The Fish Story
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•November 18, 2024
Quickie Downpour Wasn’t Drought Buster; Sea Robins Are Way Cooler Than We Think
That was a refreshing, albeit minor rain event we had to end the weekend. While the streak of rainless days was ended, it wasn’t the proverbial drought buster, though it was well received in the…
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•November 7, 2024
Records and Leaves All Furiously Falling; There’s Suddenly Plenty to Crow About
The drought now comes down to numbers, some of them impressively impressive. For instance, October broke a 1,558-month record. That count represents the number of months official weather records have…
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•November 2, 2024
State’s Ongoing D-2 Drought Has Linkages to Dust Bowl; How Classic Fishing Disappeared From Holgate
I’ll strive not to overdo this drought thing despite its dusty intrusion into my autumnal jaunt-abouts in the Pines, as I divide my time between LBI’s sugar sand and the Pinelands’ equally sugary…
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•October 16, 2024
Dry Times in the Pines Has Smokey Sweating; How Fishing Prevented Walmart Brawl
I’m obliged to start with a wildfire warning. Smokey Bear is now officially sweating out the current ultradry conditions.
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•October 10, 2024
There Was a Time and Plan for Offshore Nuclear Power; To All My Greenhead Fly Children
THE WAY WE WEREN’T: So, you think the proposed offshore wind turbine farms are the worst idea to ever menace the Island’s eastern horizon. Nay.
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•October 5, 2024
The Long, Strange Trip a Lifeguard Stand Took; Squalene Might Spell Deeper Doom for Sharks
I’m being mysteriously drawn to the emergent mystery of how a Ship Bottom lifeguard stand recently washed up on a beach in Delaware – looking surprisingly chipper. It was seemingly no worse for wear…
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•September 26, 2024
Northeast Wind Stint Like None Before; Horseshoe Island Moves Toward Little Beach
It seems like every week I’m commencing with “I’ve never seen the likes of it.” Well, this week I can double down on that as we are seemingly stuck in the throes of a northeast wind takeover.
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•September 23, 2024
It’s Hotter Than Ever as 2024 Moves Forth; Those Miracle Mullet Are on the Move
As much as we are loath to admit it, LBI is part of the world in general. As such, it is included in the latest alarmingly hot findings by NASA and the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change…
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•September 11, 2024
Rating Island Protests in Anti-Turbine Terms; Cellphones Used to Enter Parallel Universe
Somewhat surprisingly, the Island has greatly quieted in a typical post-season manner, though there’s no quieting weekends from now through Thanksgiving.
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•September 5, 2024
The Long-Lettered Month Has Many Special Days; Sand Crabs Coming Into Their Own
Welcome to the most be-lettered of all months, even more so after achieving its doctorate. On letter count, it beats out February, November and December.
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•August 29, 2024
FOBO Joins the Acronym Elite; Replenishment Draws Nearer; Turbine Builder Assures Access to Anglers
In a flash, summer bids a fair sayonara. If you blinked once, you missed half of it. I must have blinked twice since I missed the whole shebang.
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•August 21, 2024
Heavily Viewed Jetty Rescue Saves Anglers From Battering; Horseshoe Crabs Up Against Turbine Times
The weekend saw a wow-ifed rescue of two men, possibly anglers, who became marooned on rocks next to the buoy monument at the far east end of the South Jetty at Barnegat Inlet. Their escape route…
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•August 20, 2024
How Kangaroo Rats Stopped a Highway; Public Trust Doctrine Shines in NJ
It’s hard to say with certainty that the trickle-down effects of once-Hurricane Debby knocked some seasonal sense into the Island’s ocean water temps, but there has been a welcome influx of warmer…
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•August 7, 2024
Tropical Visitations as Man o’ Wars, Small Bigeyes Arrive; NMFS ‘Potential Biological Removal Level’
August is the most schizophrenic month, more so than even March with its lion/lamb syndrome. It’s a mental mess, bursting on scene, all deep-tanned and cocky, teeming with midsummer energy. But in…
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•July 31, 2024
Orcas Make Boat Crushing Everyday Fun Affair; A Lousy Story Too Gross to Believe
Those wild and crazy orcas are making headlines again, continuing their now patented boat-sinking moves, highlighted by throwing their entire killer whale body weights down on hapless vessels. It’s…
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•July 25, 2024
Lice by Any Other Name Still Itch to Hell and Back; Virtual Trip to Micronation of Molossia
Lest I jinx it, I’ll mention in a nonchalant manner, i.e. in a whisper, the ocean water has finally warmed to the summer task. Nothing balmy just yet, but last weekend saw many bathers hitting the…
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•July 17, 2024
Maggot Weather Days Offered Us Kids Best of Times; Turbine Builds Use Worst Greenhouse Gas
“What the hell is up with these cold ocean temps!?” I hear many folks semi-angrily asking.
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•July 15, 2024
Sand for Thinning Island Beaches Pumped Forth Before Winter?; ‘Dry’ Lightning Bolt Like a Bull Whip
For Island beachgoers who are finding their favorite beaches narrowing through erosion, a sand assist is now on the way.
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•July 3, 2024
A Stunt on the Outgoing Causeway Marks a High in Summer Stupidity; Death of Chevron Adds Life to the Judicial System
Summer seems to foster stupid stunts of the highest order. However, it will be hard to out-stupid a stunt performed by an unknown number of actors last Thursday, right before midnight, on the…
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•June 27, 2024
New Scoop on Hurricanes Doesn’t Match Narratives; We Remain Among the Farmingest States
Long Beach Island’s greatest claim to summer fame, even beyond beaching, fishing, surfing, boating, crabbing, ice creaming, mini-golfing, coffee shop hopping, turbine hating and woozily high weekly…
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•June 19, 2024
Never-Ending ‘Jaws’ Saga Given a New Scientific What-If; Dogfish Overrunning Angling Scene
Donald Trump was recently heard speaking some serious bull. But it’s not what you think. He was referencing the horrific bull shark attacks in Florida. His unwieldy comments, described by one…
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•June 5, 2024
Unseeable Drivers’ Day in the Sun; Shocking ‘Unknowns’ Within Final Statement on Turbines
I’m in the dark about window tinting on vehicles in N.J. Quite obviously, the number of fully “blacked out” vehicles has skyrocketed.
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•May 30, 2024
Skinny Beaches Have Towns Light on Sand; NOAA Foresees All-Time Hurricane Season
It was a minorly memorable Memorial Day weekend, if only based on overall attendance. The people count was remarkable, complemented by decentish weather for two out of three vacation days, providing…
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•May 22, 2024
Seeking the Gentle Glow of Nighttime Mushrooms, A Screening Out of an Entire Mountain
The Memorial Day weekend is upon us. I’ve long seen it as the false start of summer. The Island engorges like a starving tick, then, just like that, it falls off until true summer begins on July 4.
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•May 15, 2024
Many Tick Types Traipse Around Jersey – a Human’s Worst Nightmare; Trump Promises Quick End to Offshore Wind Turbines
I’ll commence by begging to differ, referencing a worldwide Gallup Poll that collected information on the general feeling of well-being within 168 countries based on Internetness.
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•May 1, 2024
Looking to Bag One of Them-There Soy Turkeys; Atlantic Shores North Takes a Lighthouse View
CHURCHLY GOOFING: I ran into the wife of arguably the most dedicated hunter I have ever known. We’ll call her Anna and him Allen, mainly to cover the identity of this wonderful lady, who I was about…
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•April 28, 2024
Troubling Bufflehead Duck Die-Off Goes Viral; Recipe Calls for ‘60 Freshly Emerged Cicada’
Why won’t this chill just take a chill pill? It has been quite the raw spring, irksomely so to us non-snowbirds.
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•April 22, 2024
All This Rain But Talking a Summer Drought; Volcano Might Be Taking Aim at My Spouting Herbs
Upon us are the days of municipal hydrant flushings and the homefront switching of glass panes for airy screens, prior to closing windows for suddenly foreboding air condition times.
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•April 11, 2024
Surviving the Great Rumble, April 2024; Box Turtles in Socks Lead to Poacher Bust
WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN’: First, some thoughts on our more-interesting-than-damaging N.J. earthquake. It was a decent 4.8 temblor that took place beneath Tewksbury – which isn’t all that far from…
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•March 29, 2024
Die-Off of Buffleheads Is a Bona Fide Baffler; Filleting Career Began With Snapper Bluefish
We have an unfolding dead duck situation taking place on LBI. Such ugly happenings present as a serious whodunit, in this case a whatdunit.
