Ken Penrod's bass fishing report
Guide Ken Penrod, owner of Life Outdoors Unlimited, files his weekly bass fishing report.SUSQUEHANNA and JUNIATA RIVERS: two stars; low and clear, with stain along east bank; temperatures in the 80s;...
View ArticleThe price of striped bass
After years of holding up striped bass as the model of how humans can save a species from extinction, fisheries managers are finding out that the glue holding the model together is beginning to...
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Stocking program adds bass to Choptank River
Like aquatic Johnny Appleseeds, state fisheries biologists this year are releasing more than 268,500 largemouth bass fry and fingerlings into the Choptank River to replenish the population and improve...
View ArticleSeed salesman to get shot at $20,000 rockfish
David Huffman was just pulling into a cornfield in Pennsylvania when I reached him to talk about fishing.Huffman, 47, will find out Thursday morning if the striped bass he caught off Rock Hall at the...
View ArticleRegulators must save menhaden to help striped bass
The coming days will be the tale of two fish and the regulatory process by which the pair is protected and managed. The future of one fish, the striped bass, is directly tied to the future of the...
View ArticleWoman breaks Appalachian Trail speed record
She did it. North Carolina's Jennifer Pharr Davis has set the record for the fastest thru-hike of the 2,181-mile Appalachian Trail, male or female. Her north-to-south hike, which began atop Maine's...
View ArticleKen Penrod's bass fishing report
Guide Ken Penrod, owner of Life Outdoors Unlimited, files his weekly bass fishing report. He says, "Fishing hasn’t been much fun during the day but the fish are biting at each of the locations that we...
View ArticleCommisson delays action on striped bass seasons
A plan to reduce next year’s striped bass harvest by up to 40 percent along the Eastern Seaboard was shelved by regulators who worried that the move would be seen as premature without the science to...
View ArticleGoing to hell in an (outdoors) handbasket
Can't help but marvel at the USA Today story about people willing to spend bundles for upscale hotel accomodations that feature outdoors sleeping arrangements.Clearly the rich have too much money and...
View ArticleASMFC takes historic 1st step to protect menhaden
“Now, the hard work begins.” That was the assessment of Lynn Fegley, a Maryland fisheries biologist just moments after the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission voted overwhelmingly last night...
View ArticleFive things to do outdoors this weekend
We don't have many summer weekends left, so let's make the most of them. Why not step outside and step outside the box?Here's five things to get you started:1) On Saturday, join the South Mountain...
View ArticleStriped bass regs comment period ends Wednesday
You have until Wednesday to offer comments on a series of proposals designed to make it harder for poachers to use gill nets in the Chesapeake Bay.In February, miles of illegal nets filled with 12.6...
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Rachel Maddow, the Atlantic infrastructure needs you
There are two reasons why I like MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow: she likes to fish for striped bass and she’s an infrastructure geek. Yet, she has not put the two together on her popular weeknight show despite...
View ArticleFive things to do outdoors this weekend
If I had a wish for the weekend it would be to switch Thursday's and Friday's glorious weather forecast with the Saturday and Sunday damp prognostication. To borrow from the Beach Boys, wouldn't it be...
View ArticleOutdoors Girl: End of the trail
So this is it. The last Outdoors Girl post.I'm heading off for the family's annual striped bass and bluefish fishing vacation on Chappaquiddick Island and when I return after Labor Day it will be to a...
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