This all-new angler's guide describes 105 of the authors' favorite fishing sites with precise directions, species found, and specific angling tips. From casting trout flies in the mountain streams of Maryland to bait-fishing for black drum in the Chesapeake, this book reveals a lifetime of fishing opportunities—sites both tried-and-true and up-and-coming. Its detailed directions, black and white photographs, and accurate maps will appeal to locals as well as the millions of annual visitors to these Mid-Atlantic states.

Told by a former artificial reef manager, recreational boater, and sport-fisherman with a foreword by Lenny Rudow, this is first and foremost a book for fisherman that provides practical methods to find and prospect bottom features that attract bait, striped bass, redfish, cobia, sea bass, tautog, sheepshead, and other sportfish. It also draws on lessons from the author's Coast Guard service and Chesapeake Bay restoration and fishing experience to encourage boating and fishing safety. This first book of a multi-volume Mid-Atlantic fishing reef series covers from the Delaware Bay Entrance south to just below the Maryland-Virginia border. It provides a detailed look at wrecks, obstructions, natural formations, and Delaware's ocean artificial reefs with layout illustrations. It identifies locations of reef sites managed by the Ocean City Reef Foundation in Maryland's coastal waters, and advises how to obtain current information about ongoing reef deployments and specific locations. Designed for jump-starting the acquisition of local knowledge about light-tackle fishing structure by casual and journeyman sport fisherman, there are jewels of information inside for sportfishing veterans as well. The narrative not only shows and tells where to look for structure, but also includes graphics from hydrographic survey data and sonar images to show what is actually there to inform fishing strategies and tackle selection. Geographic coordinates are included. A selection of color graphics used to produce the greyscale images in the book are found on the Facebook page for the Author's works, "Chesapeake Bay Fishing Reefs", and in excerpts by the author posted on the FishTalk Magazine "Where To" webpage. A special chapter developed with a docking pilot and marine pilot discusses boating and fishing safety in relation to commercial ship and tug and barge operations. A step-by-step illustrated guide shows how to access and use the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's Bathymetric Data Viewer and its links to National Ocean Service Descriptive Reports that document results of hydrographic surveys.

To catch fish, you need to know where to fish. Steve visited every location discussed and discovered Maryland provides a startling array of trout fishing opportunities, ranging from some surprising locations on the Eastern Shore all the way to the wild and roiling rivers of Garrett County in the western mountains. This book covers 100% of the stocked trout water in Maryland along with the better known wild trout streams. For each, Steve provides a description, directions and an itemized list of access points. However, knowing anglers judge water by "how it looks," he includes at least one picture (551 total) for each location, allowing you to make an informed judgment before burning the gas to visit any particular spot. Given the availability of GPS technology on devices ranging from cell phones to car navigation systems, Steve includes 902 GPS coordinates to describe the stream boundaries as well as every known access point. Plug these into your navigation system for custom directions or into the Google(TM) satellite view for a bird's-eye perspective of the water and the surrounding terrain. Add your own favorite wild streams using the methodological approach described in the chapter on "Blue Lining." Finally, Steve's chapter on "Stocked Trout Behavior" contains lessons learned from a number scientific studies. Understanding the movement dynamics of freshly stocked fish allows you to position yourself to maximize your catch Reviewed and checked by members of the Potomac-Patuxent and Northern Virginia Chapters of Trout Unlimited, Potomac Valley Fly Fishers, and the Annapolis Chapter of the Free State Fly Fishers. Feedback included: "Likely to be regarded as the 'Bible' for trout fishing" "Your work is well prepared, it is impressive"

A veteran angler presents a complete where-to-fish guide for the outstanding saltwater fishing opportunities on the Delaware and Maryland coasts. These fifty-nine miles of coastline offer surf, inshore, back bay and inlet fishing that is world class, for flounder, weakfish, dolphin, shark, tuna, bluefish, striped bass (rockfish) and many other species. Where to fish, and techniques specific to each locality, are detailed in this indispensable guide.

More than a third of New Mexico is public land that holds untold quantities of mineralogical treasure. With this book anyone can learn where to find unusual mineral displays, fossils, jasper, agate, petrified wood—not to mention more obsidian than one rockhound could possibly collect in a lifetime. The array and quality of such materials just waiting to be found in New Mexico are almost mind-boggling. Rockhounding New Mexico describes 140 of the state's best rockhound sites, covering popular and commercial sites as well as numerous little-known areas. This handy guide describes where and how to collect specimens, includes maps of each site as well as directions, and provides reliable recommendations for accommodations, camping, and other special attractions. It is, in short, a complete and outstanding introduction to the many sides of a fascinating hobby.