Fishing Report Oct 2nd 2013

The federal shutdown is having a significant impact on many OBX commercial operations, especially on Hatteras Island.  Cape Hatteras National Seashore is closed to the public.  Oregon Inlet Fishing Center is a park service concession and even though privately operated is forced to close.  OIFC charter captains have relocated their vessels to other venues to meet their charter obligations.  Beach accesses from Coquina Beach to Ocracoke have been chained off or blocked by the park service.  I’m saying it, you need to be made of tough stuff to live on Hatteras Island.  We tend to think what happens in D.C. doesn’t effect us much but I work for a business a couple hundred yards from the Wright Brothers Monument.  The park is most definitely closed and I know people who work there.  Not jumping on the soapbox but this political standoff is affecting too many citizens at a time when our economy is beginning to turn around for the good and now it’s starting to get in the way of my fishing.  Trust me, this is not a good thing.  Let me go back to my cave and chew on this awhile.

Later,   Coolbreeze out