Ocracoke
...is the best. Hatteras is the nearest functioning town--by 40 minute ferry after a 13-mile Ocracoke Island drive. Everyone I know of from Jersey who goes to the Outer Banks winds up in easyville, Corolla, where I arrived on foot in 1979, my Ford station wagon dug in the sand a mile back. I was 17, my two Jersey friends--who did some of the driving around the Banks and back home--16. Corolla was a dozen homes. No more. Mail came across Currituck Sound from Coinjock.
Anyhow, we caught loads of tailor & cocktail (or almost) blues. My son got a Spanish, loads of flounder and about half a dozen keepers. A couple of 20-inch blacktip sharks (hoped for better). My son, Matt, caught a puppy drum at the boat launch on the single 3-inch killie we potted. The pinfish shredded the smaller killies. Heavy northeast blow wiped out the pier fishing for us, but we enjoyed the seven hours and the panfish tickled interest enough. After that blow, the southward current made 5-ounce pyramids tumble like stones, so shark fishing was more like drifting salmon eggs for trout. Matt had the great idea of going back to the house to get those big game anchor sinkers we used at the pier (tried with the wind), but we hadn't much time that last night, had to pack.
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09-01-2015, 11:01 PM
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