Middle River fisherman earns FishMaryland’s seventh Master Angler Award

BALTIMORE, MD—A Middle River man has become the latest angler to win a prestigious award from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Zeljko Koretic has earned a Master Angler Milestone Award under the Maryland DNR’s FishMaryland program. The award recognizes recreational anglers who catch ten different species of fish in Maryland at trophy-size length. Koretic is the seventh Master Angler […]

Essex-Middle River Fishing Club to hold fishing flea market at Rosedale VFC in March

ROSEDALE, MD—The Essex-Middle River Fishing Club will be holding a flea market at the Rosedale Volunteer Fire Company next month. The event will be held from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 9 and Sunday, March 10, 2024. Organizers say the event will be the “biggest fishing flea market north of the Key Bridge,” and will feature fishing […]

Bethesda angler catches Maryland state record rainbow trout

BALTIMORE, MD—The Maryland Department of Natural Resources has recognized Jean-Philippe Lartigue of Bethesda as a new state record holder for rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in the Nontidal Division. Lartigue caught a 17.44-pound rainbow trout February 10 in the section of Antietam Creek running through Devil’s Backbone County Park in Washington County. Lartigue was fishing with a long, 12-foot crappie-style rod, […]

Baltimore County resident earns FishMaryland Master Angler award

BALTIMORE, MD—Tim Campbell of Phoenix, Baltimore County, has earned a Master Angler Milestone Award under the Maryland Department of Natural Resources’ FishMaryland program. The award recognizes recreational anglers who legally catch ten different species of fish in Maryland at trophy-size length. Campbell is the fifth Master Angler since the program began, and achieved the award with a confirmed catch of […]

Harford County angler catches Maryland state record rock bass

BALTIMORE, MD—The Maryland Department of Natural Resources has recognized Thomas Over Jr. of Darlington as a new state record holder for rock bass (Ambloplites rupestris) in the Chesapeake Division. Over caught a 1.0-pound rock bass January 6 in the lower Susquehanna River. Over was fishing with a light spinning rod and jigging for yellow perch when he hooked the large […]

Maryland pursuing actions to control invasive catfish after federal fisheries disaster declined

BALTIMORE, MD—Last month, the U.S. Department of Commerce notified Maryland Governor Wes Moore that it had declined Maryland’s request for a federal commercial fisheries disaster declaration that was sought to help address the economic and ecological damage caused by the spread of invasive catfish and snakeheads in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Maryland made the unique request in March as a […]

Anglers set two new Maryland state fishing records

OCEAN CITY, MD—Two new records for new species have been established in the Atlantic Division of the Maryland state fishing records program. Angler Chris Stafford of Cherry Hill, N.J. caught a pompano dolphinfish (Coryphaena equiselis) weighing 2.0 pounds on September 20, and Ellicott City resident Stephen Humphrey caught a great barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda) weighing 13.0 pounds on October 6. Both […]