Evening star., 1960-07-08

DUSK. A boat TOOK 2T Weighing
from 8 to Is pounds one day.
Next day it got 80.
These rock apparently are
from the big schools that kept
charter boats from Chesapeake
Beach and Tilghman Island so
occupied on the Gooses couple
of weeks ago. There the fishing
has fallen of sharply.
TarpOn Arrive in Force
Over near Wachapreague,
Va, the first tarpon of the
season have been hooked. Ad-
vance guard of the summer
schools was sighted in Gull
Marsh Channel a couple of
weeks ago and the Silver Kings
are now there in force.
Ben Powell, a Wachapreague
mechanic. fishing from an out
board with frozen white perch
and squid as bait, hooked two
that broke free after short
fights.
Elsewhere along the coast
there are big schools of tuna,
some covering acres, but cap
aims can't get them to bite. Only
a few, weighing up to 80
pounds, have been brought to
port.
No marlin has been landed
at Ocean City in the last few
days but the school tuna plus
small bluefish have been giving
anglers a little sport.
CObia Get Bigger
Founder fishing is holding
up well along with some sea
bass and porgies while down at
Cape Charles, Va, the cobia are
running bigger every week.
A cobia that weighed "a
pounds 2 ounces has been
caught by a Richmond angler
on the Cabbage Patch in the
mouth of the Bay. Other fish
have ranged up to about As
pounds.
Joseph Dove of Washington
and three friends flshed from
Lee Luczak's Aralee and
brought in seven in two days.
Joseph Turner of Rockville,
fishing from the same boat,
caught a 45-pounder.
Bottom fishing in Chesapeake
Bay is generally good for spot
but only fair for hardhead. The
famous Middle Grounds off
Point Lookout seem barren
md one veteran captain, Taft
Tippett, is inclined to blame
It on the immense schools of
porpoise.
Porpoise feed heavily on
small fish and fishermen believe
hey frighten them away.
A rundown:
CHESAPEAKE BAY
Piney POint-Bottom fishing
still is good around st. Georges
Island with spot. perch and
gray perch plentiful. A few
nardhead also are being taken
at night near the seawall in
back of the island with peeler
;rab and shrimp as bait.
Pan-sized rockf1sh are rang
ing from Steuart's Pier to Tall
TimberS and up the Potomac
as far as Port Tobacco where
trollers have been finding them
IN deep water. Schools also
have been found near Cobb
Island, Blakiston Island and
down to Raggedy Point.
Point Notwithstanding
has slowed but there are plenty
Of spot, some hardhead and a
few trout off the mouths of the
st. Marys River and Smiths
Creek. Spot also are biting
heavily near Buffers Rock al
the mouth of st. Jerome Greek
while Is to 80 hardhead may be
taken off the stone pile at Point
No Point. Small rock can be
caught along the shore line
near the mouth of the creek.
Crisfield-Bottom fishing il
very poor except for spot. Trout
are plentiful in Tangier Sounc
but too small to keep. There
are no hardhead but some rock.
fish may be picked up still
fishing of the piers at high
tide. Crisf1eld, the crab center
says grabbing has picked ur
sharply in the last week.
S0lOmOns-Capt. Rode Lang.
ley says there still are plenty
of small rockf1sh between Cedar
and Cove Points but they are
on the bottom and few are
breaking. Although some snap.
per blues have been reported