Development on the shoreline, population growth in the area and runoff from area farms and lawns have left the bay polluted with phosphorus, fertilizers and untreated waste. Pierce has been working these waters for 48 years now and says, “When I started in the late ’60s, there was commercial rock fishing, there was clamming, there was oystering, crabbing. Most of that is gone now.

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They’ll have an ice fishing clinic, bait, refreshments, free parking and cash prizes for both kids and adults.

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“If DLNR, (the state Department of Land and Natural Resources), and other interested parties can’t find a solution to this issue, freshwater fishing for catfish and trout in Hawai’i is basically doomed,” said Arlen Meline, president of the Waikahe’olu Chapter of Trout Unlimited, a national fisheries conservation group.

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The workshop is October 17-19 and costs $150.

You can learn about rods, reels, weights, line, tackle, knots, bait, cast netting, reading the surf and caring for the catch. The workshop culminates with a surf fishing trip to Cape Lookout.

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After he shot the thing they had a wrestling match on the shore… According to hunter/fisherman Darin Opel “It was real heavy, like lifting a refrigerator,” said Opel, who ripped his jeans on the arrow sticking from the back of the carp’s head during the ruckus. “Once he got out of the water, he started fighting hard. He beat me up pretty good. He definitely got a few licks in.”

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He won with a five-bass catch weighing a total of 19lbs, 13 oz. The win netted Pearson $4,270 plus a $753 Ranger contingency bonus and put him a step closer to qualifying for the Lake Seminole Regional Championship in Bainbridge, Ga., Oct. 16-18, where he could win a new 198VX Ranger boat and a Chevy truck.

Pearson said he caught his bass on a deep-diving crankbait at the mouth of a cove on the main lake points.

“The fish were shallow early,” said Pearson. “I was using a stop-and-go retrieve and letting it fall down in the grass. Later in the day, I was catching pockets on a jerk bait where were suspended in 18- 20 feet of water in the tree tops.”

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