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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1975
Page
11
The August scene shows a purple martin nestling fledglings leaving for Central and South America as a hummingbird feeds at a feeder and plans its own southward flight. Waterfowl will soon arrive from Canada for the winter, signaling the season ahead.
Captain Tommy Willis and Ralph Dedmon are highlighted for fishing innovations this summer. Willis uses light tackle on king mackerel off Harbour Town with spinning gear, a six-foot wire loader, tiny hooks, a half-ounce sinker, and live shrimp aboard the Emjay to attract surface-feeding kings. Dedmon also finds success with inventive methods.
In a rugged trek with A. J. Johnson the narrator recalls hiking into a tiny creek famed for brook trout. They wade, climb, and fish through dense rhododendron and stepping pools to a high falls, as the author notes the remoteness and few anglers who ever know what lies above.
The North Carolina Wildlife Commission accelerates its wild turkey restoration, expanding live-trapping and restocking across western Game Lands. Biologist Wayne Bailey leads field work, with plans for 1975 76 to train three to four crews to trap multiple areas simultaneously and extend restocking to three more western sites.
All Outdoors Camping has altered family recreation with campgrounds and programmed grounds across the country. Families can drive in hook up to electricity run air conditioning watch TV and enjoy grills and swimming. Daytime activities include horseback riding hiking and volleyball while nights feature sing alongs and western BBQ with a country band.
Ammons, 40, a Walnut Cove native and 12 year Wildlife Commission veteran, becomes wildlife management supervisor for the commission's western area Game Lands, replacing Clifford L. Bampton who was named chief of the Division of Game. Ammons joined the agency in 1963 as a refuge assistant and rose to full game biologist in 1971 while remaining at Lake Junaluska.
TOM HIGGINS highlights Chicago's 18th annual AFTMA trade show where Carolina anglers glimpse groundbreaking gear. New items include a versatile fly line, a 4% pound electric motor, a tri‑ton boat, cork reel seats, a five‑foot ultralight telescopic rod, lighter electric reels for snappers and grouper, scented baits, odorized catfish baits, a dipperable stink bait worm, a weight‑reduced hydrofoil sinker, a long‑range surface lure, and a deep-penetrating night light for fishing.
The article explains selecting a compass for small boats, considering boat size, power or sail, materials, and cost. It covers mounting placement, reading distance from the helm, and clarifies geographic magnetic and true north, plus variation and deviation errors and the need to correct compass readings.
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