JohnH wrote:

Wow, what a day on the Chesapeake Bay! Yesterday started with a roar, the wind
blowing through the rigging at about 20 mph. The waves were on the high side of
2 to 3 feet, water was coming over the bow, and Old Fart, Gimp, and I were out
to catch some feeesh!

We got an early start, hitting the water about 5:45. The water was too rough for
a trip to some decent trolling grounds, so we decided to try our luck with
shrimp, night crawlers, and top water lures if we found some breakers.

Soon the bite was on! We found a flock of sea gulls working the water and snuck
up along the edge of the breakers. Old Fart was bringing in a striper on almost
every cast! Gimp and I caught our fair share, but whatever Old Fart was using (a
crocodile, or alligator, or something with red on it) was definitely doing the
trick. Before long the striper action died down, and we were hunting something
new.

Trying out the shrimp and night crawlers proved the right course of action. Gimp
actually caught two flounder, and Old Fart and I caught a couple of white perch.

Before long we saw the birds working again, so off we went. More stripers
provided a lot of action, and we even hooked up three blues!

What a day!!

Oh, did I mention that none of the fish was over ten inches long? Oh well!

John H

On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD,
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

You should have called...I would have told you what the weather was like.

Save some $$$ the next time you want to fish. The little fish store in
Chesapeake Beach sells bigger bait than you seem to catch fish.

I'll probably go out Sunday if we're not in the middle of thunderstorms.
Then we're heading down to Virginia Beach again the end of the month,
and New Orleans in mid-September for a few days. If I can't catch any
feesh there, I'll settle for some gumbo.

--
"There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in
Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me -
you can't get fooled again." -George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept.
17, 2002

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 19:36:54 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote:


You should have called...I would have told you what the weather was like.

Nobody is going to call you...except maybe an asshole.

Save some $$$ the next time you want to fish. The little fish store in
Chesapeake Beach sells bigger bait than you seem to catch fish.

I'll probably go out Sunday if we're not in the middle of thunderstorms.

Go out where? Some freash air?

Then we're heading down to Virginia Beach again the end of the month,
and New Orleans in mid-September for a few days.

Parole officer visit, or are you just lying again?