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Maryland Angler's Log - Share Your Catch!To post a report please email your name, hometown, photos, location information, and the content for your report to fishingreports@dnr.state.md.us. All information is optional, but encouraged. Important Note: If anyone in your picture is under 18 years of age, we must have a photo release signed by a parent/guardian before we can post your picture. By sending any photos or art to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources you are giving DNR permission to use the image(s) online and in print. You are also giving DNR permission to distribute the photo for non-commercial purposes to other media, print, digital and television for their use. You are not giving up your copyright, but are allowing the photo(s) to be used for educational and news purposes. All Photos will be made available on Fisheries Service Flickr Page. The Snakehead Contest is being incorporated into an Inland Freshwater Survey on the Volunteer Angler Creel Survey webpage. For 2013 the end-of-year random drawing will include anglers reporting snakeheads to the Anglers Log as well as anglers participating in the Volunteer Angler Creel Surveys. We encourage anglers to continue to report snakehead catches. The information is helping our biologists better understand how this invasive species increases its range. |
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Cody Kahn, Recreational Angler - Total Reports: 1
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Posted on May 8, 2013 | Permalink
Deep Creek Pike
Type: Freshwater
Region: Western
Location: Deep Creek Lake
I caught this 40 inch Northern Pike last fall on Deep Creek Lake. I was fishing with a 7 inch pumpkinseed power worm, and I was using 8 pound test line. The fish took me 45 minutes to land... I released the fish successfully shortly afterI took my fair share of pictures.
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Sheldon Flood, Recreational Angler - Total Reports: 1
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Leo Osman, Recreational Angler - Total Reports: 2
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Brian Gallion, Recreational Angler - Mechanicsville, MD
- Total Reports: 3
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Posted on May 8, 2013 | Permalink
Potomac Bass Fishing in Mallows Bay
Type: Tidal
Region: Southern
Location: Mallows Bay
My friend and I went to Mallows Bay fishing on Sunday and caught some bass and a couple of Snakeheads. The bass were biting on plastic worms and jigs while the Snakeheads preferred plastic worms and chatterbaits. The biggest bass weighed 4 pounds and biggest Snakehead was 5 pounds. Still waiting for the good top water bite.
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Dutch Baldwin, Recreational Angler - Indian Head
- Total Reports: 11
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Posted on May 8, 2013 | Permalink
More Snakeheads This Weekend!
Type: Tidal
Region: Southern
Location: Potomac River
Here are some Snakeheads we shot this weekend. With all the bowfishing traffic in Mattawomen Creek lately, we've been running to Virginia creeks. Myself and buddy Landon Milstead accompanied by his son Hunter Milstead, who was bowfishing for the first time ever, went on a hunt. Wind and a slight chop on the Potomac and we still managed to bring home 3 nice Snakeheads. We saw around 20 but we were on a teaching trip.
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Joe Dutchburn, Recreational Angler - Total Reports: 1
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Jamie DeVan, - Total Reports: 1
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Posted on May 7, 2013 | Permalink
Assateague Flounder Fishing
Type: Coast
Region: Eastern
Location: Sinepuxent Bay
In the photo (From left to right) Jim Findley from Williams Port, Chris Derr from Middletown, and Rob Fullerton (not shown) from Lewes, Delaware successfully limited out Flounder fishing last weekend on the backside of Assateague Island in Sinepuxent Bay. The bite was best two hours before and at low tide using cut Bluefish on a variation of the Assateague rig. All the Flounders caught where keeper size except two.
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Morgan Mericle, Recreational Angler - Total Reports: 1
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Posted on May 7, 2013 | Permalink
Lake Needwood Bite Was good
Type: Freshwater
Region: Central
Location: Lake Needwood
I caught 13 bass at Lake Needwood this past weekend. Boat rentals are finally available. I fished the entire day and the bite was pretty good. I caught them on a plastic worm, wacky rigged senko, and a spinnerbait. I'm Definitely going again.
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Trevor Tufty, Recreational Angler - Total Reports: 8
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Michael Spencer, Recreational Angler - Alexandria, VA
- Total Reports: 4
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Posted on May 7, 2013 | Permalink
Bladensburg Snakehead For Dinner
Type: Tidal
Region: Southern
Location: Bladensburg, MD
After reading about the Snakehead caught at the Bladensburg Marina in a previous post on the DNR page (5/2/2013) I decided to give it a try myself. I grew up in that area and spent most of childhood fishing the Anacostia and the Northwest Branch. I learned from some of the locals that Snakeheads are being caught quite often at the Marina (though not always reported). It took about an hour of casting near the edges of the docks, before I got one to bite on a 4" chartreuse Yamamoto single tail grub. The fight was excellent, and thankfully short lived since it had almost straightened my hook by the end. I took the Snakehead home and performed an amateur necropsy. In its stomach I found a partially digested fish. I also determined it was a female who had recently released her eggs. She made a good meal.
