Answer the call and visit Maryland for your next harvest. Experience the state’s natural wildlife areas and join fellow deer hunters for exciting hunting opportunities. With four major regions hosting thousands of acres, Maryland offers one of the country’s most diverse habitat ranges. Expand your hunt from the mountains, forests, and reservoirs to the creeks, marshes, and fields. Experience one of the best states for hunting this season. Rare Quality Deer Maryland is one of[...]

Growing up on the western shore, fishing has been part of my lifestyle. My passion is taking people out to create new passions and memories. Growing up my father always took my family western to the mountain rivers to chase native brook and brown trout. Questions & Answers for video topics What makes Maryland unique? Maryland’s fly fishery is unique in so many ways. For example, Western Maryland’s babbling brooks that house the prized native[...]

On October 3, 2012, under the auspices of the Maryland Legislative Sportsmen’s Foundation (MLSF), the following sportsmen’s groups formally requested an initiative to promote Maryland as a premiere destination to fish and hunt: Maryland Aquatic Resource Coalition Maryland Outfitters & Guides Association Coastal Conservation Association Maryland Bowhunter’s Society Maryland Bass Nation Federation Trout Unlimited, Mid-Atlantic Council Chesapeake Guides Association Allegany/Garrett Sportsmen’s Association. Further support was provided by the bi-partisan Maryland Legislative Sportsmen’s Caucus within the[...]

Maryland offers anglers some of the most diverse and high quality fishery resources on the East Coast. Those well-maintained waters that produce healthy populations and provide for excellent hauls are thanks to you! The maintenance and management of fishery resources is funded, in large part, by revenue from fishing licenses. In fact, revenue from sport fishermen, including the sales of fishing licenses, gasoline sales surcharges and a federal excise tax on sport fishing tackle and[...]

She grew up in Maryland, with the Chesapeake Bay always being a part of her life. She really developed a passion for working on boats when she lived in the Caribbean for a couple years. Later she moved back to Maryland and started working on charter boats and fell in love with working and fishing on the bay for a living. Since then she decided to get her captains license a few years ago and[...]

Maryland Bears Black bear are located primarily in Garrett, Allegany, Washington, and Frederick counties. Populations are highest in Garrett and Allegany counties, with numbers continuing to rise throughout the western region of Maryland. Although evidence of a breeding population is confined to the western four counties, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources receives several bear sightings and complaints in central and southern Maryland counties each year. Bears are the largest mammals in Maryland. Adult bears[...]

From the abundant freshwater fishing in the rivers and lakes of Western Maryland and of our Nation's River, the Potomac, to the hunting bounty of the Chesapeake Bay region in Southern and on the Eastern Maryland – click on the region below to discover more.