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BARBARA ROBINSON of Supply shows off a 30-pound yellowfin
tuna caught recently at the Steeples. She was fishing aboard the
Wave Runner.
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LEE PHILLIPS of Gastonia caught this 13-pound grouper last
week aboard the Intimidator out of Holden Beach.
Top Fish Nets $1 0,000
In Natural Light Event
A $ 10,000 cash prize for the
largest fish and good spring catches
of king mackerel are sure to lure
plenty of anglers for the upcoming
Natural Light King Mackerel Clas
sic.
Holden Beach Marina will be one
of four weigh-in stations for the
jnnj 2-5 >fijirnagwnt tin? will bf h^kl
in conjunction with the annual Sun
Fun Festival in Mynie Beach, S.C.
Wally Trayah, a youth fishing
with Charles Wilson out of South
port, landed a 35.65-pounder to win
the 1993 tournament.
A captain's meeting is planned
Thursday, June 2, at 5 p.m. at
Holden Beach Marina. Meetings al
2C 2!C piSSSSdl 2! I p.HV a rut t% p.m.
at the Myrtle Beach Convention
Center for South Carolina anglers.
The fishing competition is sched
uled Friday and Saturday, June 3
and 4. No check-out will be re
quired, but lines will not be allowed
is the v?s!s before 6*30 a.m.
Fish will be weighed each day
from 3 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Weigh
stations will be set up at Holden
Beach Marina, Georgetown Landing
Marina, Marlin Quay Marina in
Muirclls Inlet and Haibourgatc
Marina at Little River.
in addition to the lop cmh prize of
$10,000, other awards will include
$5,000 for second place, $3,000 for
third t? nnn fnr fourth and $1,000
for fifth.
Anglers finishing in sixth through
25th places will receive $750 each,
and the tournament will pay $500
each for 26th through 45th place.
The Natural Light Classic also
features a $6,300 tournament aggre
gate weight award, a $2,000 Early
Entry Award and Lady Angler and
Vniino Anulu awards of Sl.OOU
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cacn.
Prizes will be presented Sunday,
June 5, at 1 p.m. at the Myrtle Beach
Convention Center. Entertainment
and food service starts at 1 1 a.m.
The entry fee is $300 per boat.
For more information, call tourna
ment chairman Donnie Griffin at
803-238-0485.
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Youngster
BY DOUG RUTTER
Last week was a good one for lots
of local fishermen. But perhaps no
body had a day that could compare
with the day Dell Williamson of
Ocean Isle Beach enjoyed last
Thursday.
The 10-year-old boy lauded a
98.6-pound yeiiowtin tuna and 31.4
pound king mackerel while fishing
aboard the "Mr. Fintastic," said Ken
Shipley of Ocean Isle Marina.
Williamson's yellowfin is the
biggest reported in the Shallotte area
this year, but it is nowhere near the
state record of 237 pounds.
"Fishing's really picking up,"
Shipley reported Monday. "They've
been catching a whole lot of floun
der. Black sea bass and king mack
erel are still being caught offshore."
A local charter boat caught 200
pounds of black bass and flounder
last week within four miles of the
beach.
Shipley said anglers caught quite
a few Spanish mackerel last week,
as well as trout and spots inside.
TYipp's Fishing Center
Rounder fishing has shown great
improvement in the past week, ac
cording to Joyce Land of Tripp's
Fishing Center at Shallotte Point.
Jim Dutton of Shallotte Point
hooked 27 flounder on Sunday and
Johnny Silvers of Shallotte Point
pulled in IS.
"A lot of people went out and said
they caught 15 or 20," Land said.
TV.Io WaoI'c
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Tide Table 1
MAY
HIGH LOW
Day DM* AM. f M A M f*
Tbareday 19 2:45 335 *16 923
Fratay 20 3:48 4:38 1&151&58
Suattky 21 *31 3:40 11:14
Stadty 22 5:53 6J6 12.-00 12:11
Monday 23 652 70S 12:58 \M
Ttaedey 24 7J0 830 133 139
Wtdaodqr 25 8*7 *2* 2*6 231
Aujismiania
SHALLOTTE INLET? add 17 mm.
Ugh lids, add 32 ana. low tide.
LCCKWOOO POLLY? Mbtnct 22
rata, bizh tide, srixraa 8 BUB tow tidfc.
BALD HEAD ISLAND? aabfcacf 10
mkL Ugh tide. adblnct 7 mas. tow lid*.
SOUTHPORT? add 7 mi*. tide.
i?i tS sis. tow ttA.
LITTLE RIVBR? oteact 11 mm.
tide, add 1 8 iwia. low tide.
Lands 98-Pound Yellowfin Tuna
"It's the most I've seen in five or six
years."
The Shallotte Point Volunteer Fire
Department Flounder Tournament
will be held June 10 and 11 out of
Tripp's Fishing Center.
"If they keep up like they are
hopefully we'll have a lot for the
fishing tournament," Land said
Monday.
Besides flounder, fishermen also
caught spots inside and blue fish and
Spanish mackerel in the ocean last
week.
Land said Gulf Stream catches
over the weekend included tuna,
barracuda, king mackerel and wa
hoo.
Holden Beach Marina
Gary Cut of Holden Beach Mar
ina said fishermen caught dolphin,
king mackerel and tuna offshore last
week. The largest dolphin brought to
the docks weighed nearly 40
pounds.
Carr said the charter boats have
been bringing in snapper, grouper,
kings and dolphin, while other an
glers are catching Spanish mackerel
within three miles of the beach.
"It's been real good overall. It
was a real nice weekend," Carr said.
Pier Fishing
Things are starting to look up at
the South Brunswick Islands' three
ocean fishing piers.
"It's picking up," Ed Kayler of
Sunset Beach Fishing Pier said
noonday "They've been caiching
some spots, flounder, Spanish,
blues."
Several drum were landed Satur
day, he said, including a 4- pounder.
"They've been catching some of
just about everything," Kayler not
ed. "The spots bit pretty good last
night. One guy said be caught ^bout
50."
Fishermen caught a lot of floun
der last week at Ocean Isle beach
Fishing Pier, according to Evelyn
Wuiiams.
"Fishing's picked up. It's a lot
better. The flounders have really
been pretty," she said. "They've
been running, and they've been
catching spots and bass and Spanish
mackerel."
At Holden Beach Fishing Pier,
Forrest Whitley said anglers landed
blue fish, whiting, spots and lots of
r?JK> CONIWIB
DELL WILLIAMSON of Ocean IsU Beach landed a 984-pound
tuna and 31.4-pound king mackerel last week fishing aboard the
Mr. Fintastic.
pin fish last week. "Flounder have started to show,"
One 10- pound blue, several 7- Whitley added. "They were catching
pounders ana iois of biuefUu be- seme over the weekead. ? think
tween 1 and 3 pounds were caught we're on the verge of a big run
last week. here."
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