Friday, February 19, 2021
02.29.21 What's going on in Texas isn't just affecting humans....
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
02.17.21 Here's a great read.....
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
02.09.21 Funny how you remember your first.....and I still have that hat!
Yep, August 8 1952, that was the day Al got his first striped bass after, if I recall, a year or so of taking the long drive from around the New Brunswick area to fish. He did at night either before or after work. Imagine saying, so Al stopped fishing say five years ago, that you have fished fro striped bass for 75 years. Howe many beautiful mornings, how many storms, and how many bass? I miss my friend Al, dearly, and I will make sure to email him this post. The last time we were together was September 2019 right before he moved down south to North Carolina with his wife Evelyn. I was afraid that would be the last time we got to talk in person although we have stayed in some kinda touch by phone and email since.
Thursday, February 4, 2021
02.04.21 Quick, someone call Frank Pallone....
This fall I ventured down to Seaside hitting spots along way, Point Pleasant, Bay Head, Mantoloking, and points south. These beaches have gone through rounds of beach replenishment in recent years. And like we've said before, this is insanity. Throwing billions of dollars into a failed attempt to curb Mother Nature and the normal ebb and flow of the natural coastline, why, to protect those that feel encroaching and setting up shop right on the ocean front is s good idea. They have no worries, as long as vote hungry politicians like Frank Pallone are willing to make them happy and work with the DEP and ACE to pump useless large grain sand up onto the beach. Its makes for a nice, well really not nice, beach for a summer or two, and then its gone.
That stretch of beach replenishment probably cost somewhere around 5-10 million dollars. It looks they lost probably 60-80 of beach, from grade in the ocean to over 8 foot at the dunes. Well done, and this wasn't even one of those big fall storms.
People are stupid. You can't fuck with Mother Nature. Someone please stop this insanity.
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
02.03.21 Todays the ASMFC meeting....
If you are interested and have the time to attend virtually heres the link, https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4886491769864000527, the meeting ID is 151-774-483.