Where are some places you phograph around the Bay drainage? I'm playing with a JVC HD video cam in an Ikelite housing quite a bit the past two weeks all over the state.
Matt,
My main "spots" (obviously discovered with great pain )are the Marina from the Eastern Shore end of the bridge for pipefishes, shrimps and sheepheads, etc., then toward Deal island for some ditches along the edge of the Blackwater reserve (Fundulus sp, etc), then Assateague bay around the Verazanno Bridge, then Chincoteague Bay (the one behind Chincoteague-I presume this is the name) for brackish sp. or macroalgae. I tried also a lot of spots on the DC side of th eBay, but the whole shore is too populated. I use goggle map to locate streets ending into the bay, but the maps don't always show fences, private properties, or people holding guns...
Chris mentioned once Grasonville for Syngnathus, but I never got close to a good spot.... sometimes you nead a boat to reach the SAVs.
I usually use scientific articles for locations and just go to a particular spot for the fun of it (it is better then staying home and fight with the wife...hahahahaha). Most of the articles are quite old. For example right now I have on my list a location for Apeltes on Solomon Island. Very likely the fish is not there anymore, but I still have to go there (do we call it compulsive behavior?).
RE: Video under water...none of my locations are crystal clear waters, only the Chincoteague bay in some days, but you never know. Long time ago I did a little bit of this in PA when I was looking for hellbenders. When I returned to the same spot after many years the creek was quite muddy.
On the old NANFA mailing list I tried (or maybe just dreamed?) that we can have a small local group willing to go out into the " woods" from time to time, just to mimic the famous explorers (Lewis and Clark?).
Last weekend, I went to WV ..I drove 5 hrs one way, stay there 24 minutes, then returned home 5 more hrs...but I'll tell it was good....