In addition to being a public recreation area encompassing more than 6,300 acres along 14 miles of the Seneca Creek in Montgomery County which features trails for hiking, cycling and horseback riding, Seneca Creek State Park is also home to Clopper Lake. More than 90 acres in size, Clopper Lake averages 18-feet in depth with several shallow coves. The Lake has abundant submerged aquatic vegetation, with tree downfalls and beaver lodges providing habitat in some[...]
The Hagerstown Valley sits atop miles of underground limestone caverns which support Maryland’s largest spring creek, Beaver Creek, which rises up with cool water just below South Mountain in Washington County. The Catch and Release stretch begins below the Albert Powell Fish Hatchery and Interstate 70. This section down to Route 40 has a healthy naturally reproducing stream population of brown trout. Beaver Creek provides fly fishers with this unique, sometimes challenging opportunity to cast[...]