This is a true story that happened to me this week.
What is it that makes us get up out of a warm house or truck to fish for Speckle Trout on a cold overcast day, for me it is the allure of finding a fish in double digits, along with that first strike on the MirrOlure. The one that is a tic and then comes the "Ker-thump" and the rod is almost pulls out of your hand, rod bent over and the reel drag screams as the sow Trout comes to the top and wallows trying to rid her self...

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As some of you know I was born on Wrightsville Beach and at the age of 3 we moved to Greenville Sound on Hewlett's Creek where I grew up under the wing of my grandfather, learning how to fish, crab, clam (my first real job) and hunt.

This area has a rich history for me as my great, great grandfather was granted this land from what I understand, from the King of England. Back then it was a great expanse of land which went on the other side of what is now Greenville Loop road and through...

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In all my years on the water, I have never seen a cloud with a silver lining, gold but not silver...till yesterday on our way out to the stream. I took it as a sign of good things to come...





Monday as I put the "gottafly" back in her slip after the...

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Yes we all have priority's, some of us deal with them and others put them off to another time. Now I've been wanting to do this for a while now but since I've been sick this summer, I don't do things by my self in the boat much, but this trip was different and I went by my self. Yesterday morning I called Nick, Seabiscuit, and told him what I wanted to do with he and Jason but I had a pending trip and had not heard back from them and would get up with them after 4 pm. well long story short, when...

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A safety talk is something that I do every day with my charters, wither they have been on the boat once or 10 times you are going to get it. I just completed my CPR- First Aid class for the umpteenth time and this time was one of the best that I have been through. I like to go to my local dive shop (for me its Aquatic Safaris in Wilmington, NC, they are a 5 star dive operation and one of the best on the east coast) as I feel you get better training and it also is good for 2 years.

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