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Hand-crafted boats of old Currituck : fishing & boating on the Carolina coast /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morris, Travis (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charleston, S.C. : History Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Boats and boating > North Carolina > Currituck County > History > 20th century.
Boatbuilding > North Carolina > Currituck County > History > 20th century.
Fishing > North Carolina > Currituck County > History > 20th century.
Fishers > North Carolina > Currituck County > Biography.
Currituck County (N.C.) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Currituck County (N.C.) > History > 20th century.
Currituck County (N.C.) > Biography.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Boating and fishing in old Currituck
  • Long net rigs at Currituck wharf
  • Bootie Spruill: haul net fishing in Currituck Sound
  • Others Bootie fished with
  • Carp
  • Mullet fishing
  • My first gas boat
  • Vernon Lee Creekmore
  • Bell's Island Club
  • Laydown and sit-up boxes
  • Landing, maple: Charlie Snowden
  • Edgar O'Neal Sr
  • Maple Warehouse Company
  • Buck Allen
  • Henry Doxey
  • Gilman Brumsey
  • C.G. Wallace
  • Ambrose Dozier
  • Coinjock: Pat O'Neal
  • Elijah Tate
  • Riley Beasley
  • Next bad night in the sound
  • Bob Morse
  • Albert Sumrell
  • Point Harbor: Allen Hayman
  • Wilton Walker
  • Newton Hampton
  • Carl Ross
  • Shoving poles
  • Other boats
  • Part II. Commercial fishing on the Outer Banks
  • Buddy Ponton's story
  • Part III. Hunting and fishing lodge on mainland Currituck
  • Caroland Farm
  • Sportsman's View, by Purcell Kimsey
  • Bootie Spruill on guiding fishing parties.