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Maryland has been the home of many great fly fishermen - Joe Brooks was born in Baltimore and Lefty Kreh wrote for The Frederick News-Post. Maryland anglers experience great saltwater fishing on the Chesapeake Bay and chase large trout in the rivers of its western corner, while Washington DC urban anglers ply the waters of the Potomac River for huge largemouth.
 
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Maryland Fly Fishing Articles
A river in recovery
Ken Pavol and his colleagues believed the polluted North Branch of the Potomac River could be saved. So they found ways to do just that.  
www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-to.potomac17oct17,0,1773015.stor
y?coll=bal-local-columnists
Big Fish and Young Fish
Chesapeake Outdoors  
www.bayweekly.com/year99/issue7_20/chesout7_20.html
Big Hunting Creek info  
www.anglerslie.com/MDstreams.htm
Bonus Largemouths of Upper Chesapeake Bay
The North East and Elk river systems provide the ideal habitat for brackish water largemouth fishing in Maryland.  
www.midatlanticgameandfish.com/at_aa030604a
Chesapeake Bay Fly Fishing  
woodsandwatersmagazine.com/archives/0701_bayflyfish.htm
Cooler Weather Brings Back the Bite
Chesapeake Outdoors (1999)  
www.bayweekly.com/year99/issue7_28/chesout7_28.html
Fishin Maryland  
www.angelfire.com/md2/fishingmd
Fishing on the North Branch
Self-Guided Opportunities  
www.dnr.state.md.us/outdooradventures/fishpotomac.html
Fishing the Potomac River in springtime: A Slumbering Giant Awakens
by Martin L. Gary Courtesy of The Maryland Natural Resource  
www.hudsontrail.com/articles.php?articleid=19
Fishing The Susquehanna Flats
by John Budish  
www.stripersonline.com/Pages/warrior/ww_3.shtml
Fly fishing access in Garrett county  
jimsherbs.com/things_2do.htm#13
Fly Fishing the Potomac  
www.hudsontrail.com/articles/index.php?articleid=19
Garrett County fly fishing  
www.deepcreekinfo.com/activities_recreationactivities.asp?tab=4
Gunpowder Falls
Gunpowder Falls info from anglerslie.com  
www.anglerslie.com/Gunpowder.htm
Gunpowder Falls State Park  
www.dnr.state.md.us/publiclands/central/gunpowder.html
Hot Striper Action on Chesapeake Bay
From Ocean City to the Susquehanna Flats, there's a lot of great rockfish angling taking place right now in the Free State.  
www.midatlanticgameandfish.com/at_aa060504a
Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin
ICPRB works as a regional organization to coordinate efforts across the watershed and across political bounds.  
www.potomacriver.org
Is Loch Raven Maryland's Best Bass Lake?  
www.midatlanticgameandfish.com/at_aa040604a
Land-Locked Striper Facts
from Fishin Maryland  
www.angelfire.com/md2/fishingmd/articles/LLstriper.html
Local Fly Patterns
from www.hudsontrail.com  
www.hudsontrail.com/brochure.php?brochureid=35
Maryland Anglers Network  
www.mdangler.net/
Maryland trout stocking map  
www.dnr.state.md.us/fisheries/stocking/regionalmaps/regionalmap.html
Marylands Gunpowder River
from Trout Unlimited  
www.tutv.org/1999_shows/maryland.html
North Branch of the Potomac
Success story on Maryland's North Branch of the Potomac  
www.outdoors.net/site/features/feature.aspx+Forum+FlyFishing+Article
Code+1058+V+N+SearchTerm+
North Branch of the Potomac River
Until recently, the North Branch of the Potomac was considered to be so degraded by acid mine drainage that it would never support fish populations of any kind.  
www.springcreekoutfitter.com/Northbranch.htm
North Branch, a Forgotten Stretch of River
The North Branch of the Potomac River emerges from the ground as a small spring...  
www.wamonline.com/summer2001/northbranch.htm
Potamac River Ecosystem  
greennature.com/article1315.html
Recovery of the North Branch
PDF document details North Branchs recovery  
www.wvu.edu/~agexten/landrec/PMills1.PDF
Riffle and Rise
an online flyfishing journal with info on Maryland and Northern Virginia fishing  
www.riffleandrise.com/homewaters.htm
Rifflwe and Rise
an online flyfishing journal with info on Maryland and Northern Virgina fly fishing  
www.riffleandrise.com/homewaters.htm
Savage River
The Savage River may be better known as the site of World Whitewater Championships and Olympic Whitewater Trials than as one of the finest trout streams in the East.  
www.springcreekoutfitter.com/savage.htm
Savage River State Forest  
www.dnr.state.md.us/publiclands/western/savageriver.html
Seasons of the Chesapeake
America's largest estuary offers year-round light-tackle angling.  
www.shallowwaterangler.com/features/Chesapeake_Bay_Estuary
Secrets Of The Chesapeake Bay Revealed
This is one of the most complete and comprehensive articles ever published on the strategies necessary to catch more and bigger bass on the Upper Chesapeake Bay rivers.  
www.fishin.com/articles/SandKguideservice/Chesapeake%20Bay%20Bass%20
Fishing.htm
Special Trout Management Areas  
www.dnr.state.md.us/publiclands/troutareas.html
Susquehanna River Smallmouth Bass
The Susquehanna River is one of the best smallmouth bass fisheries east of the Mississippi  
flyfisherman.com/northeast/ejsusquehanna
The Secrets of Liberty Reservoirs's Giant Stripers
from Fishin Maryland (1998)  
www.angelfire.com/md2/fishingmd/liberty.html
The Upper Potomac River
Those of us who live in the Mid-Atlantic region are blessed with many great smallmouth fisheries that begin as small streams in the Appalachian and Blue Ridge Mountains - by Barbara Fricke  
www.riversmallies.com/articles_bf1.html
Top Area Striper Waters  
woodsandwatersmagazine.com/articles/topstriperwaters_1004.htm
Trout Stocking Information  
www.dnr.state.md.us/fisheries/springtroutstock.shtml
Woods and Waters Magazine
Virginia Fishing Virginia Hunting Maryland Fishing Maryland Hunting Reports  
woodsandwatersmagazine.com

Maryland Fly Fishing Boat ramps
Boat Access in Maryland  
mddnr.chesapeakebay.net/fish/state2.html

Maryland Fly Fishing Clubs
Potomac Valley Fly Fishers  
www.pvflyfish.com
Free State Fly Fishers  
www.geocities.com/freestateflyfishers
Maryland Trout Unlimited  
www.mdtu.org
Patapsco Valley Chapter  
webpages.comcast.net/mboenisch/pvtu.html

Maryland Fly Fishing Maps
Delayed Harvest Area Map
North Branch Potomac River Delayed Harvest Area Map  
www.dnr.state.md.us/publiclands/maps/mapnbranch.html
Eastern Bay map
from Fishin Maryland  
www.angelfire.com/md2/fishingmd/ebayweb.jpg
Morgans Run map  
webpages.comcast.net/mboenisch/morgan.gif
Striper season map  
www.dnr.state.md.us/fisheries/art/striper3.JPG

Maryland Fly Fishing Reports
Big Hunting Creek  
easterntrophies.com/locationdp.php?recordID=1001
Casselman  
easterntrophies.com/locationdp.php?recordID=1010
Gunpowder  
easterntrophies.com/locationdp.php?recordID=1003
Gunpowder reports
from The Backwater Angler  
www.backwaterangler.com/modules.php?name=News&file=categories&op=new
index&catid=3
Maryland DNR fishing report  
www.dnr.state.md.us/fisheries/fishingreport
Maryland DNR freshwater reports  
www.dnr.state.md.us/fisheries/fishingreport/freshwater.html
Maryland Fisheries Service Fishing Report
Fishing Report Overview  
www.dnr.state.md.us/fisheries/fishingreport
MD Saltwater Reports  
www.beach-net.com/Fishinghome.html
North Branch of the Potomac  
easterntrophies.com/locationdp.php?recordID=1005
old Gun Powder Reports
old Gun Powder Reports by local guide  
www.onthefly.com
Patuxent  
easterntrophies.com/locationdp.php?recordID=1009
Reports from the DNR  
www.dnr.state.md.us/fisheries/fishingreport

Maryland Stream Flows
Savage River Stream Flow
Real-time data for USGS 01597500 SAVAGE RIV BL SAVAGE RIV DAM NEAR BLOOMINGTON, MD  
waterdata.usgs.gov/md/nwis/uv/?site_no=01597500
Maryland tide charts  
www.dnr.state.md.us/fisheries/access/tide_finder.html

Maryland Fly Fishing Forums
The Maryland Anglers Network  
pub33.bravenet.com/forum/show.php?usernum=2833284587
Chesapeake Bay Fishing - StripersOnline SurfTalk  
www.stripersonline.com/ubb547/ultimatebb.php/forum/18.html

Maryland Fly Fishing Shops
Great Feathers
14824 York Road, Sparks, Maryland; 410-472-6799  
www.greatfeathers.com/
Hudson Trail Outfitters
various store locations  
www.hudsontrail.com/resourcesdet.php?cat=fishing
Gentleman Hunter
4829 Fairmont Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland 20814; 301-90 SHOOT  
pages.montgomerycountymd.com/sports/hunter.htm
The Lonely Angler
P.O. Box 3112, Silver Spring, MD, 20918; 781-572-0921  
www.lonelyangler.com/index.php
Backwater Angler
538 Monkton Rd. Monkton, Md 21111; 410-329-6821  
www.backwaterangler.com
Hunting Creek Outfitters
29 North Market Street, Frederick, Maryland 21701; 301-668-4333  
www.huntingcreekoutfitters.com