voc ep 72: Russell Dize

Capt. Russell Dize is a sixth generation Chesapeake Bay waterman and a Coast Guard certified Captain. He will use his many years of experience to guide you from his dock at Tilghman Island to the best crabbing spots to be found. Once there he will show you how to crab with a trotline the way countless Bay watermen have done for hundreds of years. You can keep all you catch! No visit to Maryland's Eastern Shore is complete without this experience! Call today to reserve the Riley Kat for your crabbing adventure. For this Voices interview Capt. Dize recalls growing up on Smith Island, lessons learned from his father, creating and running a successful business catching, processing and marketing clams, and dredging for oysters off of Tilghman Island and in and around the Choptank River as one of the storied Eastern Shore skipjack Captains on his boat, the Kathryn. www.letsgocrabbing.com

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