The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-09

Wrightsville Beach
It has come to the attention of this column that much
ronsternation has been caused by reports of 4 bill to he
Presented to the General Assembly regarding commercial
fishing at Wrightsvile Beach. Everyone is entitled tn
make a living and you fellows make it by netting or sein-
ing fish and selling through either wholesale or retail out
That is your vocation and so it shall stand.
The sport fisherman has a vocation and to him the snort of
fishing is purely a avocation, and SO it shall stand.
There is sufficient room for both types of activity in the Wrigbts.
vile area and the bill is not aimed to hurt the vocational fisherman
but rather to ease the circumstances surrounding the avocational
fisherman.
As a champion of the bill and one of its most hearty supporters
It asG sp9 is right n that sport fishing is wrong s%g an nd ~r9ne sa s asst
nsced supporters of the bill.
In the same instance both are right and both ae wrong.
Commercial fishing should be abolished off the ocean front be-
tveen Moore's inlet and Masonboro inlet. That much is necessary
for the promotion of tourist trade and yeararound residency at the
In Banks Channel n other waters in the Wrightsvine area.
Of ocean front and will have the rest Of the large body of water in
All that is needed Is an amendment to the present law-passed
In 1s15-prohbting fishing along the mention r from April to
September. Under the proposed amendment commercial practices
Such a amendment would leave a better feeling among tour
for all the controversial question which have kept the three groups
1t loggerheads.
FISH LINES
week in Michigan fishing through IN 1sineh layer of ice. He
t ssasa d5 81 5fo the 1 New Hanover %svs 'e counsy + Boa Hdo' Of co namissi ns f of
which Gardner is a member. Sport fishing is right, this coming
"wd fishing
They talk about the big ones in Greenfield Lake-where r they?
So far the weather has been against the Watonite but with a few
days Of warm weather the bass and gogge-eyes should start hitting.
By the way, this column understands that good minnows can be
had by calling at the Fire Boat, foot of Grace street.
Good as they are I couldn't get one to tempt a larger specie
while trying out Greenfield Lake the other afternoon.
And as one of the fellows in the office remarked yesterday
admiration it also offers some excellent fishing, There IRE numer-
where the fisherman may secure a sknf O. John-boat."
Uso PARTIES
The weather permitting Uso fishing parties will start again to-
day with Wrishtsvile Beach being the locale Of the allday event
line, transportation and a Mnch-almost like post exchange prices.
No word from the Camp Davis fishing crew. Perhaps they feel
the weather is still too cold; If that is the only trouble they should
think like Gardner "cold fishing is sport fishing"
FLORIDA NOTES
A letter from Capt. Victor P. Lance, he the Southport party boat
operator who spend his winters pursuing the business in Florida.
Lance is currently operating out of Stuart, Fla, and sends word to
His letter reads if part:
Am wondering how you folk survived the winter up there?
February "a a honey-cold as blazes most of the time with plenty
Of wind thrown in for good measure most of the time.
On the whole, fishing has been very good off St. Lucie all
season. In December and January there were lots of sails out there.
few days on the whole when we did not get at least one sail"
snn A log s9 kept by Captain Lance shows that 40 sail were caught
This does not count lots of fish that W had hooked and lost
.. way ao Or the other; ! had to buy s5 worth Of new W lines ne in %%
were released and 40 mention of bonitas, cobia, kings and dolphin.
caught 10 sails with two good fishermen aboard!
On Jan. Is 1 had four gentlemen aboard from New York. On
a saf y n ri 'eem thew nf0r eqs k me saey w p1aDed snn ne with ia 'i hm
and told him that was easy. Well, we hit the blue water at II: AS a
had What they came ann II for n's so lets g go Il home, which we did. I left
mem mem hitting n and two at a time every few minutes!' What a
Hope this will not make you feel too badly Jack. Have wished
sevsral times that you could have been with US IN some of those
good tnps-perhaps sometime"