washingtonpost.com - Angus PhillipsAngus PhillipsNothing Blind About Hope for Geese- April 24, 2005 ST. MICHAELS, Md.The optimist and the pessimist went hunting here last week during the closing days of migratory Canada goose season. The fields lay swathed in untracked snow, and the river was frozen to gray sheet ice. It looked like Canada, but geese were neither seen nor heard.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47385-2005Jan29.html?nav=rss_sports/columns... Battening Down for Spring Squalls- April 24, 2005 The prettier the weather gets, the more people are drawn to the water. Spring is for boating, but wise boaters also know it's the mid-Atlantic region's most treacherous season, when wild storms pop up unannounced and the water is still cold enough to kill.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40128-2005Apr9.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/... GSI to Run Fletcher's Boathouse- April 24, 2005 The National Park Service is on the verge of signing a contract with GSI, the big government concessionaire, to run Fletcher's Boathouse, and expects to have fishing boats ready and the bait and tackle shop open when the fish get here later this month.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29731-2005Mar12.html?nav=rss_sports/columns... The Fish Are Back, Fletcher's Is Open and All's Well on the Potomac- April 24, 2005 Spring came to the Potomac last week. The big river finally dropped to a manageable level and cleared up after nearly a month of roaring, muddy floods. Forsythias and daffodils bloomed bright yellow along the banks, buds popped out on the trees and fish rushed upstream to spawn, with fish-eating birds in hot pursuit.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58923-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_sports/columns... Fishing Boat Prop Helps as a Model for Success- April 24, 2005 There's never a shortage of unusual craft being built or repaired by students at Alexandria Seaport Foundation's boatbuilding school. But even amid the remarkable collection of old-fashioned wooden vessels there, the latest creation stands out. It's a strip-planked, double-ended, canoe-shaped, primitive thing that looks better suited to a tropical lagoon.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56227-2005Feb26.html?nav=rss_sports/columns... Goose Hunting Comes Closer to Home- April 24, 2005 Rusty Hallock drove across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge for a fabulous day of goose hunting last week, as waterfowlers have been doing for a half-century since the great span was completed in the 1950s. The difference is, he did it backwards.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16647-2004Nov27.html?nav=rss_sports/columns... |