For the first time in many years, Clark Harris didn’t cast a line from a fishing rod this summer. Instead, at least for a season, he traded in striper fishing on the Atlantic Ocean for wakeboarding in Barnegat Bay.

“We finally bought a boat of our own. My wife got it for me – a 25-foot Cobalt,” said Harris, who late last week left Manahawkin for Cincinnati as training camp loomed. “I spent most of the summer wakeboarding. Turtle Cove is a nice spot, but the greenheads are awful.”

Of course, when your full-time job consists of playing professional football and training camp begins at the end of…