Even Though It’s Hunting Season the Fishing must be Good
October 3, 2006
Two new State fishing records have been achieved one broke the old record and the other established the record.
RALEIGH, N.C. (Sept. 28, 2006) – For the second time in less than three months, the longnose gar state record has been broken — this time by U.S. Marine Sebastian Lankiewicz of Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville.
Lankiewicz landed his record-breaker on June 29 while fishing at Rock Quarry Lakes in Maysville. He was using a 7-foot Quantum Boca spinning rod, a Shimano Stradic 2500FH reel and a Rapala crankbait lure. The fish weighed 19 pounds, 10 ½ ounces and measured 49 ¾ in length.
– For the second time in less than three months, the longnose gar state record has been broken — this time by U.S. Marine Sebastian Lankiewicz of Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville. 
 Photo courtesy of North Carolina Wildlife
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RALEIGH, N.C. (Oct. 3, 2006) – While most people associate salmon with the Northeast and the West Coast, Tony Robinson knows of a honey hole in western North Carolina that produces a salmon that can put up quite a fight despite its relatively small size.
On Sept. 7, the Burke County angler landed a newly established freshwater fish state record for kokanee salmon. Robinson caught the fish, which weighed 9.2 ounces and measured 11 ½ inches in length, from Nantahala Lake in Macon County using an Eagle Claw rod, Penn 309 reel and a fin-tail spoon as a lure.
Kokanee salmon are native to the western United States. Those found in Nantahala Lake are a remnant population from a stocking done in the mid-1960s by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission in an attempt to establish the species as a forage fish for other predator fishes in the lake.
– While most people associate salmon with the Northeast and the West Coast, Tony Robinson knows of a honey hole in western North Carolina that produces a salmon that can put up quite a fight despite its relatively small size. Link to Story
 Photo courtesy of North Carolina Wildlife
 Take a break from hunting and wet a line or two maybe something to consider but on the eve before the Opening of the duck season I doubt I’ll do it. Congratulations to Sebastian and Tony on getting in the record book.
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