Official 2017 fishing thread

kstone803 · Apr 7, 2017

Texas said:
Have to hit the DMV tomorrow and will get my OFFICIAL MD DL. I was fighting it but I give up. After that I am going to get my fishing and hunting permits. Anything special I need to know about getting them? I know in FL I had to get special permit for lobster.

Hunting license you need a hunter safety certificate unless you were born before 01 Aug 1977. Fishing license you just buy online and you used to have to do the National Saltwater Registration yourself but now it is incorporated into buying your license. Also you will need a boaters license if you intend to captain a boat. Tidal (saltwater) and non-tidal (fresh/brackish water mostly) are separate licenses in MD and most rivers have dividing lines between tidal and non tidal you can look up online. Trout stamps are extra and migratory game birds are a whole different story. PM me if you want duck/geese info or have questions.

YerNotGood · Apr 7, 2017

Has anyone been to Piney Run yet? Planning on going out Sunday morning...

Devonian · Apr 7, 2017

kstone803 said:
Hunting license you need a hunter safety certificate unless you were born before 01 Aug 1977. Fishing license you just buy online and you used to have to do the National Saltwater Registration yourself but now it is incorporated into buying your license. Also you will need a boaters license if you intend to captain a boat. Tidal (saltwater) and non-tidal (fresh/brackish water mostly) are separate licenses in MD and most rivers have dividing lines between tidal and non tidal you can look up online. Trout stamps are extra and migratory game birds are a whole different story. PM me if you want duck/geese info or have questions.

Hunter safety is required unless you held a hunting license prior to July 1, 1977. It is not birthdate dependent.

kstone803 · Apr 7, 2017

Devonian said:
Hunter safety is required unless you held a hunting license prior to July 1, 1977. It is not birthdate dependent.

Appears you are correct. Did it change or have I always just read it wrong?

pbharvey · Apr 11, 2017

state-record-white-perch-caught-in-baltimore-county

RebelYell · Apr 18, 2017

Got skunked opening day, but right place right time yesterday. This is one of 3 keepers on my boat yesterday. Beats work...

outrider58 · Apr 18, 2017

Nice fish. Congrats!

Schipperke · Apr 20, 2017

Sticky · Apr 20, 2017

kstone803 said:
Appears you are correct. Did it change or have I always just read it wrong?

It's always been that way.. you had to have held a license or hunted private land prior to 1977 to be exempted from the Hunter Safety requirement.

llkoolkeg · Apr 20, 2017

pbharvey said:
state-record-white-perch-caught-in-baltimore-county

Sweet Lord, that looks like a lunker bass it's so tubby! Biggest perch I ever caught myself was nowhere near that big but it slammed a 6" texrig purple powerworm on Claytor Lake in the NRV under a big shady boathouse drydock structure.

Schipperke · Apr 21, 2017

Five more very nice size Rainbows today. Had ~9 hits in roughly 90 minutes! Started at 1:30 done by 3 ..

pbharvey · Apr 21, 2017

Schipperke said:
Five more very nice size Rainbows today. Had ~9 hits in roughly 90 minutes! Started at 1:30 done by 3 ..

Three of us limited out last week in an hour and a half too.

rico903 · Apr 22, 2017

Devonian said:
Hunter safety is required unless you held a hunting license prior to July 1, 1977. It is not birthdate dependent.

Does the online TX course still qualify?

wilcam47 · Apr 23, 2017

RebelYell said:
Got skunked opening day, but right place right time yesterday. This is one of 3 keepers on my boat yesterday. Beats work...

Nice! some good eating there!

rico903 said:
Does the online TX course still qualify?

I havent been keeping up on it but check the thread on it

https://www.mdshooters.com/showthread.php?p=4718781&highlight=100%+online#post4718781

Schipperke · Apr 24, 2017

otra vez

67temp · May 1, 2017

Last weekend I caught a 12" bass and a blue gill down in Va. This past weekend I caught 15 white perch in about an hour and half. 5 doubles and 5 singles.

RebelYell · May 1, 2017

Took some buddies out on the boat Friday a.m. for Rockfish. Had our three man limit and lines reeled up by 9. Fish between 38" and 41". Lost a double hook-up on a tandem rig.

Mike3888 · May 1, 2017

This guy was caught in an unstocked stream. Had some smaller ones but this one was a standout. All were released.

Tomcat · May 1, 2017

Went out on MDS member ChrisD's boat last Wednesday. https://www.mdshooters.com/member.php?u=21875
Took son in law and 2 grandsons.
Since the storms last weekend no one was sure where the fish were so we headed South from Chesapeake Beach to Calvert Cliffs Power Plant.
Took awhile to find some and for them to start biting but it was worth it

Overboost44 · May 1, 2017

Nice fish Tom. I was out on Saturday and there weren't fish anywhere in the area. Talked to 10 different charter captains and they had 3 fish between them all. Glad to hear it was better down south.

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