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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.
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Upper Chesapeake Bay
Region guideBayBaltimore Harbor and the Patapsco River MouthBaltimore's harbor and the mouth of the Patapsco River are some of the best urban striped bass fishing on the East Coast…RiverChester RiverThe Chester River winds from the farm country around Crumpton and Chestertown down past Kent Island to the Bay at Love P…RiverConowingo Dam and the Lower Susquehanna RiverConowingo Dam, where US 1 crosses the Susquehanna between Harford and Cecil counties, stops every fish swimming up Maryl…RiverGunpowder, Bush and Middle RiversThe tidal Gunpowder, Bush and Middle rivers are the marshy, grass-lined rivers of eastern Baltimore and Harford counties…Fishing AreaLove Point RocksThe Love Point rocks, off the northern tip of Kent Island where the Chester River meets the Bay, are one of the upper Ch…RiverMagothy RiverThe Magothy is a short, heavily developed Anne Arundel County river that meets the Bay just north of Sandy Point and the…RiverNorth East RiverThe North East River is a short, freshwater tidal river at the head of the Bay in Cecil County, flowing past the town of…Fishing AreaPooles IslandPooles Island, a small, off-limits island in the upper Chesapeake off the Gunpowder Neck, is surrounded by some of the m…Pier/Access PointSandy Point State ParkSandy Point State Park sits at the western foot of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge near Annapolis, and it's the upper Bay's be…RiverSassafras RiverThe Sassafras is a small, scenic tidal river on the Kent–Cecil county line, flowing west past Georgetown, Fredericktown…BaySusquehanna Flats and Havre de GraceThe Susquehanna Flats spread across the head of the Chesapeake at Havre de Grace, where Maryland's biggest river enters…Fishing AreaSwan Point and Tolchester (Rock Hall)Swan Point and the Tolchester area, off Rock Hall on the Kent County shore, are the upper Bay's main striped bass ground…LakeUnicorn LakeUnicorn Lake is a 43-acre millpond-style lake at Millington, in northern Queen Anne's County near the head of the Cheste…