Over 300 Entries In First Tourney

AVALON - The First Greater Avalon Fishing-, Tournament closed out the year with director J. Russell Wheatly acclaiming success, Throughout the season over 300 entries were submitted and 207 Citations awarded. Prizes were awarded in. all catagories except one. Althpugh not originally considered for the tournament, offshore species — such as marlid, dolphin and wahoo — were, considered and recognition was given such outstanding catches as a 22 lb. Cobia, caught by Jack Byrne of Newton Square; a 56 lb. Wahoo caught by Fritz Brenner of Avalon; and a 610 lb. tiger shark caught by Wayne Sommer of Dennisville. The shark was caught aboard the Lucky Strike captained by Walt Mender. PLANS^ ARE already progressing for a bigger tournament next season, according to the tournament director who said the ‘82 tournament will include offshore catagories as well as the 10 catagories of 1981. "We feel that this program will broaden fishing interests and offer more of an equal opportunity for both inshore and offshore fisherman," Wheatly said. The 1981 Tournament winners by catagory:

FLOUNDER 1. John Binder. Rockltdgp, Pa . 7 . . lb-5 o* 2 William Taylor. Camoy* Point. 61b It or 3 Gracf Quick, Pwinsvillf, 6 lb -6 ox. WEAKFISR I Carl Wlttie. Slone Harbor. II lb -12 or • 2 Wall Mender. Slone Harbor. II lb-6 ox 3 Willard Frank, Slone Harbor. II lb,-4 ox BLUE FISH 1 Frank Murphine Jr. Millville. 16 lb -4 ox , 2 Frank Piech, Vincenlown, 18 lb 3. Carl Keijpedy. SprinRfield. Pa . IMb TAUTOG I. HaroldSpringSr . Maple Shade. ■0 lb.-4 ox 2 Richard Birtsland. Willingboro, 6 lb-3 ox 3 Richard Kuhan. Avalon. 7 lb -8 07 KINOFISN 1 Clarence Turner. Court House, I lb-8 1/2 ox 2 Bob Flower*. Richboro. Pa., l lb >3 ox 3 Fred Eisele. Philadelphia. I lb -2 07 CROAKER No entry SEA BASS 1 Richard BifMland, WillinRhoro, 4 lb-15 ox 2 Hiei John McGowan. Flourlown,. Pa.. 4 lb -8 or Harry R Walaon. Maple Shade. 4 lb-8 07 3 Pete Mower. Rdnnemede. 3 lb -8 ox • PORGV I Marty Oil. Collingswood. 2 lb -8 ox LINO I Todd Beck. Ml Wolf. Pa . 5 lb BONITO I Robert E Chmielroski. Avalon. 8 lb.-12 ox STRIPED BASS I John Leib, Goshen. 7 lb.-8 ox LARGEST FISH Adult Clout Blue Marlin. 389 lbs. John Hoppe, Wyomining. Pa LARGEST FISH Chlldrrn t Clam Mako Shark. 202 lb* . Mike Unrush, age II of Burke. Va

Fishing Directory In Works

COURT HOUSE-A new directory of Cape May County charter and party fishing boats is in process of being compiled by the County Department of Public Affairs for the 1982 fishing season. Freeholder Anthony T. Catanoso, director of the County Public Affairs Department, said over 50,000 free directories were distributed at travel shows, through area weighmasters and 4 in answer to mail inquiries during 1981. The listings are also made available at state and other information centers. THE LIST IS compiled annually by the Public Affairs Department and is published as a service to

the recreational fishing industy as well as to prospective tourist-visitors in securing accommodations for their group and club charters and for their fishing outings. Owners and skippers interested in having their boats listed in the 1982 directory are asked to contact the Public' Affairs Department at 886-0901 to obtain a copy of the questionnaire which must be filled out and returned prior to the Feb. 5, deadline to assure a listing in the upcoming directory. There is no charge for listing boats, and only boats sailing exclusively from docks and marinas in the Cape May County are eligible for listing in the brochure.

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Will Play In Spectrum AVALON - It was recently announced by Chamber of Commerce President William Leahy that as an off-shoot of last summer's highly, successful "Sports Weekend" a team of'Ajyalon's best 11 to 13-year-old soccer players has been invited by the Phila. Fever to play in a preliminary game in the Spectrum against Haddonfield 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 12. The Avalon team, coached by Cape May County Soccer League Commissioner Bob Helverson, has been working out in Avalon’s street hockey rink to perfect their indoor soccer technique. The Chamber has arranged a bus trip to the game so that parents and citizens-to Avalon can see their kids in action. The bus will leave the Avalon parking lot at 29th St. and the beach at 2 p.m. Following the Avalon game, the Fever will be in action against the league leading New York Arrows. Tickets can be obtained by calling 967-5070. B’ball Benefit WILDWdoD - An/exciting evening of basketball is promised this Sunday evening, at convention hall here, and the Sea Isle City Basketball program will benefit. The evening will feature a pro basketball game between the Wildwood HiRollers and the Alberta Dusters. Prior to the pro game, the Sea Isle City Boys Junior Varsity team will take on the Avalon JV’s, and during halftime of the pro game, the Sea Isle City Varsity Boys Basketball team will play the Avalon Varsity. Proceeds from the game will benefit the Sea Isle City Basketball .teams. Tickets are available by calling 263-1689. Kix Kicked SEA ISLE CITY-In action last Wednesday action of the Sea Isle City Adult Basketball League, both teams, Cape Insurance and Kix Lounge, showed signs of early leagues sloppy play. The game was controlled very well from the start,by the referees, Bill "Ozzie” Osborn and Chickie Ludman. John Larkin (19), Pat Ryder (16) and Brian Kulmer (11) lead the way for the victors. Harry Vanderslice scored 23 and Tom Kirkpatrick 15 in a losing effort. Final score was Cape Insurance 65, Kix

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Open House CAPE MAY - The Silver Spokes Motorcycle Club will hold an open house meeting 8 p.m. tomorrow at VFW Post 386, Congress St. Anyone interested in the sport of motorcycling is invited. For information, call 884-8845 Skate Party CAPE MAY - A Roller skate party will be sponsored by Delta Nu chapter of Beta Sigma Phi 7:30-9:30 p.m. Feb. 10 at Convention Mali. Skate rental will be available.

This week I've got some good fishing news from the Southland, and that’s a welcome change with the "cabin fever" we’ve been experiencing due to the snow and ice Jack Osborne took his mother aqd dad down to West Palm Beach last week, and while they werfe down there Jack and . his mom Gladys got a chance to get out sailfishing with Cpt. Joey Drosea on Wally Laudeman's boat. Gladys caught a sail between 50 to 60 lbs. to make the trip fomplete. This week Cpt. Randy Laudeman is down there visiting with his dad. and Capt. Joey, and I imagine they’ll get some fishing in while Randy’s there. John Osborne (Jatfk’s Dad) sent me a note on Gladys catch, and enclosed a footnote saying that they’d caught 105 sails on the first day of the Masters tournament, and 72 more on the second

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THEY’VE GOT a lot of action going right now in the Southland with the Masters tournament going strong, and being followed up by the Pappy Whiticar Memorial Billfish Tournament at Port Salerno. They took 27 sails on the first day of that tournament, and that one is restricted to 12 lb. test line. It looks like sailfish, bluefish, and dolphin are in abundance down there, and that makes for good fishing. One spot of fishing around here came to light last week when Bob Neely went up to the Mullica River after white perch. Bob said he got out up there, and caught about five white perch, but had to come in just as they started biting, and that most of thefellows that hung around the deep holes had about 10 perch apiece DOWN ON THE Outer Banks of North Carolina They’re running into another kind of^ trouble. Oregon Inlet has shoaled up due to the severe winter storms, and the Coast Guard has removed the buoyi from that inlet, so that commercial trawlers can’t get back into Wanchese Industrial Seafood park, even thought there's a good body of fish offshore. This has been changed since I first read the report. Now they are letting trawlers that do not draw more than 7 ft. into the inlet. aDd out under their own'risk. Up here we’ve got a scarcity of fish, and an open inlet, which is an ironic twist of fate. I was talking with my old friend Bob Hertzog hesterday, and he could remember when all the commercial boats used to work* down off Chincoteague, and sometimes Ocracoke, at this tim£ of the year. The high cost of fuel probably prevents this type of fishing nowadays. It’s really been a toOgh year for our commercial fishermen. They need some good weather, and a body of fish to show up I WANT TO follow up on another story on the Seascape beach building process in the hopes that some of our decision makers will take notice Here’s an excerpt from the Cape Hatteras Anglers' club bulletin, entitled Up-

date on Lighthouse by Roy

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Storms in the early fall of. 1980 endangered the Cape' Hatteras Lighthouse so severely that we became alarmed and were worried about its future safety, v Consequently, and following constant pressure from the Outer Banks Current and many local civic groups, the plight of the historic structure attracted national attention. The result was that the Park Service installed a.90 ft. temporary steel groin extension on the south side of the lighthouse and backfilled the area with asphalt rubble. Miraculously the work held during the remainder of the 1980-81

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MEAN W'll I L K . Delaware inventor Bill Garrett volunteered to install, at no cost to the government, an erosion control device of Jiis called “Seascape”, which resembles artificial seaweed. Garrett .placed 400 units of it parallel to the beach in May in an effort to trap sand and build up a reef in front of the lighthouse. In late August. Bill returned and installed about 70 more Seascapes in the area of tb* old lighthouse base which is now submerged in the ocean. During that trip, he took measurements and went back to Delaware to study the results. On November 28th, right after Thanksgiving, and following the hard northeast storm of JJJov. 15 thru Nov. 21. Bill returned, took more measureirtents, and now has published his findings: Major rebuilding of the South beach, heannounc--ed, has taken place since the installation of Seascape in early May Several hundreds of cubic yards of sand has accumulated below tHe lighthouse groin, and the temporary steel groin is completely covered. . I know this system whs working in Nov. when I was down there fishing. Maybe some of our Beach erosion problems could be solved with Seascape. *

Fishing Prizes Go to 24 SEA ISLE CITY Twenty-four winners from all ovel\the Tri-State Area, and from as far away as Indiana took home prizes in the 1981 Greater Sea Isle Citv Fishing Tournament, ■aecording to Cliff VanSandt. tournament director •'Tj. Prizes for the contest included fishing rods, reels, and fishing accessories The annual tournament awards the prizes for the largest fish in many categories caught in the waters around Sea Isle Ci-

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"OUR 1982 Centennial Fishing Contest starts March 1 and runs through Dec. 31," VanSandt said, "and there will again be prizes this year If you think your catch just might be a prize winner, take it to the nearest official weighing station in Sea Isle City, - have your fish weigh ed and enter it in out 1982 Contest. You could be next year’s winner." VanSandt said. The complete list of winners for 1981 follows: SKA BASS 1)1!. WilliariKJlill. At Co, 5 lb 8 07 2nd. Sue Jordan. ('MlMville. P« . 5 ID o 07 TAUTOG iHUckfish' 1*1. Rolx-ri Mullrn. Ocean View. 10 lb 5o* .2nd. Waller Sample. Philadelphia. Pa . 9 lb lo ii7 3rd. Rudy tf»itr. Sea l*le City. 9 lb Bor FI.OIlNflKR: 1*1, Bill Brady. Philadelphia Pa . 9 lb-7 or . 2nd RillShillinKfonironneniville. 8lb 0 or . 3rd. John Haller Jr .

Copeland. SAa l»le (My. 11 lb O07 . 2nd. John A Jonev 'AI1en£*n. Pa , 10 lb-15 nr 3rd. Denm* InJmcnll. Clayton. 10 lb 12 07 • 1 BLUE FISH 1*1. Steward Bakiev. Sea Me City. 22 lb 0 or . 2nd. Bussell Cordon.Millville. 17 lb 8117 3rd. K Gamhenria. Rnvmonl. Pa . 16 lb 0 07 STRIPER • Striped Bawn IM. William Mammele. Sea Isle (My, 8 lb 0 07 BONITO IM. Jm FinniRan, Philadelphia Pa Mb 7 nr . 2nd. Samuel A VanSandl. Sea Isle City. 5 lb 207 3rd. Kevin Fox. Sea l*lr Ci ly. 4 1b 15 or LARGEST FISH Gary Oswald. Bettsalem. Pa . 88 lb 8 or RARE FISH Jennifer Mayo Wilmington. Del BOY'» LARGEST 'Bluelixhi Carl Kennedy. Sprimifield. Pa 15 lb- Oor GIRL'S LARGEST 1 Bluelish ■ Lisa Ixrro. Sea IsleCily, 12 lb 2 of ALRACOKK Chip Hreithaupl Philadelphia Pa ,9 lb Oor I.AI>IKS l-ARGKST -Bluefish' Joanne McAdams. Philadelphia. Pa 13 lb -

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