Monthly Beacon Article

Fishing Club

It’s official. The Fairfield Harbour Fishing Club’s annual Spouses’ Night is scheduled for Monday, April 6, at Hurricane with Chef Chris doing the honors. Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres will be served at 6 pm followed by dinner at 7. Music will be provided by Margaret Rose and John Mitchell. Spouses’ Night is a wonderful evening when the anglers honor their spouses by serving a dinner where all the work but the cooking is performed by the membership. This includes decorating, serving appetizers and cleaning up.
Committee chairman Jim Cline announced that this year’s Big Brother Big Sister Take-a-Kid Fishing Day will be held Saturday, June 6, with a kickoff breakfast for participants at 7:30 am in the Community Center and a Pig Pickin’ at Red Sail Park following the morning of fishing. Jim is still looking for more boat captains. Contact Dan Thallman if you’d like to enjoy the day with some kids. Each boat will be assigned at least one “Big” and one “Little” with the larger boats getting two of each. If you don’t have a boat, please volunteer to be a mate and help with the baiting of hooks, etc.
The speaker for the evening in February was Captain Stephen Draughon, who charters his 52-foot Bill Collector, docked in Morehead City. Two six-member groups are booked with Stephen, April 27 and 29, for yellowfin tuna action. Steve Dauerbach is putting together a third group so call him if interested. Stephen talked about this winter’s giant bluettn fishery. In addition, he answered a multitude of questions about offshore fishing. The speaker for March 4 will be Capt. Terrell Gould whose headboat, Carolina Princess, docks just a few slips away from the Bill Collector.
The Club voted to let Wayne Smith pursue obtaining a Club banner for our many events if we can keep the cost below $160. Welcome new member, Charles Saraceno. The 50-50 raffie was won by Larry Knapp.
Bob Bruggeworth