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The Herald and The Lantern.Wednesday, January 23,1980

l.ast Friday the Cape May County fishing contest committee hHd its annual meeting for the purpose of jud'KinK entries in the 1979 contest over at the Hof Brau in Wildwood Freeholder director Anthony Catanoso and newly seated freeholder Jack Bittner, were present, along'with lx>u Kodia and Dick l/ongstreet. who run the contest The judges were present in a greater body this year than‘any time since 1978 Hen Callaway of the Philadelphia Daily News. 'Henry Schaeffer of the Shrewsbury Daily Register. Ralph Knisell of the Woodbury Times and Anglers News. Charlie Vaughan of the Evening Bulletin, and Mtke Zirarelli were all present, I represented the Cape May County Herald and l^iwer Township Lantern As the meeting started to get underway everybody had to take a crack at the 43 pound striper I caught, and kid me a little,about not being able to enter it. It wouldn't have mattered anyway, because Richard Andruss of Millville won it with a 52" pounder, while Norm Wagenheim of Brigantine came up second wiih a 51 pound lunker. and Ken Wagenheim of the same city registered a 46 pound linesider ALL THESE winners had taken their fish in the rips on live eels. Mike'Zicarclli remarked on the fact that up North ot us. striper fishing is falling off while

down here in the rips we are start mg to register a lot more stripers of bigger size thar^ we’ve been used to. Most of the catches here. I believe, are due to the fact that we re using live eels, but the situation up North seems to be due to big slammer blues destroying the smaller stripers there, plus a cycle starting that doesn't sponsor a larger population Mike and I got to talking about the changes that have transpired in the fishing scene, and we suddenly realized that a lot of species that were here are no longer with us. while in the meantime new species and larger fish are

congregating waters. Cod fish, that were plentiful three years ago had two entries — a *31 pound 8 lunee keeper by George Slarr of Cape May won it. and a 12 pound 12 ounce ci itch by Victor Tasker bf Philadelphia came in second. Kinfish are still scarce with a one pound 15 dunce one winning it for James Montgomery of Wexford. Pa . while on the other! hand the world record i /eakfish of 17 pound 8 o ince was entered by Jack Szelica of Philadelpiia, with a 16 pound tid ?runner, and a' 15 pound 2 ounce beauty

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(in Monday night the Middle Township High Panthers defeated the Ocean City Haiders in a closely con-tested basketball game Middle led at the end of l lie lirsl quarter. 13-9 < k-ean City came back for a lie 27-27 at halftime Middle led at the end of the thud quarter. 42:18 and held on tor a final score of 64 55 Derek Williams led the Panthers in scoring and also was the playmaker on olfense Rick Olsort chipjied in with 14 points and Frank Brown had 9. including 5-0 at the Foul line For (k-ean City. Kundy Julian was top scorer with •18. and John Marlon had 12

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HERE'S THE JUDGES of the 44th annual County Fishing Tournament, during-* break in the task of weighing the many entries at the Hof Brau.

follbwing-up. THESE BIG fish are certainly new in species, in this their third year here, and cannot be compared with the spikes we used to catch. # Black dram followed a general pattern with a 92 pound topper being taken by Victor Cruz of Woodbine. But when you studied for a moment on the 315 pound Big eye Tuna that won for Dick Zane of Swedesboro.and the 197 pound bluefin tuna that won for Rayrhond Devito of Trenton, and the 21 pound 8 ounce bluefish that won for Joseph Vitelkites of Merchantville — you realized that these fish populations have all made changes in sizes and numbers Mike is a great believer in cycles, and so am I; we both feel that the new idea of regulating and registering catches of bluefish is a mistake. l>ou Rodia joined us in this thought. It is our considered opinion that the salt water angler needs little or no regulating, and we are going to be fighting the agencies that are promoting this in 1980. YELLOW FIN Tuna were entered heavily in the contest, and a 58 pounder won it for John A. Murphy of Williamstown White marlin surprised us with a 113 pounder winning for Joseph Franzeze of Bridgeport. Conn? Then there was the 519 pound blue marlin that Won for Joan Cosgrove of New Shawcrest Tied For Second In Town Tennis COURT HOUSE - Anthony Zurawski had two major problems facing him going into Tuesday night's Town Team Tennis match. First, his opponent was Mike Mullen's Shawcrest team, currently tied for second place in the league's overall standings; four of his teammates failed to make the match leaving him shorthanded. Faced with this bleak situation. Zurawski's Whitebrier squad was forced to default three of the five matches and thus ensure an easy 34-14 triumph for Shawcrest The evening's only two matches saw Don Reich of Shawcrest narrowlybesting Zurawski by an 8-6 count while the Whitebrier's lone woman player. Donna Mazurek. blasted Shawcrest's Miriam Ilirsch 8-2 All three doubles matches ended up in 8-0 decisions for Shawcrest due to the absence of players on the Whitebrier's team The win left Shawcrest in a tie for second place with a 2-2 record while the Whitebriers fell to 1-3.

York. This • was enlightening as was the 383 and the 362 pound entries. Dolphin, which had been a little scarce, still had a 34 pound 8 ounce winner for Henry Tkaus of Clementon. and even Croakers (4 pound 8 ounces - Alfred Wirtz, Verga. N.J.) and Porgies (4 pound 14 ounce - James Montgomer, Wexford, Pa.) showed signs of coming back. Bonito (Oceanic & common) were here in some measure, as were Albacore, which Jim Kontas of Vineland won with a 53 pound entry Then we went into the fresh water category. Here once again we found an improvement. George Taylor of Woodbine won the large mouth bass category with a 8 pound 6 ounce beauty — he used Vclveeta cheese as bait — and Pickerel, which James More of North Cape May won with a 2 lb. 1 oz. fish BACK TO the Salt water part again a 74 pound Wahoo by Ken Platt of H£*TisMurg, and a 72 pounder, along with a 69 lb 8 oz. runnerup showed another species developing along with King Mackerel catches (20 pound 10 ounces-Norman Weigel of Salem.) These two categories had been in the rare fish classification a couple of years ago The rare fish, incidentally. was a reed butterfly fish taken by John J. Dischert of North Wildwood The overall consenus was that it had been a pretty

terrific season here on the Jersey Cape. Let's look ahead for some more of the same in 1980 — and please register those fish, so that we can tell what is happening!

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