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Article: Fly-fishing the South's salt waters
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- Southern Living
- Article date:
- October 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Southern Progress Corporation Oct 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The whole affair requires a sense of timing akin to sword fighting on a balance beam.
We point
the boat into the running tide and toss the anchor overboard, within casting distance of a finger of marsh that juts like a giant question mark into North Carolina's Pamlico Sound.
Through gaps in the smooth cordgrass, I can just make out the cleft of Oregon Inlet, where we launched at dawn. Fly-fishing guide Brian Horsley hands me a Clouser minnow, a sparse sprig of flashy white and chartreuse bucktail tied to a stainless steel hook. I chuckle, for I've caught brook trout not much larger than this fly. Then again, I've never tried to cast a fly to fish that live in the ocean.
To most folks, ...