Outdoors: Early-Rising Fishermen Don't Face Wild Goose Chase

Maryland Gazette › April 30, 2008

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Not only does the early bird get the worm, but on opening day of the rockfish season the early anglers got the fish. It was snooze and you lose.

It's standard procedure for Stu Burgoon Jr., skipper of the charterboat Hook Mash to leave the docks of Happy Harbor in Deale as early as possible; as soon as the last fisherman gets aboard the boat's bow is pushing water aside and headed for the Chesapeake. Alan Doelp of Linthicum and I were asked to be aboard by 6 a.m., we arrived at 5:30 and minutes later the boat was humming.

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Outdoors: Early-Rising Fishermen Don't Face Wild Goose Chase

Our fishing grounds for the day were to be the area of Buoy 83 off Deale, which had produced solidly in pre-season fishing, the Wild Goose had caught and released 34 fish in one trip several days before. In fishing one goes where the fi...

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