stems from the birds' habit of eang smaller sink- ers (especially the "split- shot" type) to use as grit in their gizzards, where they pulverize hard-to-digest items such as seeds. As the sinkers are ground along with sand and rocks, the lead is released into their bodies in concentrated form, leading to debilita- on and death. It's esmat- ed that perhaps 2% of all waterfowl die per year as a result of ingesng lead shot and other lead objects. Many variees of geese, ducks, and cranes as well as non-waterfowl such as the mourning dove and others have been studied and shown to have suffered from lead poison- ing due to fishing sinkers as well. Cont on pg 3... Banning Lead Sinkers This arcle is not to scare you into thinking that lead sinkers used for fish- ing are banned or will be banned, but to simply inform what probably is coming in the future to the recreaonal fishing industry. Two things you might find surprising: First, lead fishing weights have a long history--the Egypans used lead net sinkers 5,000-7,000 years ago . Second, perhaps the greatest danger posed by lead fishing tackle is neither to fish nor humans but to birds and waterfowl according to recent studies. Lead in the water environ- ment has been studied for some me dang all the way back to the late 1800’s and connued through the next century. This eventual- ly prompted the Federal ban on the use of lead shot in hunng in 1991. It has only been in the last 10-15 years that studies have been done concerning wa- terfowl deaths and the connecon to lead in lead sinkers and jig heads in fishing tackle however. In New England lead poison- ing from lead weights and jigs account for 50% of all loon adult deaths. In New Hampshire 64% of water- fowl deaths were blamed on lead ingeson. Same goes for Maine at 44%. The list goes on and on. This F ROM THE PRESIDENTS COMPUTER Coming Up: G RAND S TRAND SALTWATER ANGLERS ASSOCIATION M ARCH 2014 T HE H OOK SPONSORS Lakewood Camping Resort Don Perry 447-7311 Comfort Concepts Heating and Cooling Will Spillars 236-4933 Bonefish Grill 8703 N 17 Bypass ShaneWright 215-4374 Quality Pools and Quality Landscap- ing Bill Seay 234-2665 2nd Avenue Pier Teak Collins I NSIDE THIS ISSUE : C ALENDAR AND AN- NOUNCEMENTTS 2 R ECIPE OF THE MONTH 2 F ISHING REPORT 3 C LUB PICS & SUCH 3 LEADERBOARD 4 E DITORS NOTE / GAMES 5
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stems from the birds' habit of eating smaller sink-ers (especially the "split-shot" type) to use as grit in their gizzards, where they pulverize hard-to-digest items such as seeds. As the sinkers are ground along with sand and rocks, the lead is released into their bodies in concentrated form, leading to debilita-tion and death. It's estimat-ed that perhaps 2% of all waterfowl die per year as a result of ingesting lead shot and other lead objects. Many varieties of geese, ducks, and cranes as well as non-waterfowl such as the mourning dove and others have been studied and shown to have suffered from lead poison-ing due to fishing sinkers as
well. Cont on pg 3...
Banning Lead Sinkers This article is not to scare you into thinking that lead sinkers used for fish-ing are banned or will be banned, but to simply inform what probably is coming in the future to the recreational fishing industry. Two things you might find surprising: First, lead fishing weights have a long history--the Egyptians used lead net sinkers 5,000-7,000 years ago . Second, perhaps the greatest danger posed by lead fishing tackle is neither to fish nor humans but to birds and waterfowl according to recent studies.
Lead in the water environ-ment has been studied for some time dating all the way back to the late 1800’s and continued through the next century. This eventual-ly prompted the Federal ban on the use of lead shot in hunting in 1991. It has only been in the last 10-15 years that studies have been done concerning wa-terfowl deaths and the connection to lead in lead sinkers and jig heads in fishing tackle however. In New England lead poison-ing from lead weights and jigs account for 50% of all loon adult deaths. In New Hampshire 64% of water-fowl deaths were blamed on lead ingestion. Same goes for Maine at 44%. The list goes on and on. This
FROM THE PRESIDENTS COMPUTER
Coming Up:
GRAND STRAND SALTWATER ANGLERS ASSOCIATION
MARCH 2014
THE HOOK SPONSORS
Lakewood Camping Resort
Don Perry 447-7311 Comfort Concepts Heating and Cooling Will Spillars 236-4933 Bonefish Grill 8703 N 17 Bypass Shane Wright 215-4374 Quality Pools and
Quality Landscap-ing
Bill Seay 234-2665 2nd Avenue Pier Teak Collins
INSIDE THIS ISSUE :
CALENDAR AND AN-
NOUNCEMENTTS
2
RECIPE OF THE MONTH 2
FISHING REPORT 3
CLUB PICS & SUCH 3
LEADERBOARD 4
EDITORS NOTE/ GAMES 5
1/2 cup butter, softened
1-1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 cup mashed ripe bananas (2 to 3
medium)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup 2% milk
FROSTING:
1/3 cup creamy
peanut butter
1/3 cup 2%
milk
1-1/2 tea-
spoons vanilla ex-tract
3 cups confec-
tioners' sugar
RECIPE OF THE MONTH : BANANA CAKE WITH PEANUT BUTTA ICING
D ID YOU KNOW :
IF YOU HOOK
JELL-O UP TO AN
EEG MACHINE IT
REGISTERS A REDING
SIMILAR TO THAT OF
AN ADULT BRAIN .
PAGE 2 THE HOOK
Club Officers
President–
Chick McDaniels
651-2076
Vice President–
Kenny Moore
385-1517
Treasurer–
Anne Seay
241-5709
Secretary–
Jen Seay
241-5713
Past President
Dave Williams–357-9590
Members at Large
Ed Skowysz-650-7553
Bill Cash-237-9987
Kevin Seay– 241-5703
Editor
Jen Seay– 241-5713
Jseay@horrycounty
schools.net
Good and Welfare
Tammy Sayre–651-3373
Darla Williams–3579570
Preheat oven to 350°.
In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar
until light and fluffy.
Add eggs, one at a time, beating well
after each addition.
Beat in bananas and vanilla.
Combine flour, baking powder and baking
soda; add to creamed mixture alternately
with milk, beating well after each addition.
Transfer to a greased 13x9-in. baking
pan.
Bake 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick
inserted in center comes out clean. Cool on a wire
rack.
For frosting, in a
small bowl, beat peanut butter, milk and vanilla
until blended; gradually beat in confectioners'
sugar until smooth.
Spread over cake.
Yield: 12-15 serv-
ings.
April
10th– Club Meeting,
covered dish, speak-
er women’s kp
25th– Captains Mtg
26th– Flounder
Tourney
March
13th– Club Meeting,
covered dish, speaker
men’s kp
*Club Auction
May
8th– Club Meeting,
speaker, covered
dish, men’s kp
CLUB AUCTION! Come one, come all and bring your unwanted
items to the meeting to auction off.
We take any items– they do not have to deal
with fishing!
If you have an amount you’d like to get for it, we
can do that! See you there!
MONTHLY PLANNER
Quote of the Month:
Little River
Cherry Grove Pier reports that there has been very little fishing with the weather, but before
that a few whiting, silver perch and small croaker were being caught.
Grand Strand (unchanged from Feb. 13)
Inshore: Perry’s Bait and Tackle in Murrell’s Inlet reports that before the hard freeze trout and
redfish were both feeding pretty well around the jetties and inside the Inlet. Both live bait and artificial shrimp were catching fish, but the cold weather seems to have slowed things down. Some sheepshead are also around at the jetties and a few juvenile flounder are still being caught inshore.
If you would like to volun-
teer, or would like more
info about volunteering, to
work with a committee,
please contact Chick or
Jen.
If any information has
changed or you would like
to know more about what
you can do in the club to
get more involved –
please contact Jen Seay at
843.241.5713 or through
email at
jseay@horrycountyschools
.net.
Report taken from local
guides, Sun News, fint-
alk.com and word of mouth
Barter Box For Sale Or Trade:
FOR SALE: Rock-Ola 443 Juke Box For info please call Bill Pierson 357-6530
THIS MONTH IS THE AUCTION– BRING ITEMS TO
AUCTION OFF!
Got items? Email [email protected] with the item, price and contact info. Pics would be
great too! Thanks!
Where have lead sinkers been banned? Great Britain banned lead sinkers in 1987. In Canada, it is illegal to use lead sinkers and jigs in national parks. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is currently considering banning the use of lead sinkers and jigs on national wildlife refuges where loons and Trumpeter swans breed. Lead sinker use is banned in three national refuges and Yellowstone National Park in the Unit-ed States. In 2000, New Hampshire was the first state to ban lead sinkers and jigs to protect common loons and other diving birds. As of 2007, the following other states have regulations regarding lead fishing tackle: Maine, Massachusetts, New York and Vermont. Many other states across the nation are also considering banning the sale or use of lead fishing products. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has banned the use of lead sinkers and jigs on National Wild-life Refuges. Most U.S. bans affect only the sale of new fishing sinkers, not the use of existing ones. In the last few decades, we have made significant progress in reducing lead releases to the environment by restricting uses in paint, gasoline, pesticides and other products, pro-moting battery recycling, and prohibiting the use of lead shot in waterfowl hunting. With your help we can take another step on getting lead out of the environment. Waterfowl, and other wildlife, and ourselves will be the better for it. What to do about it.... Stop using tackle made from lead. As we have proven in the past, lead poisoning is preventa-ble. Recently, terminal tackle manufacturers are experimenting with high density composite resins. These materials present a nontoxic alternative to lead sinkers at a lower monetary cost than alternative metallic sinkers. Buy Lead-Free Tackle. Patronize retailers that stock the best assortment of lead-free tackle. Ask retailers to stock lead-free replacements for all weighted tackle products. We are responsible for our environment. We need to protect ourselves as well as the wildlife around us. As you can see, the laws regarding lead in fishing tackle are slowly heading your way so do your part to help the environment first. Your President. CHICK
Leaderboard 2014 We are currently looking for someone to take over the Leaderboard committee. It includes:
keeping up with the Leaderboard and bringing it to meetings, letting the newsletter editor
know of all new catches, and making sure that the fish and fisherperson make it on the leader-
board!
Until we fill this position, please send all catches, photos, weight, length, date caught and wit-
ness to Jen Seay at [email protected] or give the info to Jen at the meeting.
Make sure you hand her a note! Do not tell her in passing, her memory is not that good! :)
Thanks, and we look forward to seeing all your awesome catches out there, once we get out
Despite our wacky weather and tourist trap location and traffic issues and whatever else we might gripe about from time to time– South Carolina is so awesome! Great weather most of the time, pretty beaches, access to some great fishing– we are really blessed! While researching items for the news-letter I stumbled upon this website that lists fun facts about all 50 states and just saying– I refreshed my memory on some things I had forgotten about and found out some super cool things about my state that I didn't know! For example, did you know that South Carolina is the nation's leading peach producer and shipper east of the Mis-sissippi River? Take that Georgia! Or, Before being known as the Palmetto State, South Carolina was known as, and had emblazoned on their license plates, the Iodine State. For more: the walls of the American fort on Sullivan Island, in Charleston Harbor, were made of spongy Palmetto logs. This was helpful in protecting the fort because the British cannonballs bounced off the logs. The Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame features champion thoroughbred
and steeplechase horses trained in Ai-ken. The Black River Swamp Preserve is located near Andrews. This slow-moving river is characterized by high concentra-tions of organic carbon, which accounts for the tea-colored water and gives rise to the diverse habitats in its widespread floodplain. Chapin is known as the Capi-tal of Lake Murray. Sumter has the largest Gingko farm in the world. Stretching 60 miles from Little River to Georgetown, South Carolina's Grand Strand is one of the most popular tour-ist destinations in the United States. Every few years, Irmo has a sighting of some kind of water monster that inhab-its Lake Murray. The monster first 'surfaced' in 1973 when residents of Ir-mo and Ballentine saw a cousin of the Loch Ness Monster. It was described in The Independent News in 1980 as "a cross between a snake and something prehistoric.. The first boll weevil found in South Carolina is on display at the Pendleton District Agricultural Museum. At the Riverbanks Zoological Park in Columbia more than 2000 animals
MONTHLY FYI: The salamander was given the honor of official state amphibian.
INFO AND HOW YOU CAN HELP!
The Flounder Tournament is the clubs biggest event of the
year.
The money we raise during the event goes to our Reef Fund
Projects and to our Scholarship Fund for CCU
Over 200 Anglers participate in our Tournament, and it is
one of the largest events out of MI all year
You can help by getting on the committee to help raise
funds
Any restaurant you visit, store you patron, friends you have
that may have a business– ask them if they’d like to be a
sponsor! They get advertising to a very large group of peo-
ple, and get to take part in the saving and rebuilding of our
reefs– win/ win!
Places can be a monetary sponsor or item sponsor, there’s a
way for everyone to get involved!
We also need help procuring items for the Captains Meeting
and the day of the Tournament, so if you’re not planning on
fishing the tournament– get with Bill Cash and he’ll get you
plugged in somewhere to help! Many hands make light
work!
Thrive in natural habitats with no bars or cages. The Isle of Palms was originally named Hunting Island and then Long Island, it's thought to be at least 25,000 years old, and was first inhabited by the indigenous Seewee Indians. Sweetgrass basket making has been a part of the Mount Pleas-ant community for more than 300 years. Basket making is a traditional art form that has been passed on from generation to generation. Bomb Island on Lake Murray each spring and summer is the home of a very unusual event. Each year thou-sands of Purple Martins return to this island to roost for the summer. The island has been declared a bird sanctuary and it is quite a sight to watch these birds return to Bomb Island each day around sunset. And not surprisingly, our state dance is the shag! So get on out there, go fish in our beautiful waters, go shag-ging’, eat a peach and relax in our wonderful, unique state that is 2nd to none in fun!
