taste of solomon's

this year has not only been the warmest winter on record, but the earliest chesapeake bay crab harvest ever, according to the watermen. celebrate the bay's bounty at the 12th annual taste of solomon's this weekend only.

see food

i fished sunday as long as i could stand the heat near the channel marker...for the second time this month, i almost got thrown in the water by a cabin cruiser flying by about 20 feet from me...i guess he just wanted to put his wake in my boat: it was about 5 foot high, btw. what a jerk. i didnt catch any fish, either. so i headed to captain faunce's for my fill.

how to fish for cow nosed ray

fly fishing captain wilkinson reports that cow nosed rays provide great fishing action! i havent seen any of them in my creek this year, but i have seen a few stingrays.

i couldn't catch anything in
last sunday's 3 foot chop:
maybe i will look for a ray if i get bored again.

prime seafood

if i didnt post these things in the middle of the night, i might have noticed that this is a stingray, not a cownose ray as shown above. thanks to captain jim at prime seafood for the correction! jim supplies sustainable seafood to the best chefs around, although no rays of any sort yet. in fact 70 of the top 100 restaurants in washington dc get their deep sea delectables from prime seafood: i do. you should, too.