Show od I 1 j 13 y TYPE ap DOAT I 1 HE 1113 north carolina coast Is a paradise for fishermen and tho the past season has haa proven no exception to the rule october and november ar are e aho banner months montha for the sportsmen but there la Is good fishing at practically all timea III H october and vr north and east easl cause tho th nan fish to io reave the says bays croake creeks and rivera mid seek the warmer waters of the tha ocean schooling up preparatory to migrate ing south bouth the waters around beaufort N 0 C seem to have an especial attraction tor for a great variety of fish much to the surprise and delight or of visiting sportsmen among tho man many kinds caught with book and line are blue flab sea aea trout aque teague spanish mackerel sheepshead black fish ansa spot flounders sea bass basat butter butterfish flab croakers drum king flab coro cero with an occasional tarpon and cable the individual weight of the last three mentioned being anywhere from 10 to 70 pounds some big catches along dogue bogue and coro core sounds around 11 Har arkers kerB island in the straits ralta st and along the sandy shores from beau tort fort inlet to cape lookout point a distance of ten miles netters are continuously on the tha watch tor for mullet during the tall fail months the fisli fish at echla time aro arc largo large and fat 4 often weighing from two to three pounds when a catch Is made they are sold to the flab fish houses bouses in the town and immediately dressed cleaned and salted down in barrels of about pounds each shipped throughout the state and to northern markets the seine fishing to Is done by the larger boats outside the three mile limit often large catches are made in this way the record catch of the season was made by the schooner george B D balshor Bal stor consisted of pounds selling on the wharf for 1600 being about two and one half cents per pound this catch was exceeded a year ago by the schooner dowey when pounds were vere taken at one haul this lot let was sold old for 2260 2250 spot cash some 12 or 15 men constitute the crew and in the case of the latter no man aboard re calved less than 80 for his bis share the owners of the boat captain and mate ma t a of course receiving much more shrimp aro also caught along shore in great quantities during august september and october these are brought to the fish houses dumped on the floor and every boy white 0 or r colored who wants a job and can got get a box to sit on is set to work heading the shrimp as shown in the illustration both hands handa are employed in this work the be headed shrimp are thrown into a bucket in front of 0 each boy the tha full bucket la Is taken to the floor boss who giveins each boy credit the shrimp aro are then packed in boxes with cracked tee ice layer tor for layer and immediately shipped north great hauls of shrimp have recently been made the largest consisted of 82 boxes about ono and ono one halt half bushels to a box they were wera sold on the wharf at 7 per box in all the waters outside of the inlet were alive last fall with edible fish and the hook book and liners are having great sport apart many declaring that the fish were so plentiful they could feel the sinker striking against their backs as lewent it went down one on delno fishing boat brought to the flah house recently pounds of at trout weak fish as aa three other boats brought in and 2000 pounds respectively odor only wate waste greatest in point of value are the menhaden often called bunkers or fat backs these fish are very rich la ir oil mid and millions 0 of them are taken to one of the edible variety twenty aubill ary schooners ners with capacity of to are employed during the season from may itlay to december in catching these flab six factories in the vl vi cikity receive these fish from the bouts boats paying at the rate of 1 per I 1 for them the flab fish are trie trial out tor for the oil and the remainder called scrap is dried and sold tor for fertilizer nothing is lost or wasted except the odor which permeates the air for miles to leeward of the factories the ang fish are hoisted from the hold bold ot of the vessel by means of an endless chat chain of buckets emptied into cars atthe top of the hoist and so ao ca carried p tied on tha railway to the factory some ten miles from beaufort inlet tile the coast makes a sharp right angled bend with cape lookout at tile the apex from tho the end of the cho cape a narrow line of shoals ol of coral formation ex lenda ends much farther out tho the cape and its submerged continuation forms a wall as it were reAch reaching ipg seaward 16 15 miles or mora more cape lookout la Is so BO shaped ILS aa to embrace ji ja bay a quiet and beautiful sheet of water called kohout U Io out hout ht the coast con configure figura tion thus forma remarkable natural trap into at which fall the aleh mig migrating rating northward |