Duck Hunting on Currituck Sound: Tales from a Native Gunner

by Travis Morris

Overview

Few areas in the country can compare to Currituck County when it comes to duck hunting. Since the late 1800s, hunters have traveled to the county for the abundunt wildfowl and outstanding hunting conditions, and for many gunners it has been the defintion of a sportsman's paradise. One such gunner is Travis Morris, whose family has lived in Currituck County for generations. For more than sixty years, Morris has plied the county's waters in search of mallards, widgeons, teal, coot and more, all the while amassing a wealth of knowledge on the history and tradition of duck hunting in the area.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781596291676
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	09/30/2006
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Travis Morris was born in Coinjock, North Carolina, in 1932 (in the same house his mother was born in on April 3, 1908). In 1970 he started Currituck Realty, a business he still owns forty years later. In 1971, he took people across Currituck Sound in an old gas boat and out to the beach in an old Corvair for which he paid fifty dollars. He'd written "Currituck Realty" on the side of the car with white shoe polish. He sold oceanfront lots for $12,000 that are now valued at over $1 million. In 1974, he operated Monkey Island Club and opened it to the public for the first time since its founding in 1876.

Table of Contents

Hunting with Grandad     9
A Love Never Lost     15
Why This Book Was Published     17
My First Hunting Trip, 1938     19
My Recollections of Whalehead Club during the 1940s     25
The Wharf at Currituck     31
Memories of Mill Landing in Maple, North Carolina, during the 1930s and 1940s     33
Mr. Pat O'Neal and Archie Midgett     39
Rhonda the Gas Boat, 1961 to 1985     43
Casey Jones     47
My Guiding Years     51
The Roving Hunters of the '60s     55
Sir Thomas Lodge     61
My Years at Monkey Island Club, 1974 to 1978     65
Piney Island Club     75
The Ducks Held a Meetin' at Little Oyster Cove     83
The Piney Island Dove-Hunt-Turned-Turkey-Massacre, 1989     89
Don Bulluck's Special "Bend of the River" Barbeque     93
Duck Hunting at Piney Island with McCotter     97
More Piney Island Episodes     103
The Rainy Days of January 1992     107
Hunt in South Impoundment: January 11, 1997     111
Goose Hunting with Dr. Gerald Jordan     115
Passing on a Tradition     119