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Chesapeake Bay Wrecks and Obstructions
“We boarded the steamer all happy and gay, and got off in Seward the nineteenth of May,” according to Shorty Gustafson in his folksong Cheechako about newcomers to Alaska. Back when Shorty traveled by steamboat, many vessels didn’t make it to their destinations. Thousands were lost around the nation’s coasts including a Bering Sea crab boat that…
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Tideline 28 Bluewater: Cool new Powercat Coming Soon!
June 25, 2026
The Tideline 28 Bluewater is expected to launch soon. Very soon. Tideline has announced a new model, the 28 Bluewater, expected to be launched this summer. The 28’ long, 10’ wide powercat…
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A Sea Bass Population Boom
June 23, 2026
Recreational anglers have long blamed commercial fishermen for many fisheries ills. Commercial fishers look at vastly inflated MRIP catch numbers and point the finger squarely at recreational anglers…
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Ask an Expert Angler: Captain Tim Blanchard of Fish the Potomac
June 21, 2026
This month we check in with Captain Tim Blanchard of Fish the Potomac. The Fish the Potomac fleet casts into the waters in and around the nation’s capital year-round, targeting multiple species but…
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Snakehead Bowfishing Angler Alert
May 4, 2021
UPDATE 2026 - Statute 4-714 has been amended with subsection (f) which indicates "Subject to Department regulations, a person may use archery equipment to fish for northern snakehead, commonly known…
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Notes From the Cockpit: The Great Chesapeake Invasive Count
May 3, 2021
The dictionary definition of “invasive” includes words like aggressive, hostile, war-like, and disturbing. Those terms certainly fit when describing the invasive species currently attacking the…
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Temperature Breaks for Tuna
May 1, 2021
If you’re going to try some spring trolling for yellowfin tuna, locating and working along temperature breaks is often the key tactic to success. So before making that long run offshore set yourself…
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Trophy Hunter: Catching Trophy Stripers on a Kayak
April 29, 2021
We would have preferred to run this article in the April edition of FishTalk when trophy striper fishing is at its peak in the Chesapeake, but due to the trophy season controversy, recent elimination…
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10 Top Lures for Spring Stripers
April 27, 2021
Every Chesapeake Bay fishing fan and coastal angling aficionado has his or her favorite lures, and that’s one of the best things about fishing — no one’s choices are right or wrong, they’re simply…
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Virginia Triangle Reef: TARAV’s Square Triangle
April 25, 2021
The sky was clear and visibility unlimited on a dark October night in 1978, when the Coast Guard Cutter Cuyahoga was lost in the Chesapeake Bay’s main stem off Smith Point. The 51-year-old, 125-foot-…
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