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The wind blew last Sun- “ day, and the Marlin Mardi Gras boats got wiped out for the last day of the tournament, so the standings were just about the same as I reported last week. But since I missed a few, just for review, here’s what happened in the contest: First place in the blue marlin division was taken by Jim CraigJack*on the Our Pal with his 344 lb. blue. Sal Sorace won the white marlin part with the 68 lb. white I'talked about, so the Five Star is still producing. Cpt. ChemileWskf on the Satan's Lady, led with % 200 lb. bigeye tuna in that division. Second place on bigeyes went to Cpt. Spurge on the Teacher's Pet with a 154 pounder, and third place went to the Wild Duck, but I don’t know whether the Leek brothers were fishing. The grand champion overall was 'taken by the Jersey Devil captained by Ronnie Jones of Atlantic City. They won It with four marlin — two each day. This is the first tournament that South Jersey has held that had two days blown out; the

law 'of averages has to catch up on you sometime. I FORGOT to mention, in all the excitement of last week, that Cpt. Dan Guss, on the Huntress stopped me as f was going by, and said that he had gotten two makos just prior to the Contest for a father and son team that he was fishing. John Birchler and his son were with Cpt. Dan and caught a 100, and 50 pounders. • • • The only other news I heard this week came from the Bay. Isabelle Hawkey told me that Cpt. Mark Elliott on the Gone Fishln had 92 weakfish on Saturday, and 112 weakies on Sunday in the Lower Punk Grounds. September should see some good weakfisHing in the Bay, 'ftn^yien in the inlets, as the MW starts to pour out from the sounds. That’s

Boyd Tyltr JIM CRAIGJACK’S 344 lbs. blue marlin is weighed in on the second day of the Marlin Mardi Gras. To the right are the smaller whites.

late in September, though, so mere should still be some good Bay weakfishing left beforb the season winds down. • • • THIS IS THE time of the year for surf fishing, and next weekend the Cape May County — Hatteras Anglers will kick off the surfing season with their annual tournament over on the beach at Avalon. John Fisher of North Cape May is chairman, and Bill Halbruner of Villas cochairman. Quite a few teams have registered so far, and it looks like it will be a big affair. Jack’s Place in Avalon is tournament headquarters; and this should signal the start of weakies and blues in the surf. The tournament is open only to teams that belong to the National Assn, of Surf Angling Gubs, so a lot of good surfmen will be present. • • • Cpt. David Wiscott sent a card home to Bill Bright saying, "I’ll be home in another month to go gunning, and I’m going to stay home this next season for drum fish, and try to catch all the, drum in the Bay." That’s good news, because we need someone like Capt. Dave to find those humpbacks for us. • • • NOW ON TO that tribute I was going to write about Congressman Rill Hughes. Let’s start with the Cape May Canal. The experinicnt going on there now, which could save this valuable body of boating

water is being done largely because of pressure Bill brought t0 bear on the Corps of engineers. Much has been written about it, but little credit has been given where it belongs. Then up to Salem where he has worked long and hard; and we are finally 'peeing the establishment of a .'port there which will serve a lot of industries and agricultural interests in South Jersey — plus the fact that it will bring economic recovery to Salem, which has long been standing idle. THIS YEAR he had to fight mighty hard to get • funds for our Coast Guard Base to operate on, and to be able to maintain the buoys in the inland waterways. He’s also been fighting for a beach reconstruction plan in Cape. May. Bill has always fought ocean dumping, and just recently through his unrelenting efforts the House approved a two-year ban on the dumping of low level radioactive sludge in the ocean off our shores. He’s right now giving Secretary of Interior James Watt a hard time on the leasing of & million acres of undisturbed coastal beds off our shores, and other areas, to the nation's oil companies, so he's not afraid to take on • the big boys loo. r THEN. LOOK AT his attendance record In Congress. • He had a perfect voting attendance record this year, and an average of 98 percent for the last eight years. Bill Hughes has always been for what’s best in C&pe May County and America; and we can thank our lucky stars he represents us down in Washington. He understands our problems

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