gills, I laid their graceful forms aside and reached for my phone to borrow a friend’s Caja China (pronounced: ka-ha cheena).
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Article - Fishing; , News; , People; by Dennis Doyle - 9/5/13

12-Year-Old Breaks Maryland Largemouth Bass Record

Twelve-year-old Colton Clayton caught a Maryland record largemouth bass while fishing at a farm pond in his hometown of Huntingtown, in Calvert County, on July 31. The fish was 11 pounds, 6 ounces, 26 inches long and 18 inches around. Clayton caught the fish using a spinning rod loaded with eight-pound test line and a plastic worm, rigged weedless and without a weight.
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Article - Sporting Life by Dennis Doyle; , Fishing; by Dennis Doyle - 9/5/13

How the Chesapeake Stacks Up

To a North Sea fisherman, we’re in heaven

I coaxed the bow of my skiff in close to the Bay Bridge piling and shifted into neutral. The tide had slowed to a crawl, and the southerly breeze was still soft, so it was no problem holding our boat a half dozen feet off the down-current side of the piling.
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Article - Cooking; , Sporting Life by Dennis Doyle; , Fishing; , Recipes; by Dennis Doyle - 8/29/13

Dinner at the Rockfish Cafe

Four ways to cook the Bay’s favorite fish

What a year we’ve had for rockfish! In our fifth month of abundance, big fish are still just about everywhere in the mid-Bay, with anglers catching them using just about every method.
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