The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-10-15
COMES FISHING TO
OCRACOKE FROM
SOUTH AMERICA
An Angler Who Really Loves
Its Sport; Other Island
News

fishing every time he gets vaca-
ton from his work in Caracas,
Venezuela, S. A. That means he
comes about every other October.
He spends a month to six weeks of
his vacation surf-casting at Ocra-
coke, and the rest of it at his home
town, Reidsville. Several times
Mrs. Mooney has accompanied him
to Ocracoke, but she is not here
this fall. His brother, D. C. Mooney
of Reidsville, and friend, Allen
Crews of Kernersville, usually fish
at Ocracoke along with W. C.
Mooney. This has been going on
for the past ten to twelve years
and the Moneys and Mr.. Crews
can usually boast Of good catches.
One fall Mr.. Crews took enough
fish back to- Kernersville to feed
twenty-six of his neighbor fami-
lies.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Martin and
Mr.. and Mrs. E. C. johnson of
Hickory brought in fifteen big
channel bass, weight 80 to as
pounds, last week end, fishing in
Ocracoke Inlet with Capt. Thurs
ton Gaskill, on the boat South
Wind" Several other anglers from
the Hickory and Taylorsville sec
ton fish at Ocracoke.
Last Sundays mailboat from At
lantic brought in a total of about
thirty fishermen. Several are
bringing their own trucks or jeeps,
making the trip down the Reef
via Hatteras. One such truck is
equipped for camping and is park
ed at the Loop-Shack sand dunes
just east of Ocracoke village. 9th
ers, especially those from the
Washington, N. C. section, bring
their cars or jeeps over on the
freight boat.
Joe Crisanti of Manasquam, N.
j. has fshed and vacationed here
for many years. He and his son,
John, and friends, John Clark and
Leroy Winecoff are spending three
weeks in one of the Silver Lake
Inn studio apartments. Another old
timer, registered at Wahab Vii
lage hotel, is A. S. Stewart of the
Wilmington, Del, News-Journal.
Several Winston-Salem parties are
here, some of them staying and
fishing with guides Charlie and
james Williams. William Arthur
O'Neal, native of Ocracoke, now
of Wilmington, Delaware, with
friend Dave Smith, is at Silver
Lake Inn. These two have been en-
joying catching sheepsheai at the
old clam factory ruins on Ports
mouth. Woodrow Price and others
from Raleigh, of the News and
Observer staff, are vacationipg at
the Price cottage and enjoying
some surf casting. Mr.. S. Arthur
Love of Norwood, Pa. has fished
up and down the eastern coast,
but for many years has chosen
Ocracoke for the ''best fishing"
Last year he wrote the following
poem:
I've travelled North,
I've travelled South,
I've travelled in the West,
But of all the places, l have seen,
| 7 like OCRACOKE hest"
Edward Simpson, son of Mrs.
Murray Tolson, and friends Bill
Hutchins and Russ Bradley, of &C.
can View, Delaware, visited this
past week end with Mr.. and Mrs.
Murray Tolson.
Mrs. Cora L. Casey of Buxton is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Thurs
ton Gaskill.
Carl Goerch of Raleigh flew in
last week for an overnight visit at
Wahab Village Hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter E. Whitak-
er of Martinsville, Indiana, spent
several days last week with Rev.
and Mrs. Ernest Powlesland. Mr..
Whitaker held services at the AS
sembly of God Church. He is a
candidate for the ministry. They
left on Monday for Mrs. Whitak-
er's home at Lewiston, n. c., and
Rev. and Mrs. Powlesland accom-
panied them to attend churcn NEE t.
ings there.
Danny Garrish was home for the
week end from East Carolina Col
lege. He returned Sunday with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Gar
IRISH.
Mrs. Wilma Williams is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Dallas Williams
and family, at Patuxent River,
Maryland.
Mrs. Annie Garrish left for
Beaufort last Sunday.
David S. FOLSOM, U.S.C.G., Bal
timore, spent several days last
week with his family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kelly O'Neal are
back home after spending the sum
mer in Philadelphia.
Friends of Herman Spencer viii
regret to hear that he has been
hospitalized at Morehead City. AS
soon as possible he will go to the