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Thursday, April 26th, 2012A gray dawn greeted us at New River Inlet as Capt. Daniel Jarvis eased back the throttle to glide his 21’ Frontier bay boat over the early chop in the inlet channel. The sun added a little warmth to a surprisingly chilly April morning, and as the sole member of our crew who’d worn shorts, [...]
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Speckled And Tagged
Thursday, March 29th, 2012“We’re going to head over to Oriental first,” Capt. Dave Stewart said as his 19’ Key West Bay Reef idled away from the ramp at the Minnesott Country Club. Easing out into the Neuse River and past the ferry connecting Minnesott Beach with Cherry Branch, he put the bay boat on plane and continued explaining [...]
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Rockin’ Steady
Thursday, March 8th, 2012“Some days you drop these live baits to the bottom,” said Capt. Richard Andrews of Tar-Pam Guide Service as he hooked what locals refer to as a “shad minnow,” even though they’re technically not shad but a mixture of juvenile alewife and blueback herring, onto a Carolina-style rig, “and they don’t even get to the [...]
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Ride The Red Tide
Thursday, December 15th, 2011“You might want to ride behind the console,” Capt. Mike Pedersen said, turning his 22’ Pathfinder south, “It’ll be warmer back there since it blocks the wind.” Five minutes into the ride, I realized the value in his words and shuffled from his forward-mounted leaning post to the edge of the rear deck and the [...]
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The Moon’s The Limit
Thursday, December 15th, 2011“Wait till the moon comes back out, lil’ feller,” Capt. Charles Brown, of Old Core Sound Guide Service, exhorted. “They’ll go to biting again.” Well on our way to a pair of limits of speckled trout, neither Charlie nor I had had a bite in 10 minutes, a situation we hadn’t found ourselves in since [...]