Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-03
FISHING
FISHING
Blues Spreading in Bay
BY CHARLES COVELL
Outdoor Editor


Bay fishing as the bluefish con-
tinue to spread along both the
Eastern and Western Shores.
Mostly they are of nice size.
too. ranging from l to 2 pounds
with an occasional specimen
weighing 3la.
Only in one place are the
rock current kings of bay fish
ing. That's off Love Point at
the mouth of the Chester River
where a few whoppers up to
IS pounds have been caught
drifting or trolling live cells.
Solomons continues to be the
hot spot for bluefish but large
schools also are along the Vir-
ginia shore in the lower Poto-
mac and up the bay as far
as the Bay Bridge.
Some even have been nipping
the tails off eels being drifted
or trolled near Love Point.
Trout Mixed With Blues
Trout sometimes are mixed
with the blues and large catches
have been made by trollerS off
Solomons. Another mixed bag
was taken in Cornfield Harbor
near Point Lookout.
For sinker bouncers, lots of
perch are still around and
fishing for spot has perked up
off Solomons and Chesapeake
Beach.
Over on the seacoast. marlin
fishing is in full swing with
catches of almost so in a day
by the Ocean City fleet and
smaller numbers being boated
off Wachapreague. Va. Indian
River Inlet and Lewes, Del.
Only a few tuna remain and
not too many bonito. but there
are lots of snapper blues Off
shore.
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CObia Still Biting
For those who want to tackle
the biggest Chesapeake Bay
fish. cobia are still biting free
lyi off Cape Charles and the
mouth of the Rappahannock.
Capt. Hike Lechlider had Mr..
and Mrs. Eugene Hankel of Der
wood. Md. Frank Leach of Hy-
attsville and Bill Nicholson of
Rockville aboard Andy Schei-
bie's Patsy on a cobia trip this
week out of Smiths Creek.
Fishing at the wreck of the
Davidson off Tangier Island,
Mrs. Hankel boated a S.
FOUNDER which took a five eel.
Starting with the lower Po-
tomac, blues are reported, as
far as Breton Bay while perch
are plentiful at BlakiSton Is
land, Swan and Cedar Points
and off Raggedy Point. Large
spot have been taken at St
Georges Island on drifte d
bloodworms. Pansize6rock have
been biting at Cobb bar, off
the Nomini Cliffs and Swan and
Cedar Points.
Trout in COrnfield HarbOr
Trolling deep with wire line,
Capt. Scheible brought in a
catch of 118 blues and trout
from Cornfield Harbor. The
trout weighed up to 1I2 pounds
and the blues. IA. Small blues
also are along the Virginia
shore but bigger ones are out
on the Middle Grounds. Some
rock. weighing up to 6 pounds,
have. been biting near dark in
shallow water in the mouth of
Smiths Creek.
AT Solomons, Capt. Rhode
langley had a catch Of $50
blues and 20 trout one day this
week. Another day he got 300
blues. Some of the boats
brought in as many as IS
trout. Small boat fishermen
are getting spot off Drum
Point.
Chesapeake Beach reports lots
of blues up to 2 pounds and
some pan-sized rockfiSh along
the Western shore as far as
Parkers Creek. The head boat
has been fishing the Middles
at night back of Sharp's Island
Light and getting up to 200
spot. In the daytime it fishes
around No. 81 buoy off West
River and makes good catches
of perch.
Blues Near Stone Rock
Boats out of Tilghman re-
port consistent catches of blues
near the Stone Rock. There
are some stripers around but
they are too small. Shippers
from Deale are finding blues
in midday from Breezy Point
down. Blues and a few rock
also are around No. 81 buoy
Capt. Harry Manifold said he
got so blues and five rockfish
Monday. Little is in Herring
Bay except understood rockfish.
Quite a few small rock and
some blues are in the mouth
of, Eastern Bay but many of
the rockfish are throwbacks.
Boats out of Rock Hall have
been going after the big rock
fish with eels at Love Point.
Fishing is spotty but catches
of four to 10 are reported in