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Healing on the Fly Rituals of the Stream

A trout fisherman discovers it’s not always conventional medicine that brings respite. Courtesy Garden & Gun, December 2025/January 2026 edition, by Jeff Zillgitt Two fried chicken thighs and two legs. When I shuffled into the Wolftown Mercantile Country Store, on a two-lane road near two of my favorite brook trout streams in Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park, that’s the order I placed as a matter of routine. But on this day in late March 2023, I had no business going fly fishing, much less eating a meal for two. Three weeks earlier, I’d lost 80 percent of my…

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Seafood Potluck

A Seafood Potluck and the 2nd Annual Seafood Challenge were both held jointly at the Pink Palace in the Sunset Beach Sea Trail Plantation on November 15th. About 45 members and guests of the Sea Trail Fishing Club enjoyed the potluck and provided side dishes, entrees, and desserts. The Club also provided a shrimp boil. In addition, seven members provided entries to the Seafood Challenge. Recipes of several of the entrees are listed below. The competition was won by Alan Trojan for his ‘Okra Gumbo’, who was awarded the Golden Spoon. The Golden Spoon…

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NC Marine & Estuary Foundation – “The Wait is Over! Our Red Drum Tracking Platform is Live”

Friday November 14, 2025 Early last year, our foundation launched a multi-year research initiative with the Division of Marine Fisheries to track adult red drum movements using satellite tags. The project started with a pilot study in which Division staff tagged 10 red drum in Pamlico Sound. From there, the 2025 plans expanded to include 40 additional red drum tagged along the North Carolina coast. Throughout the process, our foundation toyed with the idea of creating an interactive platform to showcase the movements of these tagged fish in near real time. What began as…

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Captain Rick Roberts – Thursday’s Guest Speaker

The Sea Trail Fiishing Club will host Captain Roberts as the Guest Speaker at our last Club meeting of the year. Captain Rick Roberts is the owner and operator of Tidal Inshore Fishing Charter in Little River, SC. He grew up fishing the inland waters of Central Florida and has always been intrigued by the vast amount of marine life, the influences of tidal flow and the diverse habitats that the rivers and creeks provide. He says that the challenge of predicting the habits and eventually catching the elusive redfish, speckled trout, flounder and…

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Update :: New Mandatory Harvest Reporting Requirements Begin Dec. 1 in this Old North State – Not as Difficult as I Thought

From NC Wildlife Resources Commission … “Click on the fish icon at the bottom and then the link that says DMF Saltwater Fishing Harvest Report. Screen shots below. This link takes you to the DMF page with all the information. We will be able to report on the DMF page on or after December 1st. ” I drilled down and it appears that it will work without a lot of hassle. It will be better when DMF releases the APPS.

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