Cable Television Fishing Show Features Roanoke River Striped Bass

[NCangler]

RALEIGH, N.C. (Oct. 19) - A regionally televised cable TV fishing show this week will feature a state fisheries biologist and North Carolina's renowned Roanoke River striped bass fishery.



N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission biologist Chad Thomas will be the guest angler this week on Fishers of Men Outdoors, a 30-minute show that airs throughout the Southeast on Fox Sports South. The show will be televised at 2 p.m. on Oct. 20, and again at 6:30 a.m. on Oct. 23.



The show features footage shot in spring from the Roanoke River near Weldon, N.C., where striped bass annually migrate from the Atlantic Ocean and Albemarle Sound to spawn. Co-host Chris Wells fishes with Thomas and talks about the restored striped bass fishery that had been decimated in the early '90s by overfishing, poor water quality and varying flows in the river.



Another segment of the show features Thomas conducting electrofishing sampling from a Wildlife Commission boat to capture, record data, tag and release striped bass during the spawning season.



"Electrofishing is something lots of fishermen have heard about," said producer and videographer Rod Thomas, "but seeing literally hundreds of striped bass come to the surface - some of them can be 30 or 40 pounds - in a small river is truly amazing. We are truly blessed in North Carolina to have this kind of fishery."



More information can be found online at:

* Fishers of Men Outdoors http://www.fomntt.com/tvshow.php

* Totally Telefishion http://www.telefishion.com

* Fox Sports South http://msn.foxsports.com/regional/south and

* N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission www.ncwildlife.org