On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:53:53 -0000, Skip Gundlach
wrote:

there's a long row of the same sort of sticks as
occasioned our crash jibe.

Fish traps, they hang nets between the poles, very nasty if you get
caught in one. Unfortunately they are all over the Chesapeake, mostly
in the shallows and off the beaten track.