In the world of fishing, there are stories and there are STORIES, and then there is the one about two Surf City fishermen thrown overboard after their boat was struck by a juvenile humpback whale that breached the water, forcing the men to beach the boat in Seaside Park, just north of Long Beach Island.
“It’s an unbelievable story,” Jay DeBenedict said Tuesday morning by phone. “It was a beautiful, calm day out there. The last thing we expected was to be hit by a whale.”
The whale fully breached the ocean waters shortly before 12:30 p.m., June 8, striking Nothing But Net, a 22-foot center…
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