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Great news: The pickerel have returned to the Severn River.
Cheers for SRA's Jeff Schomig and his 19" catch last week during the 2019 catch & release tournament on the Severn River. It was a great catch, but he lost the coveted Calcutta by 1/2 inch.
Jeff was part of an SRA board member team enjoying a day on the river. Fellow board member Dan Mellon caught his 17.5" pickerel in Brewers Creek while SRA President Erik Kreifeldt nabbed a 17" catch in Chase Creek.
Special thanks fishing guru, John Veil, for great great consultation and advice on catching the wily pickerel!
Happy Thanksgiving!
As we commemorate a goodwill feast between early settlers and Native Americans, we offer you these pictures of an "oyster midden" located off a Severn River creek.
Oyster middens are piles of oyster shells created by Native Americans and early settlers where they enjoyed an oyster feast along the shores of our great river.
Middens can be found throughout the Chesapeake region, including on the banks of our own Severn River. Unfortunately , many of these middens have been covered with rip-rap or excavated by shoreline projects over the years, but a few still remain for sharp eyed observers.
Look closely at river banks along undeveloped or lightly developed shoreline for bright white, exposed oyster shells sticking out from the mud above the high tide line. Take only pictures, not samples, since the few we have are all that are left to mark the bounty enjoyed by the early inhabitents.
This is such neat feature of our historically dynamic Severn River!
We're so grateful for you!
Despite the challenges that we have all endured in 2020, we are also reminded of all of the people who have helped us throughout this crazy year.
We're thankful for our volunteers, members, partners, sponsors, staff, and board. Their support is essential to the SRA mission to engage the local community with the Severn River and its tributaries through advocacy, education and restoration.
Without you none of this work would be possible. Thank You!
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