The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-26

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your tackle box and &c elsewhere
But l did hear the truth slip from
his mouth one day last week. And
l. heard it confirmed by my old
truthful friend Charlie MacWilliams
OF Ocracoke. Charlie Mac didn't
nave any very good reason for his
reckoning that the first drum
wouldn't be caught at Hatteras, but
he felt that it wouldn't be done, and
that was that. Aycock, on the other
mana, was just boosting Beaufort
and that was all. Both of them was
right. [ know the first drum will
be caught at some place other than
Hatteras Inlet. l have got the facts.
don't reckon about it, 1 know. I
talked with Charlie Piner the other
day. Charlie who lives down More
head way has just come back from
Floridy. He told me he had already
wrote Josiah Bailey about it and told
Joe to tell Franklin at once. Some
times Charlie is wrong and I figured
he might be this time. But I got
my word from Lindsay Warren and
Lindsay knows his fishing if they
are not the sailing kind.
1t seems that Josiah told Lindsay
about Charley's tale. 1t happened
one day not long ago while Lindsay
was trying to find a way to get a
100000 ditch Ito be known as War
ren's Cut), from Manteo to Oregon
Inlet. He wanted to separate it from
a $3.50, 000, 100000 River and Harbor
Bill that has been hung up in the
senate ever since right after the
World war. And by the by, some
of the boys are beginning to wonder
whether Charlie Perry's grandchild-
rem will ever be able to actually use
this Warren Cut. 1t looks bad.
Josiah even admits it. The boys say
the engineers are too slow, but it
looks to me like it is the senate or
congress that is too slow. They
make the laws you know. I don't
know who made that one about the
P. W. A. Maybe the Army engin-
GERS could give US something in a
hurry too if they could find any of
that funny money. Lindsay found
a whole bale Of it somewhere and
had a lot of bushes and grass plant
ed around on the beach. I don't
to fix his cut so the poor fishermen
could get out in the ocean Maybe
with a few more cranks Of the ma
chine he could get enough to keep
Charlie Perry off the sand shoals.
But as I was going to say about
this first fish business. I was talk
ing with Charlie Piner after he got
back from Floridy. Charlie said that
many of the blues and drum caught
down in the Floridy waters this
year had little sores on them. He
did not know how come but there
they were. He hoped they wouldn't
be on the fish around Cape Lookout
and about where he and Josiah fish
some times. But Lindsay came right
out with the thing. He a y ITS
too bad. I hate it. Hatteras is in
the First District and I love it aid
I love the people. Them people are
our kind of folks. They are the salt
Of the earth. But them sores that
in Florida are just plain mosquito
bites and they got them last fall at
Hatteras. I know it for l got them
there myself and I am not going
back to Hatteras for two years at
least and not then unless some wind.
TANNER forces me to go by coming
out against me for my seat in con-
gress."
I listen at all of EN- and substract
and divide, and then set my course,
They all lie, that is most Of 'em
Some don't. There's Charlie Mac,
He is alright. And Vic Meekins is
alright. OF course, he got slipped
up on when he went off to Wash
ington with Roy Davis and Aycock
Brown. Charlie Perry, now, there's
a boy for you. So is Will Lewark
But them boys know their fishing.
And both of them say that Oregon
Inlet will give up the first drum this
year and it will be caught on the
: wane of the moon in April. I say
the boys are right this time. Full
moon is April 21st. So it might be
that the drum will be punching
around old Oregon around the goth,
I say this because the last quarter
(of the moon, not Herbert Bonner's
poker pocket) will be the 18th,
Therefore, I feel that a fellow plan