Today's Sports

 The hot days and climbing water temperatures have caused us to move into a summertime fishing pattern a bit quicker than I expected. That means active fish in the early morning and often at night with midday usually being a period of relatively little activity. 

Fish will also be almost totally inactive when the tide is at low or full, biting again when the water starts moving rapidly.

As West Brunswick High School senior pitcher Jay Gause seeks, and gets, advice about whether to sign with the Cleveland Indians or attend N.C. State University, one person has already expressed his thoughts.

“I talked to his father a little while back and I talked to Jay,” said Eric Johnson, a West Brunswick and Western Carolina University football and baseball player drafted by the Indians in the third round of the June 1999 draft.

Jack Holmes hears fishermen talking about it “every day.”

What he is referring to is the record-setting performance by the McMullans in November 2009 at the SKA Mercury Tournament Trail’s Open Class National Championship in Biloxi, Miss.

Holmes will have a chance to talk about it this week with Brant, Barrett and Rube McMullan during the Yellowfin/Yamaha Jolly Mon King Classic.

Holmes will be in Ocean Isle Beach for classic, which his 20-year-old Southern Kingfish Association sanctions.

 Chad McCumbee finished 17th Friday in the ARCA Racing Series Racing for Wildlife 200 at Michigan International Speedway.

McCumbee started 15th in the 41-driver field. He completed 98 of the 100 laps.

This was McCumbee’s fourth race this season in the series.

Mikey Kile led the final 26 laps for his first career victory in the series. The victory came in what was Kile’s 16th start in the series.

The next race is July 10 at Iowa Speedway.  SPEED will televise the race, beginning at 9 p.m.