Reef building advancing off MD

Capt. Monty Hawkins of the Morning Star from Ocean City, Md. has been doing a great job building reefs in his area with help from volunteers and customers. His latest report follows: “

A bit shocked by Sunday’s event – supports what I’ve said many times: Folks see you working they’ll stop to help.

Sure has been a busy time. We just built three reefs that will be contributing to our marine ecology for hundreds of years, perhaps a thousand. Now, thanks to a small platoon of dedicated volunteers and the good folks at Hoopers Crab House–plus an army of supporters, we had our best fund raiser ever..”

Concrete building blocks

The end results of reef building may involve catches such as the 13.8- tautog released this week by George Poveromo while doing a segment for his TV show. He was fishing with Capt. Tom Duffin off southern N,J, The season there is now closed, so all tog were released unharmed.

A small craft advisory is up from late tonight through Friday afternoon in NY/NJ Bight. The forecast is for east winds at 15-20 knots plus gusts to 25.

As a result, the Fishermen from Atlantic Highlands will not be striper fishing tomorrow.