SPORTS
By CANDUS THOMSON | February 12, 2006
We interrupt this column about the outdoors to bring you important news from the airless, sun-free world of Maryland politics. This time every year, with the legislative elves running around in Annapolis, there's always the opportunity for mischief to be made. Sometimes, the lawmakers give us a break or do something worthwhile. Sometimes, someone knocks some sense into them. This year is no different. In the latter category was the ill-conceived attempt by Del. Catherine E. Pugh to require passengers on pleasure boats, charter boats and water taxis to wear life jackets.
SPORTS
By Jason du Pont | August 22, 2003
The locations Piney Run: Jim Gronaw at the park office says buzzbaits and plastic worms were the top lures at the recent bass tournament. Fish up to 4 pounds were caught. Catfishing has been good using chicken liver and cut bait. Prettyboy Reservoir: Duke Nohe of the Maryland Aquatic Resource Coalition recommends trolling a 1/2 -ounce spinner hook with a worm at 25 feet of water to catch white perch. For bass use pig and jigs, shiners and crayfish. Use poppers late in the day for topwater action.
NEWS
By Laura Loh and Laura Loh,SUN STAFF | March 20, 2003
Leaning over the edge of a motorboat on the Severn River yesterday, the four fisheries biologists grappled with the weight of their catch -- hundreds of shining perch squirming in a large, black net. Then, instead of rejoicing in the harvest, the men knelt silently by the flopping fish and began releasing them, dropping some over the boat's edge and throwing others over their shoulders into the water. The final count for the harvest: 64 yellow perch, 360 white perch and a smattering of catfish and pumpkinseed sunfish.
SPORTS
By Peter Baker and Peter Baker,SUN STAFF | October 2, 1997
While Chesapeake Bay rockfish get much of the attention this time of year, fishing from Ocean City to Deep Creek Lake is improving as the weather struggles into fall and waters cool.At Ocean City, flounder catches continue to be excellent, with some of the largest flatfish of the year being caught from just above the Route 50 bridge to the inlet -- and the first of the large fall rockfish, to 42 inches, are being caught on live-lined spot at the inlet.Croaker and spot can be found from the inlet piers and jetties along with some tautog and plenty of snapper bluefish.
NEWS
By Andrea F. Siegel and Andrea F. Siegel,SUN STAFF | May 15, 1997
There weren't any long, tearful farewells -- just a few quips of "hasta luego" and the sage advice: "Don't get eaten."With such unceremonious send-offs, some 400 inch-long yellow perch darted away yesterday to hide from predators in the marshy headwaters of Indian Creek, a tributary of the Severn River.About 27 North County High School students released the fingerlings that their classes have raised this spring in hopes of helping restore the Severn's decimated yellow perch population.The raise-and-release project is part of a cooperative program between Anne Arundel County schools' Arlington Echo Outdoor Center and the state Department of Natural Resources.
SPORTS
By Peter Baker and Peter Baker,SUN STAFF | June 20, 1996
The Woodpile settled to anchor on the edge of an oyster rock, where the water depth increased from 12 to 25 feet and the fish finder marked fish close to the bottom.The day was warm and calm, but the current was running well as the tide ebbed, and after a bloodworm was cut into 1-inch segments and the hooks of a double-bottom rig were baited, the fun began.Within seconds of sinker reaching bottom, a strike and a run that took a few yards of line off the light spinning reel, before the fish was brought to the boat and released.