The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-11-14
A FAVORABLE AUTUMN HAS
ENCOURAGED TRAVEL AND
AIDED COASTLAND FISHING
Many Delighted With BaImy Weather and Clear
Days While Others are Hopeful For Changes
to Usher in the Wildfowl Season Monday Morn
ing, Nov. 2 in Fine Style; Geese and Ducks on
Outer Banks in Great Numbers.


the balmy weather, with clear
skies, which have prevailed for
several weeks, and business has
continued good at many motels,
and other places of business most
accessible to the fishing areas.
Now those who love wildfowl hunt
ing best of all are hoping come
Monday Nov. 18th, weather will
become somewhat rough to en-
courage good shooting conditions.
There are few shooting places
to accommodate hunters on the
Outer Banks, other than at Ocra-
coke Island. Only three or four on
Hatteras Island operate, and the
only place giving an entire pack
age deal now in operation is Miro
Beach Lodge at Rodanthe where
reservations are reported much
greater than in any other year.
Mack Etheridge's place at Wan
cheese, Walter Perry's Cherokee
Inn at Kill Devil Hills are the
only other Dare County places
listed with the N. C. Travel Blu
reau as caterers to this business.
There are several guides how
ever, who take out hunters, but
they usually board at other places,
In the Currituck County area,
there is a great number of places
accommodating hunters, for in this
county, wildfowl shooting consti-
tutes big industry.
Due to the great number of fowl,
and the interest now being shown
bg hunters, it is expected this will
be one of the biggest seasons ever.
Mattamuskeet Hunting
That great lake in Hyde County
known as Mattamuseet, legendary,
fabulous in its recent history,
source of great cash income, is
having more attention than ever
before directed to it this season
By reason of the vast number OF
wildfowl which come to it, it has
become the foremost mecca for
hunters on the Atlantic seaboard
Reports from all sources which
cater to these people indicate a
$3.50 increase in bookings already
for hunters in the first week of
the season which will open Mon
day, November 18th.
The snow geese arrived at Pea
Island National wildlife refuge just
south of Oregon Inlet early Thurs
day, Aycock Brown advises. Many
swan have arrived also.
Like the swallows which return
to Capistrano the California mis-
sion town on St. Joseph's Day
March 10 each spring, the first
snow geese arrive, according to
; tradition, dating back to 1918 or
Armistice Day or November II
each year.
This year the rare greater
American SHOWS arrived on SEIZED
ule from their Arctic Circle nest.
ing grounds. Before the end of No
vember 10000, or possibly $4,000
or about half of the worlds total
population of Greater American
Snow Geese will be at their winter
feeding ground in the national
wildlife refuge created for them
on a IL mile stretch of the Outer
Banks between Oregon Inlet an6
Rodanthe in 1888.
Tradition on the Outer Banks is
that the snow geese begin theil
migratory flight northward again
on Old Christmas which at Ro-
danthe, nearest community to the
refuge is celebrated on January 5
The swallows of San Juan Capis.
strand, if you are interested, begir
their southbound migratory flights
to Latin American countries, ac-
cording to legend, on October %
each year.
Camel Bass Center
Cape Hatteras at this season Of
the year is the center of channe
, bass surf fishing along the Allan
tic Coast, as rugged fighters are
being caught daily, southwest tt
, Ocracoke Inlet northward to Avon
: Salvo and Rodanthe.
A dozen topping 30 pounds eacl
have been taken during the past
two weeks.
On November 8, John Twatch
man of Ardmore, Pa, brought in {
81 FOUNDER on 20 pound test line
potentially new worlds recorS
for that test line. This week Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Clark of Ston.
Harbor, N. ]. elaborated to bring
in a SO FOUNDER, not eligible fol
contest entry because two persons
. had hand in landing it. A Coas1
Guard Chief, C. w. Silvers, sta
toned here caught 67h poundel
on the past week end and ther'
/ have been many others taken il
. the 40 to So pound class.
j A 55-pounder was landed OF
Tuesday by Mrs. Natalie Beckel