Outdoors: Stripers take anglers to school

Fishing for stripers can be a frustrating experience.

With spot, hardheads, perch, sea trout and even bluefish where you find them one day you can pretty much depend on finding and catching at least some the next day.

But sometimes that doesn't hold for the prize fish of the Chesapeake, the rockfish, which can move away on a whim - or still be around though not in the least bit interested in baits dropped among them.

The other day Steve Kaiser, Scott Robertson, Bob Hopkins, Angus Phillips of Annapolis and I fully expected to load up on rockfish of unusual size for this time of year when we boarded Capt. Ed...