But truth is, the Carson already christened herself at the Ontario boatyard in October. While being moved to the water, the bow smacked the bottle dangling on a rope from the deck, sending a frothy white foam down the blue and red hull. The Carson still has that new-car smell. I'm guessing it won't be long before the boat, for better or worse, smells like the bay. Speaking of rockfish - remember paragraph 12 - Keith Wilson of Crownsville landed what can either be described as 1) a wall-hanger; or 2) dinner for 25.
Fishing last Sunday on Capt. Steve Barko's charter boat Taurus out of Solomons, Wilson landed a 57.8-pound, 53 1/2 -inch striper near Hooper Island Light. The fish had a girth of 30.5 inches.
"We thought we had a nice fish, but it stayed deep until it got up to the boat. Then we saw the belly and we knew it was a rockfish," Barko says, pausing. "We just didn't know it was a rockfish that big."
