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Leave it to our three time tournament champion to find this, of course without a metal detector I've always said Stephan Talabisco has a golden horseshoe shoved up his nether region. Yesterday he proved that once again. By finding a little treasure and history on coin beach, without a metal detector. Of course it was the first time he…

If you haven't noticed the wind is blowing. Hurricane Teddy is inbound offshore but will send us some serious ground swell. Vehicles on the beaches are at risk of high surf today into Tuesday night. Everything should calm down by Tuesday afternoon. High tide is right now and water is almost to the dunes in the beach towns and parks. There…

More Delmarva Fox Squirrels Moving to Delaware Dover (Sept 17, 2020) ... Delmarva fox squirrels are about to get a population boost in Delaware with a new round of translocations planned for later this month, a project of the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control and its state and federal partners. Although this…

The summer was a good time despite the covid craziness. Lot of people got to surf fish. Several scored well in the summer slam. Joe Miller killed it overall. Mostly everyone just fished and scored when they had time that week. It was fun watching everyone fish in the surf via the internet. Looking forward to next year. We are going to…

If you saw the sun last evening it was merely a huge glowing orb in the sky, you could stare at with no issues. It looked like the planet Jupiter. The sky had a weird overcast all day too.The California Wildfire smoke has reached the east coast. To the point my eyes were watering most of the day yesterday. Nice touch to compound my…

Guided kayak fishing tours are a great way to get out and learn the water With Captain Chris Dollar CD Outdoors (Sept 15, 2020) ... What a long, strange trip 2020 has been so far. No doubt it has been a very challenging year so far, which is why it's more important than ever to get on the water and decompress. On the bright side Chesapeake…

Species Added to Maryland Record Books in 2019 MD DNR (Sept 10, 2020) ... The Maryland Department of Natural Resources has officially recognized 26-year-old David Schrock of Woolford as the second official state record holder for the Florida pompano (Trachinotus carolinus) in the Chesapeake Division. Schrock caught the record-breaking…

The Wallops visitor center will be closed and there is very limited media access. Fingers crossed we get media access for viewing and remote camera set ups. We have all the gear ready to go for that up close and personal pad footage. Every launch lets us tweak the gear even more. This will be a night launch, looking forward to that…

Pompano catches have increased exponentially the past week or so in the surf. Even on structure in the Delaware Bay. From Broadkill Beach to Assateague we are seeing a lot of pompano catches. The farther south they seem to be bigger fish, but more larger ones are showing up along the northern beaches of Delaware. The average size is about…