February 2010 Blog Posts (21)

Recently there were additional options regarding the fluke regulations that were approved by the NJMFC and the ASMFC. The final regulations will be set at the NJMFC meeting on March 4^th. The meeting will be held at 4 p.m. in the L.…

Thursday, February 25, 2010: Now these are some winds. I’m thankin’ the lucky snow-covered stars they’re out of the west. The snow (11 pm) is nothing special (a few inches) but it’s traveling perfectly parallel to the ground, pushing well past 50 mph. Had the winds been NE or even east things would be epically ugly. And it seems…

Wednesday, February 24, 2010:

We’ve…

Hibernation Is Over;

Deer Stand Shooting…

[The Capital] By Chris Dollar - February 22, 2010 OUTDOORS Members of the federal fisheries board who voted to consider increasing the coastal commercial striped bass harvest had to know they'd just thrown a brick at a hornet's nest.

At its winter meeting the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission's Striped Bass Management Board approved an addendum that could give commercial fishers a larger quota, igniting an impassioned debate.

It's not surprising that…

Winter Thoughts, Friendly Falcons and Bass Ear Bones

Well, we’re into that ugly interim phase of winter, when…

Hey Jay, I read your story about tracking, I have to tell you, my family did some tracking last Sunday. We went to Barnegat Light and walked down through the still-deep snow to the jetty and the beach, and I suddenly noticed these tracks crossing the path, in snow about a foot deep. It looked like someone took a lollypop and pressed it lightly into the snow, again and again, forming a series of lollypop impressions, like this :

---O ---O ---O ---O ---O ---O

I…

Thursday, February 11, 2010:

I'm reading about not-far-off areas getting over a foot of…

Wednesday, February 10, 2010:

Snowstorm update: What snowstorm. I’m not sure what you’re seeing where you are but here on LBI we’re into a rain event. We did get a few inches overnight but the…

A Coyote Growls in Gotham,

Tracks of World-class Wildlife…

Monday, February 08, 2010: Here we go again.

There were years on end where a storm warning was a laugher – usually much…

Sunday, February 07, 2010:…

Late Saturday, February 06, 2010:…

Update 2 p.m. : We’re now slowly approaching historic territory – snow-wise. The sheer coverage of this storm is through the ceiling – hopefully only speaking hypothetically. Whereas the last biggy we had right before Christmas -- a 15- to 20-incher -- became a drift event. Snow was blown off objects and to the ground. Not this brute. Despite howling winds, this snowfall is…

12:00 midnight: The wet snow is coming down by the shovel load. I’m thinking it’s a 2-inch an…

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Friday, February 05, 2010:…