Excellent fishing for blue catfish. Many of the big fish are being caught on cut shad and herring baits, fished on the bottom, in the outside bends of the river channel. Some are over 30 pounds. Fair largemouth bass action in the tidal sections on live bait and plastic grubs. Crappie are available around brush piles in the creeks and on the main river. White perch, yellow perch and stripers are … [Read more...]
Tog and Sea Bass Action
Our mild February temperatures allowed Virginia anglers to hit the water again and they were rewarded with some excellent sea bass and tautog catches. Connie at Long Bay Pointe Bait and Tackle weighed in these nice tautogs ranging from 9 to 12 pounds. Captains running offshore to bottom fish are seeing large schools of stripers 30 to 50 miles out, well beyond the 3 mile limit. A … [Read more...]
Blowin’ In The Wind
We were driving from Lewisburg, WV to enroll at UNC in Chapel Hill on a September day in 1962 when I first heard the group. The song was “Where Have All The Flowers Gone” sung by a group called Peter, Paul and Mary. Boomers grew up with this trio, pioneers in folk music, which gained steam in the 1960s. To many, folk music meant protests and flower children. To me, it meant some of the greatest … [Read more...]
Roanoke River Stripers
By Capt. Alan Cain This spring I will be taking my annual trip to the Roanoke River to guide for striped bass. Just as Louisiana is known for redfish the Roanoke River in North Carolina is known for stripers. Every year hundreds of thousands of striped bass migrate up river from the Atlantic Ocean and Albemarle Sound to spawn in the rock rapids at Weldon NC. This is the easiest … [Read more...]
Hawaii, Hawaii
I’m heading for Hawaii in a couple weeks. My wife Nancy has put up with me for 50 years come March 3 and we are headed to the Aloha State to celebrate our anniversary. The March 9 edition of CvilleBuzz, in fact, will be devoted entirely to Hawaii. I will write the edition while aboard our liner, assuming I have Wi-Fi available, and I’m sure we will. I have never been to Hawaii, but Nancy went … [Read more...]
Eating Upside Down
I have bird in my back yard that is just as happy to eat a meal upside down as he is straight up. He also eats sideways, crosswise and most in any position on a tree or suet feeder. He is the white-breasted nuthatch, a permanent resident in my yard. I have one suet feeder that is upside down, meaning that birds have to cling to the bottom and peck up for bits of suet. For my nuthatch friend, … [Read more...]
Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers
Apparently, there isn’t a Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers franchise in Houston, because every time my sister, Johanna, comes to visit from Texas, she insists on going to Raising Cane’s for a take-out order of fingers. They are really good, but we don’t eat there often. For me, it’s a guaranteed “weight gain”, because I’ll eat 5 or 6 fingers, plus fries, and Texas toast, and gain weight … [Read more...]
Really Good Salisbury Steak
Salisbury Steak reminds me of the many meals I ate at the cafeteria at UNC. It was frequently highlighted as a “Student Special.” I always liked Salisbury Steak, but I could take it or leave it. A few weeks back I saw a recipe for Salisbury Steak. It looked good. I tried it and it was extra good. Here’s how. First, I started with ground sirloin, not chuck of round. Ground sirloin, … [Read more...]
A Dose of Monday Morning Folderol
By Sherman Shifflett Lots of rain here, and we needed it badly. Some of our roads are flooded and we had 2-hour delay on school openings. Not sure how much rain we got because I had taken my rain gauge in last fall. Every year it freezes and breaks. I'm guessing between 4-6". My chicken house is about 100 yards downhill from my house and it got flooded - for the first time in 15 … [Read more...]
Sweet Sixteen
My grandson, James, turned 16 this week and it reminded me of a magical time when the number 16 was the sweetest of all. Breathes there a Boomer who doesn’t remember what it felt like to turn 16? Sweet sixteen meant one thing – car keys. In West Virginia we didn’t have a learner’s permit, which kids in some states could get when they turned 15 or 15 ½. Nope, for us it meant we had to wait … [Read more...]
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