Posted by Jack Russell on May 19, 2019 · Leave a Comment
It’s that time of year again, Message from the Cap’n has to address the great harbinger of the season, the soft crab. And, back in 2019, get your Smith Island Cruise information and reservations here.
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Posted by Jack Russell on May 10, 2019 · Leave a Comment
Message From the Cap’n is a compilation of history, fishing advice, waterman, and weather insights, Chesapeake lore, and ordinary malarkey. This season’s highlight: More catfish in the Potomac than we’ve ever seen!
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Posted by Jack Russell on April 14, 2019 · Leave a Comment
Osprey observations from the nesting capital of the Chesapeake: St George Island with 60+ nesting pairs.
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Posted by Jack Russell on February 7, 2019 · Leave a Comment
It’s cold outdoors with frozen creeks, but the Cap’n offers a tale of hot tempered hunters foiled by an errant discharge to warm up the day with a little bit of lore …
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Posted by Jack Russell on January 16, 2019 · Leave a Comment
“Some of my fondest memories of the island are of going to Letcher Lampkins’ store in the evening or at night , when the watermen were all there sitting around talking. I would listen with amazement to the stories of the boatloads of oysters and crabs caught in the years gone by.” Gary Robrecht
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Posted by Jack Russell on January 8, 2019 · Leave a Comment
Government has closed down the readings on the Interpretive Buoy System in the Chesapeake Bay, but nothing is going to stop winter from making its annual mark on the region. Check out Cap’n Jack’s take on it all starting with the fishing report through predictions for another cold snap over the full moon in January 2019.
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Posted by Jack Russell on November 5, 2018 · 1 Comment
Lena Marie “Baby Lena” Denny was a “Tom Boy,” growing up on St. George Island, who climbed the Silver Maple trees in her yard until Hurricane Hazel blew them down and missed the school bus on purpose to ice skate on the creek with her best buddy Tommy Poe.
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Posted by The SlackWater Center on August 13, 2018 · 1 Comment
In his memoir, St. George Island resident David Sayre recalls the Great Flood that destroyed the small, isolated waterman’s community in southern St. Mary’s County. The storm struck on Aug. 23, 1933.
Category Leader Exclusives, Leader Features, Lexi Leader · Tags Andrea Hammer, David Sayre, Great Flood of 1933, Julia King, oral history, St. George Island, St. George Island flood, St. George Island MD, St. Mary's College of Maryland, The Slackwater Center
Posted by Jack Russell on March 21, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The ospreys return, ahead of St. Patrick’s Day as usual, warming water and air are drawing others birds back to their Chesapeake summering grounds and preparing the tributaries for the return of the Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab.
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Posted by Jack Russell on January 22, 2018 · 4 Comments
Wendell J. Chesser was 12 in 1920 when he began his “eternity” of “eight long years” working aboard his father’s pungy, the Joe Smith, out of St. George Island, MD.
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