This just touches base with the amount of work and sleepless nights that have gone into this process of getting our fisherman back on Island Beach State Park. On March 16th, George Browne, Public Access Chair for Berkeley Striper Club: Scott Thomas of Grumpy’s and Yakkity Yaks Kayaks and myself testified at the Senate Environment Committee Hearing and opposed S-303 which was introduced by Senator Turner (D-15) and Senator Amato (R-9). They went ahead and pushed the bill through, but we were...

Here we are already well into June, things have been really active this year and there are some great people working behind the scenes to keep the NJBBA rolling along. Paul Novello organized a get together at the Fortune Buffet and everyone who came really enjoyed the time spent together. Our Annual Meeting went very well, including a presentation and discussion from our Public Access Chairperson, George Browne. If you weren't, there you really missed out! George has been and continues to...

I am very proud to have had our Mascot at this years Children's Fishing Tournament! Rick Ditizio who is its ‘caretaker plus’ right now, trailed it down behind his pickup. Then he used his truck that day and hosted two people from the division of Fish and Game, back and forth on the beach in order to let them measure fish that were caught during the tournament. Rick just called me and told me he was selected for a full time pass at IBSP, I congratulated him! He was originally rejected, but I...