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Page 2 Coastal Fisherman September 22, 2010 www.coastalfisherman.net Gray fished during the Jackspot them.” He was referring to the heydays in the 50s and 60s, and big gray trout around the jetty, he was referring to white but it holds true for just about DoubleDouble LinesLines marlin at the time, but it holds every species. A related true for just about any fish we aphorism is, “They got tails, by Dale Timmons choose to let go… don’t they?” Simpson also “High water, falling, with a waxed a little philosophical good hole…” Uttered by Judge when he said, “Sometimes I Suzanne and I spent a few Dale Cathell, then City Solicitor catch fish, sometimes I don’t, days in Buxton, NC last week for the Town of Ocean City, and it really doesn’t matter. It on our annual getaway. The I was looking through some who was featured for his all evens out. I once had a party fishing wasn’t all that great, but old back issues of CF last week, “obsession” with plug casting where this guy says, ‘Well, Cap, we had nice weather, and I did and I came across a feature the surf for stripers. It became are we going to get ‘em today?’ manage to catch half a dozen story I had done on a my favorite time to plug the I said, come on, don’t put the Spanish mackerel one afternoon gentleman in the late 70s. It surf as well. Cathell also said, kiss of death on us before we while “throwing metal” started me thinking about all of “Except for the business it even go out. We don’t always (actually painted lead lures the good fishermen and would hurt, I’d like to see it stay catch fish. That man upstairs is designed to resemble a glass interesting characters I have just like it is between the one. Sometimes He lets you minnow. Pink was the hot color, come to know over the years September 15 and November catch them, and sometimes He at least that day.). There was a and some of the interesting 15.” Wouldn’t that be nice… doesn’t.” lot of bait in the water, and the wisdom they passed on. Some The late Capt. Earl Simpson “You got to give ‘em what eagle rays were jumping and of them may seem trite, or old was a true Eastern Shore they want to eat, not what you somersaulting, but the fashioned, now, but at one time outdoorsman and a well known want to feed ‘em.” These words highlight of the trip was they were fresh, and they have figure at the south jetty in the came from a fellow named Pete probably when what I think stood the test of time. Consider 1970s and 80s. Earl was proud Rusinkewicz, who spent the was a pilot whale came right the following: to put me on my first surf summers living in the back of into the beach on the south side “They got a better chance caught red drum in the mid 70s. his pickup truck with a cap on it of Cape Point. It was probably out there than they do in here.” I featured him in 1977, and he and fished seven days a week within 50 yards of the sand at This aphorism is commonplace had some sage advice: “These on the old railroad bridge, the one time, lolling just beneath now in the age of catch and fish don’t stay in one place. Rt. 50 bridge and the north inlet the surface with its large black release, but 40 years ago it was They move around a lot. You jetty, the kind of life most dorsal fin showing well above radical thinking. The first time I might find them in one spot one fishermen only dream about. the surface. Kind of neat to ever heard it was from an old day, and somewhere else the The advice sounds pretty see… salt named Ward Gray. Mr. next. 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It wasn’t always liked to troll for a big mullet off Ocean City. fishermen do you know who nothing to go down and catch flounder myself. I’d catch 3 to 1 What amazes me about a blue is always fish the same bait, no seven or eight. We used to catch trolling. Always trolled against the fact that he is a lot bigger matter what the fish are feeding most of them at Fox Hill Levels, the tide. It’s just like the but a lot faster coming to your on? where there were no dunes and drum—find something baits than a white. A blue “RH (rod holder) is the best the water washed across to the different for your big marlin can eat three baits while fisherman in the boat.” I once bay all the time. This kept the flounders—a bar, a rip, a deep a white is looking one over.” interviewed four mates on bottom clean, and the drum edge or something… there’s a Finally, back to Capt.