Outdoors: Anglers hope to hook more consistent pattern

The opening of all waters to yellow perch fishermen has given a bit of a boost to angling interest in the Magothy, South and Severn Rivers, but with the weather continually changing the catching is inconsistent.

A few fish of the 9-inch minimum size have been taken along with some pickerel, but we need a string of several warm days to get things going.

One has a better chance for perch and pickerel, maybe a few crappies, at Blackwater in Dorchester County where Ray Johnson and Skip Forman of Bowie used minnows on shad darts and minnows worked under bobbers to take a dozen keeper perch and eight pike big enough to...