Currituck Memories and Adventures

by Morris, Travis

• ISBN13: 9781596293052
• ISBN10: 1596293055
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-02
• Publisher: History Pr

Summary

Currituck County, North Carolina, is famed as a place where hunters count down every hour until the opening of duck season. Land of the hunter, farmer and fisherman?all terms that have defined author Travis Morris Currituck is the well-loved home and stage to this latest collection of hunting and fishing exploits. Currituck native Travis Morris returns with a follow-up to the best-selling Duck Hunting on Currituck Sound with more tales of hunting, fishing and adventure. Complete with humorous stories of boyhood on the sound and a whole new collection of fishing and hunting expeditions, this book is a treasure. Whether or not one has ever watched a ?smoke of ducks? flying overhead in front of a cold January sunrise or pulled in enough catfish to nearly sink a boat, Morris's accounts of life on Currituck Sound are sure to delight.

Table of Contents

Why This Book Was Written	p. 9
Introductory Whispers	p. 13
Wampuss Cat	p. 17
Duck Hunting with Barbara Brumsey Smith	p. 20
A Brand-new Toy for an Old Gunner	p. 29
Hampton Lodge	p. 31
Gathering Tales	p. 41
Stranded in Coinjock Bay	p. 47
Outboard Motor Blues	p. 49
A Doxey Father/Son Hunting Trip and More Motor Blues	p. 50
Catfish Frenzy	p. 52
Charlie Snowden	p. 56
Sea Lizard	p. 59
Guiding for Charlie Snowden	p. 61
Archie Midgett	p. 64
Ambrose "Hambone" Twiford	p. 66
When the Coast Guard Wouldn't Go	p. 73
Julian "Grissie" Barco's Amazing Feat	p. 76
Adventures of the Pilmoor Boy Scouts in Corolla and New York	p. 80
A Couple of Trips During My Coast Guard Years-1951 to 1954	p. 86
A Page from the Past	p. 90
Big Fish	p. 92
Sketches of Growing Up in Currituck	p. 94
Piney Island Tales: "Cow Patrol"	p. 100
Second Day of the Long Duck Season	p. 103
The South Carolina Outlaws	p. 106
Hatteras Duck Hunting Trip	p. 110
A Fishing Trip with the McCotter Clan Is Something to Behold	p. 120
A World-class Fishing Trip on the Pelican	p. 127
Rock Fishing in Coinjock	p. 135
Trucks and Truck Farming	p. 140
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