THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, October 10, 1996 TAG: 9610100485
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: C8 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: Bob Hutchinson
LENGTH: 33 lines
Show me a surf angler, and I'll show you an angler who either has caught a surf-run red drum or really wants to catch one. Now is the time. Hatteras Island is the place.
Through late November, maybe even early December, big red drum, some in excess of 50 pounds, should make consistent appearances in the surf of the fabled island on North Carolina's Outer Banks.
And, says Bob Eakes, the drum guru who runs the Red Drum tackle shop at Buxton-on-Hatteras, there probably will be no better time than around this month's full moon, Oct. 26.
Now, Eakes says, the best place to look for drum is in the sloughs on the North Beach between Avon and Buxton. And the time is whenever there's an easterly or northeasterly wind.
Once the wind gets around to the south or southwest, Cape Point or Cape Hatteras, or merely ``The Point,'' will be ``The Place.''
It's where the island changes from a north-south to east-west lie. It's also the western foot of Diamond Shoals and a drum fisherman's Valhalla.
A few hints:
Fish at night.
Don't burn your beach-buggy lights going or coming.
Use the freshest bait you can get. 4. Be prepared for a crowd. ILLUSTRATION: GRAPHIC
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