https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dY6rJCoSkYHit the vid for the Daily Catch at Sunset Marina with Captain Mark Hoos!It was a hot one today! Conditions were perfect for afternoon thunderstorms and that’s exactly what we had. Some of the storms were pretty severe with high winds, heavy rain and even marble sized hail. We had a short, but wicked storm… Read more »
Category: Beach Living
Back Bay Jumbo Flounder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dY6rJCoSkYHit the vid for the Daily Catch at Sunset Marina with Captain Mark Hoos!Woke up to a pretty nasty thunderstorm rolling through this morning with some thunder, lightning, wind and very heavy rain and had another one roll through mid day. It was still a fishable day today, but folks were dodging rain drops and… Read more »
The Adventures Of Fatherhood – June 17, 2022
In his 1993 legendary speech, late great Jim Valvano offered some thoughts on what makes a great day – laughter, tears and thought.Just eight weeks before he died from cancer, Valvano, a long-time college basketball coach, said at the ESPYs, “To me, there are three things we all should do every day. … Number one… Read more »
Vanishing Ocean City With Bunk Mann – June 17, 2022
Although there had been a few individual surfers in the post WWII era, surfing in Ocean City began in earnest in the early 1960s. With no local surf shops at the time, wetsuits were purchased from the Diver’s Den in Baltimore and paraffin wax from the local supermarket.Prior to Ocean City’s first surf shop in… Read more »
Calmest of Calms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dY6rJCoSkYHit the vid for the Daily Catch at Sunset Marina with Captain Mark Hoos!There was a little swell left over in the ocean today, but otherwise it was absolutely beautiful. Captain Monty referred to it as “the calmest of calms” and from the pictures that I saw he was 100% correct. The weather won’t be… Read more »
Things I Like – June 17, 2022
Remembering chats with Mike BeattyOC Air Show’s practice dayBerlin’s Broad Street StationStudents learning financial literacyA smooth phone updateWatching crowd reactions at the Air ShowA pool dip after yard workThe growth of Berlin’s bathtub racesParental mixed emotions that come with last day of schoolWhen my teenager hears meSunshine after a quick storm
Before and After The Thunderstorms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dY6rJCoSkYCheck out the Daily Catch at Sunset Marina with Captain Mark Hoos of the MARLI!We had some serious thunderstorms in and around Ocean City today with lightning, thunder and very heavy rain. The wind wasn’t too bad on shore, but it had the ocean a little messed up as the squalls moved through. Thankfully there… Read more »
A Nice Bigeye and Some BLTs (Barely Legal Tunas)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFLJo3814qcCheck out the Daily Catch at the Ocean City Fishing Center!I had a chance to head out on the MARLI with Captain Mark Hoos, owner Mike Bostic and crew today for a new episode of Hooked on OC and we had a great time. We also caught a bunch of fish with 10 legal sized… Read more »
First Swordfish I’ve Seen of the 2022 Season
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFLJo3814qcCheck out the Daily Catch at the Ocean City Fishing Center!Today’s dookie forecast turned into some dookie weather as midday rain put a damper on fishing and the start of the OC Air Show. After the rain left around 2:30, the air show got started, but the damage had already been done to the fishing… Read more »
A Good Bite Before The Thunderbirds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFLJo3814qcCheck out the Daily Catch at the Ocean City Fishing Center!Sure was a beauty of a day for anglers and folks watching the OC Air Show! The bay, the beach, the ocean….and the streets were super crowded late this afternoon as the Thunderbirds and other acts soared through the skies in a show of aerial… Read more »