[Tawn]

30 Aug - Fished with 4 buddies on my boat. Marty helped speed up the spot fishing by calling us over to where he and John were at since we weren't exactly setting the world on fire outside the jetties. Once again, we headed back down to Tilghmans. Marty & John were done and they suggested I drop back in by Big Will. By the time I got there, that slot was taken. Putzed around west of the crowd, till saw some promising marks. Anchored up and slid back on the peripheral. A little better grade of fish - most were mid twenties. When we went to leave, the anchor was hung. I have a big, commercial EZ Anchor Puller windlass and it stalled as soon as I got over the anchor. After a professional grade cursing streak, I managed to get it free by gently driving over the top of it and pulling it from the other direction. Headed back to Deale at noon, I decided to screw around and try drifting along a little deeper of a edge than I normally perch fish. Caught enough spot for the charter trip the following day and whacked fourteen 12-15" croaker before we ran out of blood worms. Tied up at the harbor and had the girls cook up our fish for lunch.

31 Aug - Worked a charter with Capt Shawn. The people didn't want to do anything but liveline rockfish - once they had their rockfish they wanted to go in....sweet, makes for a short day. Once again we headed back down to Tilghman. Couldn't buy a fish! Screwed around down there looking and setting up on less than desirable marks till nearly 1pm. Finally, Shawn said the hell with this - we're going back to behind #84A! Bang - done in less than a hour with a couple nice 25-27" fish. The last rockfish was caught with the last spot on the boat! It took all darned day, be we got them all...so much for my "short day"!