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Goin' Crabbing? Some Hints in Message from the Cap'n

Goin’ Crabbing? Some Hints in Message from the Cap’n

Message from the Cap’n is a compilation of fishing advice, waterman and weather insights, Chesapeake lore, and ordinary malarkey from the folks who keep their feet wet in the Potomac and St. Mary’s rivers.

The Cap’n

The crab season got an early start, but the weather didn’t hold. And the 2020 crab harvest hadn’t really hit a stride for the traditionally strong Memorial Day market.

The Interpretiv…

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Help Captain Pat's: Help the Watermen

Help Captain Pat’s: Help the Watermen

The loss of Captain Pat’s Seafood restaurant in Lexington Park has ramifications beyond its disappointed patrons, and even beyond the owners facing a cataclysmic loss on top of the economic uncertainty the coronavirus pandemic is wrecking on the restaurant industry.

Also suffering are local watermen, according to LexLeader’s own Cap’n Jack Russell. He describes Captain Pat’s Seafood as one of the…

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Ospreys Return to Where They Were Born: Message From the Cap'n

Ospreys Return to Where They Were Born: Message From the Cap’n

Photo by Laura Hammett

Message from the Cap’n is a compilation of fishing advice, waterman and weather insights, Chesapeake lore, and ordinary malarkey from the folks who keep their feet wet in the Potomac and St. Mary’s rivers.

The Cap’n

  From the Interpretive Buoy Systemthe water temperature in the Lower Potomac is moving up above 50 degrees farenheit and the salinity hovering around 14 PSU…

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St. George Is. Opens 1776 Revolutionary War in MD

St. George Is. Opens 1776 Revolutionary War in MD

When the weather imprisons the Cap’n indoors, he has been known to hunker-down with a couple good historic stories and trace them back. Naturally, most of the Cap’n Jack’s history begins with St. George Island. He writes:

Saint George Island, part of a 3,000-acre grant to the Jesuits in 1639, is St. Mary’s County’s largest island.

During the American revolution British fleets were positioned at…

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Message From the Cap'n/Oysters, Another Lesson From Mother Nature

Message From the Cap’n/Oysters, Another Lesson From Mother Nature

Cap’n Jack

Message From the Cap’n is a compilation of fishing advice, waterman and weather insights, Chesapeake lore, and ordinary malarkey from the folks who keep their feet wet in the Potomac and St. Mary’s rivers.

What do we know about what is going on around us in the river? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Makes us think we’re dumber than a box of rocks.” Indeed, by Gawd cap’n we just don’t know didly…

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What's Killing Our Pine Trees in Southern MD

What’s Killing Our Pine Trees in Southern MD

The Cap’n

Message from the Cap’n is a compilation of fishing advice, waterman and weather insights, Chesapeake lore, and ordinary malarkey from the folks who keep their feet wet in the Potomac and St. Mary’s rivers.

Living on St. George island is great most of the time: great scenery, abundant wildlife, seafood, and not much traffic. Living here truly adds meaning to enjoying the “bounty” of the…

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Great Blue Herons: Solitary and Amazing

Great Blue Herons: Solitary and Amazing

Photo by Michael B. Smith, some rights reserved.

Cap’n Jack

Message from the Cap’n is a compilation of fishing advice, waterman and weather insights, Chesapeake lore, and ordinary malarkey from the folks who keep their feet wet in the Potomac and St. Mary’s rivers.

Great Blue Herons are partially migrant birds.

We have Great Blue Herons in the Chesapeake Bay region year-round. So do numerous…

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Message From the Cap'n/Oyster Season Begins

Message From the Cap’n/Oyster Season Begins

The Cap’n … in more recent days

Message From the Cap’n is a compilation of fishing advice, waterman and weather insights, Chesapeake lore, and ordinary malarkey from the folks who keep their feet wet in the Potomac and St. Mary’s rivers.

“Oyster season  in the months with R” used to be the norm, but conservation efforts and disease have dictated some changes to that meme. September was dropped…

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