Outdoors: Pumped up about fall fishing

''I'm going to go trolling so I can use up some of the expensive fuel in my tanks, then buy some of that cheap stuff. That'll be a switch.''

I heard those words on the radio aboard Capt. Ed Darwin's charterboat Becky-D on Friday morning, looked around at Thomas Point where we had just arrived and figured they could come from any of about 10 boats working not far from the lighthouse.

Ten boats in one spot and on a weekday, why that's something unusual these days when an angler can fish much of a day and not see a couple dozen fishing boats all the while on the bay. Dropping fuel prices...