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Thursday, May 26th, 2011“It’s a guarantee,” Capt. Andy Wolfe said, bumping the 80 Wide on the bent butt planer rod up to full strike drag. “Something will eat this. You’ve got to watch it and bump the drag back a little when they bite so they don’t break off.” A ballyhoo beneath a black sea witch with an [...]
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The Stripes Of Spring
Thursday, April 28th, 2011Yellow butterflies have been flitting about for weeks, the dogwood in my front yard has blossomed and then wilted, and azaleas are bursting with color throughout southeast NC, but I’m an angler and these terrestrial cues mean little to me. In my mind, spring hasn’t truly arrived until I hear that first reel-sizzling run of [...]
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The Red Score Explored
Thursday, March 10th, 2011“It did get 10 degrees warmer out here,” Capt. Robert Schoonmaker said, making good on an earlier prediction, as he hopped out of his truck at the newly redone boat basin at Fort Fisher. The winter’s morning chill had moderated a bit since we’d met Robert, who operates Carolina Explorer Charters, at Carolina Beach’s Gulf [...]
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Full Groan Grouper
Thursday, December 9th, 2010With my back turned, the grunts and gasps I heard could easily have been coming from a world’s strongest man competition or a Greco-Roman wrestling match. Turning around, though, I regained my sense of place as I saw Eddie Hardgrove in a Herculean struggle of his own—an extra-heavy jigging rod bent well into the handle [...]
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Shiverin’ Specks
Thursday, December 9th, 2010“Frost on the boat,” Capt. Rob Koraly noted as he stowed some gear I’d just passed over the gunwale in the console of his 22’ Bay Rider. “I’m not used to that yet this year.” The boat wasn’t the only thing frosty, as I was feeling the chill despite having donned a parka, one that [...]