Page 94 The Dispatch/Maryland Coast Dispatch July 19, 2013 ✕✎sv❋s✒ OCEAN CITY WITH BUNK MANN Before the Inlet brought ocean tides and changing the salinity of the bay, anglers fished the brackish Sinepuxent Bay in wooden boats known as Chincoteague scows. Captain Charles R. Bunting built Ocean City’s first dock at the foot of Talbot Street in 1918 and rented boats for $1 a day. In the shallow bay, fish, including trout and spot, were caught using split bamboo rods with peeler crab for bait. Captains Levin Bunting, Ward Gray, Turner F. Cropper and Harry Bunting were some of the local men who guided fishing parties in that era. The creation of the Inlet on Aug. 23, 1933, signaled a change in Ocean City’s sport fishing industry. The first white marlin was caught offshore in 1934 and the Inlet became the gateway to deep sea fishing from that point onward. Photo Courtesy Josh Bunting Family