Al Baird grew up in western Pennsylvania and graduated from West Virginia University he developed a love for the North Carolina coast when he was a child his family would vacation every summer on the Outer Banks.
In 2006 and 2007 he fished all the piers in the state in week long trips the first on with his son Chris and the second with Mary, his wife.
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