Outdoors:Chumming right along

RIDGE, Md. - Try as he might have, George Washington could never have thrown a silver dollar across the Potomac hereabouts. The mighty river is about seven miles across, a fairly long run by boat though certainly much shorter than the usual route required from Scheible's Fishing Center to the Middlegrounds and buoys numbering into the 60s and 70s out in the open Chesapeake.

It's like the stripers and an increasing number of bluefish are aware of the woes of the business of fishing due to skyrocketing fuel prices - and want to lend a helping hand to the men with the baited hooks. Normally, Capt. Bruce Scheible of the 40-foot...