All you need to know about fishing in and around Nags Head on the Outer Banks is the name of this web site – BeachBumFishing.com. This is the contact information for Capt. Reese Stecher, the best skipper on the Outer Banks. I have been fishing with Reese for over 20 years. Aboard The Beach Bum, I have wrestled cobia to 80 pounds, stripers in the 30 pound class, speckled trout, puppy … [Read more...]
VRBO
V.B.R.O. Vacation rental by owner. We had never used this service before, but from now on, we won’t go anywhere without first checking into this by-owner web site. Our anniversary falls on March 3 and we always like to go somewhere and get out of town, even just for a few days. For our 50th, we hopped aboard a Norwegian Cruise Liner and toured Hawaii, but that wasn’t in the cards … [Read more...]
For the Love of a Dog
They call us franken-steins, weener-meisters, dawg-men. We are lovers of all things hotdogs. We would rather eat a chili dog loaded with mustard, slaw and onions than a Cowboy Ribeye at a Chicago steak house. And our hotdog Mecca is at milepost 4.5 in Kitty Hawk, just north of Nags Head. It’s Capt’n Franks. Capt’n Franks has been on the beach road since Nags Head was a baby. They have … [Read more...]
Ducks and More Ducks
I was on our deck over-looking the ocean just after sunset, enjoying a cigar and a cocktail when I saw them coming. They were headed south, down the beach, a long string of ducks. I tried to calculate their numbers – a hundred here, then another hundred and another. I figured there were close to a thousand ducks headed for who-knows-where. Then, from the same direction, I saw another … [Read more...]
Lighting Options for Wee Ones
By Nancy B Right now, our lighting showroom at Nancy Bs House of. Lights has some of the most darling ceiling fixtures and pendants for children’s rooms and they are all 75% off! Some of these children’s light fixtures can be plugged into a wall and others are to be hardwired for the main room light fixture. Our selection features precious butterflies, friendly dragons, a sunflower … [Read more...]
How to Organize a Golf Bag
Everything in golf has its place. There are rules, there is proper etiquette and there are many unwritten rules – such as don’t throw your caddy in deep water if he can’t swim. There are also unwritten rules about how to organize a golf bag, unwritten at least until now. So here goes. A golf bag is more than a piece of nylon with holes and pockets to store clubs and equipment. A golf bag is … [Read more...]
Great News
Some great news concerning the menhaden fishery. New legislation has been approved by the Virginia House and Senate, which passed bipartisan legislation to transfer the management of Virginia’s menhaden fisheries from the General Assembly to the Virginia Marine Resources Commission (VMRC). This comes after many years of work by the conservation and angling communities to move management … [Read more...]
Sea Bass Out, Tautogs In
Virginia anglers wrapped up another short February black sea bass season. When weather permitted access to the reefs and wrecks, bottom fishing for sea bass and tautog was good. Unfortunately our sea bass season is over, but the tautog season continues. There have been reports of decent speckled trout catches. Louis Glaser and Douglas Wilburn posted about a good bite on the Elizabeth … [Read more...]
Boomer Do’s and Don’ts
There is now an app for just about everything on the planet. But oddly, there is not an App for Boomers - a complete listing of all the perils with which we might contend. I suppose the Good Lord figured that at this stage of our lives we’d have better sense than to do certain things – like play touch football with children and grandchildren. On a recent Thanksgiving, I did. And I’m “thank-ful” to … [Read more...]
A Variety of Seed Means a Variety of Birds
Go to a store that sells bird seed and you will find dozens of choices. But there is no such thing as a universal, one-size-fits-all bird food. To attract lots of birds, I have found that it is necessary to offer a variety of seeds and food. I have two seed feeders, two suet feeder, a thistle feeder for birds which come to feeders, plus I scatter tons of seeds in the back for ground feeders. … [Read more...]
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