Cape Hatteras Anglers Club 12/31/2014Dwight 47231 Light Plant Road P. O. Box 145 Buxton NC 27920 Fax and Telephone Number: 252-995-4253 Office Hours: 8:30 am-12:30 pm Tues., Wed., Thurs. E-mail address: anglers@embarqmail.com Web Page: www.capehatterasanglersclub.org www.facebook.com/capehatterasanglersclub 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 JUNE/JULY 2016 2016 CALENDAR OF EVENTS 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 Schedule for Board and Monthly Covered Dish Dinner Meetings* Schedule for Bingo** MONTH BOARD MONTHLY MTG. June 9 11 July 7 NO MEETING August 11 NO MEETING September 8 10 October 6 8 November 10 12 December 8 10 MONTH DATES June, July, August Every Wednesday September Every Wednesday October 5, 12, 19 November 16, 30 December 14 (ALL 3 JACKPOTS WILL BE PAID ON DEC 14 TH ) January 2017 4, 18 The clubhouse is a smoke free building for all functions. **Bingo- Doors open at 6 pm / first game starts promptly at 7 pm 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. MEMBERSHIP REMINDER IF YOU HAVE NOT YET PAID! Adult Membership Renewal is $25 and Youth and Junior Memberships* are Free (*Beginning in January, 2016, all new and renewed Youth and Junior Memberships through age 16 will be at no charge.) Check your expiration date on your membership card, then, if you are past due, please Fill out Membership Renewal Form at the bottom and mail with a check or money order to: Cape Hatteras Anglers Club, PO Box 145, Buxton, NC 27920 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. E-mailed versions of this bulletin arrive faster and save money on ink, paper, and postage! Please send us your current e-mail address. We can then add it to your contact information Dues must be current to register fish in the Members Fishing Contest and to be eligible for door prize drawings at meetings. WELCOME NEW MEMBERS Rodney Bowen Richmond VA Steve Bock Rittman OH Susan Dingler Carolina Beach NC Dorothy Donner-LIFE Yorktown VA (Congratulations to Dorothy for converting her Regular membership to a Life Membership)
ANNOUNCEMENTS EMPTY PRESCRIPTION BOTTLES COLLECTION VERY SUCCESSFUL The Anglers Club collected at least several hundred empty prescription bottles for an area church. (We didn t count them but they filled a large garbage bag.) The pill bottles will be donated to rural hospital dispensaries in Africa that cannot afford to buy prescription bottles to use to dispense prescriptions to their patients. Thank you everyone who participated. DONATIONS NEEDED FOR OUR ANNUAL YARD SALE AUG. 12 We need more donations for our annual indoor yard sale, set for 8 am to noon on Friday, Aug. 12. You can drop off your donations during office hours. Items can include all kitchen and household items, such as small appliances, kitchenware and decorative items, children s games, books, and all kinds of fishing gear and tackle. No clothing please. CROSSWALKS REMINDER Now that the summer visitor season is here with many more pedestrians around, please obey the Pedestrian Crossing signs at the highway crosswalks in the Hatteras Island villages. Pedestrians have the right of way, and if you are pulled over for not yielding to pedestrians at the crosswalks you could be facing a citation and a fine of $188 plus a $35 processing fee for your lack of attention. JOIN US FOR BINGO If you are looking for something fun to do and want to get out of the house, join us for Bingo on Wednesday nights here at the club. Beginning June 1 Bingo will be every Wednesday through October 19. Games are all cash prizes, and we have hot dogs, soft drinks candy and popcorn available. Free coffee also! Doors open at 6 pm and games begin at 7 pm. Check the full 2016 schedule on the first page of the Bulletin. Our Bingo nights help fund our scholarship program and help enable us to make donations to a number of Hatteras Island non-profit organizations. SAVE YOUR BOX TOPS, SOUP LABELS AND INK CARTRIDGES We are proud to say that over the past 15 years the Anglers Club has collected 8,369 General Mills box tops and 6,946 Campbells Soup labels to give to the elementary school. In addition, since we started the used ink cartridge and toner program just last year, members have donated 103 used cartridges that we have forwarded to the school. The school receives $2 each from Staples through their Rewards Program. You only have a short time remaining to donate to the Campbell Soup Labels for Education. The Labels for Education program will end August 1. Check the LabelsForEducation.com Web site for more information. Please continue to save your General Mills Box Tops for Education. We donate them to the Cape Hatteras Elementary School. The elementary school gets 10 cents for each box top it collects and sends to General Mills. We need the box tops well before their expiration date to forward to the school to ensure that the school can redeem them in time. Once the expiration date is past, the box tops are no longer good. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE IS SEEKING VOLUNTEERS FOR CENTENNIAL The National Park Service is looking for local residents to help take part in the Park Service s centennial celebration by assisting with various jobs within the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Volunteer jobs include: Birder at Bodie Island to educate visitors on the different species of birds in the area; Biological Science Technician Volunteer to help perform migratory shorebird, turtle and mammal surveys; Fee Collection Assistant at both Bodie Island and Hatteras Island; Lighthouse Assistant at the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse; Fishing Program Volunteer to assist park rangers in conducting the Fishing with a Ranger and seining programs. Visit www.volunteer.gov for more information and to apply.
THREE ANGLERS CLUB MEMBERS HONORED WITH GOVERNOR S AWARDS Longtime Anglers Club members Ray and Claire Schaaf (center) and Sandi Jones Garrison (right) were recently selected for the 2016 Governor s Volunteer Service Awards for their years of volunteer service on Hatteras Island. For 15 years, Ray and Claire have volunteered many hours each day, seven days a week, with the Cape Hatteras Methodist Men s Food Pantry and Emergency Assistance Program. Through their efforts they have developed the food pantry into one of the best in eastern North Carolina. They are an amazing couple that exemplifies the true meaning of volunteerism, said Bonnie Bennett, program coordinator at Dare County Friends of Youth, as she presented the awards. Sandi Jones Garrison s primary duty was to perform direct volunteer hospice and respite care for patients and their families who are receiving Dare Home Health and Dare Hospice Services. She volunteered 343 combined hospice and respite hours during 2015, the highest number of hours ever recorded by Dare Home Health and Dare Hospice. Sandi also will receive the Governor s Medallion at a ceremony in Raleigh, given to only 20 recipients statewide. Also receiving a Governor s Service Award was Natalie McIntosh (left), who was recognized for her work with Hatteras Island Meals. CAPE HATTERAS ANGLERS CLUB AWARDS THREE SCHOLARSHIPS The Anglers Club awarded three exceptional graduating seniors at the Cape Hatteras Secondary School a total of $7,000 in scholarships at the high school s annual scholarship banquet May 31. Sixteen seniors from a graduating class of 30 applied for the scholarships. The Anglers Club scholarship committee selected Macy Quidley of Buxton to receive its $4,000 scholarship to attend a four-year school. Macy plans to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to major in biology on the premed track. Colby Ian O Neal of Rodanthe was selected for the $2,000 scholarship to attend a four-year school. Ian will attend Appalachian State University to major in physical education. Juanita Wage of Avon was awarded the $1,000 scholarship to attend a two-year school. Juanita has been accepted at the Cape Fear Community College, where she will major in business administration. She plans to transfer to the University of North Carolina at Wilmington to finish her final two years. The Anglers Club works year-round to raise money to award the scholarships. Among the fund-raising events are the annual invitational surf fishing tournament each November that is billed as one of the largest in the world, and Wednesday Bingo nights at the club. The Anglers Club has awarded over $135,000 in scholarships since 1989. FISHING REPORT AND NEWS Over the past two weeks we have had scattered Blue Fish, Sea Mullet, Spanish Mackerel and the occasional Puppy Drum from the Hatteras Island beaches. On a good note there has been an occasional big drum caught. These were mostly caught late in the evening around the end closure ropes going toward The Point. On Ocracoke they have been catching some nice big drum on the North end as they make their move into the sound for the summer. The Cobia have been almost nonexistent from the surf with only a couple being reported, however the boats have been doing well on both the Cobia and big Drum inshore! Hopefully as the weather breaks the fishing will improve! Thanks to Milton Clapp for this report 6/2/16
MORE CHANGES FOR COBIA AND FLOUNDER IN NORTH CAROLINA NEW Effective May 30, North Carolina instituted a season and a new minimum length for Cobia for recreational shore and pier anglers. The Cobia season will close Sept. 30and the new minimum length is 37 fork length, up from 33. The state changed its bag limit for Cobia to one per day in April. Flounder season will close Oct. 15. Minimum length remains at 15 total length with a bag limit of six flounder per day per person. MEMBERS FISHING CONTEST MODIFICATION Due to the implementation of seasons for Cobia and Flounder, we have decided to modify the award criteria for those species from a weight measurement to a length measurement, which must be witnessed before release. This way, if one is caught it can be measured on the beach, witnessed, and then released if caught out of season. Also, we ve added an optional measurement category to the standings. If you catch a fish that is awarded by length, you can also record the weight of your catch, if available. The same goes for fish awarded for weight. We will record the length if you have it. CURRENT STANDINGS IN THE MEMBERS FISHING CONTEST As of June 1, 2016 MEN S DIVISION LENGTH WEIGHT ANGLER DATE Blow Toad 11 1 lb 1 oz Clay Spencer March 29 Bluefish* 32 11 lb 8 oz Rich Brady April 21 Gray Trout 17 1 lb 8 oz Kevin McCabe Jan. 15 Red Drum* 51 Miltos Stefanitsis Feb. 3 Sea Mullet 18-1/2 2 lb 7 oz Miltos Stefanitsis May 11 Spanish Mackerel 21 FL 2 lb 9 oz Darr Barshis May 26 WOMEN S DIVISION LENGTH WEIGHT ANGLER DATE Black Drum 28-1/2 11 lb 7 oz Kathleen Armel May 12 Flounder* 17 1 lb 10 oz Ginger Knight May 17 Pompano 2 lb 14 oz Susan McClanahan May 14 Red Drum* 26 Ashley Bahen March 8 Sea Mullet 18 2 lb 1 oz Emily Seibert May 16 YOUTH DIVISION (Through Age 12) LENGTH WEIGHT ANGLER DATE Red Drum* 28 Reese Hubbard Feb. 20 * Measured by length only. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LINKS If you are looking for the Cape Hatteras National Seashore ramp and resource management status reports, they now are only available on the Park Service s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/capehatterasns, where you will find the Daily Ramp Status Report, the weekly Resource Management Report and the weekly Table of Miles Open/Closed. NOTE: According to the NPS June 3 news release up to 14 of rain fell on Hatteras Island between May 28 and June 2. The campground currently is closed due to up to eight inches of standing water. Ramps also have standing water but remain open. Ramps 43, 44 and 49 are the most heavily impacted. Please use your best judgment if you attempt to use one of these ramps. SALTWATER FISHING LICENSES You can purchase the NC Coastal Recreational (saltwater) Fishing License at the following locations: Go to http://portal.ncdenr.org/web/mf/recreational-fishing-license-types-and-fees for current fees. Avon: Askins Creek Store (BP and Car Wash) Hatteras: Pelican s Roost Frank & Fran s Tackle Shop Teach s Tackle at Teach s Lair Marina Buxton: Dillon s Corner Rodanthe: Hatteras Jack Red Drum Tackle Shop Salvo: The Fishin Hole Frisco: Frisco Rod & Gun Frisco Tackle
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE APRIL AND MAY MEMBERS MEETINGS April 9, 2016 President Larry Hardham called the meeting to order at 7:20 p.m. and welcomed 50 members and guests. GUEST SPEAKER: Danny Couch gave a very informative and interesting talk about the history of Hatteras Island and encouraged everyone to attend some of the events featuring other speakers on the history of our island and the Lost Colony. COMMITTEE REPORTS: BUILDING AND GROUNDS: Ray Schaaf reported that B&G was performing routine maintenance. MEMBERSHIP: Nancy reported the receipt of three adult membership applications. Motion was made and seconded to accept the applications. TREASURER S REPORT / BINGO REPORT: Larry gave the Bingo report in Sheryl s absence. There were 7 sessions compared to 6 sessions in 2015. Attendance totaled 227 compared to 142 in 2015, an increase of 85 players. The Bingo account balance is $7,078.57, which is $1,076.36 more than last year s balance. The Club is in good financial shape. OLD BUSINESS: WEB SITE The web site review has been completed, but updating will continue. ST. BALDRICK S Wayne Mathis was happy to report that he was able to raise $225 for children s cancer research and thanked everyone for their support. NEW BUSINESS: CHAC TOURNAMENT Invitations were mailed to 120 teams for the 2016 Tournament. YARD SALE The Yard Sale will be Friday, August 12 th. You may drop off items at any time during Anglers Club office hours. 50/50: $95 was won by Betty Pritchard. Respectfully submitted, Pat Weston, Recording Secretary May 14, 2016 President Larry Hardham called the meeting to order at 7:15 p.m. and welcomed 59 members and guests. SIGN-UP SHEETS are in the back for the following: Fishing Tournaments Sign-up sheets for Hatteras Village Fishing Tournament (Sept. 10-12, 2016), Nags Head Fishing Tournament (Oct. 5-7, 2016), and the Assateague Fishing Tournament (Oct. 20-22.), which will depend on how many sign up. Drawings for teams will be held at the June 11 th meeting. Duplicate license plates Cost is $20, payable in advance. Bingo Volunteers -- 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. CORRESPONDENCE: Larry noted a letter from the Colington United Methodist Church thanking us for collecting empty prescription bottles for Africa, which will conclude at the end of May. COMMITTEE REPORTS: BUILDING AND GROUNDS: Bob Fink reported that he had installed a new enclosed weather-resistant bulletin board cabinet on the front porch to the right of the entrance doors... MEMBERSHIP: Nancy reported the receipt of three new adult membership applications, plus one member, Dorothy Donner of Yorktown VA, who converted from a regular membership to a life membership. Motion was made and seconded to accept the applications. TREASURER S REPORT/BINGO REPORT: Through April, there have been 9 sessions compared with 9 sessions in 2015. Attendance total is 311 compared to 330 in 2015, a decrease of 19 players. The Bingo account balance is $7642.57, which is $372.64 less than last year s balance. The Club is in good financial shape otherwise. OLD BUSINESS: SCHOLARSHIP INTERVIEWS Were held Friday, May 13, at 1:30 p.m. There were 12 applicants from a graduating class of 30 for the three scholarships. Larry said the seniors represented the school very well. CHSS SENIOR APPRECIATION NIGHT CHSS Seniors will use the club for scholarship presentations on Tuesday May 31 at 6 pm. Anglers Club vice-president Bill Vancura will present the club s scholarship awards. YARD SALE Date will be 8 am to noon Friday, August 12th. Members may continue to drop off their items during Club hours.
NEW BUSINESS: REVISED MEMBERS CONTEST ENTRY FORMS Have been placed in all the tackle shops. Contest changes are that the following fish are to be measured by length and witnessed: Albacore, Bluefish, Cobia, Flounder, Red Drum and Striped Bass. Cobia season will close Sept. 30 and Flounder season Oct. 15, but they still can be entered in the contest by length before being returned to the water as long as they are witnessed. CLUB BULLETINS April/May Bulletins were e-mailed late to members due to Century Link s changes in their spam criteria that restricted mass e-mailings. A private company, Constant Connect, was found that was able to e-mail them with no problem. They also provide statistics. OCRACOKE TOURNAMENT APRIL 28-29 The Anglers Club team placed 11 th. Ben Anderson and Ricky Pitt each caught 19-1/2 Red Drum. GOVERNOR S OUTSTANDING VOLUNTEER AWARDS will be presented Mon. May 16 at the Fessenden Center to Anglers Club members Ray and Claire Schaaf for their 15 years of service with the United Methodist Men s Food Pantry and Emergency Assistance Program, and member Sandi Garrison for her volunteer work for Dare Home Health and Hospice services. Sandi also will receive the Governor s Medallion award in Raleigh for her volunteer service. 50/50: $98 was won by Francis Kennedy. Respectfully submitted, Judy Torres, for Pat Weston, Recording Secretary THANK YOU TO THE FOLLOWING ADVERTISERS FOR THEIR SUPPORT
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