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Farm Fresh Ducks
While suppertime at a duck camp is always a loud and rowdy affair, breakfasts are usually subdued. […]
Articles by Mike Marsh
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Pork, Big Bucks Stop Here
While N.C. legislators wrangled with pork-barrel spending from a $2.1-billion surplus, Luke Vande Guchte of Wake Forest knew what his family would be spending some of their money for – a taxidermy mount of his first big-antlered buck deer. […]
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High speed trolling is the trick for king mackerel
According to a dictionary, “revelry” is an occasion of boisterous celebration. If a fisherman’s heart isn’t made joyous at the sound of a reel screeching as the drag slips line to a smoker king mackerel, he’s picked the wrong sport. […]
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Sneads Ferry Speck-tacular
Cell phones have a dubious reputation when it comes to answering them while driving vehicles on a busy highway. […]
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Triple-Play Reds
The only man-made sounds were occasional sloshes as waves washed against the boat hull, created by the turbulence a trolling motor propeller. […]
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More than a Pond
Dawn’s first rays filtered through a stand of cypress trees, sparkling on the silky water like a necklace of yellow diamonds draped against a black velvet dress. […]
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Hole Lotta Flounder
Carolina Beach has earned a reputation for producing some of the nicest catches of big flounder in the state of North Carolina and perhaps the world. […]
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Taylor-Made Spanish
It was a warm summer morning with no wind and high humidity, typical of the weather along the North Carolina coast in June. The day was perfect except for one thing. […]
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Silver Summer
Gnats gnawed any exposed skin and their bites burned like red-hot needles as they siphoned blood from arms, face, neck and backs of hands. […]
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The Midnight Hour
Capt. Kevin Couick once lived to fish in the ocean. […]