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OFFICERS

President Tommy Peace 919-231-3291

President@RSWSC.org.

Vice-President Chuck Ward

cward@nc.rr.com 919 608-7674

Treasurer

John Bryant rswsctreasurer@gmail.com

919 624-0676

Secretary Will Hill

Gamecockwillie@Yahoo.com

At-Large Members

Parke Rash wrash1@nc.rr.com

919 524-6298

Tommy Walls twalls6258@att.net

919 325-6529

Fred Adams fred@fredadamspaving.com

Greg Brissette

Gbrissette1@nc.rr.com 919 426-8372

Past President John Knight

jknightfish@aol.com H-919 469-0071 C-919 710-9409

KMT Director Jason Fant

jfant@att.net

Vol 38, Issue 6 June 2016

Speaker Schedule - Chuck Ward

For our July 19 meeting, we’ll have Anthony Dillon from Hanta Rods and Lures speaking. His area of expertise is popping, jigging and slow pitch jigging. He recently returned from 8 days of fishing in southern Oman in the Middle East. He’ll share how he caught a Giant Travelly on a Hanta popping rod. His contact information is: Anthony Dillon 919-480-5138 www.hantarodsandlures.com

August Meeting In August, we’ll meet at Overton’s. They will provide a speaker who will talk about giant red drum, just in time for our annual drum outing in September.

September Meeting Richard Ehrenkaufer will be our speaker. Richard lives on the coast and fishes every day. His scientific background also brings great record keeping on fishing conditions and catch. TOPIC: How to successfully design artificial baits. What fish see (especially colors), hear, taste, smell and how to get baits to act like food. For a successful bait you need to get artificial to look like, sound like smell/taste and act like food. Richard Ehrenkaufer, Ph.D., better known as Dr. Bogus, is a re-tired scientist, and avid inshore fisherman from the surf, pier and kayak. Living in Emerald Isle, he has fished the Crystal Coast for nearly 24 years and his website (www.ncoif.com, drbo-gus@drbogus.com), Totally Bogus Fishing Report and frequent seminars are relied upon by surf, pier and inshore anglers alike. In its 16th year, Dr. Bogus’ fishing show is on the radio every Mon-day morning at 7:30 on 107.1 FM (WTKF) and 1240 AM (WJNC).

Meeting Directions

The NC State University Club is located off Hillsboro St. between the Beltline (I-440)and NCSU Vet School/State Fairgrounds. The

Raleigh Saltwater

Sport Fishing Club

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32 Years Already? Well, Here’s to the Next 32!

It’s tournament season again and I for one am very excited for this year’s tournament. I’m starting to hear from some of our long-time anglers and honestly it feels good to be getting back into the mix of things. Don’t get me wrong, there’s been plenty of work going on from the day after last year’s tourney up until now, there’s been permits and town hearings and lining up sponsors and countless other things behind the scenes, but now is when it all starts to come together, and for me this is my favorite time leading up to the big day. Today marks the official opening of the 32nd Annual Raleigh Saltwater Sport Fishing Club King Mackerel Tournament.

As I enter my 2nd year as Tournament Director, it’s pretty humbling to think about the long, storied histo-ry this tournament holds. From the humble early beginnings, through the heyday of of the sport when there would be a couple hundred boats running for the inlet, this event has seen pretty much all there is to see. Having said that, I’m excited to see what the future holds. Not just for this tournament, but for the sport in general.

With fuel prices down we’re expecting to see a really good turnout this year. With that turnout, what I’m really hoping is to see a lot of new participants. Unlike the big billfish tournament, King Mackerel tourna-ments really do offer a great opportunity for anglers of all levels and boats of all shapes and sizes to have an honest shot at taking home the prize. I know that NBOA and SKA are working really hard to bring new faces to the sport and we certainly want to do our part as well, and at the same time we want to keep it in-teresting for those seasoned teams that have been there and done that. That’s why we try to keep our base entry fees relatively low, while still giving the “big guns” an opportunity to rack up the winnings with things like the High Stakes Winner Takes All and High Roller TWT’s.

So that brings me to ask the question. What kinds of things would you like to see in a KMT? If you’ve never fished an SKA event before, I’d love to have your thoughts on what would excite you and entice you to join our sport? Conversely, if you’ve been doing this for decades, how do you see the future and what would get you excited about it all over again?

Let me know your thoughts. I’d really like to hear from all of you. You can reach me anytime at jfant@rswsc.org or reach out on Facebook or Twitter (@RaleighKMT). So what say you? Let’s take this thing to the next level, together.

Jason Fant

RSWSC Director of Tournaments

Flash From The Past—Bernie McCants Photo from the 12th Annual King Tour-nament. Possibly from some photos pro-vided by Robert Vinay. My how things have changed as there were only an hand-ful of king tournaments back in the day.

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“The worst kept secret among speckled trout and redfish anglers is that scented lures are the real deal. Whereas once scented baits were looked upon by saltwater anglers as gimmicks and cons, brands like Gulp have made believers out of even die-hard tradition-alists. The argument about whether scent matters has pretty much been settled.

So you have your scented baits and you’re ready to boat some specks and reds. Is it that easy? Unfortunately, no. Scented baits may seem to work like magic at times, but when you actually get on the water seeking speckled trout and redfish — the majority of the work is still up to you. These baits leave a powerful scent trail and taste a lot like the real thing, but presentation is still key.

Leaders — Different anglers use different leaders when fishing scented lures. Some use fluorocarbon while others use monofila-ment leaders. Whatever your choice, 20 lb leader is plenty when dealing with specks and redfish as neither is likely to bite you off. The key is to keep a light drag, as hooks often pull out of a trout’s paper-thin mouth during a fight. (Editor’s note: Have a length that works for your cast and allows you to cut some off if you change jig heads, without having to tie on a new leader.)

Rigging Gulp Baits — Rigging is as varied as leader material. Some folks like 1/8 to ¼ ounce bullet weights ahead of offset worm hooks, a technique brought over to saltwater by largemouth bass anglers. Others use jig heads of various colors and sizes, some-times mixing and matching based on the way the fish respond. Some pros will simply rig scented baits under popping corks the same way they would fish live shrimp. (Ed: Matching the bait color to light and water conditions is also another topic to research.)

Retrieving — However you choose to rig your baits, if you don’t retrieve them correctly ,and at the right time, it isn’t going to matter. The number one consideration, especially in the cold waters of win-ter, is to slow down.

One good retrieve is a simple crawl along the bottom. Another one is to let your bait sink and then bring it back to you in foot-long hops with long pauses. Trout and redfish will often nail the lure as it falls back. You can also swim it back to you like a twitch bait, but if you do so you should reel very slowly. (Ed: Remember that an inch or so “pop” at the pole can translate to a larger jump in the water.)

When to Fish Scented Baits — Scented bait baits won’t entice fish when they aren’t feeding. In the winter you want to look for times when the tide is really moving. Fishing around structure such as marsh grass, a dock, or a creek mouth on a rapidly falling tide is one of your best winter scenarios. Hitting a rising tide on a sunny day along dark banks where fiddler crabs hang out will often result in a smashing red drum bite. A falling tide at sunrise can be the per-fect trout scenario. Basically you want structure and moving current, which is where you will find the schools of trout and reds waiting to feed on wary and slow-moving prey that Gulp baits imitate.”

Borrowed and abbreviated from the late Jeffrey Weeks

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Good Web Sites—Bill Mandulak If the weather is bad or you are just bored watch-ing golf on TV, there are a couple web sites with several choices of fishing shows to watch. The first is www.waypointtv.com which host multiple shows with many episodes. The choices include Into The Blue and Seasons on the Fly. I think there about 12 different shows. There is a new offering that is saltwater oriented called Local Knowledge. The web site is www.localknowledgetv.com. Check them out. They might give you something to do when it is raining.

Our Web Site - www.rswsc.org

See how it has improved. Send any comments good or bad to Jason Fant webmas-ter@rswsc.org He does want input to have a web site the club can be proud of.webmaster@rswsc.org.

Raleigh Saltwater Sport Fishing Club is on Facebook

If you are a member of Facebook, you can now go to the “The Raleigh Salt Water Sportfishing Club” Facebook page, view recent photos, and participate in discussions. If not a member, you can join at www.facebook.com

You can find the Club by doing a "Search" for The Raleigh Salt Water Sport Fishing Club. Re-member -- you do need to join Facebook to be able to see the information.

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NEWSLETTER EDITORS

Bernie McCants 919 832-3755

bernie.mccants@gmail.com

Bo Nowell 919 362-1762

Bonowell@aol.com

Jim Beetham C– 919 801-0387

jbeetham@twc.com

ARTICLES

Fishing reports, pictures, tips, editorials, classified ads for boats and fishing tackle, seafood recipes, articles, tackle recommen-dations or criticisms etc... are welcomed. Receipt by email is preferred.

The newsletter no longer goes to print/mailing. But approximately a week prior to the meeting the news-letter is posted to the web-site and a link is sent to all current members with up-to-date email addresses. The web site saves the Club on mailing and printing expense and we urge Club members to sign-in and non-members to use it until they realize why they need to join.

Last minute reports may be submitted by email and may be able to be inserted up to a few days before the Newsletter is posted (hopefully a week before the meeting)

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IF YOU LIKE TO SHOOT SKEET AS MUCH AS YOU FISH! CCA NC Sportsman’s Conservation Legacy Shootout returns to Drake Landing on August 27th! The suc-cess of the first Sportsman’s Shootout demanded a rematch be scheduled in 2016! CCA is happy to have Regulator Marine, Potash Corp., and Grady-White Boats already signed on as 2016 sponsors! Last year saw 18 teams compete for top honors and to take home the coveted CCA NC Sports-man’s Shootout trophy that became affectionately known as “Mr. Cheney”. “Mr. Cheney”, will once again be up for grabs to go home for the year with the 2016 winning team! In addition, prizes will be awarded to the top individual, youth and lady shooters! Last year there were 18 teams entered, and 14 people that took advantage of CCA’s Special Life Member offer during the Shootout where they received an embroidered CCA NC Life Member Simms bag as our thanks. This year we will be offering a custom Glove Leather Shotgun Case handcrafted by Blake Jones Designs in Texas as a special thanks to any New or Sustaining Life Members signed up during the Shootout. Blake’s Shotgun Case was recently featured in Garden & Gun Magazine: http://gardenandgun.com/article/good-hunting-monograms Anyone that becomes a New or Sustaining Life Mem-ber during the event will receive their own custom Shotgun Case personalized with their initials. Last year’s winning team, Sponsored by Billy Byrd’s Nationwide Insurance – Dick Brame, Tom Roller, Sr., Chuck Laughridge and Don Downing – are expected back to defend their title. The friendly competition will follow a similar format of warm-up shooting, the challenging sporting clay course, and a finals shootout. We will also enjoy another of the famous Drake Landing home-style lunches, and conclude with drinks and the awards presentation. Prizes will also be awarded to the best individual, junior, and ladies shooters! The Sportsman’s Shootout entry fee of $400 gets a team of four shooters registered for a day of friendly competition on the world-class Drake Landing Sporting Clays course, warm-up shooting and instruction, lunch, a finals shoot off, and a chance to win some wonderful prizes. The day will conclude with an awards presentation, including the traditional passing of Mr. Cheney, and a cocktail reception. Get your team ready today! Sign up your team on-line today at: http://ccanc.org/2016-sportsmans-conservation-legacy-shootout/ Additional sponsorships are still available!

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THE RALEIGH SALT WATER SPORT FISHING CLUB—A History In 1976 Bob Goldstein was tired of fishing alone. His wife, his frequent fishing partner, was no longer interested in fighting the cruel weather and long night hours it can take to fish the Outer Banks for drum and bluefish in the late Fall. From Bob's frustra-tion, the RSWSC was born. An ad in the News and Observer classifieds brought a handful of devoted salt water anglers to a meeting place in a north Raleigh parking lot. Each fisherman agreed to take the responsibility of speaking or getting a speaker or movie each month. They met informally for a few years and as membership grew, and the marine resource began to diminish, they decided to formally incor-porate on December 12, 1980. The bylaws state that the objectives are "to promulgate fellowship, information, sportsmanship, and conservation practices in-volved in the art of sportf ishing." Those principles have been the driving force throughout the years since that time. The RSWSC has tackled a number of tasks over the years. In 1984, then President Dave Tingen, led the Club's effort to raise awareness of the need for improved artificial reefs. The Club bought a Grady White and sold raffle tickets to help buy and sink an old liberty ship. All the funds went to the Cape Lookout Artificial Reef Fund. A tidal wave of governmental red tape prevented the Protector from being sunk but in time Marine Fisheries, the efforts of the RSWSC, the Carteret County Sportfishing Association and many other clubs, the NC Legislature funded the reef program and another ship, the Aeolus, was eventually sunk. NC Marine Fisheries now has an artificial reef plan of which all North Carolina fisherman can be proud. The RSWSC worked in the early eighties with a number of the other clubs to help form a Federation of NC Saltwater Sportfish-ing Clubs. The Federation was an all volunteer organization and after a few years dissolved. Club President, David Tompkins tried to get it started again a few years afterwards but, again, volunteers could not make it happen. In 1987, the recreational King Mackerel fishery was closed and Club President Mike Holleman met with a number of representa-tives of the fishing clubs and, through the efforts of many other fishermen, the Atlantic Coast Conservation Association of NC was born. The ACCA of NC was given seed money remaining from the Federation, cash donations from many fishing clubs in-cluding the RSWSFC, a grant from the Hanes Foundation, and contributions from Grady White and other interested persons. A year later a full time Executive Director was hired and the ACCA (now CCA-NC) is now the largest and most organized recrea-tional fishing sport lobby for marine conservation and saltwater fishermen. One of the things that the RSWSC feels strongly about is encouraging any effort that supports taking kids fishing. For this rea-son, the club has contributed as much money as its operating budget could bear to the "Take A Kid Fishing Foundation." Every year, profits from RSWSC Annual King Mackerel Tournament are donated to the Take a Kid Fishing Foundation as well as some other charities. In past years as much as $5000 was donated to TAKF. Since profits come from KMT pamphlet ad sales and the sale of the fish factors such as poor fishing, the number of entrants, bad weather, a bad economy, or a lack of community businesses supporting ad sales limits the pool of money available for the kids. Hopefully, the tournament revenue generated this year will permit a lot more needy and handicapped kids to enjoy saltwater fishing for the first time in their lives. The club has also contributed to Hatteras hurricane relief efforts over the years, the National Coalition for Marine Conservation and the IGFA as well as groups who look after troubled kids and try to get them back on the right track in life. When the Red Tide hit the coast, the club donated $500 dollars to a fundraiser aimed at helping the fishing families in the Atlantic beach area. The club also contributed toward efforts to raise legislative awareness of the benefits of the State's artificial reef program. The Club supported a Saltwater Sport Fishing License for most of its existence provided the money comes back to the resource similar to the license monies raised from hunting and freshwater licenses. The RSWSFC monthly meetings are oriented around fishing; how, where, and when. The RSWSC meets the third Tuesday of each month at the NCSU Faculty Club. Meetings are open to the Public. It publishes a monthly newsletter intended as an open forum for discussion of the issues ranging from education about fishing methods, fishery regulations, to fishery conservation. From this beginning, the club grew to its current membership of members and their families. To find out more about the Take A Kid Fishing Foundation, and how you can help, please call 252 808-8303, or make a dona-tion!

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Summer flounder reclassified in 2016 Stock Status Report

The stock status of most coastal fish did not change in the 2016 Stock Status Report, released today by the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries. Only one species was reclassified from the 2015 report. Summer flounder moved from “viable” to “concern.” The change was based on a 2015 National Marine Fisher-ies Service Northeast Fisheries Science Center benchmark stock assessment for U.S. waters north of Cape Hat-teras. The assessment indicated the stock was not overfished — but overfishing was occurring. As a result of the stock assessment, federal fisheries authorities lowered the allowable biological catch by 29 percent, which lowered the state-by-state commercial quotas proportionately. North Carolina receives the high-est commercial quota share at 27.4 percent. The division annually classifies the status of important marine finfish, shellfish, shrimp and crabs as viable, re-covering, concern, depleted or unknown. Definitions of these categories can be found at http://portal.ncdenr.org/web/mf/stock-status-categories-and-definitions. The annual classifications are based on biological and statistical data from the prior year and serve as a barome-ter of the overall health of the state’s fishery resources. They are used to prioritize development of state fishery management plans. New this year, the online table that summarizes the report includes information about which fisheries manage-ment authorities manage the stock in parenthesis under each species name. The complete 2016 Stock Status Report can be found on the division’s website at: http://portal.ncdenr.org/web/mf/stock-status-reports. For more information, contact division Fisheries Biologist Lee Paramore at 252-473-5734, ext. 222 or Lee.Paramore@ncdenr.gov

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Past Speakers List and contact information

Presenter Website/Email Topic Phone

Rusty Dunnavant rusty01@gmail.com Striper Fishing

Rob Koraly www.sandbarsafari.com Bonita Fishing 252-725-4614

Capt Bryan Goodwin www.nativeguide.net Light tackle fishing 252 725-3961

Dave Anderson www.collinsboating.com Engine & Boat Mainte-nance

919 934-3143

Jerry Dilsaver captjery@captjerry.com Throwing Casting Nets

Dick Brame dbrame55@gmail.com Fishing Issues

Fuzzy Lambert www.dunkilewisinc.com Humming Bird Elec-tronics

336 416-3733

Capt George Beckwith www.downeastguideservice.com

252 671-3434

James Garner www.otseg@aol.com Boat Building w/Hi Tech Composites

Robbie Hall halleminchar-ters@yahoo.com

Fishing in Emerald Isle /Swansboro

252-354-6692

Capt Daniel Jarvas www.flatfootcharters.com

Bonita Fishing in New River Inlet

828-308-6726

Capt. Gary Dubiel www.specfever.com/blog Large Drum on artifi-cial bait

252-249-1520

Capt Dave Tilley www.portal.ncdenr.org/web/mf/home

910-456-0611

Seth Vernon www.captainsethvernon.com

Double Haul Guide Ser-vice

910-233-4520

Gary Ballard www.deepcreeklures.com www.captaingarysproducts.com

Deep Creek Lures & Captain Gary's Marine Care Products

(910) 892-1791

Capt. Richard Andrews http://tarpamguide.com/ Tar-Pam Guide Service (252) 945-9715

Seaview Pier www.seaviewfishingpier.com

910-328-3172

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RSWSC FISHING REPORT

Angler (Club Member):______________________________ (Age if Junior/Youth angler) ____________

Small Boat Charter Pier Surf (Circle one) Location:______________________________________Date:_______________

Best Catch: Species:________________________________________________

Weight________ lbs_______ oz ________ Length __________ (inches)

Released? Yes No (Circle one)

Comments: _______________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________

Mail/email to: RSWSC, P.O. Box 41427, Raleigh, NC 27629

MEMBERSHIP FORM Renewals — Please only enter changed information Name:___________________________________________________ New member Include spouse’s/children name if family membership Renewal Address: _________________________________________________________________

City: __________________________________________ State: _____ Zip: __________

Home phone:_________________ Work Phone: ______________Cell______________

E-mail address: ___________________________ Boat Name: ___________________

Dues: Single - $50: Family - $60: Sponsor (business card) - $130:

Corresponding (newsletter only) - $25: (Note: larger sponsor ads or short term ads are available and negotiable. Contact a club officer or Newsletter Editor for pricing.)

Mail to: RSWSC, PO Box 41427, Raleigh, NC 27629