Sunday, May 27, 2012

How lies about hunters are spread by a national news network Gene Muellers' World of Hunting & Fishing

Maryland hunter safety course instructor Joe Novak is more than a little upset about a web story spread far and wide by FoxNews.com on May 25. If you're a hunter like Joe and I, you will be ticked off, too.

Friday, May 25, 2012

A snakehead is dipped alive, and other tales of fun catches Gene Muellers' World of Hunting & Fishing

Karen Redmon and Dwayne Sullivan were preparing to get on their boat, berthed at Buzz's Marina on St. Jerome's Creek (in St. Mary's County, Md.), when they spotted a good-sized fish in the shallows near the docks.

Maryland DNR begins Diamond Jim fishing challenge
May 25, 2012 08:51 GMT WBFFFox45 Baltimore

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- Maryland natural resources officials say Diamond Jim is on the loose.

The first specially tagged Diamond Jim was among dozens of striped bass released Thursday into the Chesapeake Bay as part of an annual fishing challenge. Anyone who catches the fish wins a prize that increases the longer the fish goes uncaught. Diamond Jim is worth $10,000 to the angler who catches it before midnight June 30.

Fun, fishing and fraternization at Smith Mountain Lake for service members A dozen service members spent the day Thursday on a fishing excursion on Smith Mountain Lake.

By Mark Taylor May 25, 2012 Roanoke Times MONETA — That day's foot patrol in Afghanistan was supposed to be routine for Spc. Joe Yantz and his fellow Army infantrymen, if there can be such a thing as a routine foot patrol in Afghanistan.

Then came the little wall that Yantz had to step over.

The one he didn't get over.

Free fishing first kicks off June

Thursday, May 24, 2012 Virginia Gazette From Virginia Marine Resources Commission
Virginians may fish without a license during the first weekend in June. The state will offer free fishing days, June 1, 2 and 3, 2012. Virginians can enjoy the great outdoors with family and friends without having to spend money for a saltwater license.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Bob gets his first snakehead and the first local flounder is caught Gene Muellers' World of Hunting & Fishing

Here's Bob Lunsford, who retired from being chief of Maryland's freshwater fisheries. Those are not two big black holes in his head. I believe those are sunglasses, but can't be sure.

Outdoors: The Bluegill is a Central Virginia favorite

By: JIM BREWER | Daily Progress outdoors columnist
Published: May 23, 2012

For the past couple weeks, we have reviewed a few of the various gamefish available in Central Virginia. So far, catfish and trout. This week we’ll discuss one of the most popular gamefish of all — the bluegill.

That’s right, bluegills are gamefish, and what they may lack in size, they make up with spirit. On the end of a light rod, pound for pound, bluegills are as tough as they come.

Bill Cochran's Outdoors: Hunters and anglers still in the conservation business Thursday, May 24, 2012 The Roanoke Times

By Bill Cochran Outdoor sportsmen often look back 50 years and more to the golden era of conservation, when their efforts restored waning populations of deer, turkeys, bear and other wildlife.

Ken Perrotte’s Outdoors Column: Backlash halts fish-transfer tournament 5/24/12 Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star

Organizers are pulling the plug on a unique Rappahannock River bass fishing tournament scheduled for this weekend after discus-sing the planned event’s downsides with fellow anglers.

The tournament concept was to catch fish in the lower river (primarily around Tappahannock), then transport them at the end of each day for release in the Leedstown area, a stretch of river that many bass fisherman say has diminished greatly over the last 15 years in terms of largemouth bass in the area.

Monday, May 21, 2012

There were turkeys, croakers, trout, snakeheads -- you name it Gene Muellers' World of Hunting & Fishing

Our friend, Dr. Jack Scanlon, proved once again that you don't have to head into high country to get a turkey. He shot this fine tom on Maryland's Eastern Shore during the state's spring gobbler season.

Speak Out: Is the Occoquan Reservoir a Good Fishing Spot?

Someone on Yahoo! Answers wants to know.

Outdoors Report for the week of May 20

By Lee Tolliver
The Virginian-Pilot
© May 20, 2012

It was 11 years ago when Chris Vitovich’s close friend died from cancer.

Vitovich had vowed days earlier to hold a fishing tournament in his hunting and fishing buddy’s honor.

It was a brutal undertaking for Vitovich, who was trying to recover from back surgery.

He ran most of the first tournament laying on a cot under a tent at West Landing Marina.

Chickahominy Lake Fishing Report – May 21, 2012

Posted on May 20, 2012 by Capt. Art Ed Allens Campground

Capt. Art Conway of Conway’s River Rat Guide Service (804-746-2475) out of Ed Allen’s Boats and Bait reported that Chickahominy Lake mid-day main lake water temperatures were in the low to mid 70’s last weekend. The lake level was about 6 inches above the top of the dam. The water was dark but not muddy in the lower lake, but was slightly muddy up some of the creeks.

Most crappie and a few white perch were around the creek mouths and on mid-depth wood cover in the main lake. Crappie and white perch were hitting live minnows,

Potomac ‘most endangered’? Just hype.

Washington Post By Robert McCartney, Published: May 19 Just because you’re promoting a worthy cause doesn’t justify distorting the truth.

That’s a principle violated in Washington perhaps more than anywhere, and most recently in an attention-grabbing report by an environmentalist organization declaring the Potomac to be “America’s #1 Most Endangered River.”

Elk begin road to recovery in Virginia State game officials and wildlife enthusiasts welcomed the release of 11 elk in far Southwest Virginia.

By Mark Taylor May 19, 2012 The Roanoke Times GRUNDY -- After a three-hour ride and an overnight stay in a livestock trailer, the five elk should have been eager for freedom.

But when the trailer door opened, there they stood.

"You always have a couple," Virginia wildlife official Bob Ellis said, shaking his head and smiling lightly.

Outdoors: Other options heat up on bay

Posted: Saturday, May 19, 2012 By Chris D. Dollar For The Capital If there’s a silver lining to temperamental trophy rockfish season, perhaps caused in part by the unreasonably mild winter that inspired big stripers to spawn early and hit the road, it’s that our summer swimmers have arrived earlier than usual.

Man's huge fish may not be certified

Published: May 18, 2012 at 3:54 PM

Juan Duran of Annandale, Virginia. (Family photo via Washington Post)

WOODBRIDGE, Va., May 18 (UPI) -- A Virginia angler said his catch of an 18 pound, 4 ounce snakehead in the Occoquan River may have been a world record, but it will likely not be certified

'Frankenfish' found in Potomac River may break world record

Wednesday - 5/16/2012, 5:01am ET Michelle Basch, wtop.com WASHINGTON - A stunning new world record may have been set in the D.C. area.

A northern snakehead fish, which some people call "Frankenfish," was pulled out of a tributary of the Potomac River by a Woodbridge man. The fish, which isn't supposed to live in the D.C. area, weighed in at more than 18 pounds.

Bill Cochran's Outdoors: Drum fishing on Virginia’s Coast comes in two colors

By Bill Cochran May 17, 2012 The Roanoke Times In May, the coast of Virginia offers world-class fishing for red and black drum along the barrier islands of Eastern Shore and in the Chesapeake Bay. You can catch fish weighing 25 to more than 80 pounds in small boats without taking long runs to deep, offshore water.

Outdoors: There is still plenty of good trout fishing spots out there

By: JIM BREWER | Daily Progress outdoors columnist
Published: May 16, 2012

Since the Game Department began their year-round stocking program with unannounced and random stops, trout fishing in the put-and-take streams has evolved into a pastime devoted mainly to retirees, the unemployed and those who have friends at the hatcheries, and know the daily destinations of the trout trucks. Many ordinary anglers have stopped trout fishing and have turned their attentions to spring gobblers or to the warm water game fishes.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

What to do with all those alien fish species in the Potomac Gene Muellers' World of Hunting & Fishing

Long-time tidal Potomac River fans are not surprised when they hear that this historic river might be home to more alien than native fish species. For example, the most popular fish in the upper, tidal parts of the Potomac is the largemouth bass. It draws an ever-growing number of anglers from all over, yet the largemouth is not a native species.

Monday, May 14, 2012 Fishing is fine from the Potomac to the end of the Chesapeake Gene Muellers' World of Hunting & Fishing

Larry Horne (left) and Charles Southall (right) show off the black drum they caught in the lowest parts of the Chesapeake Bay. In the middle, Hunter Southall, Charles' son, latched onto a nice red drum. By the way, both fish species taste about as good as any fish will ever taste.

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Do bass anglers remember Virginia's Back Bay? Here's an update Gene Muellers' World of Hunting & Fishing

In 2009, the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (DGIF) began a 3-year largemouth bass stocking project in Back Bay with an experimental stocking of approximately 75,000 surplus largemouth bass. For those of you who do not know Back Bay, it is a huge, grass-infested area very close to the Atlantic Ocean side of the state and sits just a bit north of North Carolina's famed Currituck Sound.

Safety: Be Careful Boating on the Potomac

Nice weather means more people, more boats and more danger.

Fairfax County fireboats will be on safety patrol on Saturday, May 26, along the Potomac River in the Mason Neck area.

Fairfax County Fire and Rescue has a few fundamental tips for boaters before they embark on voyages:

Thursday, May 10, 2012

The snakeheads are everywhere and rockfish catches perk up

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