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From the Cap'n: Frozen Creeks; Foiled Hunters

From the Cap’n: Frozen Creeks; Foiled Hunters

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.

As February opened, the lower Potomac water temperature hovered around 33 degrees Fahrenheit (as checked by thermometer overboard).  With the Interpretive Buoy System back online after the…

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From The Captain......Oyster Season Begins

From The Captain……Oyster Season Begins

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 out of the season decades ago.

The…

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Yaocomicos Help Calverts Settle in St. Mary's City

Yaocomicos Help Calverts Settle in St. Mary’s City

The Founding of Maryland, 1634. Oil on canvas, painted by Emmanuel Leutze in 1860 while visiting St. Mary’s City, Maryland, the site of Maryland’s first colonial settlement.

Message from the Cap’n is a compilation of fishing advice, waterman and weather insights, Chesapeake history as we have learned it, and ordinary folklore from those who keep their feet wet in the Potomac and St. Mary’s rivers.

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Torpedoes Remembered in Piney Point: Message From the Captain

Torpedoes Remembered in Piney Point: Message From the Captain

Message From the Cap’n is a compilation of  history, 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.

It wasn’t only Cedar Point, Jarboesville, and the Patuxent River changed by the arrival of the US Navy. Piney Point, St. George Island, and the waterways from whence originates…

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The Birds Are Back! Ospreys Return!

The Birds Are Back! Ospreys Return!

Message From the Cap’n is a compilation of history,  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. This month’s highlight: The Ospreys return! As St. Patty’s Day marks the arrival of spring in the lower Potomac, water temperature is hovering just above 40 degrees Fahrenheit. The…

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Marriotte Elise Thomas Bowman: Who's Who of St George Island

Marriotte Elise Thomas Bowman: Who’s Who of St George Island

Who’s Who of St. George Island, by Mary Gale Adams  Mary Gale Adams’ “A Who’s Who of St. George Island” has been called “a true oral history” by Andrea Hammer, the St. Mary’s College English professor who launched an oral history tradition at the college which has today evolved into the SlackWater Center. Professor Hammer referred to both the content and the technical production of the volume.…

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Message From the Captain Aug. 2017

Message From the Captain Aug. 2017

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. From the Interpretive Buoy System: Salinity has been hovering between 13 and 14 PSU and the water temperature is about 80 degrees F in the lower Potomac and St Mary’s. From the self-proclaimed…

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Water Temp Falls, 'Thickens' Local Creeks

Water Temp Falls, ‘Thickens’ Local Creeks

Clyde Evans, far right, was the only one aboard this skipjack’s first season who had ever sailed one before. Message from the Cap’n is a compilation of fishing advice, waterman and weather insights, Chesapeake lore, and ordinary malarkey. Or, as the Cap’n puts it: News from the folks who keep their feet wet in the Potomac and St. Mary’s rivers. The Lower Potomac water temperature is 40.2 degrees…

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