Shad run strengthens along Cape Fear River
By A Mystery Man Writer
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Explorer The Cape Fear River Region
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Cape Fear Shad Gear Time
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Cape Fear Shad Gear Time
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Piedmont Stream Fishing Guide of North Carolina
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Atlantic Sturgeon
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NATURALIST'S NOTEBOOK: Silver Spawners: Restoring Shad to the Cape
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American Shad
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Coastal Angler Magazine - July / Tidewater, VA-Outer Banks, NC by
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Natural Solutions and a Clean Water Future - CoastwatchCoastwatch
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Cape Fear River shad, striper and catfish fishing
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Frontiers What Have We Lost? Modeling Dam Impacts on American
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Catching Big Shad on the Cape Fear River