Weatherman is calling for sun & cloud tomorrow...which is an improvement
this week.
My buddy from the Brit Virgin Islands is here until Monday, so I invited him
to help me rig my 'new to me' sailboat and do a shakedown cruise. This guy
had been delivering boatsfor 25 years, has his captain's license and his
suveyors certificate. I couldn't let the opportunity pass. Only thing I
have to watch...he's so used to dealing with rich 'mericans where money is
no object. He's always recommending this or that...and usually the best
quality. Hope the sail works out.

Don White wrote:
Weatherman is calling for sun & cloud tomorrow...which is an improvement
this week.
My buddy from the Brit Virgin Islands is here until Monday, so I invited him
to help me rig my 'new to me' sailboat and do a shakedown cruise. This guy
had been delivering boatsfor 25 years, has his captain's license and his
suveyors certificate. I couldn't let the opportunity pass. Only thing I
have to watch...he's so used to dealing with rich 'mericans where money is
no object. He's always recommending this or that...and usually the best
quality. Hope the sail works out.




Hey...have him pay!
Good luck.

Harry Krause wrote:

Got an early start this morniing (for me, anyway), and I was actually
out on the water before 8 am, armed with two light flyrods and some
really ugly, homemade flies I tied myself. Well, calling them flies
would be somewhat of a stretch. I was interested in seeing what topwater
bite there was, so I just tied some flies with silver and gold mylar
foil, the flashy stuff.

Viola!

Caught a couple of dink stripers in the cooling water outflow down at
the Calvert Nuke Plant, and then headed across the Bay to the mouth of
the Little Choptank River, where some early blues were congregating.
Caught five of them in less than 20 minutes, and then...the bite was
gone. The blues had places to go and fish to eat. So I headed north up
to a place called "The Hill," but nothing doing. Meanwhile, some of the
same guys who were trolling for stripers when I left in the morning were
still trolling when I got back at 2:45 pm.

Oh...I didn't keep any of the fish. Blues, when they are around, are my
favorite Chesapeake Bay fish to catch. On light line and tackle, they
put up a really good fight. Very little else in the Bay proper does.


Sounds to me like you caught your own dick in the bathtub numerous times.

Glad to see you were smart enough this time not to post during the time
you tell us you were out fishing.

-- Charlie