It was the summer of 1933; the nation was in the grip of the Great Depression and looking desperately for any good news. In August of that year, the Jersey Shore would produce one of the greatest “fish stories” in history, which is still being debated on the Internet almost 90 years later.

A story on the front page of the Aug. 17 Tuckerton Beacon is a good place to begin.

“The fishing in the Bay and Ocean waters of this section of New Jersey is at present finer than it has been in many years and…