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Well, It’s Ho-Ho-Ho time, and even though the fishing has come to a virtual standstill, I do have one report of a catch that was made late last week. I was talking to Cpt. Hi Thompson down at Storn's Shop Rife Friday, and be told me that on Wednesday he and Cpt. Ed Dalinski, and about 10. other anglers caught 25 Boston mackerel and 2 whiting out near 4FB (the Southern Buoy). Captain H: said that they had spent a lot of time that day searching for cod, but that they hadnH been able to find any. and they moved in an 4FB and found those Bostons waiting. There was one private boat that was docked near the Big Jim II who was trying near and tor the northwest of 4FB, but he didn’t have any luck. CAPT. HI said they were shutting down now for the season, but if cod or mackerel should show up in quantity at any* time, they’d fire the Big Jim II up and go after them pro, vidng they had a paying party. Captain Ed kept sailing on weekends hoping there would be enough interested anglers going to pay expenses, but there just haven't been enough

fisherman wanting to go, and you can’t run those party boats off there forever trying to find fish if you don’t have enough fare to pay for the fuel. I think Captain Ed deserves a lot of credit for sticking it out

this long.

There usually is a pretty good run of mackerel in the latft two weeks of December. I can remember Frank Caiaady on the Lady Grace and Hob Bennett on the Tuna rigging iip with nets and catching big hauls of Bostons in years past, but that's awfully hard fishing, and you’re usually getting everything full of ice, and freezing yourself trying to make a payload, as it’s not really worth it. RIGHT NOW, cod are up North of us around Briellfe. Bob Neely was telling me that some fellows are making up groups to go up (hqre, but that's a long ride and jt's a cold fishing trip, so they’re not attracting too many fishermen. A lot of our boats are equipped with heated cabins, and if the cod should show up. they could make the trips with a'minimum of discomfort. I probably won’t he doing much talking about

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catches from now on unless these cod should make an unexpected show here off our shores. In the meantime, some of our more enterprising captains are getting ready for next season. Cpt. Jim Cic•chlttl. who runs the Starlight has purchased the small Fietta and renamed it the Twilight. He also purchased the Reliance, so it looks like the trend, as he sees it, will be back to longer trips and smaller parties for 1982. Cpt. Bob Schuman is completely rebuilding the topside of the Sea Star, which ' indictes that this type of headboat fared a little .better than .the bigger boats -this year. My only hope is tha/f. fishing will improve Jn 1982, and everybody will make it back next year. The party boat captains all work hard’ trying to find fish, and they have to be able to pay their bills in order to run charters. They are going through a tough time, and I hope they will have a better year next

season.

I ATTENDED ,V County Chamber of Commerce dinner down at the Lobster House on Friday, and had a good talk about old times with my old friend Ed Nesbitt of Wildwood Crest. We got to talking about bygone days, and he told me that John Cartabone. who used to be a legendary striper fisherman here, is still going strong in Port Salerno, Fla. And so is Charlie and Ix>tie Peacock. They have a lot of good fishing in Florida at this time of the year, and on into March and April. A lot of our anglers are heading

South.

When the meeting started, we saw a film onthe old days ^*ben -^ne steam engine was'~1cing down here on the Jersey \ / Cape. Peter Garibaldi, who * is assistant to the president of Atlantic City Railway Inc. presented the pictures, and told of his company's attempt to ristore train service to our Cape* of Naturfe.

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DID YOU realize that we do not have one train running down here right now? They’re all out of service, and laying around depots in Camden. This company has invested $130,000 so far in a fund trying to get right to run the line again. Now. the story he told, and the stories that have appeared latey, don't seem to be the same. If they are successful in qualifying for this business it will take 90 days for the state to review their qualifications, and another 6 weeks to analyze their schedules. They propose to rurt two trains a day down to Cape May, and into Ocean City, and they claim to have enough financing to support their effort. I’d like to know why it’s taking Mhe state so long to make up their mind. Our rails in Cape May County are so bad that they can't run over 15 MPH over them now, and tyiey’ve disband ed the spur into Wildwood completely. ? IT WAS STATED thai they figure ort 92% of their passenger load will be into Atlantic City taking people to the casinos, but they also feel that they can make a paying thing out of running trains to and from Cape May County. Now as a boy, I witnessed excursion fishing trains go ing through Cape May Court House, and excursion trains bringing vacationers to our shores. I firmly

believe that we need rail service here, because people are going to need a more inexpensive way to travel. This may well be the answer next year to getting people to come here. v WHY AREN’T we more interested in helping these people get started on this promotion? Do we think that the state will provide this service? I. for one. don’t. You will notice that 1 am speaking in generalities, but I think it behooves us all to question why a business that can help us all is being stalled by tfeaufeaucratic red tape! l am pretty far afield in this topic, but I hope by

writing this way I can challenge you my readers to do some serious thinking on this subject. 'One last thought: I was at a.meeting I would like to forget about on Thursday.. and there was b question raised or^the Stone Harbor Bird Sanctuary, and its status I believe if the interested parties vrifl check into this subject, they will find that the sanctuary was originally a' government land grant that cannot be disturbed except by an act of Congress. This .was the contusion reached according to an article in the Saturday Evening -Poat some years ago.

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TRENTON .- A total of 6,146 deer were taken on the dpening of the regular six-dhy firearm season, thus establishing a new record. The Division of Fish, Game and Wildlife said that while doer harvests in some counties were doWn from last year, the overall total was up by* • 4.8 percent. ' Last year, the first day kill was 5,863. This year there were 283 more deer

taken on opening day. Again, Hunterdon County led the state with 1.335 deer taken on-opening day, although this was more* than 100 deer less than last year. Second was Warren County, where hunters' harvested 1,085 deer, an increase over 1980 by 61 deer. Cape May hunters bagged 35 deer, down 21 from last year; Atlantic County 201, up 19; Cumberland 184, a drop of 77.

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