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Article: Gannets can't spot stripers.(SPORTS)(WEEKEND ATHLETE: OUTDOORS)(Column)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- November 8, 2009
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Byline: Gene Mueller, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Among the normally infallible truths that are passed around among waterfront residents of Virginia's Northern Neck and those of the adjacent southern Maryland are these three:
Oysters don't taste good and salty until the water is truly cold; merganser ducks aren't fit to eat; and when the gannets arrive at the Potomac River/Chesapeake Bay junction, it's time to fish for the biggest stripers because the graceful seabirds know precisely when whopping rockfish arrive on their annual journey from the Atlantic.
The gannets know, said Michael Henderson, who has owned and operated Buzz's Marina on the ...