Month: December 2011

Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER® Year End Wrap Up

By now many of you have heard that I am now serving as the Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER®,(GRK). If you’ve visited the shop this season you’ve likely become familiar with some of the issues and resulting GRK project areas that we are focusing on along the 217 miles of tributaries and 53 miles of the mainstem that comprise the Gunpowder River Watershed. As a new nonprofit charged with protecting the Gunpowder River, we feel that the RIVERKEEPER®, model is an effective, grassroots advocacy tool which safeguards tributary and river health. GRK champions the compliance of existing environmental laws such as the Clean Water Act to protect downstream …

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2012 Maryland Fishing Licenses

Lefty Kreh with his namesake Deceiver is featured on the 2012 Maryland Fishing Guide. Get a copy of the guide when you pick up your 2012 Maryland Fishing License. Please be sure to bring your drivers license and check or cash for the license payment. Note: The shop will be open this Saturday till 4:00 PM and will be closed on New Years day.

Flyfishing over the Holidays on the Gunpowder River

The river is clear, flowing at 264 CF dropping from the mid-300’s.Water temps are cooling down to 46.5 F. Bees are still crawling and the grass is still growing along the Gunpowder. Folks are still fishing flats and backeddies with olives. In higher flows, nymphing with brassies, zebra midges and tiny pheasant tails is most effective with leaders over 10 feet. Swinging streamers over the gravel with a sink-tip is also worth a shot. The grass is still growing along the river. This weekend, the TV can wait and lord knows your help in the kitchen won’t be appreciated. The fishing will be tough but …

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Holiday Weekend Hours…

The miracle on 34th St in Hampden properly rings in the season. Merry Christmas Hon! Flyfishing over the holidays? Our Christmas Weekend Hours are: Open 10 till 2 on Christmas Eve Closed on Christmas Day Open 10 till 4 on Monday

Fly fishing for Walleye on the Gunpowder

Thanks to Roy for the stream report and photo; In all my ten plus years fishing this gem I’ve never had a day like this! I worked my way up from the bridge at Falls Rd practicing my euro nymphing skills, I pulled a few fish out of the deeper seams as I fished up stream. I got up towards the big rock that blocks the river up from the bridge and started working the deep hole, I detected a strike and set the hook and the fight was on. My three wt was screeming and I saw the tail of the fish and realized …

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Gunpowder South Trail to be Named The Lefty Kreh Fishing Trail

Thanks to Don and Norma for dropping by Sunday with some fresh baked cookies and a Baltimore Sun article titled; Trail in Gunpowder Falls Park to be Named for Kreh. Today is the official ceremony in Annapolis! The Gunpowder South Trail, now marked with white blazes, will be posted as The Lefty Kreh Fishing Trail by the time the Sulphurs are hatching. In the article, Joe Evans, Maryland DNR’s Fisheries Spokesperson added; This winding, tree-shaded trail-previously called the Gunpowder South Trail-Follows the Big Gunpowder Falls River, a blue ribbon trout stream that serves as a right of passage for anyone getting into fly fishing in …

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