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outdoors with Lou Rodia No Salt Water Boat Operator's License

One of the things we do not need in the state of New Jersey is a boat operator's license for salt water A license is required for fresh water boat operation. As a result of this need, there has been some confusion in several instances when readers go to get their boat registrations renewed. Several have called to tell us that they were told that they must get an operator s license before they could get their boat registration renewed. This is not so. Anyone can renewany boat registration, fresh or salt water, without having an operator's license. In fact, it is possible to renew a registration for a JIVVWWWWWVVVWV

0 boat owner other than v yourself if the papers are s filled out properly and the t fees are paid ) IF VOl .ARE told by any 1 licensing agent that you must have an operator's i license before getting your boat registration renewed, you can refer the agent to the Public Information Office in Trenton at 609-292-5203. As for such a license in the future, nothing is imminent which would indicate that there is a concerted effort being made to establish one. That does not mean that it won't happen. We 'll be getting more information on the laws pertaining to boat operation in

i New Jersey and we'll pass this along as it reaches our desk. Meanwhile, don't be bulldozed into buying a license you do not need. FLUKE CONTEST: Sharpen the hooks, get your boat ready and check your rods and reels. Anglers can share $1,000 in prizes for entering the First Annual Grassy Sound Marina Fluke Contest 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Prizes wrtt-bo ^warded for the biggest flukeT First place prize is $500 for the largest fluke caught. Se-V cond prize is $100 and third prize $75. Boat crews can also win prizes. Teams of up to four anglers may pool the largest five fluke they

* catch to earn a chance at J the boat awards. A $100 ' prize will go to the boat | with the heaviest five fish [ total. THE SECOND place boat | will earn $75 and third i place will earn $50. Prize winning fish for the individual angler heaviest fish awards are not eligible for the cumulative weight totals for the boat prizes. Entry fee is $25. For information on this first annual fluke event call Tony at 729-0337 or stop in at Grassy Sound Marina (at the east end of the Grassy Sound Drawbridge) to get a tournament application. BLUEFISH EVENT: Don't forget, also the 1985 $100,000 Bluefish Tournament to be held at Sykes Marina on Old Avalon Boulevard. Avalon. Aug 10 That event offers a

$50,000 award to the angler who bests the New Jersey State Record bluefish and a $50,000 award to the angler who surpasses the alltackie world record bluefish. The first prize will be $5,000. Second prize is $1,250 and prizes range down to a $50 gift certificate to the angler boating the 18th heaviest fish. A $500 prize is also being offered for the heaviest bluefish caught on a Sykesquid. Applications are available at the Marina or call 609-967-4003. Entry fee is $200 per boat. CLASSIC: Even though the July 16 date for registrations will have passed by the time you get this, there may still be time

to get into the American 1 Bluefish Classic July 20 at Capt. Andy's Marina in Margate. Close to 200 boats are expected for this event, which offers a $25,000 cash prize for the angler who bests last year's tournament winning bluefish and a trip to Bimini for four. A Hummingbird Color Video Recorder is being offered by co-sponsor Tuborg Beer. Smithville Inn has taken a hand in the sponsorship of this event, which allows big and small boats to compete for bluefish There are lots of other prizes and lots of other activities planned. A call to Gwen Hageman (609-652-7775) will get you the information you need. She'll also help get J-ou registered for the tournament. MARLIN Tournament: The 29th annual Cape May k County Marlin Tournament Q kicks off tomorrow (ThursL day) with a registration r dinner at the Yacht Club of p Stone Harbor Fishing in the offshore sports event is set for Friday and Saturday with an alternate day planned for Sunday if either of the two regular days are cancelled because of weather An estimated 50 boats are scheduled to fish the J release tournament It is ■ one of the oldest of its kind I on the East Coast., having I been started by a small group of dedicated marlin | fishing pioneers who had a common interest directed at promoting the sport They also decided that the tournament would be a chance to meet some of the other marlin fishermen in the area. Many knew each other only as ship-to-shore radio voices or as they passed on the way to and from the marlin grounds. THE FIRST tournament drew 14 boats and 11 fish were caught. The tournament grew steadily until it met the problem of a proliferation of tournaments up and down the coast. Many of the North Jersey boa Ls are now fishing tournaments, and several new tournaments are also scheduled in the Atlantic City to Cape May area. The tournaments give a real positive jolt to the local economy. They help promote the sport fishing potential of the area and the tournaments actually play a large part in the selling of those sleek, fast offshore fishing boats which are needed to search the offshore waters for billfish. The county tournament closes with an awards din-

ner at the Golden Eagle Hotel in Cape May. Tournament chairman Phil Robeson said several new entries this year indicate a rebirth in interest for this event. Prizes are limited to trophies and there is little of the pressure which surrounds come of the bigger tournaments which offer bigger prizes. REPORTS: The Jerry Williams, from Westmont. caught dusky sharks (6 ft. and 8 ft.) on the Dotti Lin II. Barry Quinn of Philadelphia decked a 303 lb. mako on the Dotti Lin //...Dominic Di Dominico of Court House weighed in a 4-lb. 10-oz fluke he caught onCapt Bob Dunkelberger's Harbor Mist out of 96th Street

1 Marina in Stone Harbor. Ray Wainright of Phoenix1 ville. Pa. decked a 3-Ib. 1 l-oz. fluke also on the Har bor Mist... Charlie Hughes 1 of Erma caught an 85-lb black drum on the boat Mistress. Charles is 14. He was fishing a clam bait with his dad. Charles Sr. Ocean-based boats fishing off Cape May County ports from Ocean City to Cape May have been catc h i n g fluke, some weakfish, bluefish and an assortment of sea bass, ling and blackfish. Some days it is mixed bag fishing for ocean anglers. Delaware bay has been producing lots of fluke in

B the lower part of the bay and lots of weaks. fluke and I blues in the northern part v of the bay. , Back bay fluke fishing . has slowed somewhat with , the best fishing close to the . inlets. While the numbers are down this year, the fluke size has been much bigger on average. Crabbing has been fair to good most of the time in back bay waters. SHORT CASTS: Jerry Minrack. Bucks County angler who fished on the * Royal Flush out of Wildwood Crest. N.J. recently, was a high hook on a chumming trip with 33 big blues. The week's biggest pool on the Royal Flush went to Bruce riuan weni lo nruce

Thompson of Ocean City, it weighed 12 lb. 15 oz. At Avalon, Michael King, 9, of Fort Washington, Pa caught an 1Mb. 14-oz. bluefish on the Gin N Tonic, skippered by Capt. Tom Gunthorp. He was fishing a spoon when the big blue hit. JERRY KURIAN of Bloomsburg, Pa., caught a 7-lb. 10'2-oz fluke while fishing behind Avalon in the back bays. The big doormat was weighed in at Lou Bachman's Smuggler's Cove in Stone Harbor. Bachman also weighed in a 152-lb. tuna for Ann Gladfelder of Spring Grove, Pa.

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