Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-20
FISHING
FISHING
Blues Awaiting Anglers
By CHARLES COVELL
Outdoor Editor

the big attraction for anglers
in Chesapeake Bay and along
the nearby seacoaSt this week.
Even the bay blues, common
ly of snapper size; that is. from
10 inches long to about a
pound, have been runnin G
large. Some have been exceed
ing 4 pounds and quite a few
are reported weighing ~ to 8.
Over on the ocean, the bulk
Of the catches. as in the bay,
are of the snapper variety, but
one source reports blues weigh
ing from 5 to 10 pounds off
Ocean City, Md.
Blues have been in the
mouth of the Potomac for sew
eral weeks, but during the last
10 days the schools have in
creased sharply and catches of
$50 fish are not unusual. The
bluefish also have spread up
the bay with good hauls from
Solomons to Franklin Manor.
Spot Fishing Improves
Bottom fishermen will well
come the return of spot to wa
tiers off Chesapeake Beach and
Deale. Those who go after big
game will be interested in the
18th and 18th blue marlin
catches in history off Ocean
City and the first tarpon of
the season in Virginia.
The cobia season is reaching
its peak with large catches off
Cape Charles, Va, and Wind
mill Point at the mouth Of the
Rappahannock River and the
first this summer off Tangier
Island.
Trolling for rockfiSh is ad-
mittedly spotty. There will be
several good days, then the
breaking schools stop biting.
Great quantities of natur a !
bait silversides) are said to
be in the bay and fish opened
are guged with them.
The blues in the lower Poto-
mac seem to be concentrated
in the mouth of the st. Mary'S
River from st. Georges Island
down to the buoys off Smiths
Greek. Thy also range up the
st. Mary's as far as the air
station. Outboards as well as
charter boats have been max
ing good hauls.
Capt. Andy Scheible said he
brought in $50 blues weighing
from a pound to IA pounds
for four straight days during
the last week. Capt. Hike Lech-
lider got 81 one day but the
preceding day caught $50 along
with IA pan-sized rockfiSh. Be-
cause of the blues, Scheible is
starting head boat service at
Sam. Wednesdays.
Some spot and a lot of perch
still are in Cornfield Harbor
and off Raggedy Point but few
boats are fishing for them. A
night trip to the Southwest
Middle Grounds produced one
hardnead.
CSbia Caught Off Tangier
Bruce Scheible, Andy's son,
took George Haas Of Alexan-
dria to the wreck of the freight
er, Davidson, off Tangier Is
land and brought back a So
pound cobia. The fish took a
live eel.
Capt. Jules Langston also
took a party to the Davidson
aboard his Shidepoke. out of
Smiths Creek, that caught two
cobiA. One weighed 10 pounds
and the other 48. Live cells also
were used.
The anglers returned next
day and hooked two more CO.
bia, but one sounded, became
entangled in the n u e + o u S
snaSs that surround the wreck
and broke the 108-pound test
line,
Charter boats out of Solo
mons have been getting from
40 to 160 blues weighing from
a pound to an occasional A.
FOUNDER in the mouth Of the
Patuxent. Some trout also have
beer hitting lures.
TrOller Takes Hardhead
Capt. Rode Langley trolled
one day off Flag Pond, up the
Western Shore, and brought
back 81 rock weighing up to 2
pounds. A few spot are in the
Patuxent and one troller
picked up six hardhead weigh
ing up to ga pounds over the
Chinese MUG.
Chesapeake Beach reports
schools of rock and blues on
both sides of the ship channel
with catches of 80 to so on
good days.
Spot fishing just off CheSa-
peake Beach has improved with
boats bringing in as many as
200.
Boats out of Tilghman Island
are getting fair hauls of mixed
rock and blues. They report the
blues are running up to 8
pounds.
Deale shippers are having
similar luck on blues and rock
Large numbers of spot and
perch are on Holland Point
bar and one charter boat is
said to have brought in 400.
Some rock, a few blues and
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