{"id":3752,"date":"2023-05-25T12:28:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T16:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rivahguide.com\/stage\/?p=3752"},"modified":"2024-01-16T17:05:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T22:05:01","slug":"200000-pounds-of-croaker-one-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rivahguide.com\/stage\/200000-pounds-of-croaker-one-night\/","title":{"rendered":"200,000 pounds of croaker one night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Captain Albert Games of Deltaville and his haul seine crew landed 2,000 boxes (200,000 pounds) of croaker one night in 1952 on Boss\u2019s Bar near Stingray Point \u2014 a $12,000 haul.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">The catch was documented in my book \u201cHarvesting the Chesapeake \u2014 Tools and Traditions\u201d that was published in 1990. Tim Haley of Hartfield is the grandson to Hevey Norton who was one of the crew members. Tim\u2019s grandfather received $2,000 that night for his share. Tim\u2019s version of the story is written up in the chapter \u201cHaul Seine Tales.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThose were the days when the average man was making $2,000 to $3,000 a year,\u201d said Haley in the interview. \u201cAn unskilled worker would bring home $40 a week. So, when my grandfather made $2,000 that night, he had made some bucks.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Haley\u2019s grandfather took his share and bought a brand new 1952 blue DeSoto that cost $1,850 and it all came from that catch, said Haley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">On Saturday, May 6, at the Deltaville Maritime Museum\u2019s first market of the year I was selling books when Donald and Don Nobles (son-in-law and grandson of Albert Games) walked up. \u201cI think I have some of your books,\u201d said Don.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cYeah, I\u2019ve got that one with Dink Miller on the cover (\u201cHarvesting\u201d) but I think I have it in hardback\u201d he said. \u201cYou wrote the story about my grandfather Albert Games and that big catch.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">The conversation went back to that day. \u201cThere was a Black man in the crew named Harcum and when my father-in-law started counting out his money, Harcum said, \u2018That\u2019s too much money for a Black man and pulled his hand away,\u201d said Donald.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cMy father-in-law pulled his hand back and counted out the full amount $2,000 and said\u201d \u2018Every man in this crew gets an even share.\u2019 \u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Harcum took his $2,000 and bought himself a brand new Buick, said Donald.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">When I was a boy growing up in Urbanna in the 1950s, I attended the Urbanna Baptist Church and the only Cadillac in the parking lot on Sunday morning belonged to haul seine fisherman Alvin Daniels. No one else could afford one. When I returned home to stay from the University of Richmond in 1972 Mr. Daniels was still driving that same 1948 Cadillac to church.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\">The big catches and purses that went along with the big hauls went away and have never returned, but fond memories recalled by the children and grandchildren of the men who \u201cstruck-it-rich\u201d in one night are still spoken about.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>It happened here in Rivah Country!<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain Albert Games of Deltaville and his haul seine crew landed 2,000 boxes (200,000 pounds) of croaker one night in 1952 on Boss\u2019s Bar near Stingray Point \u2014 a $12,000 haul. The catch was documented in my book \u201cHarvesting the Chesapeake \u2014 Tools and Traditions\u201d that was published in 1990. 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