Beginning this Saturday, Oct. 5, the annual LBI Surf Fishing Classic returns for its 70th year on the ocean beaches of Long Beach Island. The nine-week surf-casting tournament – still called “The Derby” by many – features a variety of ways to win prizes.
THE WAY THEY WERE: Here’s hoping participants in the upcoming 70th running of the Surf Fishing Classic see a return of slammers as they arrived for the event back in the day, 1984. (Supplied Photo)
Registration is underway now at Fisherman’s Headquarters in Ship Bottom, Jingles Bait and Tackle in North Beach Haven and Surf City Bait and Tackle. Cost is $40 for general registration and only $20 for entrants 17 years of age and younger.
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