Fishing has always been a very speculative business. You never know where you ae going to find them or whether you will find them at all or not. It is not often that the fish hunt up the fishermen though as a school of menhaden seemed to do this morning.
While the C.P. Dey fish boat Wynona was lying at her wharf this morning getting ready to go out, a school of fat bucks appeared in the harbor about 100 yards from the boat. Captain Lewis promptly ordered his crew into the purse boats and in a few minutes the school of fish was surrounded. Unfortunately though, the net broke and most of the menhaden escaped, although about 8,000 were caught and put aboard the vessel. A good-sized crowd collected on the wharves to watch the fishermen at work.
From the front page of The Beaufort News, Published in Carteret County, Thursday, June 11, 1925
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