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outdoors Record Amberjack Caught off Cape?

Ilarrv Krandrnstrin of lladdon Heights may be on his way to Ixt-oming the holder of a new slate record for the 77-lb. amer jack he caught on a recent trip with ('apt Neil Hubhins. of the ('apt. Itobhins, out of Sea Isle City Harry had already boated 104 sea bass and decided to jig up some of those big slammer film's which surrounded the wrecks at this time of year llarry switched over to a

split tailed Red Bananan lure He started jigging for blues with his 40-lb. test outfit when the big amber jack slammed the jig instead. A 40 minute battle put the fish into the Ixxit To date, the applications are being processed. TIIK SCAI.K on which the fish was weighted are also being checked by the Cape May County Weights and Measures people. As soon as the paperwork is

i completed and the entry is sent to Trenton for the New Jersey Division of Fish, (tame and Wildlife to process. the record may be Harry's. The current amberjack stale record is 39 lb That fish was caught by a Russell M. Smith off Wild wood in 1979 Amber jacks are most commonly caught in warmer waters well south of the Jersey Cape As for other ( apt. Bobbins activity, fares are boating lots of sea bass and some blacklist! Roy Smith of Conshohocken. Pa., was also a ( apt. Bobbins high hook with the 94 sea bass he caught The ( apt. Bobbins is sailing daily at K a.m. for sea bass and blackfish SURF FISHING has been producing a mixed bag of snapper blues to s I a m m e r s and some weakfish on a variety of lures and cut baits. The traditional Hopkins lure and the Atom Plug are two of the most popular. Swimming and sinking Rebels and Rapalas are also catching blues and a few weaks. A couple of striped bass have also been caught in the Diamond Beach area Jetty anglers have also been catching blues and weaks Sea bass and blackfish are being recorded by the bait anglers. BACK BAY boat liveries have pulled their boats but some ramps are still available for launching your own boat It is quiet time in the back bays and with the large number of weakfish around and the water temperature still up. this is a good time to look for inland waterway weakfish. These fish will lie on the down side of a prominent point or on the edge of a deep hole waiting for bait tocometothem. Drift haits hack into the eddies and deep holes. Use as little weight as possible to allow the bait to stay just lx*low the surface BAIT PR KFKHKNCKS for back bay weakfish include live spot, mullet, squid, clams or filets of small hlucfish Cut spot

' will also produce The last reports we had saw weakfish all the way up the | Delaware bay to almost the fresh water line. Big blues which usually invade the bay in the fall had not yet done so, indicating that the water temperature was still up. When this supply of weakfish dumps from the bay. it will create an except lonally good fishing opportunity. Light tackle fans can cast small bucktails. Diamond Jigs. Hopkins Lures and a wide assortment of plugs to these fine fighting fish. Blues may be on the surface feeding with the weaks right below them, closer to the bottom. WHAT HAS surprised a lot of ocean anglers is the quality of the weakfish. Action has been spotty — one day good and the other bad. Fish have been located from right behind the breakers all the way out to 50 and 60 feet of water. Lots of fish are read on the fish finders on many days, but they are scattered and hard to catch. Other days, there are fishable concentrations of fish. There is a broad range of size, ranging from spikes to 10 and ll-pounders. Some days the weaks are biting on lures — with bucktails and twister tails one of the most popular of the ones that work. Other LL Banquet Set Nov. 1 CAPK MAY - The Greater Cape May, Little U'ague will hold its annual banquet 6 p.m. Friday. Nov I. at Convention Hall on the Boardwalk. Players, mana gers. coaches, umpires, and sponsors are admitted free Flection for 1986 league president will bo held the evening of the banquet. Anyone wishing to run or io nominate someone else can do so at that tune or can call Margie Delias 1 884 4895' in advance Family and friends must purchase tickets, and are urged to call the manager of their child's team or the cur rent president at the number listed Genealogy Disco ssion DKNMSYILLK Speak oral the meeting oi the Den ins Township Historical Society Oct 16 was Harvey Miller, its secretary , whose topic was Genealogy Possible sites lor the society's Dennis Creek Village project were dis cussed at the previous meeting Leading site is an area of public land adjacent to the old Pennsylvania Beading Seashore Line on the Petersburg Road near Dennisville This area includes a lake, it was pointed out. and could offer the only recreational area sponsored by the township

days, it takes bucktails sweetened with squid, cut. mullet, mackerel or snapper bluefish filets. STRIPER NOTES: Remember that there is a new regulation in place for striped bass in New Jersey. The daily bag limit and possession is five fish. All must top 24 inches in length This is radically different from the 10 fish and 18-inch limits which were in place for years in New Jersey. Changing the striper laws puts New Jersey on line with other states along the East Coast. The hope is that the toughter regulations will cut the catch of stripers by at least 55 per cent. We hope it works Meanwhile, if you do catch an undersize striper, remember to return it to the water unharmed. We need more rockfish heading back to the breeding grounds CHESAPEAKE BAY. where the bulk of the East Coast stripers have been bred for centuries, is badly polluted. A three-year moratorium has been implemented in Chesapeake Bay. It is illegal to fish for stripers commercially or with a rod and reel in Maryland. It is hoped that the ban will help stocks to bounce back. Meanwhile, something is being done to preserve the remaining fish. It may be too little and too late. Unless the bay is cleaned up and the catch is controlled. we may well see the striper join the passenger pigeon in the list of extinct species. CRABBING : Crabbers may be enjoying the last hurrah for the 1985 season right now Crabs are fattening up for the long winter in the mud. This is a good lime to pick up a batch of crabs before the season winds down totallv HIGBEE'S BEACH: The Higbe's Beach Wildlife area has new regulations which prohibit hunting of any kind on that tract until Nov 9. the opening of small game season. The same regulations also limit the size of groups and specify exactly where the visitors to the area may go during the bird migrations THE REGULATIONS are designed to allow everyone an opportunity to 1 enjoy the spectacular fall , bird migration of hawks and eagles which pass through Higbee's Beach ' evei^v year This migration < is at its height in , September and October Higbee's Beach is a stag mg area for all types of ' birds during the fall nugra < tion Thousands of bird . watchers visit the area, as do nature lovers from all * over the world The regula t lions hopefully will permit ^ maximum enjoyment with

the least possible disturbance to the migrating birds. The Cape May Peninsula is one of the best places in the world from which to observe migratory birds in flight A lot has changed over the years in the at titude toward hawks FOR YEARS, it was deemed advisable to shoot hawks in the belief that they did damage to farm animals and domestic animals. Lots of farm youngsters spent time, effort and energy downing every hawk that came within range Changing attitudes have resulted in a better understanding that it was pointless to slaughter the hawks because, among other reasons, they did keep mice, rats and other vermin under control. As a result, we no longer see the piles of dead hawks and piles of spent shotgun shells which once were commonplace in areas like Higbee's Beach. CONSUMPTIVE and non-consumptive users of the resources have a common interest in the environment. the balance of nature and a continuing supply of fish, game and wildfowl. Whether one enjoys hunting and fishing as a sport or merely photographing or looking at wildlife, both groups should remember that they do have a common goal and should be walking together on issues concerning the environment. open space preservation. wildlife management and resource preservation. One of the ways this common goal can be assisted is to avoid the harsh confrontations which polarize the two groups and keep them fighting with each other Another way is to support the Wildlife Tax Checkoff program when it comes time to file your State Income Tax form

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