FHFC BEACON ARTICLE FOR
AUGUST 2007
The Fairfield Harbour
Fishing Club met on Thursday for the first time ever in order to allow its
members the opportunity to celebrate the 4th of July with the
traditional family outings and fireworks displays. Gus Villanova began the
program by showing everyone the excellent video CD he put together as a result
of our Big Brother Big Sister fishing tournament we put together on National
Take a Kid Fishing weekend, June 9th.
The CD will be sent to all the sponsors of our event and any member who
would like a copy may get one from Gus.
Ron Zielinski and Jerry Manfredi
explained the rules of the upcoming Red Drum fishing tournament with the East
Carolina Fishing Club in New Bern. Each boat will pay a $25 prize fee, a $5 per
angler fee and only four fishing rods per boat will be allowed. It is a catch
and release tournament and cameras will be provided to each boat for recording
their catch. The date is Saturday, August 25 at Whittaker Pointe Marina in
Oriental from 2;00 pm to 10:00pm. Overnight docking will be permitted including
water & electric for $10 a boat. Henry Fraizer, the owner of the marina, asked
that each club make a donation to his favorite charity which is Heartwork, a
youth center that is being developed locally for disadvantaged kids. Our club
voted to donate $50 toward this worthwhile organization.
Larry Knapp showed everyone
the new Faifield Harbour license plates that are accessible
to members for $10 each. Also tee shirts will be available
to all members that will be similar to the BBBS tees except they will be
without a logo on the back. Our 3rd
annual Pig Pickin” has been moved from Wednesday October 3rd to
Thursday October 4th, so
that our auctioneer could be on hand for this event. There will be much more
concerning this picnic for members and their spouses and guests at our next
meeting. Cap’t Gary Dubiel will be our speaker for the next meeting and is an
expert on fishing the lower Neuse and Pamlico rivers. Gary was one of our main
sponsors for the BBBS tourney. Some of our members have fished with Garyin the
past and have been quite successful.
Our speaker for the evening
was one of Oriental’s expert anglers, Cap’t Phil Ambler, who demonstrated his
successful techniques through a hands on session as well as through several
excellent video presentations.
Cap’t Doug Sinclair, one of
our members and noted fly fisherman, had a
raffle for a brand new fly rod and a free ˝ day fishing trip
The proceeds ($102) will be given to Casting for Recovery, a fly fishing
retreat for women either suffering or recovering from breast cancer. George
Maravelas is the lucky angler who will fish with Doug using his new fly rod.
George Hemingway won the 50-50 raffle.
Recent fishing successes in
the Harbour include but are not limited to Red Drum, Striped Bass, Flounder,
Bluefish, Croaker, Spots and of course those wonderful Garfish.
Bob Bruggeworth