Ocean City Maryland & Assateague Island – Delaware Beaches – Ocean n Bay Fishing Report
By Sue Foster, Oyster Bay Tackle Shop, Ocean City MD – Fenwick Island DE
Sept, 2nd 2013
Water Temp: 73.2
Fishing Report by Sue Foster
Fishing this week was good flounder, though it was hard to find keepers
in the bay. Anglers picked them up in the deepest holes on the slacking
tides. Some really good days offshore on flounder catches. But like all
fishing, some days were better than others. Red drum are around along
with some black drum. Oceanic Pier has had good trout fishing at night
and flounder fishing by day. Surf has had the usual spot and kingfish
along with more and more reports of snapper blues. Some nice shark
releases were reported. Offshore, flounder were biting, one cobia was
reported. Further offshore the news was dolphin, some tuna and marlin
releases.
Tip of the Week: "Don't forget to buy a sand spike when you go surf
fishing. A reel in the sand or ocean can ruin it! "
Oyster Bay is now open 7 A.M. till 7 or 8 P.M. daily. Fenwick Tackle is
open 7 A.M. till 10 P.M. Daily. Starting Monday night, our hours will
be 7 A.M. until 7 P.M. E-mail Sue Foster at: Oyster Bay Tackle. online mall is open. We sell
MD licenses at our Oyster Bay location. De Licenses are sold at our
DEL location.
(BTW, There's a mistake in the MD Fishing Guide about clamming. If you
are out of state it IS legal for you to catch clams in Worcester Co. The
state fixed the mistake online, but of course, thousands of Guides were
already printed! I have had several e-mails about this.)
The Bulkhead at 2nd thru 4th Street is a free fishing zone. You can
fish here without a MD license but you still need to obtain a free
registry. We can do that for you at Oyster Bay Tackle or call
1-855-855-3906. Keeper flounder can be caught there if you are patient
and fish the slacking tides. When the tide is moving hard, fish
straight down. It's plenty deep! If you cast out during a hard running
tide, you will constantly get hung up! Anglers can also catch little
sea bass, spot, croaker, bluefish, tautog, puppy drum and trigger fish.
As the weather cools, tautog fishing gets better and better! Now that
DE is closed for a month, many anglers will be tautog fishing in Ocean
City.
The Ocean Pier is another place you can fish without a MD License. You
can catch kingfish, croaker, spot, trout, puppy drum, snapper blues,
flounder, sharks and rays. You can catch anything on the pier that you
can catch from the surf. Blues have really picked up in the surf, so
blues should be biting good on the Ocean Pier with cut bait. Try
bloodworms in close to the shore break and you'll catch some eating
sized Norfolk spot! Puppy drum will be coming into the surf soon. I
caught a couple last season close to the shore break from the pier.
2013 Tide Charts are now available in our stores and online. Go to our website and click on More Fishing Info.
Flounder season is now open in MD- Minimum Size - 16" Creel - 4 fish
open all year.
New Ocean City chart by Capt Seagull available:
Buy at Oyster Bay Tackle or online.
White Marlin Open is over! To see the results check out the leader board. We got
plenty t-shirts in both our stores starting at 19.99.
2013 White Marlin Open T's are also available Online.
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2013 Shark T's! In store or on Online.
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for xtra savings! Coupons
Surf is still seeing kingfish, spot, and small croaker on bloodworms or
Fishbite bloodworms. Bluefish have started biting on finger mullet
baited on whole finger mullet rigs. Sharks of all sizes were reported
this week. Anywhere from baby sand sharks to 5 foot long duskies.
Skip Cerf e-mailed in his picture and report: "Good weekend surf fishing
at 127th. Blues in 12-15" range and dusky shark - all hitting mullet
rigs."
Mike Moss e-mailed in his picture and report: "Hey Sue, tagged and
released this big female Dusky on Fenwick this morning...the bigger
blues are biting every other cast and getting bigger and
bigger,,,biggest was 17" before I ran out of bait...could be another
Blue Blitz coming! "
These pictures are in our Surf Fishing Photo Gallery.
Many anglers ask about reading the beach when surf fishing. "Poppy" a
very good angler has posted another very good description with pictures
on Stripers Online. Check it out: Reading the Beach He draws it out
completely! If you're not catching fish in the surf, you need to study
this!
Our online mall is now open and we have:
Trailhead Tire Deflators! We also carry the Oasis Trailhead brand.
Surf Packages, complete with sinkers. (Also flounder, Aqua-Clear, Swim
Shad, and Got-cha Plug Packages.)
Oyster Bay Tackle and Fenwick Tackle saw a few fish this week! Many
anglers complained that the fish were running small but Denny was luck
to catch these four keepers all within one hour.
Our own Denny Blessing of Oyster Bay Tackle caught 4 keeper flounder
near buoy #6 between 18" and 22" fishing in his boat with his wife Joy,
on the "O.C. Joy" on 8/28
Paul Reybrun from Ocean City, Md caught a 23 inch Flounder using Live
Minnows and Squid combo near the Lazy Lizard. This has been a "hot
spot." Anglers fish the main east channel between 9th and the draw of
the Route 50 Bridge during the slacking tides.
These pictures are in our Inshore Photo Gallery.
J.J. from the Oceanic Pier (410-289-2602) reported lots and lots of
flounder but only a few keepers. One man caught and released 79 flounder
during a 4 day fishing stay. The trout fishing at night has been
excellent. There's been big Norfolk spot during the day on worms or
Fishbites. There's been red drum up to 20-inches from the pier this
week. One was caught in 2 foot of water! There were a couple runs of
croaker this week. There were also tons of little baby sea bass and all
the seven inch bluefish you wanted to catch! (You do not need a fishing
license to fish the Oceanic Pier.)
Route 50 Bridge has seen some good flounder fishing by day. "Lots of
action!" one angler expounded! Some tautog are being caught near the
pilings close to the draw. At night the fare is bluefish, trout, and
stripers. Usually blues come around on an East Wind. Striper fishing has
been up and down but should pick up now that summer is over.
Walter Moore of Oyster Bay Tackle said there were lots of bluefish around
the bridge on Monday morning! Big ones!
Heard of some good catches of stripers at the Indian River Inlet. Had
anglers come into Fenwick Tackle saying the anglers catching were
throwing small bucktails rigged up on a leader with a big bass cast
sinker to get out far into the inlet.
Tom Kastet e-mailed in on Aug 26th: "Thanks to your advice I took my 2
small children to Northside Park to fish the lagoon at high tide for
Spot. I have taken them there before but never though about the tide for
the lagoon. Fishing in the past was very poor probably due to the tide
being wrong. My 8 yr old son Daniel caught his first Flounder, 12 inch
shortie and a bunch of small croakers up to about 9 inches. My 5 yr old
daughter Keira caught a bunch of spot and croakers.Needless to say the
kids had a blast. All were caught on Nightcrawlers.
Larry Jock of the Coastal Fisherman reports on Sunday: "John Schiffer caught a 50 lb. cobia
on live bunker at Great Gull."
On Saturday: "Cold Rolled" had 16 flounder from the Bass Grounds.
Charter boat, "Ocean City Guide Service" had junior angler, Chase
Burbage on board and he caught a red drum, a black drum and a striper,
all on sand fleas by the Rt. 50 Bridge."
On Friday, Larry Jock adds: "Charter boat, "Get Sum" had 5 keeper
flounder. Capt. Nick said they were all over... East Channel, behind
Harbour Island, Fishbowl... All were caught on Gulp! "Sedation" had 12
keeper flounder at the African Queen. Largest was a 23.5-incher that
weighed 4 lbs. 3 oz. All were caught on squid and minnows. "Jezebel"
went out to the African Queen today and had 21 keeper flounder. Largest
was a 26-incher that weighed 7 lbs. 8 oz. that was actually caught at
Russell's Reef on the weigh home. A lot of boats were on the Queen. "57
Chins" had 10 keeper flounder led by Kevin Baggett's 25-incher that
weighed 5 lbs. 3 oz. All caught on Gulp! artificial baits. David Steen,
Jerry Shockley and Allen Baker stopped by the office to have their
picture taken with the 6 flounder they caught at the African Queen.
Largest weighed 5 lbs. Fish were caught on minnows, shiners and
flounder belly."
Capt Jeff from Hellbent Charters e-mailed in his report this week: "Well
the unofficial end of summer is here and mother nature started us out
with a 20 mph South wind on Saturday. I took some nice folks from New
York out for what turned out to be mostly a nature tour. We tried to
fish but did not catch anything mainly becsuse we could not keep the
drifts slow enough to stay on bottom. We decided to fish on Saturday
because Sundays forecast was for higher winds and a better chance for
storms. Well as it turned out the wind was less than 10 mph but about
time I was reasdy to take my family out a pair of thunder storms poped
up and we decided to stay off the bay and just relax all afternoon.
Tomorrow is Labor Day and I plan being out on the water most of the day
weather permitting. The second season is starting and the crowds are
going to be gone ome of the best weathet and fishing of the year. Still
time to book a trip so give me a call 717 574 4010 or email me at
helbentcharters@hotmail.com. Check out our website at
helbentcharters.com. See you on the water."
Capt Jeff is one of the few charters going out of North Ocean City.
Dave Beall of Dave's Delmarva First Mate Service reported this week:
"There have been lots of croakers in the Indian River Inlet this past
week. Small pieces of Gulp on a # 4 hook works just fine. There have
been lots of spike weakies as well but they have been pretty small. The
best news is that there have been a few trophy size flounder as well.
The number of flounder has dropped off but the quality has dramatically
improved. I have seen several over 22" this past week. Black drum have
been taken with fleas close to the rocks on the north and south sides as
well and stripers are still in eddies at night but they have been
undersize. I was in Salvo and Rodanthe, NC (Outer Banks) for a few days
last week and I couldn't wait to get back home. I covered around 100
miles and never saw a fish over 8." I couldn't believe it! Have a GREAT
WEEK, Dave" Check out his new web site.
Flounder and Surf, Rig and Lure Packages, Selection of
Swimming Shads or Gotcha Plugs!
A lot of people were crabbing this week. Northside Park at 125th Street
is a good place to crab. There's plenty spot fish to catch there too.
You can also crab from the Isle of Wight at 62nd Street, Convention Hall
at 41st Street, Jamestown Road (the whole city park side of the lagoon),
9th Street Pier, or Assateague State Park.
If you want to go clamming from the shore in Ocean City you can clam
behind the Convention Center at 41st Street or go to Assateague. No
license required for crabbing or clamming in MD Coastal Bays. We have
been renting and selling rakes and vacationers are catching clams!
Capt. Monty on the "
Morning Star reports on Aug 21st:
"Eight Hour trips $110.00 - 7AM to 3PM – Saturdays 6AM to 3:30PM -
$125.00 LEAVE YOUR BEST POSSIBLE CONTACT NUMBER - Weather Cancelations
Are Common - I Make Every Attempt To Let Clients Sleep In If The
Weather's Not Going Our Way..
Greetings All, We've had fantastic flounder fishing of late. Doesn't
mean we will tomorrow. Might anchor, might drift; Might be sea bass,
might be fluke. I will continue to fish for what's biting. "
Go to " Morning Star to read Capt Monty's entire newsletter...
E-mail Capt Monty at: Capt Monty about upcoming trips or to subscribe to his newsletter:
mhawkins@mediacombb.net
Capt. Monty Hawkins mhawkins@siteone.net Party Boat "Morning Star"
Reservation Line 410 520 2076 http://www.morningstarfishing.com/
Watch the weather.
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Capt Chris Mizurak of the Angler (410-289-7424) e-mailed in: " We are
sailing daily from 730am to 200pm. The cost is $65 per person which
includes rod,reel, and bait. Please call 410-289-7424 for more
information and reservations. Thanks and hope to see you soon!"
Capt Victor of the Ocean Princess has a fall special:
"The Ocean Princess is sailing 5 ½ hour fishing trip September 2 through
September 22, one trip a day. Boat leaves the dock at 8am and returns at
1:30pm. Cost is $43 per adult and $22 for kids 12 and under. No fishing
license required free bait and free parking. For reservations or
additional information call 410-289-6226."
Joe at Lewes Harbour Marina (302-645-6227) reports on Aug 29th: "August 29, 2013 - Open
Bottom Flounder, Bigger Croakers Ocean flounder action has been good
for boaters drifting the Old Grounds and edges of the shipping channel
between DB Buoy and Delaware Light. Captain Brent's flukers on Katydid
worked the grounds last Friday for 20 keepers to 6.1 pounds. Wes Olson
and Barney Gallagher fished a favorite spot southeast of DB Buoy Friday
to put 8 flatties in the box, the heaviest just under 6 pounds. Don
Hoffman was in search of flounder Saturday when he connected with his
7.25 citation earner aboard the Grizzly. Captain Brent's Saturday group
had a great trip over Ocean bottom. The ended up with 37 quality
keepers, six of which were over 5 pounds. On Wednesday, Wes Olson and
Barney Gallagher were back at it again on the Old Grounds, and returned
with 6 nice flatfish. Ocean reef structure produced flounder too. Site
11 yielded some decent sized ones. Despite strong northeast breezes
today, Katydid made it to Site 11. The guys shortened their trip
because of rough seas, but they landed 10 for the box before heading
back. Captain Brent boated the largest, a 7.4 pound citation fluke. On
Tuesday, Bill and Charlotte Hughes joined Captain Vince Keagy and Mate
Bert Long aboard Miss Kirstin to get in on an afternoon fluke bite at
Site 11. They returned with 11 chunky flatfish. Delaware Bay flounder
catches were sparse, but some continued to come from reef rubble. Jack
Henriksen hooked a 5.25 pounder drifting a squid strip and smelt combo
at Site 8 today. Bay bottom bouncers did see an increase in bigger
croakers. Hardheads up to 14 inches were taken by anchoring on the
heaviest cover of Reefs 6,7 and 8. Kingfish, snapper blues, puffers,
porgies, pigfish, triggerfish and spot mingled with croakers. Lewes
Canal has been home to some jumbo spot. Bits of bloodworm or Fishbites
on sabikis or other small hook rigs caught lots of the plump and tasty
panfish. Offshore, white marlin were hooked at the Hot Dog early in the
week. Other billfish catches were reported from Poor Man's Canyon.
Boats fishing way south from Virginia Beach and Oregon Inlet
experienced very good white mrlin action at the Triple O's. Captain
Charlie's crew aboard Tranquila overnighted in the Wilmington Sunday
into Monday. They went 2 for 4 on bigeyes that struck ballyhoos with
pink and white skirts Sunday evening. Nicholas Hawrylchak boated a
146.8 pounder, and Chris Stoner subdued a 140.9 pound eyeball."
For more info check out Joe's entire report.
Anglers need a DE Fishing License to fish, crab, and clam in DEL:
Individual Delaware Fishing Licenses are now available online
Stop by to the Oyster Bay Tackle location and buy your 2013 Ocean City
Reef Foundation Charts. The donation fee for these charts are $50. $54
if you use a credit card. These charts pin-point all the GPS numbers for
all the Artificial Reef materials that have been scattered near offshore
wrecks, reefs, and obstructions. The charts give you hundreds of numbers
to find fish. All the money collected goes back into the Artificial Reef
Foundation. Come to Oyster Bay Tackle or buy online.
(They are up in price, but all the numbers have been redone and the
charts are in book-form.)
Check out the link on our web site to the local chapter of the MSSA. They are keeping us
abreast on all the Fishing Issues. From our Oyster Bay Website, go to
"More Fishing Info" on the left hand side, and click on "MSSA Atlantic
Anglers".
Check the weather before driving hours to go offshore or fish the surf.
Go to Coastal Marine Forecast to get an idea of
the weather and height of the waves.
Capt. Rick Yakimowicz of the "Thelma Dale V" fishes out of Fisherman's
Wharf. Here's his report from Aug 27th: "Labor Day weekend is just
around the corner and we are already starting to see some major changes
winding down our summer season. The kids are now going back to school
and the summer crowds we experienced for a few weeks have seemed to
dwindle this past week. Fish now are most definitely on the move with
the passing of the last full moon and the shorter daylight hours.
Croakers are bunching up in places they haven't been, Baitfish is
everywhere you look and the Flounders are fattening up and now seem to
have started making their push out into a little deeper water from the
back bays sounds and inshore sites.
We have hands down had one of our best weeks for catching Flounders just
this past week since my last report however we are starting to see some
signs that these fish are starting their migration pattern where they
begin to move offshore. There are good bottom areas in sixty plus feet
of water which just a few days ago seemed to be holding and endless
supply of Flounder that now all we can catch on those particular grounds
is a few throwbacks and we have found that the Croakers are now piled up
just about everywhere we go on the inshore areas of the "old grounds."
For the first time in several weeks I am finding myself with an
uncertain plan when I leave the docks in the morning as to where we just
might end up fishing on that particular day given the conditions that we
have, it's not quite as easy as it seemed a few weeks ago with fish
being available in so many different depths. There are still a lot of
Flounders around but they just don't seem to be bunched up everywhere
the way they are sometimes given this stage of the game, and they are
most certainly moving around. We have found ourselves farther away from
home at times and putting in some very long days finding fish and making
them add up for us by the end of the day. The end results however so far
have still been good and we continue to see quality fish and limit
catches daily. The bulk of the fish right now are actually right where
we would anticipate them to be this time of year. I'm just not going to
hold my breath as to how long this good Flounder fishing is going to
continue because they are not everywhere. I do expect to continue
catching Flounder for several more weeks but the back to back to back
days with forty or fifty plus keeper Flounders will undoubtedly be
giving way to more of a variety catch with Flounder, Sea Bass, Snapper
Blues and possibly even some Croakers on some trips within the next few
weeks I would have to say. It is after all getting to be that time of
the year where variety catch is more normal and even though we may not
see the huge numbers with the Flounder on every trip it is still one of
the best times of the year to fish and catch fish!
Full-Day trips will continue to sail seven days a week departing the
docks at 7:00 a.m. and we will have Half-Day trips running daily also
until after Labor Day when the Half Day schedule will cut back to four
days a week. There are also several more special trips on the schedule
for the Tilefish and the Sea Bass in the upcoming weeks. If you would
like any more information about trips sailing out of the Wharf or you
would like to reserve space on an upcoming special trip or book a
charter please give us a call at (302) 645-TUNA. Don't forget to check
us out on facebook for further updates as well as some of our recent
pictures from our trips."
If you would like any more information about trips sailing out of the
Wharf or you would like to book a private charter or reserve space on a
special trip please give us a call at (302) 645-TUNA.
His full report and boat info is here.
Capt. Rick Yakimowicz Thelma Dale V catchfish@verizon.net"
Old Inlet Bait and Tackle (302-227-7974) reports on the 30th: "The
easterly winds of the past few days has blown some 15 inch blues on to
the surf!! Don't forget tautog season closes in De waters on Sept 1 and
reopens on Sept 29. (In DEL- MD is open) The Inlet report is croakers,
croakers and more croakers. The striper bite fell off a bit because of
the full moon but it should pick up again any time as the weather and
water cools. Plenty of spot and kings on the beach. Dink blues are
around and even heard about a few red drum and stripers in the mix. They
are catching flounder out on the reef sites (10 and 11) plus some out on
the Old Grounds."
Bill's Sport Shop (302-645-7654) in Lewes, DE reports on the 27th:" Ron
Capone, Milton, is RELENTLESS. He weighed in another 23” black drum from
Massey's Landing, caught on bloodworms. Jason Pangan, New Castle, DE,
managed a 5.20#, 20” sheepshead and a 5.84#, 22” black drum at Indian
River Inlet on sand fleas. From: Dona Dyer Subject: First Surf Fishing
Experience Pics for FB ”Great first surf fishing experience for the Dyer
boys. Caught in Dewey off of Chesapeake St. Luke w/ 1 of 5 spot caught
evening of 8/19 using Fishbites; Brock w/ 11" croaker caught morning of
8/20 using Fishbites. And of course, the boys w/ the token sand shark
caught using squid. The boys are now "hooked!" In total over ~ 3 hours
over 2 days = 7 spot, 1 croaker, 1 sand shark.”.
" Pretty cool web site... Lots of pics, reports and descriptions and
directions to get to some of those fishing places in DEL everyone talks
about but you might wonder where they are! The site is DSF Delware Surf Fishing.
(http://delaware-surf-fishing.com)
Capt.Dan Stauffer (866-623-4746) of the Fin Chaser does wreck,
inlet and trolling trips. Here's a couple of his reports from this week:
"08/31/13 Running east with a bachelor party of four looking for
something big for the pending groom. After ninety minutes a white marlin
pops-up in the spread. I pull the teaser away as Dave positions the
“dink” bait right in front of fish. He turns away then turns back and
takes the bait. Dave waits, then throws the drag up and the fight is on.
Twenty minutes later Chris has his first marlin next to the boat. Like
nearly all the other boats in the fleet the rest of our days was
horribly slow. A couple buds of mine who are excellent captains went all
day without a pull. Hard to think this could happen after the action we,
and other boats, had yesterday. Shortly after noon the wind had come up
and the reports from the boats closer to the beach claim it’s cranking
25+. The guys overhear the radio and decide to end their day early in
order to get back to the campsite, grab a little sleep and enjoy the
campfire into the night.
08/28/13 Back on the water after a rare vacation. The lines hit the
water in 50 fathoms as I pointed the boat north. Our first bite takes
about 30 minutes and puts a nice 15 lb. mahi in the box. The next
encounter sees a couple rods go down and two more mahi are added to the
box. Pulled in the troll baits and broke out the light tackle and added
another ten to the box. Worked my way north without any other
encounters. Turned around and started to paddle south. After three miles
a white marlin pops up and Dave gets him to eat. The fish puts on a
great show but the hook pulls after a very short fight. Decided to work
back inside where the water was warmed and cleaner this morning. As we
hit the 40 fathom line another white pops up in the spread but this
crazy fish doesn’t seem to be hungry. He dogs a couple baits for nearly
5 minutes but never even takes a whack at one. About 45 minutes later,
as we’re clearing the spread for the run home a big wahoo grabs our long
rigger and after 15 minutes and three anglers we put the 75 lb. “hoo” in
the box."
Larry Jock of the Coastal Fisherman reports good dolphin bite this weekend, some nice tunas,
and a good amount of marlin releases.
Wilson Cropp Charters and Guide Service. Cape Charles, VA- 1-434-531-6376)
Stripers....Flounder....Drum... Speckled Trout....Tog... Eco tours
as well.
Dave Beall has retired from his "real job" and has set up a little local
First Mate Service. I have a lot of anglers ask to pay someone to go out
with them on their new boat and show them the waters and how to fish. I
also have anglers that would like to pay someone to teach them how to
fish off the beach. Check out his new web site.
(Just a note to say to my readers that many of my fishing reports are
from other anglers and party boats that come over my e-mail. When I
"copy/paste" their reports I try to leave them intact. It keeps the
fishing reports lively and interesting. But any comments/politics
within the quotes are their comments and views, and not necessarily
mine.)
Need info on where, how, when to fish, crab, and
clam? Go to Drifting
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James A. Donofrio, executive director of the Recreational Fishing
Alliance has been actively working on the fisheries crisis. The RFA
believes the future of our fisheries is dependent on fixing the
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act which has laid
down strict time-frames that do not take into account livelihoods and
that a fishery is rebounding steadily.
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Maryland Fishing License
Anglers fishing in Ocean City will need to purchase a saltwater
fishing license. This license will cover both the Chesapeake Bay and
the coastal waters and surf of Ocean City and Assateague Island. Yes,
this includes surf fishing. If you already have a Chesapeake Bay
Saltwater license you are good to go! Anglers will be able to purchase
the license
online or come to Oyster Bay Tackle to purchase one. Please bring
cash to buy your fishing license in our store. If you go online, Logon
if you have ever had a MD fishing or hunting license in the past or
Enroll if you never had. Fill in all the information and click on
"Purchase License" The license you want to choose is "Bay and Coastal
Sport" You can either choose a year-round or 7-day. If you know you are
coming to Ocean City,and you want to get it done ahead of time you can
also call a toll free number (1-855-855-3906) or print and mail in an application.
Boat Licenses: $50 and everyone on your boat can go fishing without a
license. You will get a personal license along with your boat license,
so you can go shore fishing as well. They will send you your sticker for
your boat in the mail. If you come to Oyster Bay Tackle, we have the
2013 stickers for sale.
Mail the application to their main office:
Maryland Dept. of Natural resources Annapolis Service Center P.O. Box
1869 1804 West Street, Suite 300 Annapolis, MD 21401
If you are going to be fishing on a private boat with someone who has a
Boat License, you don't have to buy a license, but you do have to register
online. This is free and is done on the same site that you would buy
a license. Logon if you have ever had a MD fishing or hunting license or
Enroll if you never had. Fill in all the information and click on
"Obtain Registration" to print your free registration. Print out your
number and keep an id with you when you go fishing. You can also call
1-855-855-3906 during daytime hours. Be sure to write down the number
they give you. That will be your temporary license. (You also need to
get a free registration if you fish one of the free fishing areas in
Ocean City.)
Another interesting note about the license is that if you buy a VA
license, it is good in MD, and vice versa. If you are fishing in MD with
a VA licence you do need to register with MD online. Again, this is
free. This is so each state can "try" to figure out "how many" fish are
being caught in their own individual states. (VA Free Registry)
If you want to go fishing in Ocean City without a license, your choices
will be the "Oceanic Pier," the "Ocean Pier" or to go fishing on a party
or charter boat. You can now go fishing in one of the "free zones." 2nd
through 4th Street Bulkhead or Northside Park. (You need the free MD
registry to fish in these two areas.) Come to Oyster Bay Tackle and we
can do that for you. You can also go crabbing and clamming in Ocean City
without a license. Or you can fish off your own private dock.
Ocean City now has two free fishing zones. The bulkhead from 2nd to 4th
Street (Chicago Ave.) and the Northside Park at 125th Street. You do not
need a license in these two places but you do need a "free registry." Go
here to register online. This is free and can also be done over the phone during
daytime hours of 7-7 at 1-855-855-3906. We can also do your free
registry at Oyster Bay Tackle.
Senior citizens 65 and older. Cost is $5 if you have a MD driver's
license and are a resident of MD, but if you are a non-resident there is
no break. No break for boat licenses either. $50 resident or
non-resident.
Contact Info If you have any questions regarding Maryland's sport
fishing license requirements, you may contact Fisheries Service via e
mail: customerservice@dnr.state.md.us or by calling (410-656-9526).
Following is the fee schedule for 2012 & 2013:
Senior License (year round) - $5.00 Resident License (year round) -
$15.00 Resident License (7-day) - $6.00 Non-resident (year round) -
$22.50 Non- resident (7-day) - $12.00 Pleasure Boat Decal (covers
everyone on boat - year round) - $50.00 Commercial Fishing Pier License
(year round) - $290.00
No license is required for: Boat decal passengers Those fishing in "free
fishing" areas Those fishing from their waterfront properties Anglers
under 16 years old Anglers fishing on a licensed charter, party or guide
boat Anglers fishing commercially under a valid license
For more information, log onto www.dnr.state.md.us
If you have any fish reports please e-mail Sue Foster at: Oyster Bay Tackle. E-mail me your
name and where you are from so we can put you in our weekly fish
reports!
E-mail Sue Foster at: Oyster Bay Tackle if you have any questions about our inventory or if you
want to place an order for an item we do not have on-line.
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Good fishing...
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