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j. I 5T- ? I I [ ' PAGE 8 ~ ~ Traces Each Step In Bringing 1937 Yachting ' 1 Regatta Here ' (Continued from page 1.) parts, and most important ones. The younger members, naturally, \ do practically all the present day j sailing. The older ones are no less important in the scheme of things, ley stand-by with the counsel of : experience that is valuable and. ] ajong with their younger co- ! ( \rforkers, they are ever ready with j . IJ pcial support of any undert iking that will promote sailingj : t jfore the mast. The older mem- i Brs are a valuable part of the| < Carolina Yacht Club, of Wrights- i vllle. 1 "In the more distant past the ! understanding is that the activi- j I ties of the Carolina Yacht Club j 1 have been confined to their own /1 local waters. That is, the sound < at Wrightsville and Banks Chan- 1 nel. near the same place. Both tllesc scenes of activities, while I admirable for regattas on a small i *ale, would not permit of stag- i iljg anything extensive to which a ' I general invitation to sportsmen dt other clubs might be given. 1 ' For several years members of i tjlc Carolina Yacht Club have' i teen participating in regattas in ' South Carolina and Georgia. But uley have never been able to invite the friends they made on 1 tjiose ocassions to regattas in < tneir own waters. i Martins Point, nockville, S. C., 1 1 K TT __ ? ft nappy Citizens of this e all pepped i 1937 Yachti Sponsored by Th Club, of IVrights: at South port, this come an annual grow bigger and I Boei W1LM1NG1 ^ BEI Com so 0 01 ou sii wi Tl PC th g' It p< s a little community said to num- j I ier less than 200 souls, yet for j' nany, many years it has been i staging regattas that attracted i i housands of visitors and sports- i i men with their boats from four states. In 1936, H. L. Taylor, iVilliam Emerson and other active j nembers of the Carolina Yacht ! Club attended and participated in ; i regatta at KocKville. Also -iresent, but not a member of the Carolina Yacht Club, was Irving I. Corbett of Wilmington. At the close of the Rockville | 193G regatta the Wilmington , sportsmen, among whom was Mr. j Corbett, were discussing the great success that had attended the ; meeting there. Some of the j sportsmen were bewailing the fact that the club had no suitable i Dody of water for staging a large f went of its own. And some one , jr other suggested, "Why not | lave a regatta at Southport." j This proposition appears to have I, met with much general favor. At any rate there was a general liscussion of it on the way home , from Rockville and afterwards. ] rhe first actual contact with , Southport people and a broach- < ing of the matter did not occur ] intil two weeks later, then it' j vas unofficial. , t Corbett's Suggestion j' Mr. Corbett is a frequent visitor' to Southport, usually coming (i lown every two or three weeks , aboard his yacht, Loafalong.1) Down here two weeks or so after; | !1 =? : " J Occasion ? | ntire section (ire ip over the e (Jarlinn Yacht ville, and staged J promises to beaffair that will better each year / y \ * S Ml II II I ?PWIIBBII II Mill ! Ill I .K-WILLIA WILMING1 jratulai THE UHi UTft n The 19i n this, the cvc of the first A ir neighboring community . icerc good wishes. We hope ill be an outstanding success ic high type of cooperation sf irt and the Carolina Yacht CI at will develop this great Lo eat things that are possible. is our wish that each entran >ssible, we say . . "HAPPY L WILMINGr THE ST the Rockville regatta, he met up ivith Captain I. B. Bussells of Cape Fear Pilot's Association, and in the course of a conversation mentioned the fact that the Carolina Yacht Club had been discussing the feasibilty of holding annual yacht races on the Southport harbor, if Southport people were willing to grant the use of the harbor for such events. Captain Bussells was naturally very much interested and promptly told the writer, who at that time was acting as a sort of oneman-Chamber-of-Commerce for Southport. Captain Bussells advised that we get in touch with Mr. Corbett and, feeling much Interested. We promptly did so. IVe wrote Mr. Corbett, telling lim that Captain Bussells had idvised us of his conversation ivith him and that we thought the idea of having a regatta at Southport was a splendid one in which Southport people would ioin most hearitly. Mr. Corbett replied, advising he ,vas not a member of the Caroina Yacht Club but that the natter of holding a regatta at Southport had been discussed He was glad to see Southport leople indicating interest and was mining our letter over to Henry Taylor for further consideration. Mr. Taylor, himself, wrote almost immediately, saying that members of the club wanted a arge body of water on which :hey could hold regattas and invite their sportsmen friends. He ndicated his belief Southport had his water. r rum uitn un injurs nan noved like clock-work. The Yacht fllub and Southport have been 'uUy in agreement in everything. They have been working together n a wonderful spirit of coopera;ion towards the first annual yachting regatta at Southport, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, August 12, 13, 14. Many Kinds of Game Fish May Be Taken In Waters Near Here (Continued from page onel To be perfectly truthful about t and for the information of :hose who have never trolled, the look is not entirely unbaited. rlooks are manufactured especally for blue fish trolling. They lave a two-inch? inch piece of ead covering part of the shank if the hook and with the leader ittached to the upper end of the ead. Nothing at all is placed on :he hook. The fish strike at the night piece of lead and someLimes the hook snags him on the lutside of the mouth as he strik;s at the lead just above it. Mackerel are trolled for in wactly the same way, using the same hooks. Sometimes, and an equally effective methor, often jsed in preference to the manufactured lead squid, is to take a MS CO., ] T)N, N. G. F/ie .to ZENS OF IPOl ?7 Regati .nnual Regatta to be held i . SOUTHPORT . . we sen , and trust that the Regati from everv standing, town by the citizens of Soutl lub is the kind of cooperatio wer Cape Fear section to tl t be a winner, this being in .AND1NG" TO ALL! I ON, N. C. _____ ATE PORT PILOT. SOUTHP ! goose quill or two inch piece of white rubber or other hollow tube that is shiney. Just slip this tube over the line and let one end of 'it rest against the bend in the jhook. The fisherman then is well I equipped for either blue fish or I mackerel trolling, if he has a | boat. About four persons, never | more than six, are amply enough I to troll for blue fish or mackerI el. Should more than that make | the attempt the hundred and fif!ty feet, or so, of lines that are trailed from the stern of the boat are apt to become all tangled up as the struggling fish is drawn to the boat. Catches of far over two hunjdred blue fish and mackerel in a day by a party is nothing unusual. In one instance this year two men and their wives rought in 271 fish, and none in the party had ever had any experience in salt water fishing. Of course, they had a good boatman. Trout On The Wrecks In deep water near the Cape 1 Fear shoals a number of old ! wrecks lie submerged at various points. Around these wrecks in ' the spring and early summer and again in the fall, trout congregate by the thousands. Two I pounds to the fish is about a fair average weight but speci!mens that weigh around four : pounds are often taken. ~ n f Hin mrnol/a i a (lilt; lloillllg fit. uiv nivv?w >u not very good in the middle of the summer owing to the swarms j of sharks. These pests take the fisherman's hook, line and sinker before it can reach the bottom. The trout have no chance to bite, j Often when it does bite the sharks will rob your hook before it reaches the surface. As much as seven hundred pounds of trout have been taken from over one of these old wrecks by a fishing party in a single day. ; The boats anchor while this sort of fishing is being carried on. Along with the trout many other fine fish are sometimes taken. The fishermen are generally kept extremely busy pulling in fish at almost any period of the year except July and August. Big Bass Catches There are a lot of people who would rather fish for sea bass than any other sort of fish. This is partly accountable for by the fact that if they have a good boatman who knows how to locate the rocks, they never fail to make a big catch. This catch often going to several hundred pounds. Few species of fish differ so greatly in sie zas the catches made by the sea bass fisherman. Using two hooks on a hand line or with a rod and reel, he may get a strike and reel in a very small fish on both hooks. Hardly [nc. EtT "a n d , a l>n le i/ ORT, NORTH CAROLINA does he get his hook back to the'getting his line overboard again. bottom before he has another good many channel drum ^ strike and this time the chances kgn t about ^ ^ j are that he may bring up two' I ^ , .. i ... i I time. They often approach a .; large ones, often weighing close ' . f? , t ? !. . ' ! weight of nearly 50 pounds. I to two pounds eacn. 6 , t In the summer time the sharks j "* years a?? a ciUzen moved J are also a pest around the sea to Southport from Whiteville and j J bass grounds. When they get to the first time he went out salt, ~ bothering hooks too much the water fishing in the river he J 4 skipper of the boat simply catch- hooked and landed a 47-pound J es one, cuts him up and throws drum. him over board. His brother and j Rockfish also bite well in the J sister sharks smell his blood and river during the early fall mon- j t make off for the tall timbers, ths. Those caught may weigh j j or other hunting grounds. anywhere from three to twenty J J j The sea bass fishing can be pounds. They are beautiful fish. ? done at all times of the year Sheepshead may be taken from \ with the best of assurance of a docks anywhere about town dur- j good catch being made. Three ing the spring, summer and fall. .; men have been known to go out It takes some knowledge of these 1 and bring in a catch of 1800 fish and the right sort of bait % pounds in a day, this catch be- to land them. The inexperienced ^ ing made late in December. person could fish for days with- J River Fishing . out getting a bite and right ' The Cape Fear river at South- alongside of him some experien- j "S port offers some extremely good ced party will be hauling out | ? trout fishing during the months large and small ones. j j of September, October and No- A lot of flounders are also 11 vember, especially along about caught in the river. They prefer! the time of the full moons during shrimp and are rather easy to ~ those months. Some of the fish fall victims to this bait j J are also caught in July and a jj great many more in August.; PROMINENT GUESTS ij Along with the trout, many pig; Drs. D. A. Davidson and W. G. J fish, whitings and spots are of- Wilson, both of Smithfield, and' j ten taken. Catches of 100 trout the former a surgeon at the have been taken by one man dur- Johnston County Hospital, spent jl ing a period of two hours. As Friday and Saturday at Fort 4 * ' ' ?~~ '" """-in oo the euests of Mr. and J can rcacniy De imagumu, ne waa v-aonv... ^ ? 0 kept busy reeling in his fish and Mrs. Norman Sheppard. j J j ' w "w>?iii>>iiiw?! !?>?i?"w>i'.W?i! ii?iii>"yi?i?"?>imW?.?>">i 'iw>?i?11'>Vi ?i.'twi j i We Congratulate Our Friends ! i' 1 ?in? i SOUTHPORT ! i On Having The REGATTA In Your Fine City ! . ; ; | 1 1 I Foy Roe & Co. WILMINGTON, N. G. ;3 ' turn mm m mmm** I ^ J'" i 1 CONGRAT I I And Best Wishesr K 1 SOUTH 1 B an | Members Of The C v. i UT PT i rnir m in aiAuinij I Annual Soutl j J? | This will be a fine si | ting the interests ( i ji !i Lower Ca Lgeo. w. hi W1LM1NG1 f _ WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11 | We Congratulate 1 !| Our fine friends at Southport and the js 1 Carolina Yacht Club on the inaugu- m ft 9 | ration of an auspicious and happy II 9 event among the sportsmen of the ijH Si South Atlantic Yachting Association |l ^ and their friends. f ? B We believe that tomorrow's begin- 9 | ning will grow into one of the great- iff I est events on the South Atlantic 9 if 9 ?> Coast. It is our sincere hope that the jS* ' *" Wni if tirtrtr-f I |,;t, K IgOOU spoilsmen in week will come again and again. We |V wish to assure them that they will |? always find a friendly welcome in w Southport and Wilmington. j? j C. B. Wessell l | 305 North Front Street |Bt | Wilmington, North Carolina 9j! I Duo-Therm Oil Heaters, Heatrola ? Oil Heaters |? HT ULATIONS I fo Our Friends In f 9^1 IPORT 1 arolina Yacht Club ? THE FIRST S port Regatta a tep toward cemen- I )f citizens of The 9 ipe rear! M IGGINS CO. I rON, N. C. I I ' ?
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