The Fish Story
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•July 13, 2016
A Bad Day on a Beautiful Bay: Boating Fatality Mars Weekend
Sunday was a gorgeous day on Barnegat Bay. But licensed charterboat captain Jeff Dangelmajer of Barnegat didn’t like what he was seeing.
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•July 5, 2016
‘Largest July Fourth’ in LBI History; PETA Takes Bite Out of Own Philosophy
YOU WERE THERE!: If you were here over the weekend, congratulations … you just lived through the biggest Fourth of July holiday weekend to ever storm over our fun-loving barrier island. Hey, everyone…
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•June 28, 2016
Zika Should Have You Crawling With Suspicion
How can an outdoors column like mine not touch on the subject of Zika – and then, after touching it, refrain from unprotected human contact for at least eight contagious weeks? Hey, that’s how long…
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•June 21, 2016
When Clingers Attack: A New Jellyfish in Town
FIRST STINGS FIRST: Well, the recently arrived clinging jellyfish is all the “I’m stung!” rage.
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•June 14, 2016
Worm Under Japanese Seafood Elitists; Deadly Beach Umbrellas Must Stay Put
I recently had a chat about worms and striped bass. We weren’t talking the worms used to catch them but the parasitic worms inside them. As you can imagine, it wasn’t a tasty topic … but someone had…
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•June 7, 2016
‘Smileless’ Rules State Roadways; Pine Barrens Tree Frogs Thank Byrne
Well, I’m an American again … but just barely. It was that close.
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•June 2, 2016
Now That the Weekend Is Over; It Was UN Fishing on the South Jetty
WHAT NOW?: I always call Memorial Day weekend the annual false start of summer. For a couple/few days we’re chest-deep in the summer look and feel, people-wise. Then it’s back to a silent spring…
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•May 24, 2016
Time to Fish With Six-Pack Rings; Crocs Gatoring to Florida
There’s an old saying that goes, “When you’re caught between a rock and a hard spot … make lemonade.” OK, so starting now, there’s now that saying.
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•May 17, 2016
Golfer’s Fishy Excuse for Close Shave; Dredging Hope for Holgate Sand
I’m the type of overactive soul that has to occasionally lie back and calm the hell down, lest I explode in a display of psychically unsound colors. I’m not sure what that means but I hate when it…
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•May 12, 2016
To the Bitter End Following Sharks Vs. Selfies, Which Brings Us to the Reemergence of Mary Lee
This past week, morbidity took on an odd face when the Associated Press carried a story that more people were killed taking selfies, 12, than were killed by sharks, eight. Not much emphasis was…
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•May 5, 2016
‘Good’ Herpes Sent to Kill Invading Carp; Falling for Pareidolia Plugs
CARP FIGHT TURNS VIRAL: Herpes is the kiss of death for carp. Unlike humans, who haul herpes around like a bad tattoo, carp quickly go belly up when infected … purposely. This is gonna take some…
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•April 28, 2016
When Ocean Drops 180 Feet, Think Tsunami; Double Creek Won’t Get Deeper Until Fall
It’s a perfect time to talk tsunamis since we somehow sidestepped your everyday 180-footer over the weekend. You’ve surely gotten word of the bizarre depth-change alert issued by a far-at-sea buoy…
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•April 21, 2016
New Jersey Is Rated Greener Than You’d Think; Ospreys Love the Taste of Lake Pohatcong’s Trout
A GLOWING ECO-RATING: There’s something good to be said about Jersey. In fact, there might even be a load of above-average things to be said in recent years, as fair-weather residents move their…
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•April 14, 2016
There Are Eco-trucks in the Gaseous Future; Signs That Trespassing Has Its Proper Limits
GETTING GOUGED … AGAIN: Oil cartels are aggravatingly sighing in relief as the price of oil is edging back up – to where they’re again making billions a day and not measly millions.
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•April 7, 2016
Just Glue Your Fish Pieces Into a Fillet; Making Room for More North-End Plover
How do you make three small, unrelated chunks of fish into one hunka-chunka burnin’ filet? Just glue them suckers together. I kid you not.
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•March 29, 2016
Beached Sperm Whales Went Too Far for Squid; Google Glass Offers One-eyed Look Into Future
WHALE DIE-OFF FROM JONAS?: In January and February, 13 doomed whales surfaced near the North Sea coastal resort of Tönning, Germany. All eventually stranded themselves and died from asphyxiation due…
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•March 22, 2016
Awaiting Amber to Light on Our Beach; Marine Sanctuaries, Give Me None!
COLOR ME AMBER-GOLD: Boy, did I strike a treasure nerve among many folks last week. I wrote about the treasure potential within replenishment sands from Little Egg Inlet dredging.
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•March 15, 2016
Get Bitten By All the Snakes You Want; Treasure Can Fall From Sky And Smash Your Hip
Here’s a story about the subtle difference between being a wrong rat and a right rat.
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•March 10, 2016
Old News Is New Again on Beach Project; LBI Is Treasure Island – More to Come Via Replenishment
REPLENISHMENT UPDATE – OR NOT: Beach replenishment is still heap-high when it comes to questions lighting upon my editor’s desk. Even though an “update” meeting took place just this week between the…
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•March 2, 2016
An Opossum Grows in Brooklyn; Unmanned Aerial Angling Vehicles
I have long had this odd appreciation of opossum, heightened after once seeing one during a daytrip to Central Park.
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•February 24, 2016
Replen Mulls Little Egg Inlet Sands; For Biker Leather, Turn to Kangaroos
Before we get to who-knows-what, I gotta bring in the latest replenishment news. The ongoing beach and dune upgrades might soon officially be intermingled with the long-running effort to dredge a…
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•February 17, 2016
Bet You Can’t See Me, or My Lure; It’s Time to Take a Bite Out of Sharks
CLOAKING CLOTHING 101: Imagine dressing in a material that instantly converts your here-ness into gone-ness, just like that weird-glasses kid, Harry something, does when wrapping himself in his…
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•February 11, 2016
Perfect Time for Out-of-Body Escape; Shrimp Heads Gain Weight in China
My new motto for this winter on LBI: If you don’t like the weather, wait a day … it’ll get even worse.
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•February 4, 2016
Bizarre Booms Have Bellowed Forth Since Wooly Mammoth Times; Kicking Out the Holocene Epoch in Favor of a Humanoscene Epic
Here’s one to rattle your cosmic thinking. Do you recall last week’s so-called “sonic booms”? Of course you do. You were among those secretly fearing the end of the world, as is common among folks…
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•January 27, 2016
Ping-Pongish Winter; Holgate Daze Wrought By Blizzard
This week we just have to talk storm. Oh, quit your moaning, class. I’ll make this as painless as possible – while still whetting your interest whistle.
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•January 20, 2016
Wind Beneath My Phobia; Bringing Bling to Cavewomen
ENCAPSULATE ME!: I was recently offered a free round-trip flight to a foreign fishing land from a rich buddy. I bowed out, using a lame accuse that I had somehow contracted just the smallest touch of…
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•January 12, 2016
Angry Birders Circling Oregon; Climate Times, They Are A-Changin
I’m back. The entire obviously beloved SandPaper is back.
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•December 19, 2015
Your Christmas Trees Aren’t Ticking; Getting Only the Good Stuff From China
I have to begin by needling a new Christmas tree myth that has arisen this year. Actually, it might not be a bona fide myth as much as a misread, one that really bugs me because it has to do with a…
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•December 16, 2015
I Almost Got Myself Kilt; Holgate Heading South
DAMN MOUTH OF MINE: I recently caught a little heat … from a bagpiper of all people. What arethe odds of that in this day and age … and country? The odds are at least one-in-something since there I…
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•December 9, 2015
FBI Readies Us for Terrorism; Head-On Is Highly Misleading
FBI … SAVE US!: It’s been a long time since I was last shown the scratchy film titled, “What to do in a nuclear attack, kids.”
