January and February find most sportsmen in the post- or preseason doldrums. But if you relegate yourself to stoking the fire and tying flies, you may be missing some of the best sport in America: winter quail hunting. And there are certain strongholds of huntable gamebird populations among the populated East. One of the best is the Delmarva Peninsula.
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If I close my eyes, I can still see the water boil violently off the right side of the boat … the reel is screaming as the dark line slices through the turbid water. We chase the line in our boat, and are soon slapping hands as the 20-pound striped bass is finally led into a waiting net.
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It’s springtime, and the stripers are on Susquehanna Flats! Knowing how and where to search out stripers is the key to catching the 15- to 50-pound stripers that are now available on this vast expanse of shallow water at the very top of Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.
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Trolling surgical tube lures catches stripers, yet surprisingly the tactic seems to receive little press and practically no fanfare. Here’s how to rig and fish them.
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