The Ham family – Brent, Angelin, Ben, Brendan and Berkley - spent last week at Cherrystone Campground on the Eastern Shore, doing a little “tourist fishing.” The Greensboro family had lots of fun and caught a bunch of fish. Fishing near Cape Charles in a small boat, the Carolina crew caught flounder, spot, croakers, grey trout, speckled trout, puppy drum, hogfish, whiting, puffer fish, pin fish … [Read more...]
The Road to Spanish Macs
In this week’s Road Trips article, we’ll take a different road, not a paved highway, but a road of water leading to fish and great times on the Chesapeake Bay. This is a Road Trip with Capt. Dick Whitehill aboard the Miss Karen. The coming weeks on the Chesapeake highlight Capt. Whitehill’s specialty – Spanish mackerel. The delicious, hard fighting mackerel have moved well up into the Middle … [Read more...]
Nancy B’s House of Lights
It’s not easy changing the name of an established business. Government authorities need to be informed, there are signs, cards and stationary to change and the general public must be notified through an extensive advertising campaign. But changing the name of Builder’s Lighting to Nancy B’s House of Lights was something that Nancy Brewer (Nancy B) thought was worthwhile. That’s because – even … [Read more...]
Stoney Creek at Wintergreen
Boy, we have some great golf courses in Central Virginia. One of my favorites is Stoney Creek, a Wintergreen layout in Nellysford. My regular golf buddies and I played there last week. We used our VSGA cards and played 18 holes for just $26, and with a cart. Stoney Creek offers three 9-hole layouts, Tuckahoe, Monocan and Shamokin. We happened to play my favorite two – Tuckahoe and Monocan, both … [Read more...]
Wanna Play Some Whiffle Ball?
Today, it’s hard to imagine a world without plastics. But plastic products really hit their stride in America after World War II. Before that, the war machine consumed many of the organic materials necessary to create plastic. In the 1950’s, plastics went viral. In the late 1950’s, a product called a practice golf ball hit the store shelves. It was a small, white plastic sphere studded with … [Read more...]
Pan Fried Okra
I’m a southern boy and I like okra. Yankees look at this amazing vegetable as a slippery, slimy, oozy pod monster. That’s because, one, they don’t know how to cook it, and, two, they don’t know good food when it’s in their mouths. My favorite way to eat okra, and I’ve taught all my kids and grandkids to enjoy this dish, is fried okra. Cut young pods into 1-inch sections, roll in cornmeal and … [Read more...]
Flickering Out
We originally had 17 trees on our lot when we bought our home in 1973. Many have since been relegated to the woodpile, but we still have 6 of our original silver maples, now over 50 years old. As such, there are lots of missing limbs and holes in the old trees – and that draws woodpeckers. My son Jimmie called them “woody-peckers” when he was a small child. We still use that name. Through the … [Read more...]
Summertime Trout
Here it is, almost August, and trout fishing is holding up despite the recent heat wave. Virginia has been blessed with regular rainfalls and cooling-off periods throughout the summer. Harry Murray of Murray’s Fly Shop reported that the stocked and delayed harvest streams on the western side of the Blue Ridge are in decent shape, with normal levels and temperatures running around 68. The brookie … [Read more...]
Eastern Shore Tourist Fishing
The Ham family – Brent, Angelin, Ben, Brendan and Berkley - spent last week at Cherrystone Campground on the Eastern Shore, doing a little “tourist fishing.” The Greensboro family had lots of fun and caught a bunch of fish. Fishing near Cape Charles in a small boat, the Carolina crew caught flounder, spot, croakers, grey trout, speckled trout, puppy drum, hogfish, whiting, puffer fish, pin fish … [Read more...]
Fishing Heats Up at Nags Head
The flounder bite is on at Nags Head where Ben Morris caught an 8.35 citation flatfish while dunking minnows at Oregon Inlet. Pier anglers and surf fishermen also reeled in some nice flounder. Here is TW's report on Nags Head area fishing since Monday of this week. Surf anglers beached sea mullet and blues along with some spot and ever present sharks. A few Spanish mackerel showed up at Duck. … [Read more...]
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