Posted on Thursday, May. 18, 2006

From the depths, artificial reefs provide concrete results

By Richard Ehrenkaufer

North Carolina anglers are blessed with an abundance of man-made fishing reefs and accidental artificial reefs (we're not called the Graveyard of the Atlantic for nothing) that complement a multitude of natural rock and ledge formations.

Reef locations are marked on charts and with buoys at sea, but identifying what lies beneath can be tough. Line drawings, fuzzy sonar images and GPS locations only hint at the rubble, ships and debris.

Good reef anglers know what a reef is made of and what it holds. One angler with an even greater knowledge has taken close looks -- from the bottom up.