Fishing Club Scholarship Goes to Young Ocean City Fisherman

Zach Brown is not your casual angler.

“Fishing is my passion,” said the recent Ocean City High School graduate. “I’ve been fishing ever since my dad took me out when I was three years old. He taught me how to fish.”

This fall, when Zach enrolls at Atlantic Cape Community College with a dream to become a marine biologist, he’ll have help from a $500 scholarship from the Ocean City Fishing Club.

It is the seventh consecutive year that the club, which is currently celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding, has presented a scholarship to a graduating senior at the high school. Faculty and administrators at the school select the scholarship recipient who will, according to the fishing club’s guidelines, continue his or her education in such fields as oceanography, biology, environmental sciences, or related fields.

A resident of Ocean City who played football and ran track at the high school, Zach is the son of Lindy and Jeff Brown.

Although he especially likes to fish off the Fifth Street jetty, Zach is probably spending more time this summer a block away from his favorite spot — working at Gillian’s Wonderland Pier.

— George Ingram