FHFC BEACON ARTICLE FOR DECEMBER 2007
Some 60 members and guest attended our November Fishing Club meeting and
listened intently to our speaker, Cap’t Dave Stewart who owns and operates the
Minnesott Beach Bait, Tackle and Crafts Shop next to the ferry entrance. Dave
shared his techniques with us of using live shrimp, mirror lures and lead heads
to capture Speckled Sea Trout which is one of our better fisheries beginning in
November and lasting into the Spring. Many of our members have caught these good
tasting piscatorial delights right here in the Harbour the end of October and
well into November. Dave also carries a variety of other baits and fishing
equipment and has an official Marine Fisheries scale to weigh your trophy fish
Our December meeting will be our Planning Session for year 2008. Our intent will
be to review our first four years of operation and see which of those items we
would like to continue in the months ahead. We will be discussing future meeting
speakers, fishing tournaments we’d either like to hold or participate in and
some external events and/or trips that we might want to enjoy doing together.
Our January 2nd meeting, our 5th anniversary event, will
feature our present Lower Neuse River Keeper, Larry Baldwin. Those of you who
attended our very first meeting on January 7th 2004 will remember we
had Colonel Richard ( Rick ) Dove, who served as our first Neuse River Keeper
from April 1993 to July 2000. Rick is presently the Southeastern representative
for the Water Alliance. All our meetings are open to all interested guests and
generally begin at 7:00pm on the
first Wednesday night of the month and are usually held in the big room of our
Community Center on Broad Creek Road. Be sure to check out our web site at
http://pages.suddenlink.net/fhfc/ for all the happenings.
Our 50-50 raffle at the end of our meeting was won by Dan Thallman and John
Gilshian who shared the winnings.
Now I lay me
down to sleep
If I die before I wake,
Please don’t let my wife sell
my boat, fishing poles and tackle
for what I told her it cost, for goodness sake!