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Dog Sharks Augur Bass Fishing

Sooner or later the season for fishing must come to an end. As is true of everything, there are indicators. While we have been enjoying a spectacular sea bass, porgy and blackfish season, the first indicators that this great fall fishery is coming to a close have shown up. Dog sharks moved in on the wrecks a few days ago. While they do not scare the sea bass away, they certainly do indicate that it is time that the sea bass move on because ten - peratures • in the wate/ which will accommodate' the dog sharks are too chilly for sea bass. Lo>ok for wreck fishing to change. Sea bass will taper off anting and blackfish will take over. Unfortunately, there is little hope for a cod season at this writing, but that might change. Warming waters over the past several years and a shortage of cod in the entire range of these fish means that not enough cod are around to spill over to where they can easily be reached by Jersey Cape boats. However, cod may bounce back and if they do, we’ll pass the word on. Meanwhile, the ocean bill of fare is sea bass, blackfish, some porgies, and bluefish.. On the hunting scene, small game (rabbits, quail and squirrels) seemed in good supply for Saturday’s opener. Hunters are fewer in numbers but posted ground and housing development have limited available space. There is still room to hunt, however, and one of the best ways to locate space is to scout it out early and get permission from the landowner. Respect the signs which post land against hunting since it is the owner’s right to do so. If you do get permission to hunt a parcel of land, respect the owner’s property and comply with the rules he imposes on your use of his land. SOME HUNTERS barter the use of the land from the owners by offering to exchange chores or work in return for hunting rights. Some individuals and groups actually lease hunting rights to acreage. One welder friend of mine built a metal gate for a farmer who had allowed him hunting rights. We have exchanged hunting trips in Pennsylvania for fishing trips in Maryland and in New Jersey. We have hosted some Pennsylvania friends of ours here for a few days and have had the same courtesy extended to us

Hoop Tryouts

CAPE MAY - The City Youth Basketball Leagues will conduct tryouts and Jstrations at the City Elementary School on Nov. 19 and 26 from noon to 2 p.m. Youngsters between the ages of 8 and 13 years who are interested in competing in basketball are urged to register at that time or call the Department of Civic Affairs at 884-8411 for more

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during deer season in their area. Most of us who hunt have done so for years on property owned by others. It may be on state game land or it may be on private property, but most hunters do not own enough land to be able to hunt there exclusively. As a result, we . need the open spaced provided by others. It is a shame that a few slob hunters have caused large amounts of acreage to be withdrawn from hunting because of poor conduct. One other way you can help secure rights to use private property is to offer to clean up some of the mess left by others. While hunters often get blamed for the trashing, the trash is often deposited there by others. Higbee’s Beach is a good case in point. THAT AREA has been a traditional hunting area for many years. Some would like to have hunting abolished there. Tourists use it, as do off the road vehicle drivers. The place gets trashed up and despoiled despite the efforts of the state to keep it cleaned up and patrolled. We have seen piles of trash brought from private homes to the trash barrels at Higbee’s Beach. Bed springs, auto bodies, yard debris and garbage are all brought there and dumped off. Little, if any, is hunter trash. One of the few trash pickup efforts at Higbee’s beach we are aware of were the ones organized by the Jersey Cape Sportsmen’s Association. Things are markedly better since the state has assumed control of Higbee’s Beach and therev^s someone on duty there. However, bottles, cans and trash do still find their way along New England Road and through the wooded areas. We’re told that the Jersey Cape Sportsmen’s Association is planning to coordinate another Higbee’s Beach clean-up drive soon. You might consider one for your area in a place where the public congregates and leaves trash. It is a good image builder for a sportsmen’s club, and it does get trash, cans and bottles picked up. Incidentally, speaking of cans and bottles, one sportsmen’s club we are aware of has undertaken a bottle and can recycling project. So far they have accumulated nearly 10 tons of glass which they have separated by colors, broken and stored in 55 gallon drums. They are making arrangements to take the glass to a recycling center which has offered to purchase same, providing some revenue for the club. But, it has removed thousands of bottles from the roadside where members have picked them up, and it has kept a lot of cans and bottles out of the landfills. THAT SAME club also sold about 30 tons of paper over the past three years and while the dollars were not all that great, it kept the papers from winding up in the trash and in turn in the landfill. If recycling is going to work, there must be incentives, and one is definitely convenience. If it becomes easy to dispose of

cans, bottles, papers and scrap metal, people will do so. During World War II it was easy to get people to save tin cans. They even washed them, took both ends out and flattened the cans. Newspapers, rags, scrap iron and almost anything worth salvaging was collected for the war effort. There was a purpose that was easily identifiable. Everyone hated Hitler and each can hastened his end. Today’s recycling efforts are not as effective, because the goals have not yei been sold properly nor are they easily identifiable. It is pretty hard to hate a landfill that few of us have

seen or an unidentifiable amount on your tax bill because the cost of trash disposal has gone up. Clubs, organizations and municipalities can team up to make recycling work. Making people want to recycle is the first step. After they really want to, given reasons that make sense to do so, they will. No club or oganization’s coffers will ever be swelled to the point of affluence because someone saved some cans, bottles or paper. But a club project becomes an identifiable goal. The members will collect recyclable items to help the club while they would do so to help get a tax break.

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