The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-22

Dem Buns in Brooklyn ,claim-now and then-"We
J., robbed"
@ hem Buns is not the only one who has been robbed.
.Ne was.
No. this is not a baseball column, but a fisherman's
.+ Of sorts, but still we claim, 1--WE was robbed"
How?
Emmy. you should ask that question but for the infor-
.on Of the Wilmington News readers we will enlighten
{ w ell Smith, %reputedly the sports editor of that afternoon
.r has hired "Fish Lines" on a ~part-pay basis-he buys
n# once d week-to do a fishing story now and then.
w. That is alright, but on top of it all-the cheap paying
| n1l steals Fish Lines thunder.
Yes, 1--WE was robbed"
eli, in a column written during the week, brought out
as attributes of white marlin fishing and how Ocean City,
FM. had capitalized On one white marlin and had built it
n% q commercial stunt of the "first water"
| Catch a marlin off this coast, publicize it, then give
4the gun is the manner in which Gil treated the subject.
That is fine, but first the marlin must be caught.
When one realizes that the Gulf Stream is miles and
miles off-shore it makes one think "How can fishermen
OPT out there and still fish long enough to catch said mar
~ The whole trouble is this:
Not enough fishermen go to the stream in search of
bc game. The average fishermen wants to catch fish and
yrains satisfied with dolphin, bonita, amberjack and 9TH
r instead Of wanting to spend trip after trip searching
for sail and marlin.
If the commercial fishermen could teach their patrons
that one good marlin or sail is better, and worth more from
sporting angle than all the smaller species put together,
1en the Wilmington area might well be on the way to
penng of the fishing here to national prominence, on a
yeararound basis.
As Gil says, the marlin pass off the coast, and several
have been sighted, but as yet none have been landed off
1.-The Tar Heel coast except from off Hatteras.
Regardless of whether 1--WE was robbed or not" the
fact remains that Gil has started to write about fishing
and that in itself is a victory for the fishing fraternity.
Every plug helps and a group of plugs might pull the trick
make Southeastern North Carolina a place known for fish
Ing good fishing.
Fishing had not been too good during the past week
hh. with a change in the weather surf Waltonites claim it
should be better during the week.
Catches reported were few but they included:
A Wilmington party made up of E. A. Rusher, Cicero
Vow, Gil Pickard and "Skeet" James, caught 10 blues and
oe nnackerel while trolling off Wrightsville Beach during
the week.
From Southport Capt. Hewlan Watts sends word of
The following catches:
DR.. George Johnson, seven bonitas, two dolphin and
100 pounds of Dream.
Mac Chenzie and party of Salisbury, four dolphin, four
Na, four amberjacks and two king mackerels.
w.. c. Bailly, and party, Durham, eight dolphin, five
bMitas, 10 amberjacks and two cudas.
Included in the weeks catch from the idle On were
IS Dreams, IA dolphin, one mackerel and an angel fish
caught by a Columbia, S. c. party.
A Burgaw Waltonite writes:
take the fishing up around Burgaw, for instance:
We'll even take part of it because we understand from
few Individual Burgawdians chow you like l) that the
bal. and visiting piscatorial enthusiasts have been catching
many large Dream in the fresh water streams as they
can carry.
Besides Dream. limit catches of bass, pike, perch and
backfish have been recorded Sounds fishy doesn't it, but
friends of ours have Fender county regulations for
integrity.
However, being fishermen they might object to our
them honest.
eve almost forgot-there hasn't been a sturgeon re-
caught in those waters-well, for several weeks
anyway.
and we also understand there won't be any caught
at least a pending trial of some mighty important
1--WE like that) is chronicled as history