The way it was in Ocean City, MD

Capt. Monty Hawkins of Morning Star in Ocean City had the following interesting observations in a post this morning:”

“Many an old timer saw marlin move from far inshore then 50 more miles off to the canyons just in their lifetimes. Jack Kaeufer, Irv Mumford, Darrel Notingham, and Jim Whaley, (all resting in peace) for instance, all told me tales of marlin far inshore of Jackspot – at 20 miles SE of OC, that’s the shoal that made us ‘the white marlin capitol of the world’..

Mr. Irv even told me his father worked surf launched boats before the inlet was cut – they hated marlin! Bluefish gear of the era couldn’t handle them. And what? Two miles out?

I’d long noted the decline in water quality as WHY marlin abandoned their inshore feeding grounds.”

A winter El Nino storm is predicted across the country. A small craft advisory is up from this afternoon to late night .

A good time for better dreams. A black marlin jumping off Tropic Star Lodge in Panama, Photo by Hannes Ribbner.