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On patrol: Members of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary North Star
Flotilla (shown here on patrol) are helping boaters sharpen their skills this
winter by offering three courses.
Saltwater Sportsman National Seminar to be held Saturday
The Salt Water Sportsman National
Seminar Series will be held in Providence, Rhode Island this Saturday, February
2, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Roberts Hall Auditorium, Rhode Island College.
George Poveromo, host of George Poveromo’s World of Saltwater Fishing on the
NBC Sports Network, and editor-at-large for Salt Water Sportsman, will headline
the program, along with Tom Richardson, noted New England angler and a prominent
fishing writer and editor. Eleven
captains and fishing experts will be on stage including local captain Andy
Dangelo, distinguished authority on catching tuna, and sharks, as well as
trophy fluke, blackfish and cod with his charter boat, Maridee II and Captain
Dave Monti (author of this column), New England pro with 40 years of experience
fishing on Narragansett Bay and off coastal shores for striped bass, fluke and
tautog with his boat Angel Light from
“No Fluke Charters”.
Seminar Series tickets are $55.00
each. The ticket price covers six hours of instruction from the best pros in
the business, and a gift bag that includes a course textbook, a one-year
subscription or extension to Salt Water Sportsman and a host of other items. Participants receive chances to win thousands
of dollars worth of door prizes. The Grand Prize is a Bahamas fishing trip for
two to the prestigious Bimini Sands Resort & Marina. The Super Grand Prize,
to be awarded two weeks after the conclusion of the 2013 series, is a new Mako
Pro Skiff 17’ center console.
Register by calling (800) 448-7360,
or visit www.nationalseminarseries.com.
Fly tying and fishing program looking for volunteers
Dave Pollack and Capt. Ray Stachelek are organizing
volunteers for the annual Cinder Worm fly tying and fishing program with RI
Department of Environmental Management (DEM) and the United States Fish &
Wildlife (USF&W) service at their
Kettle Pond Nature Center. The program
includes fly tying workshops on Tuesday, April 30 and Monday, May 6, and then
fly fishing with the flies at Ninigret Pond on Saturday, May 11. A formal
announcement with registration information will be published in a month or,
however, they are asking for volunteers to help with the program. In the past Connecticut and Rhody Fly Rodders
as well as members of the Rhode Island Saltwater Anglers Association have
volunteered and mentored at the fly tying and fishing sessions. USF&W and RI DEM will provide tools,
materials and tackle for the sessions. If you are interested in helping out
with fly tying or fishing contact Dave Pollack dpollipo@cox.net
or Capt. Ray Stachelek at castaflycharters@cox.net.
ASMFC
begins Preparations for tautog benchmark assessment
This
spring, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission will begin work on the
2014 benchmark stock assessment for tautog. The assessment will be used
to evaluate the health of the tautog stock and inform the management of this
species. The Commission’s stock assessment process and meetings are open
to the public with the date workshop being held March 25 to 29, 2013 and an
assessment workshop that will take place in the fall of 2013 (date and meeting
locations to be determined).
The
Commission welcomes the submission of data sources that will improve the
accuracy of the assessment. This includes, but is not limited to, data on
landings and discards (commercial and recreational), catch per unit effort,
biological samples (length, age, frequency), and life history information
(growth, maturity, fecundity, spawning stock biomass weights, natural
mortality).
The data
workshop will review all available data sources for tautog and identify data
sets that will be incorporated in the stock assessment. An assessment
workshop will include model development and parameterization of the accepted
data sets. The benchmark stock assessment will be peer reviewed in the summer
of 2014.
For those
interested in submitting data and/or attending the tautog data workshop (space
is limited), contact Dr. Katie Drew, ASMFC Stock Assessment Scientist at kdrew@asmfc.org or
703.842.0740. The deadline for data submission is Friday, February 22, 2013.
Coast Guard Auxiliary helps sharpen boating skills, and it is a great
place to volunteer
The Coast Guard Auxiliary is
offering a range of courses this winter to help boaters sharpen their
skills. The North Star Flotilla of the U.S.
Coast Guard Auxiliary is offering four courses starting February 4; two end in
March and one in June. The four courses are
Boating Skills & Seamanship, Sailing Skills & Seamanship and Navigation
(beginning & advanced). On Monday,
February 4, 2013 the Flotilla is offering an eight week course on Boating
Skills & Seamanship and a Sailing Skills & Seamanship. The power boat classes are $85 and sail
classes $95. Both classes meet twice a
week on Monday and Thursday for eight weeks.
The navigation class meets Mondays for 17 weeks and the cost is
$160. All courses are held at Toll Gate
High School in Warwick. You can visit
the Flotilla’s web site at www.northstarflotilla.com
or call Roz Butziger at 401.739.6028.
You can also join a local Flotilla
which is the basic organizational unit of the Auxiliary. We have several in RI. If you feel strongly about the rewards you
can get from serving your community and enjoy the water, the Coast Guard
Auxiliary might be the right place for you to volunteer. You can serve doing on-water operations, in
the Auxiliary's public education program, the vessel safety check program, be a
radio watch stander, help with Coast Guard recruiting, work on marine
environmental protection or with Coast Guard administration.
Captain Arnold (Nick) Butziger, of
the North Star Flotilla, said they are always looking for new members. The North Star Flotilla is located in Warwick
in the Brewer's Greenwich Bay Marina/Chellos' Restaurant parking lot at the
mouth of Apponaug Cove. For information
contact Capt. Butziger at 401.739.6028.
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