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>Don’t miss the bluegill spawn

>Posted: Tuesday, July 5, 2011 10:00 am

Don’t miss the bluegill spawn By Jim Gronaw, Tight Lines Carroll County Times | 0 comments

This is one of my favorite times of the entire year because bluegills are spawning in just about every body of water within a 100-mile-radius of Carroll County.

Of course, you don’t have to travel that far to get in on fast paced, hectic action on the prolific panfish. Some of my best waters are just down the street, with small public lakes and local farmponds leading the pack for great fishing for quality sized bluegills.

My love affair with these fish began when I was 5 years old when I caught my first one on a bobber and a worm. To this very day, I haven’t been the same. As I got a little older I started to seek water and places that had bigger and better bluegill fishing….

…The current state record for bluegill came from Deep Creek – an astonishing 3 pound, 7 ounce fish. Closer to home, local farm ponds can yield quality catches of fish up to and exceeding 10 inches in length. Toss in some big red ear sunfish and hybrid sunfish and you’re in for a treat.

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>$10,000 rockfish awaits a lucky angler

>State kicks off annual hunt for ‘Diamond Jim’

By PAMELA WOOD, Staff Writer

Capital Gazette Communications Published 06/01/11

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If you get one

•Tagged rockfish: Do not remove tag. Keep the fish and call the number on the tag so a state official can come and verify your catch. Your fish could be Diamond Jim, worth at least $10,000, or an imposter worth at least $500.

•Citation-worthy fish or crab: You can check in your catch at a number of fishing and sports shops around the state. For a full list of citation sizes and locations of citation award centers, and full rules of the contest, visit the Diamond Jim website at www.dnr.maryland.gov/fisheries/challenge.

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Fishing could be quite a profitable hobby this summer.

The state launched its seventh annual Maryland Fishing Challenge yesterday, and once again, there are tagged “Diamond Jim” rockfish swimming around the Chesapeake Bay worth up to $10,000.

Eight boats ferried Department of Natural Resources biologists around the bay yesterday as they caught and tagged 200 rockfish.

“We’re not trying to make this a reason to go fishing, it just makes it more fun,” said Marty Gary, a DNR fisheries ecologist who runs the contest.

>Ban on felt-soled waders in Md. streams has retailers scrambling

>RACHEL BERNSTEIN The Daily Record
First Posted: March 01, 2011 – 12:50 pm

BALTIMORE — Maryland will become the first state to ban the felt-soled fishing boots that an invasive algae uses to travel from stream to stream. But the ban will have consumers scrambling to replace gear and retailers left with boots they can no longer sell.

The state Department of Natural Resources plans to prohibit wading with felt soles starting March 21 to curb the spread of an invasive organism — called didymo — that gets trapped in damp fibers. When fishermen don’t properly clean and dry felt-soled boots, the algae spreads the next time they wade into a different body of water. So far, there are no effective or proven ways to get rid of didymo once it contaminates the water.

“When you talk about the price of a new pair of waders, what’s at cost here is really the price of clean water,” said Jonathan McKnight, associate wildlife director for the DNR and co-chair of its invasive species matrix team. McKnight said he hasn’t heard many complaints about the new regulation so far, and that even some manufacturers have stopped making felt-soled boots.

Susan Rivers, a biologist with the Maryland Fisheries Service, said she switched to rubber-soled boots before the regulation was announced.

“They are different, but the material you have to get used to, it is just like wearing a different type of boot,” Rivers said. “I know people are concerned, but
ultimately it’s something that will save our waterways.”

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Outdoors commentary: Northern pike, the king of north country fishing

Dick Broden, who was also with us, caught a very nice pike on his first cast to the base of a tree trunk with a white spinnerbait and was immediately dubbed, “The pike King” because he refused to fish for anything else the rest of our stay!

Pike commonly measure 6 feet, in length and I think just such a pike grabbed my little silver spoon when I was casting for smallmouth bass from Jim’s dock on our last trip to visit them a few years ago. Something very big and toothy grabbed the spoon, the ultralight spinning rod strained violently. The drag sang for just a minute and the line broke off.

To my embarrassment, my grandsons were standing beside me as witnesses. Of course, you don’t have to travel all the way to Canada to catch a pike. They are in Deep Creek Lake and throughout Pennsylvania and New York.

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District fishing report – 1-7-11

Friday, January 07, 2011
By Deborah Weisberg
Anglers are advised that changing weather, including the warmup last weekend, has created variable to unfishable conditions on many lakes. Caution should be exercised when venturing onto frozen surfaces…

Deep Creek Lake (Maryland) — Numbers of perch and legal walleyes were iced this week.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11007/1116283-358.stm#ixzz1Ade7zMcL

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Delegate Attends Pro-Sportsman's Legislative Event

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Dec. 30, 2010

Del. Wendell Beitzel and Sen. John Astle, co-chairmen of the Maryland Legislative Sportsmen’s Caucus, gathered with state legislative leaders from across the nation recently at the annual National Assembly of Sportsmen’s Caucuses (NASC) Sportsman-Legislator Summit to address hunting, angling, trapping, and conservation issues in state capitals across the country.

The three-day summit of conservation, industry, and state legislative leaders was held Dec. 6–9 at the Grand Hotel Marriot in Point Clear, Ala. The theme for this year’s meeting, “Yesterday’s Heritage and Tomorrow’s Promise,” describes the mission of the NASC in building upon past successes to address the challenges of the future.

“State sportsmen’s caucuses have made significant strides in the past few years, but this meeting and the issues discussed and debated provide a valuable foundation for our future efforts to promote and protect the interests of sportsmen and women in the halls of state government,” said Rep. Mike Pitts of South Carolina, NASC executive council president.

“It is obvious from the level of support and participation of the hunting and fishing community, that everyone understands the significance of the NASC,” said Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation states director Bethany O’Donovan. “Many of the most important decisions affecting our outdoor traditions are made by state legislators; the policies they craft, debate, and enact will impact every single individual who spends time hunting, fishing, or trapping.”

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Diamond Jim stars in MPT show

Outdoors Girl Blog
November 16, 2010

This year’s Maryland Fishing Challenge and Diamond Jim contest will be featured Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. on MPT’s Outdoors Maryland.

Cameras follow anglers at Deep Creek Lake and Savage River in Western Maryland, as well as at the Bill Burton State Park Fishing Pier on the Choptank River who are trying to reel in fish to win prizes ranging from a cruise to a motor boat and trailer.

The elusive tagged striped bass nicknamed Diamond Jim and worth $20,000 escapes capture for another year.

Watch the half-hour show and maybe you’ll catch a glimpse of yourself catching fish.

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DNR fishing report – Outdoors Girl blog

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FRESHWATER: Trout fishing in the western portion of the state can offer some respite from the heat and plenty of peace since most trout waters are shaded and running cool.

Warm water has made fishing difficult at Deep Creek Lake. has been tough due to warm water temperatures and a lingering fish kill. The upper Potomac River can offer some fun fishing for smallmouth bass in the 12-inch to 14-inch range. The feisty little fish are jumping on a wide variety of lures, such as tubes cast into some of the deeper pools.

Largemouth bass fishing continues to be best in the early morning and late evening hours. Any kind of shade in the form of old docks, overhanging brush or thick grass will be a good place to target. Cool feeder creeks will also attract them.

Bluegills will be holding near lily pad fields or grass edges, offering some good fishing with a light fly rod and rubber-legged poppers, or on a spinning rod with a simple bobber and worm or cricket bait.

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Fishing is apparently still good at Deep Creek Lake

District Fishing Report – Post-Gazette
Friday, July 30, 2010
By Deborah Weisberg

Deep Creek Lake (Maryland): Dave Jenco of Brownsville and Jim Gwynn of Bentleyville won the walleye division of the annual Fish for Life Tournament to benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society with five walleyes totaling 7??-plus pounds. Reuben Johnson of Natrona Heights and Mike Kalafut of Uniontown caught the 3 1/3-pound lunker walleye. The bass division was won by Larry Beckman and Ben Newman, both of Oakland, Md., with four bass totaling almost 13 pounds, including a 4 1/3-pound largemouth that was the tournament lunker. John Richter and Joe Argiro, both of Connellsville, won the miscellaneous division with a 2 1/4-pound chain pickerel.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10211/1076357-358.stm#ixzz0vCDfFN2O

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State replenishing Savage River Reservoir fish

Thousands of largemouth bass, crappie fingerlings added to reservoir
Michael A. Sawyers
Cumberland Times-News

BLOOMINGTON — The Maryland Fisheries Service dumped 12,000 largemouth bass fingerlings and 18,000 black crappie fingerlings into Savage River Reservoir Tuesday in a continuing effort to return game fish to the impoundment that was drained this past winter.

Dave Sein, who works at the Manning Hatchery in Brandywine, drove the fish from Prince George’s County to their new Garrett County home. It wasn’t the first trip.

“We had already stocked 800,000 walleye fry and 25,000 walleye fingerlings along with 25,000 bluegill fingerlings, 9,000 red-ear sunfish fingerlings and 3,850 adult rainbow trout,” Alan Klotz, regional fishery biologist, said Tuesday.

“We will be stocking fingerling warm water fish for the next three years to replenish the fishing in the reservoir,” Klotz added.

Klotz said anglers should not expect much in the way of fishing for the warm water species for a few years. “But once the fish start growing, the fishing will come back quickly, usually peaking about five years after stocking in reservoirs that have been drained. The trout, though, are ready for catching right now.”

The reservoir has returned to full pool, having been drained so that repairs could be made to faulty release gates in the dam.

Klotz said he was surprised that dead fish from the reservoir were not found downstream in the Savage River.

“I expected to find thousands,” he said. “I think they must have washed on down into the North Branch (of the Potomac). We certainly didn’t see dead fish lying on the drained reservoir surface.”

In addition, Klotz said some yellow perch, largemouth bass and smallmouth bass moved upstream in the Savage River during drainage and have likely returned to the impoundment.

Klotz said that initial news about survival of trout downstream of the reservoir is good.

“We had a crew do a quick electrofishing sample and found adult brown and brook trout just about everywhere,” he said. “We probably lost a year of reproduction, but the adult fish seem to have done better than anticipated. When I watched the high flows coming down the river during the draining I didn’t think any trout would survive.”

Klotz said a thorough survey of the lower Savage River will take place in July and will tell the full post-drainage story.

Category: fishing

>Don’t miss the bluegill spawn

>$10,000 rockfish awaits a lucky angler

>Ban on felt-soled waders in Md. streams has retailers scrambling

Outdoors commentary: Northern pike, the king of north country fishing

District fishing report – 1-7-11

Delegate Attends Pro-Sportsman's Legislative Event

Diamond Jim stars in MPT show

DNR fishing report – Outdoors Girl blog

Fishing is apparently still good at Deep Creek Lake

State replenishing Savage River Reservoir fish

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