“Now that communities are maturing, they don’t want to put up with blue-collar guys. “A lot of communities are looking down on piers,” says Robertson. With booming development along the coast, Mike Robertson, owner of Kure Beach Pier, says that some communities do not support public piers. “The number of piers has declined because it is costly to rebuild them,” says McCann. Many have been destroyed by hurricanes and not rebuilt. Goldstein’s Coastal Fishing in the Carolinas From Surf, Pier and Jetty. This is a decrease from 34 piers documented in 1962 in Robert J. In North Carolina, 25 public fishing piers dot the coastline - from Avon to Sunset Beach - according to the N.C. You can just let a line drop straight down.” “It is easy, and you don’t have to have a cast. “It is entry-level fishing and economical,” says Andy McCann, owner of Nags Head Pier. Ocean pier fishing attracts anglers for a number of reasons. “l know from being at different piers that they pick one pier, and you can’t pry them off of it,” says Nelson. Mary Nelson, a clerk at Nags Head Fishing Pier, says anglers become attached to one pier and do all their fishing from there. It is relaxing because there are no wives or telephones.” “I come here every day,” says Al Mintor of West Virginia, who spends the summers at Kill Devil Hills. Fall is prime fishing season for red drum and other fish.Īt Avon Pier, two young men cut the hook off a skate. “When you see someone hook a fish,” you might see 15 lines go into the water.įor Sizemore and others, pier fishing has become a summertime ritual. “It’s either feast or famine at a fishing pier,” says Billy Sizemore of Stephenson, W. Within a few minutes, several bluefish are fluttering on the pier’s wooden floor. “I have been fishing a lot and never caught anything before.”Īfter Jessica pulls in her prized 12-inch bluefish, almost a dozen anglers throw in their lines near the end of the pier.
“This is exciting,” says Jessica of Waynesboro, Va., while holding up a shiny bluefish.
Jessica’s friend Sam Phillips helps her pull in the first fish she ever caught. Then she throws her line back into the water so fast that it looks like it is dancing.Īfter many tries, she feels a jerking motion on the end of the line. Standing elbow-to-elbow next to a row of men a head taller than she is, Jessica, 12, reels in the line.
Photo by Michael Halminski.Īs the sun begins to cast a metallic glaze over the deep blue water around Nags Head Fishing Pier, Jessica Massie dangles her rod over the wooden railing into more than 16 feet of water. By sunrise, the Hatteras Island Fishing Pier at Rodanthe starts filling up.
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