Gene Mueller

EPA sued over Anacostia

Gene Mueller: River is in sad shape.

January 21, 2009

GENE MUELLER: When it’s cold, Sting Ray is best

The amount of correspondence that comes in during the cold months - concerning a 3-inch-long, rubbery fishing lure that has an almost magical effect on the bass, perch, crappie, even resident river rockfish population - is astonishing.

January 18, 2009

Gene Mueller: Cold could ruin weekend

A good time to be on the water?

January 15, 2009

Gene Mueller: Howard County takes aim at putting muzzle on hunting

Maryland's Howard County, a growing part of the D.C. metropolitan area, appears to want to put a stop to or seriously restrict hunting - in particular, hunting with shotguns or muzzleloaders.

January 14, 2009

MUELLER: Registry is a salty move

Only a few days after I received an outrageously unrealistic property tax assessment notice - housing prices, after all, have gone down the drain - that got me thinking the government is completely out of touch, here comes the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with a scheme to reach into the pockets of those who like to fish in ocean waters.

January 11, 2009

Gene Mueller: Rockfish a popular catch

While there is little to brag about concerning local fishing - the exception is downstate Virginia's Lake Gaston, where bass and crappies are willing - in the lower Chesapeake Bay and the adjacent Atlantic the action is great.

January 8, 2009

Gene Mueller: Dyke Marsh group no friend to hunting

The Friends of Dyke Marsh, a Northern Virginia citizens group with members who live near the Potomac River's Dyke Marsh Wildlife Preserve just south of Old Town Alexandria, want the waterfowl hunting to come to a halt there even though it has been approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries.

January 7, 2009

GENE MUELLER: Fish stayed in for New Year’s

HILLTOP, Md.

January 4, 2009

Gene Mueller: Weather slows exciting start to year

Don't expect great fishing during the first four days of the new year.

January 1, 2009

Rappahannock fishing improves

Gene Mueller: Size of fish increased greatly.

December 31, 2008

GENE MUELLER: Mixed bag of memories

With 2008 nearly gone and the new year about to begin, good and bad memories are easily recalled while a measure of apprehension is felt for the future.

December 28, 2008

MUELLER: Cold can’t keep anglers away

It is Christmas, the highest holiday of the Christian faith, yet I'll wager a week's pay that there will be some wacky, stout-hearted souls who will brave the cold to chase after the Chesapeake Bay's rockfish because the season closes by the end of the month.

December 25, 2008

MUELLER: Reeling in the top 10 fishing products

The Alexandria-based American Sportfishing Association, an industry trade group of fishing tackle corporations and such, recently compiled the 10 most influential fishing products of the past 75 years.

December 24, 2008

Gene Mueller: Highway poses threat to vital creek

A controversial plan to build a four-lane highway known as the Cross County Connector in Southern Maryland's Charles County not only upsets community-action groups that believe local leaders continue to live in the past, it is also being seriously questioned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

December 21, 2008

More and more stripers making their way up Bay

Gene Mueller: More and more striped bass are entering the area around the Maryland-Virginia state line, and some are heading up the Bay.

December 18, 2008

Choose guides with care

Gene Mueller: Among fine western outfitters are some scoundrels.

December 17, 2008

GENE MUELLER: Deer to venison with a bit of luck

WELCOME, Md.

December 14, 2008

Gene Mueller: Zebra mussels start bulging

Before getting into area fishing, a truly worrisome picture has developed in Maryland. The state's Department of Natural Resources has confirmed the presence of zebra mussels in the lower Susquehanna River. That can spell bad news for Maryland waters and perhaps even those in neighboring states.

December 11, 2008

Gene Mueller: Rejected bid a boon for river conditions

Jeff Kelble, the Shenandoah Riverkeeper, applauds Virginia's Water Control Board for not allowing the Merck pharmaceutical company to increase the amount of nutrient pollution it could discharge into the South Fork of the Shenandoah River.

December 10, 2008