CAPE HATTERAS ANGLERS CLUB OFFICERS Larry Hardham President Bill Vancura Vice President Pat Weston Recording Secretary Sheryl Fink Treasurer

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1 Cape Hatteras Anglers Club 12/31/2014Dwight Light Plant Road P. O. Box 145 Buxton NC Fax and Telephone Number: Office Hours: 8:30 am-12:30 pm Tues., Wed., Thurs. address: Web Page: We are members of: American Sportfishing Association (ASA) Cape Hatteras Access Preservation Alliance (CHAPA) International Game Fish Association (IGFA) United Mobile Access Preservation Assn. (UMAPA) CAPE HATTERAS ANGLERS CLUB OFFICERS Larry Hardham President Bill Vancura Vice President Pat Weston Recording Secretary Sheryl Fink Treasurer DECEMBER 2016 JANUARY 2017 CAPE HATTERAS ANGLERS CLUB DIRECTORS: Nancy Giannotti Larry Griffins Kay Knowles Bryant Marks Wayne Mathis Milton Clapp Ray Schaaf Executive Secretary and Bulletin Editor: Judy Torres 2016 CALENDAR Schedule for Board and Monthly Covered-Dish Dinner Meeting* MONTH BOARD MONTHLY MTG. December 8 10 January MONTH December Schedule for Bingo** DATES 14 (ALL 3 JACKPOTS WILL BE WON ON DEC 14 TH ) January , 8 The clubhouse is a smoke free building for all functions. Game night (dominoes, cards) is every Saturday at 7 pm, except when there is a monthly meeting or a function at the Club. * Monthly Members dinner/meeting begins at 6:30 pm (please bring a covered dish). The business meeting begins at 7:30 pm. **Bingo- Doors open at 6 pm / first game starts promptly at 7 pm MEMBERSHIP REMINDER! Your 2016 Dues Expire December DUES ARE PAYABLE NOW! Adult Membership Renewal is $25 and Youth and Junior Memberships* are Free (*All new and renewed Youth and Junior Memberships through age 16 are at no charge, but must be renewed annually.) Check your expiration date on your membership card or the last page of this Bulletin above your address, then Fill out Membership Renewal Form at the bottom and mail with a check or money order to: The Cape Hatteras Anglers Club, P.O. Box 145, Buxton, NC You can pay your dues by check or money order by mail, or cash in person during office hours. Office hours are 8:30 am-12:30 pm Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. ed versions of this bulletin arrive faster and save money on ink, paper, and postage! Please send us your current address. We can then add it to your contact information. (If you wish to receive your bulletin via , please add us (anglers@embarqmail.com) to your contacts so that Bulletins and other club s will not end up in your spam or junk mail folders of your account.) Dues must be current to register fish in the Members Fishing Contest, and to be eligible for prize drawings at meetings.

2 WE WELCOME NEW MEMBERS! If you know of anyone who would be interested in joining the Anglers Club please have them stop by any Hatteras Island tackle shop to pick up an application, or stop by our office, or go online to our Web site, CapeHatterasAnglersClub.org. OUR NEWEST MEMBERS Rick Black Jerry Hughes Karl Clow Jacob Taylor Stephanie Ryals Edward Pickett Alexander Alarid Doug Jones Steven Grissom Richard Dempsey Denise Luberecki Pickens SC Chesapeake VA Elizabeth City NC Luray VA Buxton NC Frisco NC Staten Island NY Buffalo Junction VA Chester VA Buxton NC Frisco NC ANNOUNCEMENTS OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS TO BE ELECTED AT DECEMBER 10 MEETING It is with sadness that we announce that Larry Hardham has decided to step down as president of the Cape Hatteras Anglers Club. Larry has served for 17 years as president after serving two years as treasurer. His retirement marks the end of an era for the Anglers Club. Under Larry s leadership, and with the help of many member-volunteers, the club has grown to almost 800 members and expanded the annual invitational surffishing team tournament that is now considered the largest of its kind in the world. The tournament has been complimented by participants as the best-run tournament they have competed in. Congratulations to Larry on a job well done and a retirement well deserved. Officers who have agreed to be nominated by the Nominating Committee are: Bill Vancura as President; and Pat Weston, Recording Secretary. Also agreeing to be nominated as Directors are Sue Glass, Larry Griffin, Wayne Mathis and Ray Schaaf. According to the Anglers Club By-Laws, all nominees must be current members of the Anglers Club for the preceding 12 months and be residents of Hatteras Island. Terms will run for two years, from Jan. 1, 2017 through Dec. 31, HATTERAS VILLAGE CHRISTMAS PARADE The Cape Hatteras Anglers Club will again have a float in the Hatteras Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 10. In its 25 th year, the parade will begin at 2 p.m. at Teach s Lair Marina and proceed up the highway to the Hatterasman Drive In. Club members taking part in the parade will assemble at the Anglers Club at noon on parade day. Call Kay Knowles at if you wish to participate. BINGO VOLUNTEERS NEEDED We badly need more members to volunteer to help out at Bingo nights this coming year. You only need to help out one Wednesday evening a month through May, then every other Wednesday for the summer into October. We have two teams of volunteers that alternate each Bingo night. Jobs include selling cards and door-prize tickets, verifying winners and helping in the kitchen. It s a good way to meet other Anglers Club members and work for a good cause.

3 If you are unable to help out, then please come and play. It s lots of fun and can be profitable! All three jackpot games will be given away on Dec. 14, during our last Bingo night of Our doors open at 6 pm and games begin at 7 pm. Snacks, drinks and free coffee are available. Our Bingo nights help fund our scholarship program and help enable us to donate to other Hatteras Island non-profit organizations. We will have the 2017 Bingo schedule available next month. RESULTS OF THE 59 TH ANNUAL INVITATIONAL SURF FISHING TOURNAMENT First, the Anglers Club offers a huge THANK YOU! to all of the volunteers who worked tirelessly behind the scenes to make the 59 th tournament such a big success. Congratulations go to these Cape Hatteras Anglers Club members who were winners in the invitational team tournament: For the second year in a row, Nancy Giannotti of Buxton won in the largest fish category, this year in the largest Red Drum caught by a female category. Last year she won for largest Bluefish. Angie Gaskins of Salvo, and Ginger Knight and Stephanie Ryals, both of Avon, fished with the Outcasters team, which again took the Top Female Team honors. New member Steve Marynowicz of Nags Head won in the largest fish category with his 19 Flounder. (Our apologies if we omitted any other winning Anglers Club members.) Team Advanced Fishing of Nags Head was awarded the Lighthouse Trophy as the winner of the 59 th Annual Cape Hatteras Anglers Club Invitational Surf Fishing Tournament held Nov. 2-4 and based here at the Anglers Club. The team took the win with a total of 89 fish and 288 points. Captained by Gale Johnson of Nags Head, team members were Ryan White of Rodanthe, Scott Miller, Tony Chirico, Travis Kemp and Tom Manley. Finishing in Second place overall was the Eastern Shore of Virginia Anglers with 86 fish and 228 points. Third place team was the Raisin Rods team out of Greenville NC. They ended the tournament with 66 fish and 186 points. For the second year in a row, the Outcasters team of Nags Head finished as Top Female Team with 46 fish and 125 points. Jean Flanigan was team captain with team members Ginger Knight, Angie Gaskins, and Stephanie Ryals, all of Hatteras Island, along with Audrey Whitlock and Joy Cimburke. Session winning teams were: First Session on Thursday morning Team Advanced Fishing, 67 fish and 240 points; Second Session Thursday afternoon Outer Banks Sportfishers of Nags Head, 23 fish and 91 points; Third Session Friday morning South Jersey Surfcasters, 29 fish and 72 points; Fourth Session Friday afternoon Merchantville Fishing Club of New Jersey with 25 fish and 72 points. Individual tournament winners were: Largest Red Drum Caught by a Male 29 caught by Ben McPherson of the Stingray Anglers club of Elizabeth City; Largest Red Drum Caught by a Female 28-3/4 caught by Nancy Giannotti of Buxton with the Island Girls Team of Hatteras Island; There were two ties in the Bluefish category. Largest Bluefish Caught by a Male 19 were caught by both Matt Wilkins of AMSA Team 1 of Berlin MD and Phil Harvey of the Fishin Fools team. The Largest Bluefish Caught by a Female was tied by Tracy Oates of Finz N Grinz and Maggie Simmons of the Queen Mackerels. Each caught a 19-1/2 Bluefish. In the Largest Fish Caught by a Male Other than a Bluefish or Red Drum category, Steve Marynowicz of the Drum Runners team of Kill Devil Hills won with a 19 Flounder. In the Largest Fish Caught by a Female Other than a Bluefish or Red Drum category, Candi George of the North Carolina Sea Hags of Kill Devil Hills caught 15-1/2 Gray Trout.

4 RESULTS OF THE BOB BERNARD INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT Six anglers came away as winners in the annual Bob Bernard Open Individual Tournament Saturday, Nov. 5, including a four-year-old fishing for his first time. Four-year-old Gio Fruggiero of Monroeville NJ was the surprise winner in the youth category with a one-pound Bluefish out of a total of five youth and junior entrants. In the adult Bluefish category, Augie Conte of Cherry Hill NJ, with his 2.1-pound Bluefish, beat out four other contenders. Andy Stephenson of Willow Springs NC took the Red Drum honors with a 7.7 pounder. He beat out a pound Red Drum caught by Kevin McCabe of Buxton and a 6.5 pounder caught by Michael Conrad of Towano VA. Anglers Club member Kevin McCabe did become a winner with his 1.55-pound Spotted (Speckled) Trout. Doug Wehren of Belle Haven VA won in the Flounder category with a 2-pound Flounder, and Michael Mammi of Franklinville NJ won the Sea Mullet trophy with one weighing in at 0.8 pounds. The winners were awarded $50 gift certificates and plaques courtesy of Frank and Fran s Tackle Shop of Avon A total of 84 adults were entered in the tournament, along with the five youth and junior entrants. Fishing was allowed only in the surf of Hatteras Island. All fish were judged by weight only. November Fishing Report By Milt Clapp The 59 th Annual Cape Hatteras Anglers Club Invitational Surf Fishing Tournament kicked off the month with a good day of fishing on Thursday Nov.3 followed by a bad day of fishing with rain, north winds and high surf on Friday. The month started out slow, but from Nov 1 st on we have had Blue Fish hitting the beach in ever increasing numbers all the way from Oregon Inlet to Hatteras Inlet. The water temps are finally starting to drop and the Pompano have all but disappeared from the surf. Red Drum in all sizes were being caught from about mid-october till now but there has been a marked increase in the number of slot sized and larger ones caught during the last two weeks of this month. When the wind is out of the NE they have begun to stack up on the bar on the north end of Ocracoke, and the rest of the time they are spread up and down the island. Most of the really big citation-size fish have been caught over the last three weeks just after dark and during the night on the Point. Cut mullet has been the bait of choice. The Speckled Trout fishing has been improving for the last three weeks in the normal holes, particularly along the beaches south of the Point. Anglers have been successful using Grubs and Tails for them. Flounder fishing also has improved slightly with a few nice fish over the 15 minimum and a few over 20 If you are willing to put in the time walking the beach looking for them, and if the wind and water are right. They have also been catching Blow Toads and Sea Mullet in good numbers depending on the wind and weather plus plentiful skates, rays and sharks. Overall the fishing is beginning to get much better and will probably improve till we have some really long periods of cold weather and the water temp drops drastically!

5 CURRENT STANDINGS 2016 CHAC Members Fishing Contest As of December 1, 2016 MEN S DIVISION LENGTH WEIGHT ANGLER DATE Blow Toad 11 1 lb 1 oz Clay Spencer March 29 Bluefish* lb 8 oz Rich Brady April 21 Flounder* 17-3/4 2 lb 1 oz William Motley June 5 Gray Trout 17 2 lb 4 oz Kevin McCabe Nov. 8 Pompano 16-1/2 3 lb 11 oz Miltos Stefanitis Sept. 2 Red Drum* 51 Miltos Stefanitsis Feb. 3 Sea Mullet 18-1/2 2 lb 7 oz Miltos Stefanitsis May 11 Spanish Mackerel 3 lb 6 oz Charles Durrer July 30 Speckled Trout 20-1/2 3 lb 0 oz Kevin McCabe Nov. 8 WOMEN S DIVISION LENGTH WEIGHT ANGLER DATE Black Drum 28-1/2 11 lb 7 oz Kathleen Armel May 12 Bluefish* 19-1/2 2 lb 4 oz Sandy Madre July 30 Flounder* 17 1 lb 10 oz Ginger Knight May 17 Pompano 2 lb 14 oz Susan McClanahan May 14 Red Drum* 43 Ginger Knight Nov. 22 Sea Mullet 18 2 lb 1 oz Emily Seibert May 16 Sheepshead 15 2 lb 3 oz Thelma Noble May 25 Spanish Mackerel 24 3 lb 10 oz Carla Meekins July 20 Speckled Trout 18 2 lb 4 oz Jan Larsen Nov. 29 JUNIOR DIVISION (Age 13 through 16) LENGTH WEIGHT ANGLER DATE Bluefish* 14 1 lb 0 oz Jasmine Roller Aug. 27 Pompano 14 1 lb 7 oz Jasmine Roller June 17 Sea Mullet 15 ¼ 1 lb 5 oz Jasmine Roller June 17 YOUTH DIVISION (Through Age 12) LENGTH WEIGHT ANGLER DATE Bluefish 24 Blake Givens June 3 Gray Trout oz Josh Kiser Aug. 18 Pompano 13 ½ 1 lb 5 oz Josh Kiser Aug. 20 Red Drum* 28 Reese Hubbard Feb. 20 Sea Mullet 16-1/2 1 lb 9 oz Josh Kiser June 13 Spanish Mackerel 18 ½ 1lb 13-1/2 oz Josh Kiser Aug. 21 * Award will be for length only. HIGHLIGHTS OF NOV. 12 MEMBERS MEETING MINUTES SIGN-UP SHEETS are in the back for the following: Duplicate license plates Cost is $20, payable in advance. Bingo Volunteers Need Help to work the Kitchen, verifying winners and calling. Clean-up Need help cleaning after Bingo, General meetings, and other functions. Year-round general volunteer help Assist with occasional small projects such as help with Club Bulletin mailings, stuffing envelopes, etc. Ocracoke Fishing Tournament To be held May 4-5. CORRESPONDENCE: Thank you notes that were received: 1) The Lions Club Visually Impaired Persons (VIP) Tournament for our donation that sponsored 4 anglers; 2) ASA (American Sportfishing Assn.) for renewing our membership; and 3) United Methodist Men for our $1,500 donation. COMMITTEE REPORTS: BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS: Ray Schaaf reported that not much was going on since some cleanup after the hurricane. MEMBERSHIP: Nancy reported the receipt of eleven (11) adult membership applications. Motion was made, seconded and passed to accept the applicants into our membership. TREASURER S REPORT / BINGO REPORT: Sheryl reported there were 32 sessions, compared to 33 sessions in Attendance totaled 2,471 compared to 2,172 in 2015, an increase of 299 players. The Bingo account balance is $30, which is $3, more than last year s balance. The club is in good shape.

6 OLD BUSINESS: 2016 Invitational Tournament Update A huge Thank You to ALL our volunteers who gave many hours of their time and hard work before, during, and after our Annual Tournament, and to those members who responded to our request and made the wonderful soups and cookies. The Tournament would not be successful without all of you. NEW BUSINESS: Nominating Committee: (Barbara Cleveland, Millie Griffin and Bill Hennig) Nominations are currently being accepted for the Board of Directors. Board terms are for two years. Member s terms expiring are President - Larry Hardham, Recording Secretary - Pat Weston, and Directors - Larry Griffin, Bryant Marks, Wayne Mathis and Ray Schaaf. Larry and Bryant will not seek another term. A preliminary slate of officers/directors was presented to the membership by Barb Cleveland. They are: President Bill Vancura, Recording Secretary Pat Weston, Directors Larry Griffin, Wayne Mathis, Ray Schaaf and Sue Glass. Nominations will be accepted from the floor and voting will take place at the December Members Meeting to be held on Saturday, December 10 th. NPS Flood Mitigation Management Planning: (Campground and Ramps 43, 44 and 49) Scoping period has been extended to Nov. 20 th due to Hurricane Matthew. 50/50: $97 was won by Larry Emph. SPECIAL TURKEY DOOR PRIZE: Won by Helen Higgins. There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 7:53 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Pat Weston, Recording Secretary THANK YOU TO THE FOLLOWING ADVERTISERS FOR THEIR SUPPORT

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8 Cape Hatteras Anglers Club P. O. Box Light Plant Road Buxton NC Membership Expiration Date: Check the expiration date on your membership card to see if you are current on your dues. Please fill out and return this form with your check to renew your membership for Adult Membership Renewal $25.00 Junior Membership New & Renewal FREE (Ages 13-16) (But Must Renew Annually) Scholarship Donation Youth Membership New & Renewal FREE (Through Age 12) (But Must Renew Annually) NAME: ADDRESS: CITY-STATE-ZIP PHONE: