{"id":41177,"date":"2024-04-02T12:24:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T16:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=41177"},"modified":"2024-04-03T10:28:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T14:28:42","slug":"eighth-angler-earns-fishmaryland-master-angler-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2024\/04\/02\/eighth-angler-earns-fishmaryland-master-angler-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Eighth Angler Earns FishMaryland Master Angler Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jason Michalski of Cecil County recognized as a Master Angler<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53610629519_f4e1b67d8b.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of man holding a large fish\" width=\"413\" height=\"236\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Jason Michalski.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jason Michalski of Rising Sun, Cecil County, has earned a Master Angler Milestone Award under the Maryland Department of Natural Resources\u2019 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/fisheries\/Pages\/FishMaryland\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">FishMaryland program<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The award recognizes recreational anglers who catch ten different trophy-sized species of fish in Maryland. Michalski is the eighth <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/fisheries\/Pages\/FishMaryland\/master_angler.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Master Angler<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> since the program began in 2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The FishMaryland program includes dozens of species from both salt and freshwater. Michalski submitted entries for all ten catches and received individual certificates for each catch. The department plans to present the Master Angler Milestone Award certificate along with a gift card prize from Bass Pro Shops at its Arundel Mills store.\u00a0 Michalski caught his tenth FishMaryland eligible fish, a 30.25-inch carp, on Sunday, March 24.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAfter a heavy rainstorm, I was sitting at home wondering if I could catch the tenth fish I needed, and said to myself, you don\u2019t know unless you go,\u201d Michalski said.\u00a0 Even with the high and muddy water conditions from that March 23 rainstorm, he was able to catch the carp and the award. After getting a quick picture and confirming the length, he released the fish \u201cto become bigger for next time, for someone else to catch!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Michalski\u2019s qualifying catches were:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Northern snakehead, 33.5 inches<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smallmouth bass, 21 inches<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Crappie, 16.25 inches<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rainbow trout, 27 inches<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Striped bass, 45 inches<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pumpkinseed, 10 inches<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yellow perch, 14 inches<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bluegill, 11 inches<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hickory shad, 20 inches<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carp, 30.25 inches<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Michalski\u2019s fishing life started at the age of 3 when his grandmother took him for the first time to a small pond in Harford County, and ever since then he has been hooked on fishing. His favorite fish to target is the northern snakehead, but any fish will do as long as he is outdoors. \u201cFishing gives me relaxation and I really just love the time out there. I took this as a challenge and did it for my grandmother. Thanks to Maryland DNR for this awesome program, it was a lot of fun!\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">FishMaryland is Maryland\u2019s recreational fishing award program and is a fun way to explore year-round recreational fishing and enjoy affordable, accessible, diverse, and high-quality fishing opportunities. More information on the Master Angler Milestone Award and the FishMaryland program is available on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/fisheries\/Pages\/FishMaryland\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">program\u2019s website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Michalski of Cecil County recognized as a Master Angler Jason Michalski of Rising Sun, Cecil County, has earned a Master Angler Milestone Award under the Maryland Department of Natural Resources\u2019 FishMaryland program.\u00a0 The award recognizes recreational anglers who catch ten different trophy-sized species of fish in Maryland. Michalski is the eighth Master Angler since<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2024\/04\/02\/eighth-angler-earns-fishmaryland-master-angler-award\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,11],"tags":[2934,5429,5430,4314],"class_list":["post-41177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-fisheries","tag-cecil-county","tag-fishmaryland","tag-master-angler","tag-sportfishing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41180,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41177\/revisions\/41180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}