Archive for tag: tuna

Big Day For Dawg Due

May 17, 2010 Featured, Fishing

Congratulations to Freeman Barber on his 40th birthday, celebrating with a day on the water aboard his 52′ Buddy Davis, “Dawg Due”. Running out of Charleston, South Carolina a couple weeks ago, they brought home a mess of tuna and a young mako shark. Thanks Beach Billy for sending this in!

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Boating A Bluefin

January 22, 2010 Fishing

When the weather cools, thoughts typically turn to whitetails but as soon as the rut passes here in the Carolinas, it’s time to break out the heavy tackle.  The annual migration has been a real boom for local charter boats, a winter gold rush that until about fifteen years ago, was unheard of.  That’s when [...]

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Lordy, Lordy….

January 20, 2010 Asides

….I just turned 40.  That’s me on the left with the snazzy red Vuarnet shades, sometime around 1986 I think.  The other two studs are my brothers, Hal and Reid.

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White Marlin Are For Sissies

August 14, 2009 Fishing

What happens when a Tarheel enters a white marlin tournament?  Broken records, that’s what.  Robert Farris of Charlotte, North Carolina took three hours to land this 1,062 pound blue marlin during last week’s White Marlin Tournament in Ocean City, Maryland, breaking the state record set in 1989 by 120 pounds.

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