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Fly Fishing Mailing and Email List

January 12, 2009

Did you get one of these in the mail over the Holidays? The latest Backwater Angler postcard of a Savage River Brook trout is proof positive that Backwater Angler interns Max Meneveau and Alex McCrickard have been busy this Winter season. This month Backwater Angler is updating our email and mailing list. If you are interested in receiving special offers, detailed stream reports and other pertinent fly fishing info via mail and/or email, please drop us a line at info@backwaterangler.com with your current mailing address and we’ll be happy to keep you apprised of “Gunpowder Happenings” via our shop postcards, event calendar notices and, of …

Fly Tying Supplies In Maryland

January 10, 2009

Fly tiers should be busy at the vise this time of year, and the shop walls were recently filled with new materials to accommodate the many requests. There are plenty of hooks in all sizes and styles on the wall for trout fishing to Tarpon. Beads for flies ranging from size 6 down to 24, are in stock in silver, nickel, gold, and tungsten; in black and nickel. Painted lead eyes, wire and vinyl rib and threads are in stock in more colors. Tiers looking to match Spring hatches can find Mayfly tails, three styles of dubbing are also available in specific Eastern hatch blends, …

Locally Tied Fly Patterns In Maryland

January 10, 2009

Gunpowder browns are known to eat a variety of fly patterns, but when a hatch gets going they tend to look at flies a little longer, before inhaling one. Backwater Angler always has a variety of local patterns tied throughout the year, and the stoneflies have arrived! The patterns that is…. although I did see a few before it got so cold this week. New York Fly Tyer and Hunting Guide Mike Bachkowsky, has tied these quill wing and deer hair stoneflies the past six years for Backwater Angler. He lives on the banks of the Delaware River, so these flies are a spot on …

Gunpowder River 08′ Shocking Survey Results

January 3, 2009January 3, 2009

Thanks to Maryland Fisheries Service biologists Charlie Gougeon, Susan Rivers and Dennis Genito from Baltimore County DEPRM for stopping in the shop a few weeks ago to give an informational talk about Angler’s prevention methods for Invasives like Didymo and whirling disease. At the close of the meeting, Charlie shared results from the latest 2008 shocking survey. Backwater Angler intern Alex McCrickard provided the pictures for this post. The Gunpowder Falls was surveyed in 2008 at the Dam/Falls station, the Masemore Road Station and the Blue Mount station as part of the annual DNR Fall trout survey. Many interested folks came out to watch or …

Purple Fridays

January 3, 2009January 2, 2009

After a typical Friday night laundry run, I stopped in for some wings and a beer in Reisterstown, MD and ran into fellow MDTU member Tom Starrs who asked, “are you here for the pep rally?” Imagine my surprise when I found out it was Purple Friday! Moments later, Bill Bateman’s was filled with Ravens Cheerleaders, Poe and Sports Steve.Through the rising din of the crowd, Tom related that he had been out on New Year’s day with a small group from Trout Unlimited and managed to ring in the New Year by releasing a nice Little Falls brown on a black woolly bugger. Just …

Pick up your 09′ MD Fishing Licenses before New Years…

December 28, 2008

The shop will be closed New Years Day. So… if you’re planning on picking up a fishing license to ring in the first fishing day of the New Year, please do so at the shop before Thursday, January 1st, 2009. We’re open from 10AM till 6PM through the week. We will be open New Years eve till 4PM. If you miss us, purchase a license direct by either calling 800-918-2870 or buy your license online. A non-tidal, (freshwater) license and a trout stamp is required to fish the Gunpowder river. Non-residents may choose from an annual or short term license with a 3 to 5 …