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Corbett with a 90-pound king
mackerel in the ‘90s.
Corbett started fishing
commercially while still
in junior high, when his
father gave him a boat. { }
Corbett has spent his long professional
career operating boats both big and small
and using just about every conceivable
method to catch seafood. He’s learned a
thing or two in all those years. So much
so, that it’s easier to make a living now.
“I would like to think it’s because I’m
a little bit smarter than I was then, but
there are people who would say that’s not
true,” he says with a chuckle. “I know
more about when to go and for what now.
I know what to look for by the weather,
by the temperature. It makes it easier. The
amount of money I take home after I pay
my expenses is a lot more now.”
He’s always willing to pass along what
he knows, along with sharing a fish story
or two, with just about anyone.
“He’s the most down-to-earth, nice
fellow you’ll meet,” Hardin says. “The
amount of knowledge he’s got, you’d think
he’d have a different personality. He doesn’t
hold his nose in the air.”
Jim Hundley and Corbett with a 45-pound king mackerel in the ‘90s.
Corbett (bottom left), Patrick Purvis, George Purvis and Wolf with a trophy fish
caught at the Big Rock Blue Marlin tournament in Morehead City in 1979.
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