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Providing Charter Boats, Guides For Sports Fishermen Has Become Big Business On East N. C. Coast By BILL SHARPE A Piedmontese industrialist would hardly speak of his fac tory In terms used by lean, slightly graying and windburn ed Ernal Foster, of Hatteras. "I like her," he said with shy bragadoccio. "She* dry: Loon how live she is, too And slie s got good engines into her. You will be making a big mis take if you smile at Ernal Fos ter's appraisal ot his juu*. tross 1," as he described her while standing on the "Alba torss XI." There are some 1,000 to 1,500 people on the coast of North Carolina like Ernal, work ing in factories more or less pretentious than the one he is operating. Some oi them nave piers which cost thousands of dollars to build, ami some na.c only a couple of skiffs, a pole two stout arms, a merry heart and ready tougue. It is a motley industry un disciplined, often part-time, and dilticult to catalogue, but for all that It probably approaches in overall economic importance and in possibilities the commei clal fishing industry itself, winch 's much easier to squeeze Into statistics. The commercial lisliing industry grossed $8,821, 648 in 1947, which put It near the top of southeastern states in this respect. qui me zo party Doais on Roanoke Island averaged 100 charters apiece last year, at $30 per charter, lor a gross of $78,000. If the 1,500 estimated guides grossed $2,000 a year apiece, the return would be $3, 000,000. That is only part of the pic ture. In addition to the return to boatmen and guides, expendi tures directly dependent upon the sport are made with groc erymen, cafes, hotels, sport stores, bait dealers, filling sta tions, and many others, for in stance, boats leaving the bridge at Roanoke Island are estimat ed to leave an average of $10 at Dykstra's Fishing center in the form of gear rental, bait purchases, lunches, beverages, hats, sport shoes, sun glasses and other sundries. National estimates indicate fishermen from one of the heaviest spending groups of all vacationists. In North Carolina, we figure the expenditure per fisherman runs from a mini mum of $12 per day for the bass fisherman in Currituck to $20 per day for a member of an offshore party at Morehead City. . The estimate is conservative. In. Currituck, It. will cost $12 for two to be poled or towed to fishing grounds and another $5 ap?ece for bed and board at the more modest camps, or $11 for each. Bait, beverages, and gew-gaws must be accounted for, not to mention transporta tion to and from the fishing places. At Morehead and Wrightsville, a Gulf Stream party of four will pay from $60 to $75 for a boat, and while the members usually will sleep aboard the boat, they will take two or more meals ashore. Meals, bev erages, bait, lures, knick-knacks for lunch and other items will run $25 in addition. Here, as elsewhere, there are lower rates, but often as not the saving in charter fee is wiped out by lack of sleeping privileges aboard. Even the surfman who needs no boat usually leaves a sub * Stafltial sum in the state, and he illustrates the value of our sport fishes. For instance, one day in mid May, some 25,000 pounds of channel bass were taken in nets at Oregon Inlet, for which the commercial operator probably received 10 cents a pound. On the same day, a surfcast er at Hatteras caught the on.y channel bass landed there thui week. He was a member oi a party of three from New Jersey which had fished the surf for a week, and the three oi uieui. by actual check, had spent $lt>U hotel and niea.a 30 jeep hire 5 bait 32 miscellaneous (tips, sun glasses, hats, beverages, irug sundries, etc J . a total of $247 which made that little fish worth $13.72 a pound to Hatteras. Johnny Moore, at Collington, boasted he had $10 in his pock et for a morning's guiding, and still another party coming in the atternoon. Up In Currituck, there are more than 200 guides like Johnny and there is spare ly a waterfront hamlet on the coast which cannot scare up a tiau-djzen of varying gear, j ability and activity. Clark's Sport center, at Poplar Branch, is a two-person operation con ducted by a retired New Jersey trainman and his wife. With oc casional hired help, he operates three boats, can bed and feeds eight people, and it is a thriv- ' ing little business indeed for most warm-weather months. Clark's place is duplicated scores of times down the coast, the pattern occasionally soar ing to more pretentious outfits, such as Ken Ward's Lone Cedar club at Manteo, the Beach combers at Ocracoke, the club of Roy Eubanks at Portsmouth, and the lodges at Mattamuskeet and Belhaven of ambitious Ax son Smith. It dips, too, to the most simple fishing camps, like Ira Morris's place at Drum In let, and to boarding houses which make a living from sport fishprmpn The ramifications often are obscure unless closely examined. Mrs. Parkerson's hotel at Nags Head has tacked on a good 40 days to its profitable season by catering especially to fishermen, adding a potential of $12,000 to ?' the hotel operation. Ninety per cent of her clients are from j outside North Carolina, and in- ? elude parties as large as 40 at ' a time from clubs or firms. This North Carolina industry 1 has grown up largely in the 1 last decade. The first sailfish : caught off the North Carolina coast by hook and line was landed only 12 years ago by Tony Seamon, of Morehead City. And as late as 1935 about the only persons who went to the tip of the Outer Diamonds were commercial fishermen looking for blues. Since then, 11 boats have been made available at Hatteras for sport fishing. From 1937 to 1947 the number of powered fishing cruisers at Morehead City increased from eight to 32, and the number of skiffs and other small craft available has increased at an even larger rate. It is significant that the num ber of hotel beds available to tourists in season has increas ed at Morehead City from 68 to 245 in the same period of time. Wherever the fishing haa been good, the facilities have grown, for North Carolina h" no luxurious beach resorts to attract tourists. At m three new boarding houses opened this year, there is a new hotel at Shallotte, and even Harkers Island is biuld ing a 50-room hotel which will cater almost exclusively, per force, to sportsmen. You can even get accommodations now at Cape Lookout, East Lake, [stumpy Point, Fairfield and other places which, a few years ago, had not a bed for com cold Many \^\ T ^ ***? "OMg 6 big rauitflUNps (trouiuiiu) Bottled byi P?p?i-Cola Bottling ee. of Bfyion city fonder from PepM-Colft COMptthy, M. ?. OUR DEMOCRACY m Setting out a row of small trees on the WINDWARD SIOC OF HIS HOME, THE NEW SETTLER. WAS PLANNING A WINDBREAK FOR THE FUTURE, ADDING YOU N<S TREES EACH y?AR HE EXTENDED HIS PROTECTION UNTIL, FINALLY, HOME AND FARM BUILDINGS WERE SHELTERED AND SECURE AGAINST STORMS AND BAD WEATHER FOR YEARS TO COME. \\\ v w . ... . 1 III lllfi I il.. I f ..fit Setting aside a small amount of money in LIFE INSURANCE AND SAVINGS THE YOUNG FAMILY STARTS ITS PROGRAM FOR FINANCIAL SECURITY... ADDING TO IT YEAR BY YEAR , THE AMOUNT OF PROTECTION GROWS, THE SECURITY STRENGTHENS, ASSURING THEM ECONOMIC STABIUT/ AND PEACE OF MIND FOR TODAY AND FOR THE YEARS AHEAD. mercial rent. The instability of the; industry is a characteristic of rapid pro gress. Practices vary widely, but fcith the coming of knowing ind demanding sportsmen, com petition has brought many im provements. Bill Ballou's "Vic lory", a high-powered, well equipped cruiser at Morehead 3ity, is a good example of a modern sportsfishing boat Vic Lance's "Moja" and Hulan Watts' 'Idle-On" at Southport, ;he "Bill N' Jim" at Morehead, ?Cen Ward's "Cherokee" at Banteo, and a dozen more joats capable of fast runs to ieep water, manned by sober ind hard-working crews, have 'orced lackadaisical guides to I look to the comfort and well being of their patrons. The professional touch is be ing added now, slowly but sure ly, and it is spreading out. Ernal Foster, still lovingly sur veying his "Albatross I", pul it this way ; "I like this business. I know a lot of my folks comes hun j dreds of miles to have some fun, and I like to take them where they can catch fish. A long time ago, I saw we'd have to put in stern chairs, and out riggers, and a toilet- lots of the j fellows oring their families now I? and we did it. And twin en gines, so we could run to thc Stream and back safely." No industrialist, peering con fidently into the future, could Edgar Carter, In Navy, Stationed At San Diego Edgar A. Carter, former op- 1 erator of Carter's Radio shop here, has joined the navy, and is stationed at the U. S. Naval Training center, San Diego, i have better expressed his feel ing of responsibility, hope and ambitions. i OIR APPRECIATION Mr. and Mr* \7. D. Elliott and family vi . u >a express heartfelt tiiauk for the thoughtfulness. kindness, and sympathy shown us during our rec< nt bereavement. 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