Outdoors:Lower bay reigns supreme for bottom fishing

RIDGE - It's still early in the season, but one thing seems assured; we can look to the lower bay complex from the lower Potomac and across the lower bay

to and in the Pocomoke and Tangier Sounds to once again rule in the bottom fishing department for the remainder of '08. Time and more salty waters are seeing to that.

With hardheads the bread-and-butter catch of the bottom fishing fleet, the catching started on schedule, but that long period of cool weather, heavy rains and winds slowed things down appreciably for several weeks before they started to pick back up again in the open waters of the bay below the...