With blues leaving, striper catching should pick up

Hey, rockfish want some attention, with blues in the spotlight about everywhere in the Chesapeake they’re what Izaak Waltons are catching mostly. Stripers don’t get much of chance to get to a bait first.

One Bay Bridge striper tired of blues getting all the buzz took matters into hand the other day and “volunteered” to be caught, but was returned to the brine because Capt. Ed Darwin, a stickler for the regs, said it wasn’t legitimately caught.

Jim Stickney, Darwin’s mate aboard the Becky-D, was prepared to net a rockfish hooked on a live-lined spot. He made his scoop...