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The Lawson Creek Bluegrass Band played on Saturday evening..

A bass at a tarpon tournament.

Fiddle player in the country band which played Sunday afternoon.

Sunday’s country band and its drummer.

Norma Smith didn’t compete, but the life-long Oriental resident isn’t a stranger to the event, or to fishing. “Have I ever been fishing? Oh my, yes.” Miss Norma says she and two other women friends would take a pontoon boat out on to the Neuse many nights and set a net for a few hours. Then, on the way back to town, they’d give some of the fish to the fisherman lined up along the shorefront. She stopped fishing three years ago.

Captain Larry Walker and Alexis and Nicole Edwards drawing the winner of Larry’s captain’s license course. $1,001 was raised by the raffle (it all goes to the Rotary scholarship fund) – Ed Terry won the course.

The fishing may have been over for those waiting for the results at the tournament headquarters at Whittaker Pointe Marina, but the work week was just beginning for the commercial fishermen on board the shrimp trawlers that were heading out Sunday afternoon (look in the distance).

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Posted Monday July 28, 2008 by Melinda Penkava