Further along the coast, retiree Anibal Rodrigues was fishing on some rocks and lamenting his poor luck.
"We're asking fishermen to, you know, be cognizant of where they're fishing, not to be fishing on crowded swimming beaches," Patricia Smith, public information officer for the North Carolina division of marine fisheries, told a local news station.
On a sunny afternoon they were fishing on a southern fork of the Chicago River made famous by Upton Sinclair in his social-realist novel of 1906, "The Jungle".
Friends Jason Frost and Brandon Key were fishing on the Warrior River in Alabama this past weekend when they heard some splashing. .
It is mainly a place to be fished on, with a weather-beaten cafe at the far end.
C. maenas is fished on a small scale in the north-east Atlantic Ocean, with approximately 1200 tonnes being caught annually, mostly in France and the United Kingdom.
This self-weedless arrangement can be fished on a Carolina rig.
The owner of the chest waders was fishing on the bank.
Lolling and smiling, the two might as well have been fishing on a lake.
"But the French have been fishing on our 12-mile limit for donkeys' years".
