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It's \ Smorgasbord ' Fishing for Cape

It 3 that time of year. Boatjschedules are changing Some boat liveries are starting to wind down their activities. Tackle shop hours are changing. While fishing generally remains anywhere from excellent to better, it is a dearth of angler activity which prompts the wind down. Oddly enough, party boats provide the same service for the same fee for the excellent fall fishing, and what most fall fishermen get for their money is a lot more rail space Especially during the week, when die heavy

thrust of the tourist season has passed Cape May I County by, anglers are able | to enjoy more than ample ; parking, a lot less traffic 1 and even the opportunity to | meet and greet some of the i anglers they last saw in the i spring before the shore exploded with people, as is normal for July and August. EACH FALL the term "smorgasbord" fishing is bandied about. Who first turned the dining room phrase into fishing talk is moot. It is more important to explain what it means in fishing jargon.

Smorgasbord fishing is the kind of fishing which greets us at this time of when one never knows what kind of fish is going to grab the bait or the lure. A fluke trip has the bags and coolers sweetened by weakfish, blues, sea bass, porgies and even an occasional kingftsh. Fish for weakfish at times and you might get " the same mixed bag. Bluefish trollers who get their baits down deep might troll up a few weakfish. Night blue chummers often catch weakfish in the same chum slicks which attract blues. Go trolling for blues and*you might find some albacore and bonito. Offshore trollers might catch marlin, tuna, dolphin and albacore on the same trip — but that happens on occasion in the canyons anyway. WE HAVE SEEN bluefish on the surface feeding on bait in the fall of the year, and if you could get your Hopkins lure or bucktail down under the blues you could catch striped bass and/or weakfish. On a Rhode Island fishing trip some years back, we had blues, weaks and striped bass all hitting the same lures on the same stretch of rocky beach at the same time. The fish had all mixed together in their anxiety to feed on the bait in the surf. Smorgasbord fishing on the Jersey Cape is Good Fishing Time. A check on the many fishing reports which cross our desk indicates this. We have a broad variety in the catches from a number of boats. Bill Conrad's group, which chartered Capt. Dick Herb's boat Escapade on a canyon trip from Avalon caught a 150 lb. bigeye. The group from RonCon Inc. also lost another bigeye at the boat. They had a yellowfin tuna and several dolphin. The dolphin went 10 to 12 lb. DURING THE dolphin excitement. Skipper Herb put a dolphin feather well out behind the boat. A white marlin hit the trolled feather, made several spectacular jumps, then threw the hook and took off. Dealers Cruise To Mon. Meet W I L D W O 0 D - Members of the NewJersey Marine Dealers' Association will meet informally with Sgt. Gerald Miller, local station commander of the State Police Marine Bureau, on Sept. 24, during a dinner cruise on the paddle-wheel steamer Delta Lady. The cruise begins at the Wildwood Yacht Basin at 7:30 p.m. and includes cocktails, buffet dinner and entertainment. Prospective members and guests are welcome. For information and reservations, call Ray Creese at the yacht basin, 729-2600. The association is composed of marine dealers and related businesses in Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland counties. V

It was a mixed bag day for the Conrad party. Capt. Jay Beecroft of the Sea Raider reports sea bass, fluke and weakfish in his mixed bag. Bill Dickson of Atco had a 4V<i-lb. black bass. .Capt. Bill Dodson of the Gaprice III out of Cape May reported a catch of yellowfin tuna and three dolphin one day, a catch of 187 fluke on another and a catch of big blues on the third day . The Taylor party which boated the fluke threw back the small ones. Ira Smith and party from Bristol, led by Tom Baiso of Westminister, Pa., had 34 big blues. Tom's 15-lb. 10-oz. slammer was the biggest. Capt. Bob Schumann of the SeaStor is catching fluke and weaks. He's sailing daily. He reports good fluke and weakfish action* along the beachfront off Wildwood and Cape May as well as in Delaware Bay. Tom Patterson of North Cape May was a high hook with 19 fluke and nine weakfish. Mr. Warren of Philadelphia boated 82 fluke on one trip. ROYAL FLUSH fares are catching mixed b^s of fluke, sea bass, snapper blues, spike weakfish and lots of them. Mort Stocker of Wildwood, boated a 34-lb. pool winner. Larry Zogt of Philadelphia boated 12 fluke on one four-hour trip. Woody Bevans of Laurel, Md., caught 25. Night blue action also remains good. Isaac Williams of Wildwood caught a 15-lb. blue. Mark Shaw of Warminister, Pa., caught 25 slammers. At Cape May, the Miss Chris Fleet is operating two boats — doing different * kinds of fishing. The Miss Chris II is sailing all day at 8 a.m. for the wrecks. The Little Chris is sailing at 8 a.m. for all day trips for fluke. TTie Miss Chris II is catching bluefish on nightly trips leaving at 7 p.m. I Day fishing has centered on fluke and weaks in the bay and night action has i been excellent on blues. ► Capt. Jim Solley of the I HappyiDays reports a start k up for^ight-hour trips on I Monday, Sept. 17, and I plans daily sailings i through Oct. 14. Four anglers in the DeMar group from Johnny Moo's Tavern y in Philadelphia combined ' for 178 fluke on a half day trip. Mike Muldovan of Deptford, caught a 2l/i-lb. pool winner one day and came back a second time a day later to Catch a threelb. fluke which also won the pool. \ Capt. Charlie Selby of the Rainbow reports the best week of fluke fishing of the ^ season and in a long time. " Joe Cariola. 12, won a pool e with a 2Vfe-lb. fluke. Tony 1 Vogel of Trenton and Paul n Stabler of Turnersville, r split a pool with identical three-lb. fluke. Tony and e his wife shared a catch of t 77 fluke. s NIGHT CHUMMING is d at its peak also on the Rainbow. The boat sails daily at s 8 a.m. until Oct. 7. After that date the boat Will sail U Saturday and Sunday 1 through Nov. 4. Night chumming trips are set for - every Friday and. Saturday s night through Oct. 6. Night a sailing time is 7 p.m. d Sea Isle City's Capt. Neill Robbins is also reporting

Smorgasbord fishing with his fares catching sea bass, porgies, weaks and fluke. Night blue trips are set for Friday and Saturday nights through September. Hilary Gregory of the Southern Gun and Reel Gub of Philadelphia decked 19 big ones including a pool winning 16-pound blue. Capt. Ed Olsen of the Wildwood III reports improved fluke fishing in the Rips and at Somers Shoal. Fares are catching 15 to 20 fish per trip. Some sea bass and weakies, plaus a few kingfish, make it Smorgasbord Time on the Wildwood III. Mike Amici of Turnersville, caught a 6V«-lb. fluke. Capt. Paul Thompson of the Porgy III has mixed bag catches of weaks and fluke. Joe MacDouglass of Lindenwold. caught an 8^4 lb. pool winner. Brian Wiggins II, of Doylestown, Pa., caught a three-lb. pool winning fluke to win $70. It was the biggest of the grand catch recorded by him and his father. Frank's Boats at Strathmere reported good

kingfish catches between the bridge and the inlet. Bill Shillingford of Marmora caught 25. Rod O' Conner of Strathmere caught a 6-lb. 2-oz fluke. John Wagner of Estell Manor, had a 6V<-Ib. fluke. -The Fluke were caught near the inlet. Men's Loops Organizing CAPE MA Y - There will be an organizational meeting for the city's^ Men's Volleyball Leagues 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 26, at Convention Hall. Sponsors are welcome to enter a team in either the Men's Power League or Men's Recreational League for the 1984-1985 season and asked to send a representative at that time. For further information contact the Department of Gvic Affairs at 884-8411, ext. 20 or 27. '

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MOON PHASES/POSITIONS The Moon's affect on the Tide is greates I when closest to Earth (in perigee) and when in direct alignment with Sun 8 earth (full 6 new moon phases/ On and about these dates, low pretsu re systems and/or ttrong winds (depending upon direction/ may result in/loodmg. and extremely Mooa Phases First Quarter * Full Moor. It Last Quarter IS New Moon 24 Pert, re 21 Apogee II TIDE TABLE Computed for Cape May City beach/ront. for other areas, see Correction Timet DATE HIGH LOW 19 Wed 2:39— 3 07 8:33- 9:52 30 Thu 3:54- 4:18 9:50-10:50 21 Fri 5:08- 5:36 10:54-11:44 22 Sat 6:06- 6:27 16:52— 23 Sun 7:01- 7:18 12:38-12:50 24 Moo 7:50- 8:07 1:36- 1:44 25 Tue 6:38- 6:55 2:18- 2:37 36 Wed 9:22- 9 42 3:01- 3:27 27 Tbu 10:11-10:32 3:47- 4:16 28 Fri 11:03-11:25 4:32- 5:06 29 Sat 11:54- 5:18- 5:58 30 Sun 12:18-12:49 6 10- 6:57 »

CORRECTION TIMES Compute approximate times of high A low water for your area by adding or subtracting the following number of minutes for each tide phase in the Tide Table LOW HIGH Great Egg Harbor Inlet Minus 12 phalO Ocean City (9th St Bndge) plus 35 plus 22 Corson Inlet (bridge) plus 21 plus 7 Sea Isle City ( Ludlam Thoro Bndge i plus 66 plus 43 Sea Isle City Beach minus 2 minus 21 Townsend Inlet plus 21 plus 4 Seven Mile Beach plus IS 0 Stone Harbor (Great Channel Bridge) plus 43 plus 40 Hereford Inlet < Angiesea > phis 19 0 Wildwood Beach Minus 2 minus 17 Wot Wildwood (Grassy Channel bndge ) plus 46 plus 43 Cape May Harbor phis I minus 4 Five Fathom Bank plus 11 phis 1 Cape May Point plus 46 plus 34 McCrie Shoal plus 28 plus 22 Delaware Bay Bayshnre Channel (Bay-Canal Junction) plus 31 plus 36 Miami Beach plus 75 plus 71 Dennis Creek Entrance phis 96 plus W Brandywine Shoal Light plus 77 plus 52

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