Volume 27, Number 8 FREE February / March 2018

In This Issue... • Upper Bay through the seasons • First State Bass FREE • NEW TRAILHEADS!!! • The Next Generation?

February / March 2018 www.fishingandhuntingjournal.com 1 Gerald Eldreth from Elkton, MD with his first Musky. He caught it through the ice on Marsh Creek in PA on January 7, 2018. The Fantastic December Cecil County goose hunt and a bonus Mal- true musky ate a big shiner using a tip-up with a wire leader. It lard. All birds were taken with 410 shotguns. Photo by Roger measured 36 inches and was released. Photo by Tim Smith. Everett

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Then the big females make a beeline for the ocean and head north. “Campbell’s Catch” In May black drum fishing turns on near Stone Rock, located southwest Upper Bay Fishing of Tilghman Island. Black drum can be caught well into June at the bay through the seasons bridge and points north. Love Point and Belvidere Shoals are proven areas to find drum. By this time, many other species including bluefish, croaker and red drum have made their way into the Joe Yack holding a Susque- One of the perks of living in the up- water is still usually cold, but the op- upper bay. Some years are better than per bay area is the variety of year-round portunity for catching (and releasing) others. That’s fishing. hanna Flats striper prior to its fishing opportunities. Winter, spring, a big striper is there. Eager anglers go safe release. summer and fall, from yellow searching for stripers in March, but the July to September to striped bass, enjoy fishing them all. consistent bite doesn’t start until April. Summertime fishing in the upper kids involved in fishing. The Coastal Conservation Association of Mary- January to March April to June bay can be phenomenal. To avoid the heat of the day, mornings and evenings land, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the Maryland Fishing for yellow perch is a popular Spring is perhaps the best season are the best times to fish. Summer is when southern species like Norfolk Saltwater Sportfishing Association are wintertime tradition. Whether from a to fish. There are so many species to just a few of the organizations which boat or a pier, yellow perch fishing in target, yet so little time. By April the spot and Spanish mackerel visit the upper bay. Jumbo spot are tasty, al- sponsor kids fishing days. Passing the upper bay can be great this time water temps are getting warmer and all on the fun of fishing is gratifying. It’s of year. Countless perch school in the species of fish are stirring. In between though anglers in the know like to live-line spot to entice hungry stripers. priceless to see a child catch their first early season striper trips, I fish for shad. fish and call out, “I’ve got one!” The area directly below Conowingo Striped bass readily eat spot, in spite of it being attached to a . A Dam is a good spot for American and October to December Hickory shad. Shad darts and small big spot is 10 inches long, not too big for a greedy striper, but four to 8-inch spoons are popular, but my lure of October is my favorite month to fish. choice is a #13 Tony spoon. Tony spot work best for live-lining. Lots of people turn to crabbing in The hungry predators that followed the spoons of all sizes have fooled many baitfish and migrated to the upper bay fish. Incidental catches might include the summer when blue crabs infiltrate upper bay waters. Whether baited with during the summer are on their way out. catfish, smallmouth bass or big stripers. Baitfish swim to the mouths of rivers The mouth of Deer Creek is a favorite chicken necks or salted eels, using trot lines or traps, upper bay crabbing is and into the main bay as the water area among shad anglers. Some folks cools. Resident stripers sensing the Upper Bay wintertime yellow like to fly fish for shad, but many prefer usually very good through October. In fact, fall is the time for some of the approach of winter, form schools and perch. Photo by Joe Yack. a light spinning outfit. For more shad feed heavily. Last fall, large schools of fishing opportunities, try the Bush heaviest crabs of the season. Summer is also a good time to get 18 to 28-inch stripers prowled the upper lower Susquehanna River. and Gunpowder rivers on the western bay for ten straight weeks. Slow-rolling small plastic lures in 5 to 35 feet depths shore, and the Northeast and Sassafras skirted swim baits on light tackle rods is a productive tactic. My personal best rivers on the eastern shore. worked well. A surprise catch of small 14-inch yellow perch was caught 8 feet White perch move into the lower weakfish jigging metal lures in the deep in early February. It bit a hand- Susquehanna and other upper bay deeper waters near the channel edges tied fly dressed with a small plastic rivers about the time the shad run is was a bonus. Also known as Grey trout, curly-tailed grub. Photographing and ending. Perch are abundant, easy to weakfish are rarely seen in the upper releasing it was a thrill. Steady perch catch and good to eat. Use the same bay anymore. action continues through the winter. tackle for perch as for shad. November fishing is just as good Fertile yellow perch move to their The opening day of trophy striped as October in the upper bay, but by spawning grounds in March. After the bass (catch and keep) season occurs December the fishing is more linked spawn, the yellow perch scatter and are in the main bay in mid-April from the to the weather. Warm Decembers harder to catch. Brewerton Channel (mouth of Patapsco spell good fishing, whereas in cold March 1st marks the beginning of River) south. Boaters trolling big lures Tim Campbell with black Decembers the fishing slows down a striped bass fishing in search of trophy stripers dominate lot faster. Whatever the season, the on the Susquehanna Flats. Granted, the the bay. By mid-May, most striped bass drum caught at Stone Rock. time to fish is now.

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A word from our Pastor- What a blessed promise is found in Psalm 27:10, “When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.” As a Pastor, I’m occasion- ally asked to officiate at funerals and have often used this verse to comfort grieving families.

Volume 27, Number 8 February / March 2018 The trials of this life are many, and lonely is the path that so often we walk. Everyone needs help, strength and encouragement in this life. Isaiah tells us in Chapter 40 that the youths will fail and the young shall fall but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. FISHING Upper Bay Fishing Through The Seasons Trusting God gives us three dimensional strength: strength to fly above the by Tim Campbell Page 3 cares of this world, strength to run and finish the course that God has put before us, and strength to walk the path that He has chosen for us.

First State Bass Why do we that know God, still seek our own way out? Why do we not look to by Tim Sherman Page 6 the strong arm of Jehovah to help us? We have become too busy to learn to trust God and walk by faith, too busy making money to buy things we, many times, don’t need, to impress people we don’t even know. We are all pretty well frayed My 2018 New Year’s Resolutions in this pandemonium of life. by Mark Galasso Page 7 How good it would be for us in this “one nation under God” to trust in Jehovah’s might and not in our own wisdom. Calm yourself and realize God is in control. Then yield to Him and give Him first place in your life. Relax and throw open the window of your soul and let the cooling breeze of God’s peace be yours. He who rules Israel does not slumber, nor does He sleep. He has never failed His HUNTING own. by Grant Soukup Page 17 NEW TRAILHEADS!!!! MEL BRINDLEY Pastor Chestertown, Md., Baptist Church REGULARS Coastal Report by Capt. Mark Sampson Page 18

The Last Word by Steve Huettner Page 20

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Eddy will enjoyed their spring trip to Delaware also move away from the shoreline to ponds for nearly three decades. That is the first drop to target bass that have a testament to the area’s quality fishing. yet to move shallow. They have fun with non-monetary side Even in late March and early April, wagers and good-natured kibitzing, Sulewski will be looking for a topwa- yet they take their fishing seriously. dent, thought, that once he has found ter bite. He says it’s not a given; but Eddy prides himself on picking up As a , I have two opposite a pattern in one pond, it should hold if conditions are right, bass will bust the pattern quickly and employing feelings about the extreme cold winter true when moving on to the next one. a bait on the surface. If Eddy notices his favorite baits. It’s the angler who weather: Wanting to do anything with Eddy’s first approach is to cover lily pad stems on the surface, he’ll catches the biggest and most bass rod and reel is absolutely out of the water with search-type lures. His swim a Stanley Ribbit through them. who enjoys the bragging rights until question, and I really can’t wait to favorite lure is a . He He’ll also fling the frog to pond scum the group returns the following year. cast a line for the first time this year. will retrieve it slowly in deep water and over stump flats. It is usually and I believe many mid-Atlantic fisher- first. If no bites are had, he will run evening bite, after a pond has warmed men feel the same way. One particular it through more shallow water to see bass angler and his club always have if bass have moved up. He does not a destination in mind for their first use just one spinnerbait. His choice trip of the year. Eddy Sulewski and is determined by water clarity. For his bass fishing friends hook up their dingy water, his spinnerbait will have boats – a few hook up to camping a bright skirt and rounded blades for trailers – and head to the central and maximum vibration. In clear water, southern Delaware ponds. he chooses subdued skirts and willow Eddy says that 2018 will be the blades. Eddy does have a few old and 28th anniversary of the trek to set cherished Mann’s Classic the hook into the year’s first bass. with the unique teardrop rear blade. The several-day event coincides with He finds that Delaware pond bass are Easter weekend. That means they quite fond of them. head to Delaware anytime between Sulewski also uses a rattle trap as late March to mid-April. Ponds such a search bait. He cranks it in shal- as Trap, Killen, Coursey, and Hearns low flats for bass that suspend by the all hold bass and special meaning for flooded tree stumps. He also probes the club members. 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6 www.fishingandhuntingjournal.com February / March 2018 some things you would do differently great. If not why not use the New Year as well. Every day we go out we have to come up with your plan? As for me. “Tuna The Tide” a plan. It may change as soon as we Hopefully I won’t be writing the same get on the boat, but it’s always good to thing in January of 2018. My 2018 New Year’s have some basic ideas that guide you Resolutions through the day. If you feel your ready,

By Captain Mark Galasso Every New Year I make the same times have you ever said “I’ll never do resolutions. I’m going to eat healthy that again!” Yup. I thought so. and lose weight. Get rid of stress. One of my pet peeves is the old run Eliminate debts. The usual wishes. and gun. I try not to do it but sometimes And the fact is I start out doing all it’s just hard not to. You know the drill. those things with great intentions. And The fish pop up a few hundred yards by March I’m usually seeing decent away. You put the hammer down to be results. But the fact is if the past is any the first one there. It look like four year indication, come January 1st, 2019 I’ll olds playing soccer. Except the ball can be right back where I started from. disappear in a heartbeat and everyone However, as I sit here staring across is standing around with nothing to do. the frozen tundra that is my front yard Thankfully the Markley isn’t that fast I’m trying to think of what I could so I’m never going to be the first one to improve on in my fishing life. So here the birds. My stealth is out of necessity are some ideas I hope to implement for not choice. By the way. Do you know the 2018 fishing season. At this point what is worse than a small boat run and we can call them resolutions. gun? A big boat run and gun! Though The first thought that comes to I must admit it’s interesting watching mind is preparation. I am going into a dozen smaller boats trying to recover this season better prepared than ever from being waked by the monster that before. Both boats will be ready. I made ran through them at 20 knots to get to a Christmas list to myself and have a dozen birds. Tackle boxes and rods Hunter Gottleib already initiated some major repairs strewn all over their decks as they is a little in and improvements. Ironically, this point to the offender. Funny how they should help relieve a lot of stress go- never point with the finger god des- disbelief that his ing into the season. And as any boater ignated specifically for pointing! The Mom would wear knows when your stuffs not quite right only saving grace is knowing that the it’s hard to relax. And when you have offender will probably get their slam a pink hat hunting paying customers on board it adds a the big diesel into reverse and scatter with him for geese. whole new layer of stress to the day. all the fish anyway. The rest of us just Another resolution I hope to imple- have to find the pieces of that school. ment is the old “Don’t leave fish to find I have pretty good electronics. Most But the results look fish.” Every time in the past I have charter boats do. But I’m going to have done this I regret it. The only exception better. And I’m going to get better at good from the pic- to this rule will be if we have a limit using them. I have a 48 mile open array ture above. and just feel like exploring or catch- radar. I should be able to find a beer ing something else. A close cousin to can at 2 miles. But I’ve never really this rule is chasing reports. We all do become proficient at using it to find Erin, her husband some fact finding using radios and birds. I hope to change that. I’m also cell phones. And that’s just fine. But adding two more fish finders so that Jessie and family when the going gets tough and you once I get there I shouldn’t have any run Good Times start second guessing every move you problem finding the fish. I’m going to make it can make for a long day. It’s upgrade my old Furuno unit. It was like a dog chasing it’s tail. He becomes one of the old CRT tube screens. After Catering on the exhausted and doesn’t accomplish a 21 years you can still see how deep darn thing. There is nothing worse in the water is if you squint really hard. Eastern Shore my mind than running to a friend’s Not so good any more for finding fish. hotspot only to watch them leave Think about your experience on the of Maryland. because the bite is over. How many water in 2017. I’ll bet you can think of Wink’s Sporting Goods Arundel Firearms & Pawn Wink’s would like to thank 7427 Baltimore Annapolis Blvd, Glen Burnie, MD Somerset County Young Farmers - Somerset County Farm Bureau - GUNS - - Wicomico Young Farmers and BOUGHT • SOLD • TRADED • PAWNED Mid-Atlantic Farm Credit for Scope Mounting their Donations to -USED GUNS- Specialty & Hard to Find Ammunition Our Big Doe Contest Rifles • Shotguns Complete Black Powder Lay-Away Gunsmith 410-621-0400 - Princess Anne, MD - [email protected] Handguns • Barrels 410-761-6381 Service February / March 2018 www.fishingandhuntingjournal.com 7 Discount for youth hunters! Self Proclaimed “Deaf Sneakhead and Deer Bucthering Slayer” Walk in Freezer Available Now! Chris Flurer 2718 B North with some of his Point Blvd. 2017 catches. Dundalk, MD 410-282-1118

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February / March 2018 www.fishingandhuntingjournal.com 11 Duck Hunter Rescued From Icy Patapsco River An Anne Arundel County man was rescued Thursday morning from the ice-clogged Patapsco River as he clung to the his overturned kayak. Randall Heath, 46, of Pasadena fell from his boat while duck hunting about a quarter-mile offshore. His life jacket did not inflate and could not get back inside. A Maryland Natural Resources Police officer patrolling nearby heard emergency radio calls from Anne Arundel Fire Department and launched a patrol boat from Stoney Creek. Battling through ice floes up to six inches think, the officer reached the scene in 15 minutes. “I didn’t see anything — it was a field of ice,” Officer Antonio Colvin said. For 10 minutes, he methodically searched the area until a firefighter on shore guided him by phone to the victim. Colvin came alongside the nearly submerged kayak, where Heath was trying desperately to stay afloat. The officer maneuvered the victim to the stern of the patrol boat and tied a rope to his belt loops to keep him from sinking. From there, he wrestled Heath aboard. “It was amazingly difficult to get him in,” Colvin said. “Luckily, the ice quickly reformed around my hull and gave me a nice, level, steady playing field to get him in.” Meanwhile, Anne Arundel County firefighters in survival suits launched a dinghy and began rowing to the scene. Colvin picked them up and they began reviving Heath, who was shivering uncontrollably and unable to speak. The patrol boat fought its way through the ice to the Atlantic Marina Resorts docks on Knollview Avenue in Pasadena, where emergency medical technicians were waiting. Heath was taken to University of Maryland Baltimore-Washington Medical Center for evaluation and further treatment of hypothermia and a broken hand. Acting on citizen complaints, officers charged a Dorchester County Thursday with hunting violations in an Anne Arundel County neighborhood. Thomas John Piezchalski Sr., 61, of Rhodesdale, received citations for hunting without a license, failing to obtain a federal waterfowl stamp and hunting without a Maryland Migratory Game Bird Stamp. Jerry Sears bagged this heavy 8 point on a family farm in Talbot Officers set up early-morning surveillance in the area of Stoney and Cox creeks County on opening day of shotgun season. and found three hunters in the area of Black Rocks at about 7:30 a.m. Two of the hunters were in compliance with state laws. Piezchalski, who was armed with a loaded shotgun, was found in violation. A hearing in Anne Arundel District Court has not been set. If found guilty, Piezchalski could be fined a maximum of $4,500. A Washington, D.C., man was charged last week with illegal hunting during a routine license check by an officer in southern Anne Arundel County. Thompson Safe Company Acting on a tip, an officer issued citations to Thomas James Kavanagh, 46, who shot a deer with a muzzleloader last December. He was charged with hunting Protect Your Investment without buying a muzzleloader stamp and hunting without buying a bow stamp. A hearing in Anne Arundel District Court has not been set. If found guilty, Residential and Commercial Safes Kavanagh could be fined a maximum of $3,000. 7313-M Grove Road • Frederick, MD 21704 An Aberdeen man is scheduled to appear in Harford County District Court Mike Thompson Feb. 21 on a charge that he had a taxidermied hawksbill sea turtle – a protected species – for sale. 301-631-1500 Ronald Luther Quillen, 52, offered the turtle as part of an estate sale and was www.thompsonsafes.com asking $150 for it. The for-sale notice on an internet site attracted the attention of We Deliver to MD • VA • WV • PA the National Marine Service, which requested an investigation. Hawksbill sea turtles, which are native Maryland reptiles, are protected by fed- eral and state law. Possession of them in any form is illegal without a scientific collecting permit. The state does not permit them to be sold.

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Adam Kirby is the chef and co-owner 600-Pound Bear in of Bistro 217 and The Rustic Table, two quaint restau- Pennsylvania rants in Pawleys Is- land, S.C., and while One of the biggest bears was killed he enjoys preparing by a man in Pennsylvania during the seafood dishes for 2017 hunting season. Reports from his customers, he CBS Pittsburgh indicate that the does more than just bear stood 7 feet tall and weighed cook fish. He also 600 pounds. loves to catch them. "I would have taken a small one And while fishing for my first one, but I can't complain near Georgetown, about a 600-pounder," said hunter S.C. on Dec. 18, Bo Bowser. he caught a black The hunter, aged 25-year-old drum that broke the said he grew up in a hunting family. 100-pound mark, Fortunate enough, after 13 years of which would have trying, Bowser shot and killed his made him ever so first bear in Valley Township. briefly the new state record holder for the species, if not for the South Carolina "He was down by a creek, so it was nice and loud," said Bowser. "I was able state law and SCDNR regulation requiring the release of any black drum that to sneak up on him." doesn’t meet the slot limit, which is between 14 and 27 inches in length. When the bear turned around and looked at Bowser, his reaction was: "Whoa!" The current state record, an 89 pounder caught near Port Royal in 1978, has The enthused hunter revealed that it took him four shots to take down the an asterisk beside it in the record book. This is the mark placed next to any state bear. He slowly floated the massive animal across a creek, and then called in record fish that is now regulated by a slot limit, meaning the record cannot be help to get it to his ATV. "If we had shot him anywhere deep in the woods, we broken as long as the slot limit remains. wouldn't have been able to get him out," said Bowser. Bowser's friends and dad Kirby doesn’t know the precise weight of his black drum because it bottomed all pitched in. "Five guys, 45 minutes to drag it 15 yards," he said. out the 60-pound Boga Grip he weighed the fish with, but by using the length- He gave the meat to some friends. The bear is now at a taxidermist while he girth measurement formula used by fisheries biologists and SCDNR, the fish figures out whether to have it mounted, which could cost $3,000. "You can't weighed 110 pounds. just put it in the corner of your living room," said Bowser. "It would take up And even if Kirby’s fish had become the official new state record, his friend some serious space." and fishing partner Alistair Bremner would have toppled that when he caught a For the next hunting season, Bowser said he'll be back at it, but will keep bigger black drum less than an hour later. Using the same formula, Bremner’s his expectations in check. fish, which had a length of 53 inches and a girth of 43, would have tipped the "I mean, I'll never shoot a 600-pounder again," he said. "But, like I said, scales at 122 pounds, which would surpass the current world record of 113 sometimes luck is on your side." pounds, which was caught in Delaware Bay in 1975. According to the Pennsylvania Game Commission, Bowser's kill was not Both fish were released, and while the state and world weight-class records the biggest hunt of the season. The largest bear was killed in Venango County will go unchanged, Bremner still has a chance at the IGFA length world record and it weighed 700 pounds. The pictures of the seven-foot-tall male black bear for the species. Kirby, Bremner, and Jim Maass, who was also fishing on the shows it on its stomach as Bowser poses next to it. trip, took a video of them measuring the length of the fish, and they’ve filled out the initial forms with IGFA.

Manny Simeon bagged this wide buck Saturday 11/25 opening shotgun season Tanner Reed with his point 8 point buck taken last No- with Schrader’s Outdoors in Queen Anne County vember. Photo courtesy of John’s Butcher Shop. 16 www.fishingandhuntingjournal.com February / March 2018 an occasional visit. Crabs, stripers, ence new places. oak forests, Berger cookies, and did I So, if you ever see a visiting, “Montana Grant” mention crabs? The delicacies of the cowboy-hat-wearing old fart, wading Chesapeake Bay are to be cherished in a Maryland stream, field, forest, or and enjoyed. It may be necessary navigating the Bay, river, or ocean, to have some #1 Jimmies flown in feel free to say “Howdy” and share from Vince’s Crab House from time a new story or two. to time. It’s that old saying, “you don’t miss it until it’s gone!” We Wagons West and East! will definitely miss those crab feasts and Natty Bo. Montana Grant Montanans are a hearty bunch. By Grant Soukup They aren’t afraid of driving in For more Montana Grant, you can snow and venturing out in sub-zero visit with him at www.montanagrant- temps to enjoy the outdoors. There fishing.com. NEW is no mass rush to the grocery store TRAILHEADS!!! to stock up on TP, milk, and eggs at the mere hint New trailheads always need to be Education has always been a focus of snow. Here in discovered and explored. Hunters, in my life. As a Science Teacher, Montana, regard- fishermen, and outdoorsmen are I have taught in 2 states, several less of snowfall, always looking for new challenges, universities, and enjoyed helping schools remain choices, and destinations. The more so many students become their best. open in the win- we experience the outdoors, the more Authoring curricula, programs and ter unless the we want too. We only have so many projects led me to become a free- temps drop be- seasons to enjoy our life, so moving lance writer. As Montana Grant, I low minus 35, as along is important. have created a blog, and have also the diesel fuel in “Montana Grant” articles have been published in many magazines, the school buses always been from the “Great Rock- newspapers, and other venues. will freeze. ies to the Appalachians”. As a na- Several years ago, my wife and We will al- tive of Garrett County, Maryland, I returned to Maryland to care for ways cherish, I have always felt at home in the our aging parents. Sadly, that task celebrate, and mountains. Practicing our sports in is now completed, and it became a reflect on our different parts of the country is both priority to return to Montana to be great friends very different and also the same. near our own children. The freedom from the east. Experiences and stories are inspir- of the Great Rocky Mountains and its Many “Eastern- ing, educational, and fun to share. open spaces, is both welcoming and ers” choose to The best outdoorsmen are the ones amazing. Everyday, I enjoy watching stay within a few with questions. Our desire to learn the mountains change. miles of where and share knowledge are what makes Writing for the Fishing and Hunt- they and previ- us great “sportsmen”! ing Journal has been a joy. This ous generations As a kid, my parents always took publication has been a great place to have lived their me to Montana and the west, to spend receive knowledge, share tips, tricks, entire lives. The the summer camping, fishing, and and information about the eastern, culture, history, canoeing. A young Montana Grant and western outdoor experience. and community celebrated and enjoyed every trek In the future, I will share several hold Maryland- west. Montana and the western skies articles a year that will allow you to ers close to their became my second home. Maryland experience my new life, adventures, roots. There is so has always been America in minia- and trailheads. Having lived in both much rich history ture, and my childhood home. The environments, I can continue to share and tradition to Chesapeake Bay, mountains, forests, tips, tricks, and knowledge about the enjoy. For some and ocean exposed me to so much. sports and wild places we love. The of us though, the Great outdoor mentors such as Lefty mountains of the west and east have “pioneer spirit” Kreh, Boyd Pfeiffer, Bill Burton, so much in common. sparks a desire to Bob Jacklyn, Bud Lilly, and so many The things I will miss about live and experi- others, led me to so many trailheads. Maryland can be addressed only by Gary Brandt with his Kansas buck. Photo cour- tesy of Ron’s Bay Pro Shop.

Jason Montana’s best whitetail buck. February / March 2018 www.fishingandhuntingjournal.com 17 Coastal Report fifty-some miles off our coast, and if that wasn’t than 100-fathoms to get to the fish. This is very enough, within a couple of weeks the same gang technical fishing, it’s not just a matter of putting a By Capt. Mark when out and caught another one of about the bait and a big chunk of weight on a line, sending same size! it to the bottom and hooking a swordfish (or an Sampson As it turns out, opahs are not as earth-shattering opah). Such deep water fishing has only become a catch as some might think. Commercial fishermen somewhat practicable in recent years with the to our south catch them with enough frequency advent of very thin braided fishing lines that allow that there is a market for their meat and you don’t anglers to pack more line on a reel and use less I’m guessing that there are a lot of folks who, have to search too hard to find recipes for how weight to pull their line down to such great depths even though they aren’t usually inclined to keep up to prepare the (apparently) very exquisite tasting with any kind of precision. To excel at daytime with local fishing news, took interest of a couple fish. The thing is, even commercial fishermen swordfishing anglers must not only know “where” of catches made off Ocean City last November, catch them only occasionally, and as best as any- to drop their baits, but also “how” make-up their particularly when a report of the landings made one can recollect no recreational angler has ever terminal tackle and their baits so that during the national news. While most fishermen usually taken one off Delmarva. So “yea” the landing of the long fall to the bottom it doesn’t all end up grasp the public’s eye by pulling off an exceptional these particular fish was indeed a big deal and in a tangled up mess. Swordfishermen must also catch of a lot of fish or, as in most cases, one in- everyone involved in the catch deserves a hearty be ready for a tough battle with an angry fish that dividual of gargantuan proportions, in this case, “congratulations” even though I’m sure the anglers might weight in between 100 and 500 pounds. It the “WOW” factor came from the uniqueness of will admit that hooking them fish was totally by might be productive, but there’s nothing “easy” the species caught. Most people have never even chance. I’m sure they didn’t start their fishing days about deep-dropping for swordfish! heard the word “opah,” let alone seen a picture out by stopping by a local tackle shop, picking up While daytime swordfishing has been going on of one or knew that there was such a beast. But a pack of opah bait, and then run offshore to some for years off the Florida coast, it’s only recently low and behold, last fall Austin Ensor and his secret opah fishing spot, bait their hook, drop it that we’ve been hearing much about it up here crewmember friends on the “Primary Search” in the water and catch their prize. No, the gang in the mid-Atlantic. But there have been enough managed to hook and land a 105-pounder just on the Primary Search had a different quarry in success stories coming from the few anglers who mind when they left the dock those days - and it have been giving it a try off Delmarva that it’s came in the shape of a “swordfish.” looking as though the is probably going So the opahs were actually caught by accident to blossom into something really great in a very on baits intended for swordfish. And while, as short time. In fact I know that there are more than noted, they were indeed exceptional catches, that’s just few anglers who are already getting their only half the story, because on the day of the first thoughts together and deep-drop gear rigged for opah catch the guys also managed to hook and next year’s daytime swordfish assault. And who land a swordfish as well! Which is remarkable in knows? Maybe when more fishermen start deep itself because as anyone who knows a thing or dropping for swordfish it will reveal that there are two about offshore fishing will tell you - catch- a whole lot more of those crazy opah fish swim- ing a swordfish is a big deal, they don’t just come ming off our coast than anyone ever expected and a long every day. In fact, most offshore anglers local tackle shops will be inclined to actually start will fish their entire lives and never catch one, selling opah bait – whatever that is! and suddenly we hear that four guys just hop on a boat out of Ocean City and zip offshore and catch one, just like that - as if it was no big deal. What’s going on here? What’s going on is a rela- tively new fishery that been developing along the coast known as “daytime swordfish- ing.” Historically anglers who wanted to target swordfish would fish through the night out in the very deep waters The local sportfishing boat Primary beyond the edge of the Conti- nental Shelf and hope to hook Search last year caught this rare opah swords that have risen up from weighing nearly 160 pounds off the coast the depths to feed on squid and of Ocean City. For the Primary Search other natural bait closer to the surface. As you might expect, crew, it was the second rare opah catch “daytime” swordfishing targets in less than a month. Pictured above with the same fish but it happens dur- the beautiful opah in the stern is angler ing the day when the swords are still close to the bottom, which Nice limit of Cecil County honkers taken in late December Tommy Clark (left) and Captain Austin requires anglers to accurately 2017 by Andrea Fisher and Roger Everett. 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Congratulations Laura for taking this nice 8 pointer Saturday opening day of Shot- gun season with Schrader’s Outdoors. February / March 2018 www.fishingandhuntingjournal.com 19 anything near those census numbers? new hunters and by extension their I would say that is a resounding no. dollars into our sport? We have to ask “The Last Word” When was the last time you saw ourselves the tough question. Are we someone different from yourself in uncomfortable with the changing de- The Next one of the major outdoor magazines, mographics of the state? Why has there on any of the hunting shows (with not been outreach to non-traditional Generation? the exception of a guest athlete)? hunting populations in Maryland? We as hunters, and the by extension I write this article not from a criti- the organizations we belong to have cal perspective, but also in the hope ing number of hunters. What can be done a poor job of expanding our that it will generate conversation on done to attract new hunters to the sport traditional base. what we need to do to grow our base By Steve Huettner we love and retain existing hunters? Successful businesses realize that in beyond our core. Ask yourself how Urbanization, video games, single order to grow and remain competitive many new or former hunters have you parent homes, fear of firearms, anti- they must adapt to an ever-changing asked to join you over the last five Three years ago, I wrote a story hunters, lack of public access, lack of customer base and target them in order years? The future of the sport may looking at the lack of diversity and mentors, and regulations are listed as to obtain their dollars and hopefully just depend on how you answer that new recruitment of hunters in Mary- reasons why hunter numbers are de- their loyalty. in the future land. It was an article I received a clining. Ideas are proposed, numbers Why have hunting, conservation few comments from both via email analyzed, and activities scheduled to groups, and state wildlife agencies and in person. Fast forward and this recruit the next generation of hunters chosen to ignore the demographics of month’s issue of Outdoor Life looks at (fingers crossed). the issues surrounding the lack of new Youth seasons are something that hunters entering the sport, and what it states have been adding, Maryland will take to just maintain our current included. If we are not increasing the numbers. Who would have thought I amount of youth hunters to take the was ahead of the reporting curve place of those leaving are youth sea- In a smaller state like Maryland, it sons successful? Should we be invest- feels like at times that there are hunt- ing time and money targeting people ers in every field and perched in every between 18 and 34? This demographic tree. Unfortunately, the numbers tell is not dependent on an adult for their a different story both in Maryland and hunting, have more mobility, and at the United States (remember Maryland least have some disposable income is American in miniature). Using for activities. Recently Maryland has numbers provided by the US Fish and added a mentor program, which may Wildlife Service (USFWS) looking at address older hunters and adding them a 40-year span from 1983-2013 Mary- to the sport. It will be interesting to see land has lost roughly 53,000 hunters; over time how many people transition while the US has lost roughly 900,000 from the mentor license to full-fledged hunters during the same time period. hunters. USFWS shows that 44% of hunters When looking at photos and press are between 45 and 64 while the 18 releases there is lack of diversity that to 44 year old group has decreased by exists in hunting. While it might make almost 40% over the last twenty years. some people uncomfortable, the fact is The hunting population is ageing out. that the United States (and especially Older hunters are not be replaced Maryland) is becoming more diverse. with new hunters. Think about the According to the most recent sta- people in your deer club or that you tistics from the US Census Bureau; goose hunt with, how many of them Maryland is 30% African American, are under 45? How many have been 6% Asian, 9% Latino, and 3% two or hunting less than five years? more races or roughly half of Mary- Over the last two decades articles land’s citizens are non-white. When have been written, research done, and afield does the hunter you run into Molly Metz with 2 geese from the 2017 youth hunt. meetings held to address the declin- while in the woods or marsh reflect

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