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i By FRANCINE
V SAWYER
f The herring aren't
running good yet in the
Perquimans River and
effdrtstofinedoutwhy.are
being stiffled. "
The Department of
Conservation - and
Development, division of
Commercial and Sports
Fisheries are trying to
take samples of "what is
running," but thefir nets
are being stolen and
destroyed.
Last week alone, three
nets were taken out of the
Perquimans River and
one out of water in
Currituck.
The nets were set up
along bridges in various
parts of the county.
Herring fishermen,
, fearing the nets would
block the run, removed
nets, it is speculated. In
some cases it is thought,
the nets were merely
removed to be set . by
fishermen elsewhere.
,. , No matter the reason, it
is making it difficult to
survey and study the fish
who are coming into
the bourbon - colored
Perquimans to spawn.
Mike Street, biologist
with the department said
he is aggravated.
However, he realizes the
fishermen may not be
aware that the nets are
there not to stop fishing,
but to study and survey
?.ti$iish which are in the
area, to be certain a
supply will always be
available to area
fishermen.
Some special fish could
; be among the annual
spring run of herring and
shad now underway in the
rivers and creeks of
coastal North Carolina.
Fishermen are asked to
be on the lookout for
them: - ;
Herring, shad, and
sturgeon with a spaghetti
shaped piece of yellow
plastic stuck in their
backs are worth $1 to $25
v each, according to Dr.
Thomas Linton, N.C.
A Fisheries Commissioner.
State marine biologists
tagged the fish in the
ocean. Herring, shad, and
sturgeon leave the ocean
and enter freshwaters to
spawn such fish are
called anadromous,
. according to Dr. Linton.
Biologists do not know for
certain where the tagged
fish will go. The fish were
tagged in an effort to see if
anadromous fish' stocks
caught offshore North
Carolina are subsequently
:caught in the freshwaters
i of North Carolina.
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Division Of Sports Fisheries
Seagulls change along coastal North Carolina this
time of year. Most big ones migrate north. Warmer
weather brings in other kinds, however, so the casual
observer probably does not notice the difference.
Only five species of gulls appear on the N.C. coast
regularly, according to John Fussell, a zoology
graduate student at N.C, State University. John, from
Morehead Citv. knows birds. , ,
People, he said, think there are many more kinds of
gulls around because of plumage changes. A gull can
go through drastic color changes from year to year as
it matures. It can go from dark brown to gray to white.
Gulls also have a summer plumage and a winter
plumage.
Adults of the two big, winter gulls (herring gull and
great black-backed gull) leave in April and will not be
back in N.C. until August-September, according to
John. Some immature big ones summer here,
however, and are the big, speckly ones you see. The
Bonaparte's and ring-billed are smaller gulls that
leave in spring and return next fall.
That leaves the black-headed laughing gull. Almost
all gulls here in summer are laughers, according to
John. Laughers leave N.C. only for January and
February.
Three other species of gulls have been seen once or
twice in N.C. : glaucous, black-headed, and kittiwake.'
John said the kittiwake is a bird of the open sea and
might occur regularly offshore N.C.
A tern looks like a gull and is probably considered'
one by most folk. Closely related birds, they frequent
the same areas, but are smaller, delicate-appearing,
more streamlined birds. They fly "with a graceful,
rather bouncy flight." Most terns' heads are topped
black, a sharp contrast to the white lower tuuf. au
have forked tails. Terns, too, have plumage variations
with age and season.
According to John, five terns are common along the
' N.C. coast during summer months: least, gull-billed,
common, black, and royal. The Caspian tern is
common here in autumn. Forester's terns are com
here during winter. Sandwich, sooty, roseate, and
noddy terns are rare nere.
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By Jim Dean
N.C. Sports Writer
Some half a dozen years
ago, we had a spring that
never sprung. Instead, it just
gulped a breath now and
then when the rain slacked
off. It rained all the way
through March, April and
May, and one day it was
dead summer and we 'had
missed it.
I very nearly started work
on an ark that spring
because every lake and river
was as rich as the floor of a
barn, and every time I went
fishing, I couldn't tell
whether I needed a fishing
rod or a plow.
What saved me from total
madness that spring is the
same thing that is saving me
from the nuthouse this
spring. I found a way to
catch fish despite miserable
weather.
What I did was fairly
-simple. There are
somewhere between 60,000 to
80,000 farm ponds in North
Carolina, and most of them
are roughly the color of a red
clay road in Caswell County.
But some of them are
amazingly clear.
The ponds that are still
clear are usually those ponds
found in wooded areas where
there are no cultivated fields
nearby. Also, some ponds
have dense grass strips
around them to catch silt,
and these are generally
pretty clear. So are most
spring-fed ponds.
Of the ponds I have per
mission to fish, two were still
clear as of early April,
' despite the fact that it had
been raining off and on
mostly on for the better
part of a month.
On days when I can count
on staying relatively dry, I
have been catching all the
bluegills, shellcrackers and
other panfish I wanted, and I
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MEETING otf BOARD
of EQUALIZATION :
AMDREVIEW
The Board of County Commissioners of
Perquimans County, w meet as a
Board of Equalization & Review in theZ
courthouse, Hertford, N.C, on Monday,
April 23, 1973, at 10:00 o'clock AM.
for the purpose of hearing complaints r
and the equalization of property
values. The Board expects td cdmpleto
Its business and adourn on Monday,
April 23, 1973. In the event of later i
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have been doing it with a
flyrod.
It is widely thought that
flyrodding with artificials
doesn't get good until about
the last week or so in April
when the bluegills and
shellcrackers go on their
beds to begin spawning.
This misconception has
prospered largely because
most fly fishermen use top
water popping bugs or
sponge rubber spiders for
panfish, and it's true that
topwater fishing is usually
not very good until the
weather gets balmy.
The trick is simply this.
Instead of using topwater
poppers, I use small sinking
flies. My favorite is a size-10
hard-bodied black ant the
type that sells for about 50
cents in most tackle shops.
Actually, any small, darkly
colored fly that will sink as
much as two or three feet
deep will do the trick, but
ants are more durable.
Here's why they work.
Although bluegills are not
yet taking much food off the
surface, they have already
moved to the shallow banks
and spawning areas, and
they will often take a sunken
fly when they won't take one
that floats.
- Also, as any experienced
angler will tell you,
shellcrackers rarely take
topwater poppers and bugs
anyway, preferring un
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derwater food. In factxjome
fishermen believerthat
shellcrackers can ojiiry; be
taken on natural bait sjcfi as
red worms; crickeiCor
catalpa worms. That is not
so. A shellcracker will take a
sinking ant as quickly as he
will a worm, and sometimes
I believe the ant is; even
better.
If you want to try it, here's
what to do. Find youself a
pond that is not too Qtaddy,
then launch a small rcartop
boat on it. Tie a blackiffit on
your leader and begitCitt fly
fish the banks. You3E3ind
most of the shellcOSXers
right against the sho3Put
bluegills may be 3&ch
farther out from thaBank
depending upon how deegthe
water is. y
When you cast, the SSGvill
sink slowly. Allow it tonwik,
then begin a slow rebwve,
keeping your line as straight
as possible. When you seejhe ,
end of your flyline twrtcJJt or
jerk backwards slightteset
the hook. You've bjftt a
strike. It may take SLitttle
practice to learn how tdStep
from missing these sXtffes,
but your effort will befell
rewarded. ' . !
It's one way to beat a
soggy spring, and it'sisheap
more profitbale than cussing
the weatherman. .
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C. D. Spivey, Sr.
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