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Places to fish in Maryland
Every place has a practical guide: what's biting and when, where on the water to fish, how to fish it and how to get there.
18 places
Middle Chesapeake Bay
Region guideFishing AreaBloody Point to Sharps Island LightThe steep eastern edge of the Bay's shipping channel, from Bloody Point at the southern tip of Kent Island down past Sha…Fishing AreaChesapeake Bay BridgeThe Chesapeake Bay Bridge, the twin four-mile spans between Sandy Point and Kent Island, is probably the most famous str…Fishing AreaChesapeake Beach and Breezy PointThe Calvert County towns of North Beach and Chesapeake Beach, with Breezy Point just to the south, face the western edge…BayEastern BayEastern Bay is the broad arm of the Chesapeake between Kent Island and the Talbot County shore, fed by the Miles and Wye…Pier/Access PointKent Island Fishing Piers (Matapeake and Romancoke)Queen Anne's County's two public fishing piers on Kent Island give shore anglers some of the best access to open Bay wat…Fishing AreaKent NarrowsKent Narrows is the short, current-swept channel between Kent Island and the mainland at Grasonville, where US 50 crosse…RiverLittle Choptank River and Taylors IslandThe Little Choptank is a short, broad Dorchester County river that opens onto the Bay just south of the Choptank, with T…RiverLower Choptank River (Cambridge to the Mouth)The lower Choptank, from Cambridge down to its wide mouth between Cook Point and Tilghman Island's Black Walnut Point, i…Fishing AreaPoplar IslandPoplar Island, a few miles northwest of Tilghman Island, is being rebuilt with dredged material into wetland and upland…RiverSevern River and Annapolis (Hacketts to Tolly Point)The Severn River flows past the Naval Academy and downtown Annapolis into the Bay, and the few miles of water around its…LakeSmithville LakeSmithville Lake is a 43-acre mill pond in the farm country of Caroline County near Federalsburg, just west of the Delawa…RiverSouth, West and Rhode RiversSouth of Annapolis, the South, West and Rhode rivers are three short, heavily used tidal rivers that open onto the Bay b…Fishing AreaThomas PointThomas Point, the tip of the Annapolis Neck peninsula south of Annapolis, is marked offshore by the famous screwpile lig…Fishing AreaTilghman Island and Black Walnut PointTilghman Island, at the end of MD 33 past St. Michaels, sits between the open Bay and the mouth of the Choptank, with Po…RiverTuckahoe Creek and Tuckahoe State ParkTuckahoe Creek, a major tributary of the Choptank, is a quiet, wooded Eastern Shore stream that runs through Tuckahoe St…RiverUpper Choptank River (Dover Bridge to Greensboro)Above Cambridge the Choptank narrows into a winding, tree-lined tidal river that runs past the town of Choptank and the…LakeWye Mills LakeWye Mills Lake, a 50-acre mill pond beside MD 662 just south of US 50, is one of the larger lakes on the Eastern Shore.…RiverWye River and Wye IslandThe Wye River and the Wye East River wrap around Wye Island, a quiet, largely undeveloped state natural resources manage…