Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Roc Solid Foundation Benefit tournament

We donated a charter to a cause called The Large Mouth Brown Trout Charity Fishing Tournament that benefits the Roc Solid Foundation , http://www.rocsolidfoundation.org/home.php . The money raised goes to help better the lives of children battling pediatric cancer. What a better way to give than to give to a child. They are our future and even one smile makes it all worth while. I thought I would share with you just part of an email we received from the founders of this cause. If you would like to support just copy and paste their link that I have posted and check out the site and see some of what they are about and watch the video below to see some of what they do. It feels good to feel like you have done just a little something to make a child's day just a little better.

Michael and D.M. - First off, I would like to thank you once again for the generous donation to the Large Mouth Brown Trout Charity Fishing Tournament. The Native Son charter raffle was a huge success and as a direct result of your generosity, we were able to raise approximately $15,000 to be used to help brighten the lives of children who are battling pediatric cancer! We are already planning something bigger and better for next year and we hope to include you guys in the festivities once again!



Sunday, October 3, 2010

Rain, Wind now Tide.




Man what a week this has been. We had our last good week of charters on the books and didn't get to run one at all. We had those low pressures come up the stalled front that dumped record amounts of rain inland. We had 40 knot sustained winds with gust up to 70. Now all the water from inland is draining in the sounds and the way the wind is blowing it is all coming here. The streets here in the village are flooding as I type. Hopefully we won't get anymore wind than what we have or we will get a dose of it. To top it all off, all of this hard south wind we had closed up our channel and no one could go fishing if they wanted too. The ferries to Ocracoke have been shut down for 5 days now from Hatteras. The only way on and off Ocracoke is to and from Swan Quarter or Cedar Island which I would think is probably flooded this afternoon with all this water. It sounds like the end of the week is going to get nice so hopefully we'll get to go fishing sometime soon. Hopefully they will have a channel opened up and marked for us tomorrow. The Dredge has been working hard and so have the USCG ANT (aids to navigation team) fellows. These guys keep our channel marked and buoys lit for us to get you out safely. Check back in later this week for further updates. Guess I'll go watch the tide come up some more.