{"id":41606,"date":"2024-05-29T09:30:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T13:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=41606"},"modified":"2024-07-24T15:10:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T19:10:13","slug":"tenth-fishmaryland-master-angler-is-first-youth-angler-to-achieve-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2024\/05\/29\/tenth-fishmaryland-master-angler-is-first-youth-angler-to-achieve-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenth FishMaryland Master Angler is First Youth Angler to Achieve Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lucy Moore, 11, awarded for catching diversity of species<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 361px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53703564259_c2696ec424.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of girl holding a fishing rod and a fish\" width=\"351\" height=\"468\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Master Angler Lucy Moore with a bluegill. Photo by Nick Perez<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lucy Moore of Cecil County has earned a Master Angler Milestone Award under the Maryland Department of Natural Resources\u2019 (DNR) FishMaryland program. The award recognizes recreational anglers who catch ten different trophy-sized species of fish in Maryland. Moore, 11, is the tenth Master Angler since the program began in 2019, the first female angler, and the youngest by a decade. (NOTE: Moore&#8217;s surname was previously recorded as Perez, however the family has updated her preferred name.)<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;I think this award is such an amazing accomplishment for me \u2013 I&#8217;m only 11 years old and have been fishing for 10 years and did something so incredible,\u201d Moore said. \u201cBeing able to catch so many cool kinds of fish and to have people excited to see me getting closer to this goal is what kept me trying to get this award \u2013 this was really a lot of fun.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The FishMaryland program includes dozens of species from both salt and freshwater. Moore 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. Moore caught her tenth FishMaryland eligible fish, an American shad, on May 6, 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moore&#8217;s qualifying catches, in order, were:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chain pickerel, 27 inches<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">White perch, 13 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\">Yellow perch, 14 inches<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Crappie, 15 inches<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smallmouth bass, 20 inches<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hickory shad, 18 inches<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carp, 33 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\">American shad, 24 inches<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She regularly fishes with her father Nick Perez, who has often submitted <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/search\/?text=%22Lucy+Perez%22+angler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">photos of Lucy\u2019s impressive catches<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to DNR\u2019s Maryland Fishing Report and Angler\u2019s Log.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cLucy has been an avid angler for as long as she was able to hold a fishing rod,\u201d said Nick Perez. \u201cHer love for the sport is almost unmatched, and her preferred method of fishing is actually on the fly. At 11 years old she has caught fish a lot of people have only dreamed of, from exotic clown knifefish, to wrangling the \u2018fish of 10,000 casts,\u2019 the muskellunge \u2013 she does it all.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moore also wants to pursue a marine biology degree when she is older and is considering a career in fisheries management.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucy Moore, 11, awarded for catching diversity of species Lucy Moore of Cecil County has earned a Master Angler Milestone Award under the Maryland Department of Natural Resources\u2019 (DNR) FishMaryland program. The award recognizes recreational anglers who catch ten different trophy-sized species of fish in Maryland. Moore, 11, is the tenth Master Angler since the<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2024\/05\/29\/tenth-fishmaryland-master-angler-is-first-youth-angler-to-achieve-milestone\/\">&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":[5429,5430,4314,5457],"class_list":["post-41606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-fisheries","tag-fishmaryland","tag-master-angler","tag-sportfishing","tag-youth-fishing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41606","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=41606"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42045,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41606\/revisions\/42045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}