Cedar Point

Everyone is thinking rockfish (striped bass) this week, and thanks to a reported late spawn in the upper parts of the Bay, the Bay Bridges might be today's hot spot.Striper fishing is not permitted above the Bridges or in any tributaries to the Bay during this May season. Some reports indicate that the rock already have departed the Choptank, but the mouth of the river is a traditional hot area.Other recommended areas include the Gooses, Gum Thickets, around Cedar Point Rip and off the mouth of the Patuxent.

Charles Turner "C.T." Williams Jr., who for many years managed the Baltimore investment banking firm of C.T. Williams and Co. Inc., died of pneumonia Friday at Roland Park Place in Baltimore. He was 97.Mr. Williams joined C.T. Williams and Co. in 1929 and managed the firm until 1979, when the company's brokerage business was sold to Legg Mason Wood Walker.After the sale of C.T. Williams, which was founded by Mr. Williams' father in 1923, he joined Legg Mason and served on its board of directors.

Maryland opens an experimental hunting season for green-winged or blue-winged teal in areas of the state east of I-95 tomorrow. The season, which has a four-duck daily limit, runs through Sept. 22, excluding Sunday hunting.The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service offered the special season to states in which 80 percent of the teal harvest comes from mid-continent nesting areas. The season dates are in addition to the normal duck seasons that open in October.Hunting for all other waterfowl is illegal during the September teal season, except for resident Canada geese.

"One more time," 3-year-old Melanie pleaded.It had started to rain and was getting dark and cold. The older kids were ready to quit after a long day of being turned upside-down on roller coasters, splashed on water rides and gobbling too many hot dogs. We grown-ups would gladly have gone home hours earlier.But not Melanie. Without waiting for a "no," she ran into the 38-foot-tall Snoopy's Bounce to jump herself silly on the air-filled cushions. After that, she took off on the pint-sized Red Baron's airplane, a giant grin on her ketchup-smudged face.

MY FAVORITE PLACEImprovising in BarbadosBy Thomas E. MillerSPECIAL TO THE SUNWhenever I just need a break from it all, I have a place that I go where everything is as it should be. It is a visit to a wonderful memory. A place that I plan on visiting for the rest of my life.For a weeklong vacation from a cold and frozen February in Maryland, my wife, Karen, and I chose Barbados. Some quiet time on an island beach was all we were searching for. A place where we could unwind and enjoy the hospitality of very friendly locals is exactly what we found.

Fishing report The locations Piney Run: Huge bluegills and jumbo yellow perch are just off the docks near the beaver lodges, waiting for nightcrawlers and red worms, says Jim Gronaw at the park office. Anglers using cut bait and nightcrawlers are catching catfish averaging 3 pounds but ranging up to 7 pounds. Muskies are hitting shiners. Largemouth bass are taking spinnerbaits, plastic worms and crankbaits. The Lunar Lunker Fishing Tournament is today, from 6 p.m. to midnight. Next Friday evening is the Catfish Rodeo Night Fishing Tournament.

Residents in Tracy's Landing and Deale are raising questions about a proposed $3.2 million jetty slated for the mouth of Rockhold Creek in southern Anne Arundel County. The county and the Army Corps of Engineers-Baltimore District say building the jetty is necessary to reduce shoaling at the entrance channel and to protect boats docked nearby from storm damage. Residents, however, are worried about possible flooding, environmental damage and losing their waterfront views. At a public meeting last week, about 110 residents, watermen and business people showed up to listen as engineers explained how the jetty project would work.

The spring rockfish season, when live bait is prohibited, is a time to use big lures and fish the upper edges of deeper water in areas that can funnel the stripers toward the fisherman.The spring season, which opens next Sunday at 5 a.m., is a time of challenge because the stripers targeted are migrating from the spawning grounds in the upper reaches of the Chesapeake Bay tributaries to the Atlantic Ocean.And during that run for coastal waters and the long trip to New England, the stripers do not school up to feed.

Look for the bunny hops. They guarantee plenty of air time.Twelve-year-old Carrie O'Brien translates: Bunny hops are the small jumps at the end of the roller coaster. "Air time means you sort of lift up off your seat," explains Carrie, who lives in Nashville and is an expert on the subject.She's ridden dozens of roller coasters around the country with her dad, Tim O'Brien, who covers amusement parks around the world for Amusement Business Newsweekly, the $6-billion-a-year industry's trade newspaper.

At Patuxent River Naval Air Station, test pilots and future astronauts strut "the right stuff." But the booming air base in St. Mary's County also has the wrong stuff in hazardous waste sites, and it may be seeping into the Chesapeake Bay.Last week the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency nominated the base for the nation's Superfund list because of toxic chemicals buried and spilled from World War II until about 1980 in old landfills, scrap yards and...