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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 [...]
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Sheepshead Strike Twice
Thursday, July 28th, 2011“I really hate to run in here with the big motor,” Capt. Phil Leonard explained, angling his 21’ Clearwater Skiff into the current towards a nearby bridge bumper. “I think they even have to get used to the boat being here. They’ll come back and eat, but it takes a minute.” “They” were sheepshead, at [...]
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The Waterman’s Way
Thursday, July 14th, 2011“That’s the biggest net I’ve ever seen!” five-year-old Owen Hurley excitedly exclaimed as a custom 120 yard seine net paid its way off the bow of Capt. Jeff Wolfe’s Carolina Skiff. “How do you throw it?” “It’s not a cast net, Owen,” father and Fisherman’s Post Publisher Gary Hurley explained. “You don’t throw it.” “It’s [...]
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Live Bottom Lessons
Thursday, June 30th, 2011“This is a little different than what we were doing last week,” John Roberts quipped to Capt. Mike Taylor, of Swansboro’s Taylor-Made Charters. A little different to say the least. The week before, John, who owns the 55’ Jarrett Bay “Weldor’s Ark,” had teamed up with Mike to release a pair of blue marlin on [...]