A Heartfelt Grumpy Santa Thank You!
First, Fisheries News…
The ASMFC had a meeting this morning/afternoon regarding the state of the upcoming striped bass stocks, and regulations related to those stocks. After some discussion, striped bass regulations will remain at status quo to see what next year’s striped bass study results will be. This will all be revisited at the 2025 meeting, and a range of options to reduce the impact on striped bass will be considered, including if needed, a range of overall reductions, consideration of rec vs comm contributions to the reductions, rec season and size changes taking into account regional variability of availability, and no harvest vs no target closures. This is something that any striped bass angler will need to pay attention to.
And now shop news…
Thank you everyone for such an excellent turnout for the 2024 Grumpy Santa Fundraiser event. We appreciate everyone who stopped in during this weekend and donated and visited with Grumpy Santa. The donations box for St. Jude’s will stay out for the rest of the month so if you missed this weekend and want to donate, be sure to do so. It’s all for a great cause! It’s the season of giving and those kids certainly deserve it. At 3:00 today the winners of the raffle were chosen, and are as follows:
- Scabelly Christmas Tree: Lindsey Stusick
- MagicTail Surf Rod: Rich Barone
- Shel E Caris Guided Trip: Tony Burgio
- Grumpy Gift Cards: Tim Dluhos, George B, Hudson Cucciniello, Bob Shumker
Congratulations everyone! (and if we spelled your name incorrectly, we are blaming your terrible handwriting 😊 )
Just a reminder we are now on winter hours at the shop. We open at 7:00 am and close at 7:00 pm
So how is the fishing? Slow. We haven’t heard of many anglers going out, and we haven’t heard much from those that did.
Why is it that every time we have a Grumpy Santa event, Ray gets sick? And a certain, specific, disgustipating kind of sick at that. Who slipped him the bad roasted chestnut?
