Posted by Jack Russell on May 23, 2026 · Leave a Comment
The Paul Hall Center for Maritime Training and Education in Piney Point, MD, has hosted the Seafarers Waterfront Classic for nearly a decade, this year raising funds for the Boulder Crest Foundation, a nonprofit serving veterans and first responders through post-traumatic growth programs.
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Posted by Jack Russell on April 15, 2026 · Leave a Comment
Looking around St. George Island, a mid-April morning shows about 40 osprey nests under construction for the 2026 season. A very hopeful sign! The birds are very frisky and are enjoying life around the Chesapeake.
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Posted by Jack Russell on March 31, 2026 · Leave a Comment
April is again open for the rockfish catch and release season in the reconfigured 2026 striped bass regulations that went into effect March 30. The new regulations also closed the season for all of August, during the hot, final weeks of the summer.
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Posted by Jack Russell on March 3, 2026 · Leave a Comment
Cap’n Jack recounts the St. Mary’s River’s biggest haul of rockfish of his lifetime. It was in Chicken Cock Hollow across from St. George Island in the early 1960s.
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Posted by Jack Russell on February 17, 2026 · Leave a Comment
There was a time clams in local waters around Piney Point provided a type of Gold Rush for Chesapeake clammers. Back then the clams were plentiful and sparked a rush. Today they’re scare, but their value approaches gold.
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Posted by Jack Russell on February 12, 2026 · Leave a Comment
When the first hard freeze settles over the Chesapeake Bay it goes quiet in a way only watermen understand.
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Posted by Jack Russell on January 27, 2026 · Leave a Comment
The Cap’n remembers days when slipping under the radar of the natural resource officers patrolling watermen was a bit easier than today when newfangled enforcement tools include drones.
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Posted by Jack Russell on January 7, 2026 · Leave a Comment
The St. George Island bridge, built in 1921, set the islanders free to roam around the entire county and get mixed up in the upland culture.
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Posted by Jack Russell on December 25, 2025 · Leave a Comment
Now is the season. The weather has cooled and the oysters are fattening up!
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Posted by Jack Russell on December 1, 2025 · Leave a Comment
St. George Island Improvement Association will welcome many oyster lovers for its annual Oyster Scald — Dec. 6 noon to 3pm — at the SGIIA community center, first building on the left on Thomas Road on St. George Island.
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