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Portsmouth Anglers Club Inc.

THE ANGLER Volume 260 June 2016

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In This Issue of The Angler

Fishing Report………………………………. Pictures of Recent Catches………………….. Boaters Safety Classes………………………. Membership Renewal Form………………… PAC Memorial Scholarship…………………. PSWSFA Flounder Bowl…………………...

Sunshine Program Work Party PAC Monthly Meeting, Simonsdale Civic Center PSWSFA Flounder Bowl PAC Board Meeting, Simonsdale Civic Center Sunshine Program Pier Trip VBAC Fall Fishing/Boating Flea Market

Up Coming Events June 16, 12pm - 4pm………………………. June 20, 7pm………………………………. June 25-26…………………………………. July 5, 7pm………………………………… July 28, 8am - 3pm………………………… October 22………………………………….

June Speaker

PAC’s guest speaker for the June 20th meeting will be Carl Herring. Carl will speak on tackle and techniques for catching flounder and several fresh water species. The meeting will be at the Simons-dale Civic Center, 5006 Vick Street, Portsmouth and will begin at 7pm.

Boater’s Safety Requirements

Have you taken the boater’s safety course? Do you have your boaters education card? Beginning July 1, 2016, All PWC operators, regardless of age, and All motorboat operators regardless of age must have completed the required safety education prior to operating a vessel. No person under the age of 14 may operate a PWC. See page 5 for a list of classes.

Portsmouth Anglers Club Memorial Scholarship Portsmouth Anglers Club is looking for a smart, young angler to be the recipient of the Portsmouth An-glers Club Memorial Scholarship. Deadline for application submission is July 1, 2016. See page 11.

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The Angler A Publication of the

Portsmouth Anglers Club, Inc.

Editor Rob Jordan 757-488-9305 E-Mail address rtjordan@verizon.net Webmaster Rob Jordan 757-488-9305 We encourage all members to submit articles and pictures for publication in the PAC Newsletter. Send your pictures and articles, your favorite recipes, or anything that may be newsworthy and informative to rtjordan@verizon.net.

2016 Club Officers

President: Allan Gregoire 488-3907 Vice-President Denny Dobbins 477-9156 Secretary Denise Harrell 488-9039 Treasurer Dot Oberlander 484-6564 Please visit the PAC website……….. www.portsmouthanglersclub.net Please visit the PAC Facebook Page….. https://www.facebook.com/Portsmouth-Anglers-Club-191636390871969/

USCG Vessel Examination

Even if you pay careful attention to safety, dan-gerous mechanical problems can crop up on the best-maintained boat. That’s why the U.S Coast Guard recommends that all recreational boaters (including personal watercraft users) take advantage of the free Vessel Safety Check (VSC) program every year.

VSCs are offered by experienced members of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary and the United States Power Squadrons, two of the nation’s premier volunteer boating safety organizations. A VSC is your best way of learning about prob-lems that might put you in violation of state or federal laws or, worse, create danger for you or your passengers on the water.

Sarah Bremer, United States Coast Guard Aux-iliary Flotilla 53 and PAC member, will be glad to provide you with a courtesy inspection. Call Sarah on 397-3659, and she will set up an appointment to come to you and provide a free USCG Vessel Safety Check.

2016 PAC Membership

2016 PAC Membership dues were due on January 1st. Remember, to participate in club tournaments and be eligible for club awards, your dues must be paid before you go fishing. The cost of a family membership includes all household members under 18. PAC Membership also includes The Angler, our monthly newsletter, and the free fish fry dinner held in October each year. Please either mail your dues to the PAC post office box or bring them to the next meeting. Also, include your email address so The Angler can be emailed to you. Emailing the newsletter saves PAC money and you will receive your newsletter several days sooner. See page 11 for membership form.

In Club Tournament PAC’s first in-club tournament will be for Flounder and will run June through August. The entry fee will be $5.00 and angler with the largest fish will receive 100% cash pay-out based on entry fees collected. Any legal size flounder will be accepted. Remember, membership dues must be up to date to participate. See Otto Dunn at the next meeting to sign up. You may call Otto at 488-5550 or email him at………. otto.dunn@verizon.net and he will add your name to the list.

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The summer fishing season continues to pick up momentum. With good weather, warmer days, and cooperative fish, this trend should continue.

Cobia is still the big news, and with good reason. Cobia hunters are happy that the season has been extended (in a sense), which is better than nothing. Although Federal waters will close to cobia on June 20th, inshore anglers can keep one fish per angler at 40-inches or longer, up to two fish per boat through August 30th. Only one of the

two fish boat limit can stretch to longer than 50-inches, and cobia can no longer be gaffed. Since the cobia arrived early this year, folks have wasted no time searching for their share. Sight casters are having the best success while cruising the lower Bay and CBBT areas. Boats using the chumming technique are also having good results from the Buckroe area off Hampton, to the Inner Middle Grounds and the Nine-foot Shoals closer to the mouth of the Bay. Some larger fish are making an appearance this week, while most fish are still ranging around 20 to 30-pounds. Local pier anglers are also landing a few small cobia lately.

Red drum are still providing plenty of action right now. Depending on the conditions, boats are re-leasing bulls from the seaside of Fisherman’s Island and the Nautilus Shoal areas measuring up to over 50-inches while bottom fishing or while casting to roaming schools of big fish. Black drum are still taking clam offerings mostly near buoys 13 and 16 off the Eastern Shore, with most blacks still averaging under 30-pounds. These fish will begin moving to the islands of the Bay Bridge-Tunnel soon.

The flounder bite is still improving, with more anglers reporting limits of bigger fish. Some flatfish pushing close to 7-pounds are taking drifted minnows and cut bait near the islands of the CBBT. An-glers jigging and working live bait along the pilings and over the tubes of the Bridge Tunnel are also scoring with fish, with the 1st and 2nd islands most productive lately. Lynnhaven and Rudee Inlets are still giving up above average numbers of keepers, with many flatties averaging to around 20-inches this past week. Both the Bayside and seaside areas of Oyster, the Cell, and the buoy 36 area are pro-ducing better flounder numbers for drifters recently, with a few doormats also in the mix.

The first catches of the season’s Spanish mackerel happened this week off the Virginia Beach ocean-front this past week. Reports of some speckled trout and puppy drum continue to come from mostly within Lynnhaven Inlet and Mobjack Bay. Nice bluefish and medium-sized croaker are available all over the lower Bay. Bigger snapper-sized bluefish ranging to about 6-pounds are still lurking inside Rudee Inlet recently. The HRBT, Hampton Bar, the Monitor-Merrimac, the James River Bridge, Lit-tle Creek, and the southern small boat channel at the CBBT are providing decent action on a range of sizes of hardheads. Sea mullet are also hitting along the oceanfront, where pier anglers had a good run of small to medium-sized fish this week. Respectable spot are also hitting within lower Bay in-lets.

Spadefish are appearing on the Chesapeake Light Tower and inshore wrecks, with a few fish already boated. Most fish are ranging around 3 to 5-pounds. Sheepshead action is also heating up, with a few nice catches reported so far from the CBBT area. Although interest is waning with so many other species becoming available, striped bass are still biting, with good reports coming from the islands of the CBBT, the Monitor-Merrimac Bridge Tunnel, the James River Bridge, and the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel lately. Many of these rockfish are ranging to around 32-inches.

The open seabass season is drawing some boats to deeper water off the coast, where folks are finding good catches of big fish when they can get out. Deep droppers are also hauling in big seabass along with a good variety of blueline tilefish, golden tilefish, some big grouper and blackbellied rosefish.

Offshore, warm water is now within reach from Virginia, where excellent catches of nice yellowfin tuna, scattered big eye tuna, and larger mahi, and mako sharks are rewarding boats making the run. Most of the yellowfin tuna are in the 40-pound range, with a few tuna pushing to over 60-pounds al-so around. For more information, go to www.drjball.com.

FISHING REPORT June 2016

By: Dr. Julie Ball

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Pictures of Recent Catches

Each month I will try to publish pictures from PAC members of recent catches. Please email pic-tures to rtjordan@verizon.net, with a brief description of who, where, what and when, and I will try to include it in the next issue of The Angler. The pictures will also be posted on our new website gallery.

Jerald George and 3lb 6oz flounder Tron Napier and 11.8 lb sheepshead

Brian Hartung & Andrew Parrish with bass from Yeopim River, NC. Brians’s weighed 7lbs, both were released

Mike Howard with Yellow Edge Grouper out of Hatteras.

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Boater’s Safety Requirements

Have you taken the boater’s safety course? Do you have your boaters education card? Beginning July 1, 2016, All PWC operators, regardless of age, and All motorboat operators regardless of age must have completed the required safety education prior to operating a vessel. No person under the age of 14 may operate a PWC. Flotilla 53 is holding the classes below. For more information and to find additional classes near you go to……..

http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/boating/education/requirement/

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BARTLEY F. TUTHILL., IV, LTD.

ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT

LAW

464 DINWIDDIE STREET Portsmouth, VA 23704

(757) 393-6544 E-MAIL FAX (757) 393-1916 barttuthill@hotmail.com

Bart Tuthill, P.A.C. Member

AD SPACE PRICES Business Card size is $110 1/3 page ad is $135 1/2 page ad is $150 Full page ad is $200

PAC membership is in addition to ads and will run January thru December.

Please support out advertisers!

Ask for PAC member Mr. Robert Salas

www.SturtevantFuneralHome.com e-mail: sturtevant@sfhva.com

President & PAC Member

Children’s Sunshine Program Workday

Volunteers are needed to come to Denny’s home located at 1057 West Road, Chesapeake,

23323 behind Grassfield High School. There are 130 rods & reels that need to be cleaned, line changed, eyes and tips replaced and just general maintenance of all that are used for the Program. Date: Thursday, June 16, 2016 from 12:00 noon till finished. So far the following have signed up: Tom Scott, John Meagher, Gene Cooper, Allen Gregorie and Matt LeDoyen have volunteered.

Call John at 399-4673 if you can help.

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Children’s Sunshine Program July 28, 2016 by John Meagher

Volunteers are needed to help kids to learn to catch fish and crabs. This event will be held at the Ocean View Fishing Pier July 28, 2016 from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM. We need volunteers to cut bait, set up rods and reels, help at lunch-time and to teach CPR (Catch, Photograph and Release) and 101 other things that will make this a successful event. Volunteers that have already made a commitment are: Denny Dobbins, Junior Member Shawn Parker, his mother Stephanie, Tom Scott, John Meagher, Bob Goode and Matt LeDoyen, Jr. There will be a sign-up sheet available at the June and July monthly meetings. If you are unable to at-tend the meetings and want to sign-up call me at 399-4673. There is no such thing as enough volun-teers for this event, so if you have a group or individuals that can volunteer; please call me prior to the event. Our food order is based on how many adults/children we expect. There is also a concern that we have enough rods and reels, bait, tackle and the many other things to give the kids a learning adventure and experience fishing in the Chesapeake Bay.

Hunt for Hardheads held on May 14th, 2016 at Portsmouth City Park by PAC Member John Meagher

With help from 10 year old PAC member Aidan Gregoire we were able to sell over 100 raffle tickets in support of the PAC Children’s Sunshine Program and other club projects. We want to thank the Great Bridge Fisherman’s Association, Virginia Beach Anglers Club and Norfolk Anglers Club and a huge Thanks to Aidan for his help.

PAC Member Steve Parrish watching to make sure that PAC President, Allan Gregoire is measuring the fish correctly for the tournament. Allan is the grandfather of Aidan. He was also the weigh master and a fisherman for the tournament.

Thanks to everyone that participated in the tournament. With your support we were able to make a sizeable donation to the Wish-A-Fish Association.

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Ask for PAC Member Ron Pierce

E-TEC

ron@ronsmarine.hrcoxmail.com www.ptrailerusa.com

PAC Member TOMMY MILTEER

Bay Striper Season Closes June 15th Virginia Marine Resources Commission 2016 Recreational Fishing Regulations For Striped Bass in Virginia’s Marine Waters Coastal Season. . . . . . . . . . . . . . January 1 - March 31 and May 16 - December 31 Possession Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 per person Minimum Size Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 inches

Chesapeake Bay Area Season (Spring) . . . . . . May 16 - June 15 Possession Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 per person Minimum Size Limit . . . . . . . . ……………………………20 inches Maximum Size Limit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 inches

Virginia Trophy-Size Season Chesapeake Bay and Tributaries . . . . . . . . . . . May 1 - June 15 Coastal Waters (Territorial Sea). . . . . . . . . . . . . May 1 - May 15 Possession Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 per person Minimum Size Limit* . . . . . . . . . . . ……………………….36 inches (special permit required) Regulations are subject to change. For the most up to date regulations, please go to………….. http://www.mrc.virginia.gov/regulations/swrecfishingrules.shtm

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2016 PAC Raffle by John Meagher

I would like to thank all of you that have so far supported our annual raffle sales. Your time and generosity ensures our success in many community projects; Children’s Sunshine Program, Salva-tion Army, Toys for Tots, Boy Scouts, Red Cross, Wish-A-Fish Association, PAC Club Memorial Scholarship and other club projects.

As of June the 7th, we have not met our goals and we need every members support to have a 2016 successful raffle to help fund our clubs many projects. For those of you that haven’t purchased your tickets; please do so as soon as possible. I will continue to sell tickets up until the drawing on July 18th. If you would like to buy tickets, please call me (John) at 399-4673. I will gladly deliver them to you if you live within a reasonable distance. Incentive for selling: 10 Books Club Hat or $10.00 Gift Certificate from Greg’s Bait Shack 20 Books Club SS Shirt or $20.00 Gift Certificate from Greg’s Bait Shack 30 Books Club SS and LS Shirt or $30.00 Gift Certificate from Greg’s Bait Shack 35 to 49 Books Club Hat, SS, LS Shirts and 2017 PAC Membership (compensatory to what you would normally purchase as a member) or $40.00 Gift Certificate from Greg’s Bait Shack. ***If you are a life member you will receive a Gift Card in the sum of $20.00 or $30.00

Or in lieu of the above, if you sell 50 or more books you will receive a $100.00 bill

Win $200.00 Cash or a

Rod & Reel Combo

Children’s Sunshine Program sponsored by the Portsmouth Anglers’ Club

Tickets are $1.00 each

Rods and Reels have been provided by:

Greg’s Bait Shack 757-465-9020

2560 Airline Boulevard, Portsmouth, VA 23701 1st place – A custom 6.2 ft. rod - Shimano Cardiff 400A casting reel 2nd place – A 5 ft. Kunnan Performance Rod - Sweepfire 4000 2B spinning reel 3rd place – A 2 piece 7 ft. Penn Fierce II Rod with a spinning reel

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PAC Application For Membership or Renewal

Name ______________________________________________________________

Address ____________________________________________________________

City _________________________State _________Zip Code________________

Phone _______________________E-Mail Address__________________________

Signature ___________________________

Dues: $30 for family membership Boat Name (optional)_________________________

$20 for an individual membership Mail to PAC, P.O. Box 7842, Portsmouth, VA 23707

Portsmouth Anglers Club Memorial Scholarship Portsmouth Anglers Club is looking for a smart, young angler to be the recipient of the Portsmouth Anglers Club Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship, worth up to $1,000, will be given to a grad-uating senior who is heading off to a recognized college, university, or trade school. All five of the following requirements must be met by the participant: 1. Recipient shall be under the age of 25 years old 2. Recipient must be an Anglers Club Member of a Tidewater Virginia Club or dependent of a

current member in good standing and the recipient or the member upon whom he or she is the dependent, must have been with the club for a minimum of two (2) consecutive years

3. Recipient and sponsor (the member of which they are a dependent) must have participated in Anglers Club activities

4. Recipient must have angling achievements for which they have been recognized 5. Recipient must be academically proficient. Deadline for application submission is July 1, 2016. For more information and a scholarship application, visit www.portsmouthanglersclub.net Mail all applications to the Portsmouth Anglers Club Memorial Scholarship Committee, c/o Portsmouth Angler’s Club, P. O. Box 7842, Ports-mouth, VA 23707.

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Live Eels Fresh Menhaden Gudgens Shinners Bloodworms Peeler Crabs Night Crawlers Super Reds

www.gregsbaitshack.com Freshwater & Saltwater Tackle & Accessories

Live Bait - Fresh Bait - Frozen Bait Official Weigh Station Price Match Guarantee

Rod Repairs

PAC Members - Show Membership Card to Receive Discount 2560 Airline Blvd. Portsmouth, VA - Email greg@gregsbaitshack.com - Call 757-465-9020

First Class Mail

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Creel Bags by John Meagher

Junior Member Shawn Parker helped get the materials ready for the Creel Bags that will be given to the children of the Sunshine Program. The bags contain the Personalized Fishing Book and assorted materials provided by the DGIF. His mother, Stephanie, agreed to stuff all 300 bags if he maintained Honor Roll... and he did! (Stephanie is my daughter and I thank her for taking on this task).

Shawn Parker

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Charter Boat Fishing on High Hopes with Captain David Wright by John Meagher

On June 4, 2016 my daughter and son-in-law treated my grandson (Shawn – grandson) and me to a day of fishing on the High Hopes. Friends joined us for the trip trolling down Dam Neck and Sandbridge. As the pictures show, all three boys caught Spanish Mackerel and Bluefish.

A Great Day with Family and Friends Joshua - Bluefish

Joseph - Spanish Mackerel Shawn - Spanish Mackerel