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OCEAN AND BAyV SOUNDINGS ly Boyd Tylor

drum and big bluettsh in the bay have taken the spotlight away from mackerel in the ocean. It all started about a • week and a half ago when the mackerel started thinning out and moving up North. The first I heard of this move was a week ago Thursday when Steve Seggern of South Jersey Fishing & Hunting Center, announced on the CB that he had just weighed in a lb. tide-runner weakfish

from the rock.pile at Cape May Point. Then Bill Bucsek of Villas came in that same day with eight lb. and three lb. weakies taken at Bug Light. The next news came from Joe Rodia's when Gladys Osborne of Cape May Court House caught the first big blue of the season at Bug light — a 13 1 * lb. slammer. THAT SAME NIGHT George Spalding. George Seabrook Jr. and Waif Shivers all caught a drum

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at Bug light Walt what I believe was thg'first one of the seafcon -r/a S3 1 , lb. humpback' The next day Jack (Nbome put the icing m the cake with a 43 lb. drum at* Bug light (weighed by Joe Rodia). and on Sunday I watched Jim Wallace of Jim's Bait & Tackle iir Cape May. weigh in a ^12 lb. 8 oz. weakfish for Norman Ash

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types of fish are showing up in the upper bay and down around the Point in un believable quantities Joe Skill of Villas was taking a nap during a lull in the fishing at Bug light, and he was awakened by the noise of drum breaking water all around the boat WEEKEND FISHING report: Friday night peaked on

12', LB. WEAKFISH is displayed by Norman Ash of Kingoes. N.'J. at Jim's Bait & Tackle in Schellenger landing. It took a buckfail near the concrete ship at Cape May Point while Ash was fishing aboard “Once Around" captained by Ralph Kincofe.

of dingoes, N.J tha 4 t he took at the concrete* ship near Cape May Point. Just as the fishinpopot pood, the weather turned had. but a lot of 'local fishermen went anyway On Wednesday of last week Joe MacGregor of North Wildwood weighed in a 73 1 ? lb. drum at Joe Rodia's. Jim Magill of Bayview marina in Villas reported 24 and 35 lb. black drum at Bug light, five 12 lb. blues on the boat J.J., and 17 weakies that Chuck Magill came in with. THERE HAVE BEEN so many and so varied catches of weaks. drum and blues that it's almost impossible to name them all. The spring run is very early and the different

drumfish although all through the* week, drum fishing was hot Hill llalhruner of Villds, Fred I-a vion of Green Creek, and I got a drum apiece on the Jan re TVII Joe • MacGregor and Dan Pirzutillo came back with two drum in the 60 lb class George Spalding and George Seabrook Jr. pulled into Joe Rodia's with two big drum. George Seabrook Jr. had the top fish, a 75^ lb. monster. Muggins

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Hughes had two on his boat, and many more were taken around Bug light. •Weakfish activity seemed to be on the morning tides Bruce Halbmner came into Joe Rodia's with 100 weakfish which was the best catch I heard of. Saturday night proved to be just as good Tom Bennett had two drum and one went 70 lbs. The whole Seabrook clan was out and at last call they had five drum, but the > surpriser

was then Bobby (’ox caught a 45 lb striper and 70 weakfish down in the rips Tom Roberts on the ‘My Gal,'' called me and said that he was catching bluefish out around the punk grounds, and Bob Hertiog. fishing with Otarllr Farr, called to say* that they also were catching big blues at. Bug light George Seabrook Jr caught an 89 pound black drum out of the five they took

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