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1® SpOrtS Herald & Lantern 21 September *«3 outdoors with Lou Rodia

Angler Turns Hat Trick With Single Fluke Catch

Every fisherman believes he u going to some day catch a fish so big be will not have to brag about it Sometimes the dream turns into a nightmare when that same angler evisions catching a super big fish—duly to find that there is no one around to show it

to. Mickey Locke of Bangor, Pa. did the hat trick (a hockey term, for the uninitiated) when be picked up three rewards with a single fish. Mickey boated a 12 lb. 14 oz.-fluke on a fishing trip on the Mist Chris out of Cape May. It was the largest he

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ever caught in his lifetime of fishing. He woo the pool. Tbe fish moved inUrfirst place in tbe 1983 fluke division in the Cape May County fishing contest. If it holds up he'll win a fishing reel as a prize. For him to lose, three other anglers have to catch fish bigger than 12 lb. 14 oz. in the fluke division. I wouldn't take bets on that happening either way. You can get an idea^as to how big the fish was by recognizing that the second biggest fiuke that day was an 8^-pounder. A fluke that size would win the pool most days on most fiuke trips all along the whole East coast. We’re glad for

Mickey.

However, hundreds of anglers are wondering if that fluke be caught was the BIG ONE that got away when they were out fishing at one time or another. Incidentally, did any of you have a little fish get away??? Isn’t it strange that it is always the big

ones that escape??? AS FOR FLUKE fishing,

right now it is the best it ■has been in years all along the Jersey Cape Coast. Bait has been moving out of the inlets. Fluke have all but deserted the inland waterways although some are still being caught inside in spots, usually near the inlets. Delaware Bay is loaded with fiuke and they all have to come down out of the bay and will when the weather turns bad enough and the temperature of the water in the upper bay

drops.

Bluefish from snappers to stammers are also in the best supply of the season. And, they are all over—in the surf, the jetties, the inlets, the back waters and tbe ocean. Night chumming is torrid with boats reporting 200 to 600 fish per trip depending on the number of anglers. Daytime trolling is producing big bluefish, with the added excitement of available bonito and alba core which are close inshore. Bigger tuna are being caught further offshore with some blue and white marlin, dolphin and

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true alba core. SuH fishing enthusiasts are finding snappers and bigger blues at Hereford Inlet off tbe beach at 2nd street in North Wildwood and behind Moore’s Inlet. Tbe Cape May-Cape May Point jetties are also producing blues in assorted sizes as well as some nice weakies on lures. Weakfish are spread out in Delaware Bay with the hot sjwts located from Bug Light to Miah Maul Light. The inshore slough and the Brandywine Shoal areas are both holding fish with some bigger fish being taken around Brandywine. SURF AND JETTY fishermen are picking up some weakfish on tbe Cape May jetties from Higbee’s Beach around to Cold Spring Inlet. Night weakfish catches are being reported around the bridges. In tbe inland waterways during the day, weaks are in the deep boles and on channel edges. Live spot and grass shrimp are both producing, as are buck tails and and twisters. Mullet is also a good bait for weakfish and later on when the weather cools off, cut or whoie mullet fished in the surf will produce spotted weakfish as well as bluefish. With the weather holding bigger fluke will be around well into October. As the fluke drop out of the bay and the bait starts to move out of the back waters, fluke will concentrate around the inlets and the Lower Delaware Bay hot spots such as McCrie’s Shoal, the Rips, the Anchorage and Somers Shoal. For years, October has been a good month for Duke around 3FB. There is an edge just west of the buoy where the water comes up from 35-40 feet to about 25 feet. It’s a good edge for bluefish and it is a good edge for fiuke^. especially late in the season. We’ve had some freezer filler trips out there all alone in October, by the way. KINGFISH APPEAR: Back bay anglers are finding pods of kingfish, especially in' the Grassy Sound area. Some are also being caught from the surf and bulkhead on the north end of North Wildwood. Not many are being caught there, yet, but the back waters are producing some better-than-50 catches of nice kings for the local hot shots. Bait is varied, with bloodworms the most popular, but not necessary Clams, shrimp, grass shrimp and squid are all producing kings. However, the chum pot is a must. Make sure you have one and small hooks (No,8 or No. 10 hooks) and light tackle. Kings have a tendency to pick at baits and often anglers are using gear which is much too

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Kings seem to be bouncing back after being misyj»d in the area for several years. Delaware Bay Kingfish catches have dropped off tbe way the croakers did. Surf kingfish catches in the spring have been nonexistent for years. This season, however, kingfish have been caught behind Stone Harbor and Avalon and in Great Bay in sufficient numbers to i future for this

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year as well as through the fall. Some of the long-time bay anglers may remember when we used to catch kings on the bottom hook and weakies on the top book when we fished from the boat liveries along the bayfroot. Most of the liveries are gone, now, but it was fun to get towed out in a flat bottom rowboat to the edge of tbe slough from places like Abinanti’s Pier (formerly operated by the Bleidorns), Bob Neeley’s place, Walt Soboleski’s or Sun Ray Beach. Most of them rented boats and if you did not have an outboard a tow boat would take you out to fish. When you were tired, you held up an oar and the tow boat would come to take you in. Fishing was simple in those days. STRIPERS: IF you have any hope of catching stripers this fall, they should have been dashed by now. 'There was little if any encouragement in tbe spring run. the Chesapeake Bay has been producing few stripers and the down cycle does not seem to be willing to turn around. Until billions of dollars are spent to dean up existing pollution in that bay and until dumping of all kinds of chemicals into the water is halted, we can almost kiss the stripers goodbye. It is a shame because at one time, they were a prime fall surf target for surf casters using plugs and other lures. CHIGGERS: We had a call from one of our hunter friends asking for information on bow to prevent chiggers if you are a bow hunter or plan on spending time in the woods in warm weather as a wood cutter or a mushroom hunter. Chiggers are a nuisance which makes mosquitos look like nothing when it comes to

creating problems for those who get them There are ways to prevent them from attacking you and causing discomfort. The best way to find out is to stop in at the Cape May County Extension Service Building on Dennisville Road about a mile out of Cape May Court House and ask for the chigger pamphlet. It’s worth the trip out there. If it is not convenient to visit the building, call them at 465-5515 to find out how to get a copy. Before we get calls on it, mushroom hunters are people who go into tbe woods to look for wild mushrooms. They probably have a book at the extension service on this, too, but we do not suggest to anyone that they try to pick wild mushrooms unless they really KNOW what they are picking. The edible wild mushrooms make eating store-bought ones about like eating cardboard boxes the store varieties come in. Amateurs have to be extremely careful to be sure they are picking the edible and not the poisonous ones

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