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Category Archives: Fish Festival

Bogue Banks moment and the Seafood Festival

Thursday, October 12, 2006

A couple of hundred yards off Bogue Banks, dolphins–airborne at times–were working their way down the coast. Farther out, a trawler worked the channels near the inlet.
Along the beach was a well-spaced row of surf-casters in their shorts and hoodies. You could see the mullet roiling the waters–the long, slow breakers practically bubbling with them [...]

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Let’s talk about croakers

Thursday, July 6, 2006

Occasionally nature, or at least how humans relate to it, solves its own mysteries. So it was when I first encountered a croaker. I was fishing in the ICW behind a little place on the sound side at Wrightsville Beach. This was back when there still were little places on the sound side at Wrightsville.
When [...]

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Croaker Festival — Oriental

Wednesday, July 5, 2006

Editor’s note: This post begins a long term project to document North Carolina festivals dedicated to fish, bivalves, crustaceans and mollusks. You get the idea.

Croaker Festival, Oriental, North Carolina, June 30 through July 1
Got in too late to see the crowning of the Croaker Queen and the Croaker Minnow Queen, but their bios in the [...]

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If I wasn’t stuck at home I’d be . . .

Saturday, June 24, 2006

Watching the trout race at Great the Smoky Mountain Trout Festival in wonderful Maggie Valley.
We’ve got quite a trout heritage here in the Old North State and some fine remaining streams. But those TVA and Ohio Valley smokestacks keep cranking out the acid rain-causing hydrocarbons and people keep building right up on the buffers. Then [...]

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