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Decoy & Gunning Show

September 26th & 27th, 2015 • 7am-5pmIn Historic Tuckerton, NJ

Over 300 Waterfowling Exhibitors & VendorsTwo SeparaTe LocaTionS BoTh convenienTLy

acceSSiBLe By Free ShuTTLe BuS Service

Tip Seaman County Park • Tuckerton Seaport

For More Information Call (609) 971-3085www.oceancountyparks.org

Ocean County Boardof Chosen Freeholders

John C. Bartlett, Jr.Chairman of Parks and Recreation

John P. Kelly • James F. Lacey Gerry P. Little • Joseph H. Vicari

Various Hunting Supplies, Displays, Contests, Music, Food, Antique Collectible

Decoys and so much more.

Dock Dog

Competition

As featured on ESPN

33rd annuaL ocean counTy

Free Admission • Free Shuttle Bus Service FREEPARKINGSEE PAGES 6 & 7

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24th AnnualDecoy & Hunting

CollectiblesShow and Sale

“Best Old Decoy ShowIn New Jersey”

SATURDAYAPRIL 2, 2016

9AM - 4PM

Holiday Inn151 Route 72

Manahawkin, NJDIRECTIONS: GSP Exit 63 East

Donation $5 Per AdultChildren Free

Featured Carver

Bob SeabrookFeatured Collector

Larry Pollin

Food • RefreshmentsFree Decoy Appraisals

For further information:609-965-3143 or 609-652-8752

[email protected]@comcast.net

Cattus Island County Park1170 Cattus Island Blvd., Toms River

OceanCoutyParks.org

Celebrate Traditional Arts atthe Seaport Heritage TentMeet artists from the Jersey Shore Folklife Center:Basketmakers, Decoy Carvers, Quilters and More!

See the traditional arts of South Jerseyat Tip Seaman County Park.

JerseyShoreFolklifeCenterat Tuckerton Seaport

Sponsored by: Presented by:

www.TuckertonSeaport.org

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2015 Prize DonatorsRetriever Contest Prizes Donated by:Ocean County Parks & Recreations

World ChampionshipDuck Calling Contest

A special thanks to New Jersey Waterfowlersfor sponsoring the 2015 New Jersey State

Duck Calling Championship’s participationin the 2015 World Championship

at Stuttgart, Arkansas, in November.

2015 Ocean CountyDecoy & Gunning Show

September 26 & 27, Tuckerton, NJPromotional Program and Guide Book

2015 show cover printpainted by Rob Leslie.Ring-necked Duck

Thanks for All Your Help!The Ocean County Department of Parks & Recreation and the Barnegat Bay

Decoy & Baymen’s Museum would like to express our deep appreciation for all groups,businesses and individuals whose effort and support make this show possible.

Show Program CommitteeGerman Georgieff, Paul Hart,

Renee Kennedy,Amanda Truhan, Jaclyn Stewart Wood

Show CommitteeVolunteers

Gary Bell • Blaine BushMark Ford • Bob Fricke

Tom GormleyRon “Poss” Hammell

Tim Hart • John HollowayDick Jessen • George Kurtz

Malcolm RobinsonJim Thompson • Steve Tarnow

Special ThanksWe would like to thank the many volunteers who helped in making the 2015 Decoy Show a success.A show of this magnitude would not be possiblewithout the dedicated help of these individuals.

We would also like to give a special thanksto Ray Gormley of “My Three Sons” for allthe donations and loans for materials used

in decorating the show grounds. A sincere thank you to the

Ocean County Sheriff ’s Department,Ocean County Transportation (Ocean Ride) and

the Ocean County Security Department.And a special thanks to Ed McCay of McCay Wood Products for the wood for the head whittling blanks.

Stage and Grounds Decorations Donated by:MY THREE SONS SEAFOOD & PRODUCE

PARKERTOWN, NJ • 609-296-2589

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The Ocean County Board of Cho-sen Freeholders and the Ocean Coun-ty Department of Parks & Recreation would like to welcome you to the 2015 Ocean County Decoy & Gunning Show. Every year the show has gotten big-ger and better with the help of you, the participant. There will be more than 300 exhibitors’ spaces, with more than 20,000 visitors expected.

DON’T MISS BOTH LOCATIONSTip Seaman County Park and the Tuckerton Seaport & Baymen’s Mu-seum. Find a parking place at the High School on Nugentown Road or Free-dom Fields County Park on Route 539. Once you park, the free shuttle buses will drop you off at the show sites from 8:30am to 5:00pm both days. Our show hosts and hostesses will greet you with a warm, friendly smile and explain the events of the day. We have something for everyone, including decoys, dogs, boats, wild-life art, wildlife carvings, gunning supplies, antique fishing and hunt-ing paraphernalia, duck and goose

calls, clothing, carving supplies and decoy/boat lumber. For music lovers, some of the most famous Pine Barrens bands and solo-ists will grace us with their musical talents. More than 50 contests and sem-inars will be held at the show sites during two action-packed days. Don’t miss the New Jersey Duck Calling Championship. The win-ner will represent New Jersey at the world championship in Stuttgart, Arkansas, in November. Join us for lunch as our numerous food vendors tempt your appetite with the mouth-watering aromas of delicious treats. This year’s menu fea-tures clams and oysters on the half shell, shrimp, clam chowder, chick-en, roast beef sandwiches, hamburg-ers and lots more. There also will be cold soda and ice cream. The show is a great family event, with activities for all age groups. So bring the fam-ily and come on down to Tuckerton for the 33rd Annual Ocean County Decoy & Gunning Show. On behalf of the staff, volunteers, and participating organizations, en-joy the show!

Welcome! TO THE 33RD ANNUAL OCEAN COUNTY DECOY & GUNNING SHOW!

AT THE SHOW

GUIDE TO THE SHOWSeaport Heritage Tent.........................2Show Exhibitors..................................4Contest Schedule................................52015 Show Map.................................62015 Bird of the Year..........................8Show Seminars...................................9Music Entertainment.........................9Decoy Show Award Sponsors...........10Seaport Youth Carving Club.............122015 Show Pin..................................13Dock Dog Competition...................14The Mullica River..............................17Hurley Conklin Award Winners.......18Past Conklin Award Winners............23Seaport Site Map...............................24Thank You Page................................26Pine Barrens Jamboree......................28

DIRECTIONS TO THE SHOWMAP ON PAGES 6 & 7

ContestsSkeet Shooting, Duck Calling,Retrieving and Decoy Carving,

Art and Photo

ExhibitorsDecoys, Boat Builders, Wildlife Art,

Antiques, Sportsmen’s Supplies

MusicMusic of the Pine Barrens

FoodTastes of the Bay, Burgers,

Chicken & a Whole Lot More!

RetrieversWatch the dog and

puppy retriever contests!

Ocean County Board of Chosen FreeholdersOcean County Department of Parks & Recreation

Director of Parks & Recreation, Michael T. MangumShow Coordinator, German Georgieff

Asst. Show Coordinator, Amanda Truhan

In cooperation with: Tuckerton SeaportNew Jersey Waterfowlers

Pinelands Regional School District

The 33rd AnnualOcean County Decoy & Gunning Show

Sponsored by:

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Ocean CountyTip Seaman Park

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Great Bay Boulevard

South Green Street

Ocean CountyTip Seaman ParkPUBLIC PARKING

SALTMARSH

Route 9

CROWLEY'S

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MarshallMeadowsChildren’s

Exploration Park

NatureWoods Trail

1/2 Mile DOCKAGE

Pirate Ship

Historic ThemedMini-Golf Course

TuckertonLittle Borough Hall

CorduroyRoad

DuckBlind

Old GristMill

Fish Ladderand

Spillway

Chickens,Goats,

& Sheep

Visitors CenterGift Shop

Live Aquatic Exhibit“Life on the Edge”JCNEER Exhibit

40 Acres of Family Fun!

Perrine’sBoat Works

Barnegat BayDecoy MuseumHunting Shanty

Dayton’sSawmill

Skinner-Donnelly

Houseboat

ParsonsClam &OysterHouse

HurleyConklin’sCarving

Shop

Jay C. Parker’sDecoy Shop

PeriwinkleHouseboat

Hester SedgeGun Club

Tucker’s IslandLighthouse

HotelDeCrab

Sandy Exhibit

MarshelderGun Club /

NJ SurfMuseum

Sunny BraeSalt Box(c. 1723)

Mayor’s OfficeTuckerton Borough

Sea Captain’sHouse

(c. 1835)

Andrews-BartlettHomestead

(c. 1709)

“Willie K”Pilot House

SEAPORTENTRANCE

Mimi KurtzPavilion

Melody II

PhragmitesMaze

CrestFishery

PUMP-OUTBOATSWillow

Landing

AlternateAccess RoadEntrance/Exit

VictoryGarden

Kelly’sOyster House

BOATRIDES

QuailFly Pen

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1. Visitors Center/Gift Shop 3rd Floor: “Life on the Edge” Exhibit and Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve 1st Floor: “Walk on the Wild Side”

2. Mimi Kurtz Pavilion, a place for life long learning and community service

3. Barnegat Bay Decoy Museum / Hunting Shanty

4. Skinner-Donnelly Houseboat

5. Joe Dayton’s Sawmill

6. Perrine’s Boat Works

7. Parsons Clam & Oyster House

8. Kelly’s Oyster House

9. Hurley Conklin’s Carving Shop

10. Jay C. Parker’s Decoy Shop

11. Periwinkle

12. Hester Sedge Gun Club

13. Tucker’s Island Lighthouse / NJ Surf Museum

14. Crest Fishery

15. Hotel DeCrab

16. Marshelder Gun Club / NJ Surf Museum

17. Beach Apparatus Drill Demonstration

18. Boat Rides

19. Sunny Brae Salt Box / Mayor’s Office Tuckerton Borough

20. Bartlett-Rockhill House (c. 1835)

21. Andrews-Bartlett Homestead (c. 1709)

22. Shorty’s Family Restaurant

1/2 Mile Nature Walk

Self-GuidedWalking Tour... lead yourself through our open air maritime village and enjoy all of the rich resources of the Seaport at your own pace.

FREE ADMISSION DURING SHOWGeneral Admission: Adults $8, Seniors $6,

Ages 12-5 $5, Under Five Free, Members FreeMemberships Available in Visitors CenterOPEN DAILY ALL YEAR 10AM-5PM

Barnegat Bay Decoy & Baymen’s Museumreceived an operating support grant from theNew Jersey Historical Commission, a divisionof the Department of State and is supported

in-part by grant assistance from the Garden StateHistoric Preservation Trust Fund.

TIP SEAMAN PARKAmerican Hunting Dog AssociationB & L Decoys (Replacement Heads)Bankes BoatsBarnegat Bay Sportsman ClubBell’s DecoysBelleplain Supply Gun CenterBellport DecoysBob BiddleKen BinghamLaurel Dabbs DecoysStephen DeckerDecoy RigsDeep Water DuckDigital Impact OutdoorsmanDiscount BootsThe Duck GuruAlan EastmanClarence FennimoreFinal Glide CallsFlyway DecoysRobert FrickeJoyce GagenGerman Shorthair Pointer Rescue of NJGood Boy Biscuits & BonesGreat Bay Reg. Volunteer EMSGreen Beret Spray Organic Bug RepellentGrove Point Outfitters/ Fowl Foolers/Hayes CallsJode Hillman DecoysHunters Helping HeroesDon KanzlerMike Kensler – WoodburningsKen Kirby – DecoysKlue Leather & Design Studio

Marty KristiansenLloyd & MilnesGene MarshallFrank McCauley DecoysMcCay Wood ProductsDon & Beth Metzger DecoysMid Atlantic English Springer Spaniel RescueMoffit Family CarversDick MorganMurray EnterprisesNew Jersey Fur HarvestersOceanic DecoysOl’ Barney Guide ServicesPilesgrove Decoys / Goey CallsBarbara RubensteinKen RidgeSalem Boat Exchange LLCSedge Island Decoys – Bill DoggartSilly BearsBill SimonsenStranglehold LanyardsDavid Thibault DecoysRebecca Thibault Art & PhotographyTuckerton/LEHT PBA 295USCG Auxiliary Flotilla 72West Creek Outboard LLCKevin Wharton DecoysWhispering Pines Kennel SuppliesWoodstrip Watercraft Co.Xtreme Ducks

PARK TENTBayshore Decoys by Robert ReitmeyerBlatherwick DecoysCaptain Larry DecoysVincent CiesielskiDecoy Magazine

Deerheads Unlimited TaxidermyDux Dekes Decoy Company“Hop” Edwards Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife RefugeFine Carvings by ShannonVincent Giannetto IIIGreen Beret Spray Organic Bug RepellentRich HainesRobert Horner Decoy RackDennis JennyRichard JessenJim’s Jarhead JerkyKnotts Knives by Cousins LLCRob LeslieS. Leo Milley PocketknivesNJ Division of Fish & WildlifeWilliam OlerArt Parkin Wildlife Bird CarvingsReitmeyer DecoysReitmeyer Family DecoysDavid RhodesRitter Carvers Inc.Save Barnegat BayManfred ScheelHarry ShourdsHalvor SkeieVeasey Studios

TRADITIONALBOAT BUILDERSPark by the LakeKen BinghamAlan Eastman Marty Kristiansen Bill Simonsen

FOOD VENDORSAmerican Legion Post 493First Presbyterian ChurchFirst United Methodist ChurchItalian America Club, LEH Masonic LodgeNew Gretna Volunteer Fire CompanyOld Barney Amateur Radio ClubParkertown Fire CompanyPtesan-Wi Council #1St. Theresa’s ChurchTuckerton Library AssociationTuckerton Seaport & Baymen’s MuseumVFW 316 Little Egg Harbor

Tip Seaman parkAnser Decoy CompanyB & L DecoysBankes BoatsBarnegat Bay Sportsman ClubBarnett’s Pond BoxesBellport DecoysBergen County WaterfowlersBob Biddle – Decoy CarverBigger Water DecoysBirds & Bees Farm Birdsall DecoysConcept Archery Bow CorpLaurel DabbsStephen DeckerDeppen Wood Bird HousesDiscount BootsThe Duck GuruClarence FennimoreFlyway DecoysFowl FoolersSteve Frazee – CedarJoyce C. GagenGrove Point OutfittersJode Hillman – DecoysPerry & Greg HuntingtonJames Creek OutfittersMike Kensler – WoodburningsKen KirbyKlue LeatherKnock-em-Down Guide ServiceM.D. Bair StudioGene Marshall – DecoysFrank McCauley – DecoysMcCay Wood ProductsMetzger DecoysRay Miller – Decoys

Moffit Family CarversNew Jersey Fur HarvestersNJ State Federation of Sportsmen’s ClubsOceanic DecoysPilesgrove DecoyRed Lion KennelSalem Boat ExchangeSean Mann OutdoorsDavid Thibault – DecoysTips HardwareUSCG Auxiliary Flotilla 72West Creek Kayak & CanoeWest Creek OutboardWhispering Pines Kennel SuppliesThe Wild Craftwww.FishinJersey.comwww.FishTek.comwww.HuntinJersey.com

park TenTAncient MarinerDick BakerBlatherwick CarvingsDeer Heads UnlimitedTaxidermyDux Dekes Decoy CompanyRalston “Hop” EdwardsEdwin B. ForsytheNational Wildlife RefugeBill Evert – WatercolorsPaul R. Fenwick – Wildlife & Angling ArtFine Feathers StudioFowl FoolersVincent GiannettoRich HainesBob Horner – Decoy RackHunters Helping Heroes

Dick Jessen – DecoysKnotts Knives by CousinsS. Leo Milley – Pocket KnivesNJ Division of Fish and WildlifeOcean County Natural Lands TrustOcean County Solid Waste ManagementCapt. Larry Pharo’s DecoysReitmeyer DecoysReitmeyer Family CarversRobert Reitmeyer Hand Carved DecoysDavid RhodesSave Barnegat BayManfred K. ScheelHarryShourdsHalvor B. Skeie

TradiTionalBoaT BuilderSPark by the LakeAlan Eastman Marty Kristiansen Ken Bingham Bill Simonsen

Food VendorSAmerican Legion Post 493First Presbyterian ChurchFirst United Methodist ChurchItalian America Club, LEHMasonic LodgeNew Gretna Volunteer Fire CompanyOld Barney Amateur Radio ClubParkertown Fire CompanyPtesan-Wi Council #1St. Theresa’s ChurchTuckerton Library AssociationTuckerton Seaport & Baymen’s MuseumVFW 316 Little Egg HarborWest Tuckerton Fire Company

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Showexhibitors• Duck Calls • Decoys • Crafts• Kayaks & Canoes • Wildlife Art• Boats • Boat Builders • Bird Carvings• Sportmen’s Supplies • Antiques• Puppies • Food... and MoreThere are two locations of exhibits, presentations and food – with shuttle service between both.Parking is available at all locations.

TUCKERTON RAILROAD– TO –

Beach Haven, N.J.Very Best Shooting, Fishing, Sailing andSurf Bathing, Unexceptionable Hotels.Excursion Tickets via Pennsylvania R.R.

See Pennsylvania Railroad Summer Excursion Route Book and Map.H.N. GILSON, Gen’l Passenger Agent. Tuckerton, N.J.

Reprinted from the 1988 Old Time Barnegat Bay Decoy & Gunning Show Program

Visit the Tuckerton R.R.exhibit at the Seaport.

Explore the past on how visitors first came to theJersey Shore! Make the train ride again!

ShowExhibitors• Duck Calls • Decoys • Crafts• Kayaks & Canoes • Wildlife Art• Boats • Boat Builders • Bird Carvings• Sportmen’s Supplies • Antiques• Puppies • Food... and MoreTwo great locations of exhibits, presentationsand food – with shuttle service between bothTip Seaman Park and the Tuckerton Seaport.


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Ocean CountyTip Seaman Park

PHARO'S

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DOCKAGE

Great Bay Boulevard

South Green Street

Ocean CountyTip Seaman ParkPUBLIC PARKING

SALTMARSH

Route 9

CROWLEY'S

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PHARO'S

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MarshallMeadowsChildren’s

Exploration Park

NatureWoods Trail

1/2 Mile DOCKAGE

Pirate Ship

Historic ThemedMini-Golf Course

TuckertonLittle Borough Hall

CorduroyRoad

DuckBlind

Old GristMill

Fish Ladderand

Spillway

Chickens,Goats,

& Sheep

Visitors CenterGift Shop

Live Aquatic Exhibit“Life on the Edge”JCNEER Exhibit

40 Acres of Family Fun!

Perrine’sBoat Works

Barnegat BayDecoy MuseumHunting Shanty

Dayton’sSawmill

Skinner-Donnelly

Houseboat

ParsonsClam &OysterHouse

HurleyConklin’sCarving

Shop

Jay C. Parker’sDecoy Shop

PeriwinkleHouseboat

Hester SedgeGun Club

Tucker’s IslandLighthouse

HotelDeCrab

Sandy Exhibit

MarshelderGun Club /

NJ SurfMuseum

Sunny BraeSalt Box(c. 1723)

Mayor’s OfficeTuckerton Borough

Sea Captain’sHouse

(c. 1835)

Andrews-BartlettHomestead

(c. 1709)

“Willie K”Pilot House

SEAPORTENTRANCE

Mimi KurtzPavilion

Melody II

PhragmitesMaze

CrestFishery

PUMP-OUTBOATSWillow

Landing

AlternateAccess RoadEntrance/Exit

VictoryGarden

Kelly’sOyster House

BOATRIDES

QuailFly Pen

Shorty’sFamily

Restaurant

JerseyShoreFolklifeCenter

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CONTEST SCHEDULENOTE: All contest entries must be checked in at event site by 10:00 am the day of the contest.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 SKEET/DOG AREAPreliminary Skeetshoot from a Sneakbox 7:00 am - 10:00 amWomen’s Skeetshoot from a Sneakbox 10:00 am - 10:30 amYouth Skeetshoot from a Sneakbox 10:30 am - 11:00 amRetriever Contest – Puppy 12:30 pmRetriever Contest – Novice 1:30 pmPreliminary Skeetshoot from a Sneakbox 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm DECOY TENTYouth Shorebird Contest 10:30 am - 11:00 amDelaware River Gunning Decoy Contest 11:00 am - NoonTraditional Shorebird Rig Contest Noon - 12:30 pmContemporary Gunning Decoy Contest Noon - 12:30 pmYouth Decoy Contests 12:30 pm - 1:00 pmShorebird Decoy Contests (Decorative Slick & Traditional) 1:00 pm - 1:30 pmMiniature Decoy Contests 1:30 pm - 2:00 pmBarnegat Bay Gunning Decoy Contest – Traditional 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm PARK COMMUNITY CENTERArt & Photo Contests 11:30 am - 1:30 pmStriped Bass Plug Contests 1:30 pm - 2:00 pmDecorative Contests 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm PARKBoat Building Contests (Judging) 10:00 am - Noon STAGEDuck & Goose Calling Contest – Adult 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 SKEET/DOG AREA Preliminary Skeetshoot from a Sneakbox 7:00 am - 9:00 amWorld Championship Skeetshoot Finals 9:30 am - 10:00 amRetriever Contest – Advanced 11:30 am DECOY TENTWorking Fish Decoy Contest 8:30 am - 9:30 amDelaware River Gunning Decoy Rig Contest 9:00 am - 9:30 amBarnegat Bay Gunning Decoy Rig Contest 9:30 am - 10:00 amCork Gunning Decoy Contest 10:00 am - 10:30 amHead Whittling Contest 10:00 am - NoonBarnegat Bay Gunning Decoy Contest – Contemporary 10:30 am - 11:30 am PARK COMMUNITY CENTERModel Boat Contest 10:00 am -10:30 am PARK ATHLETIC FIELDArchery Contest – Youth 10:30 am - 11:30 am Archery Contest – Adult 11:30 am - 12:30 pm STAGEDuck & Goose Calling Contests – Youth 10:00 am - 12:30 pmAwards Ceremony 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm

DOCK DOG COMPETION Sat. & Sun. 8:30am-4pm Park EntranceSee page 14 for complete competition rules, regulations and exact times.



33rd Annual Ocean County


1986 Sam Hunt1987 Pete Wilbur1988 Turney Smith1989 Randall Cranmer, Ray Kennedy, Hayes Parker, Roger West, Carl Hewitt1990 Jack Cervetto,Elmer Mott, Ed Hazelton Sr., John Petzak, George Hein-richs, Joe Reid, Joe Smith 1991 Weldon Parker, Charles E. Hankins,Fred Kalm, Bob Rutter Sr., Bob Rutter, Rocky Wyckoff, Bob Leek, Eppie Falking-burg, Ed Heinrichs, Bert Courtney, Fred Bahr1992 Melvin Parker,Joe Sprague, PaulSteinhauer, Capt. Percy Giddes, Emil Parker, Somers Headley, Capt. Chet Hol-man, Tom Nickerson, Capt. Owen Ridgeway, Joe Inman, Dick McKandless, Capt. Ken

Wilson Sr., Milton Cran-mer, Capt. Steve “Sparky” Dickerson, Otto Froriep Sr., Nathaniel Boone Driscoll, Allen Tonneson1993 Capt. Lew Broome, Peter Oliver Bahr, Bert Cranmer, Bill Cranmer, Capt. Dick Clineman, Paul Lafferty, Lachlan Beaton, Capt. Calvin Wilson, Martin Bob Chadwick, Elliott Giles, Ernie Cranmer, Perry Inman, Charlie Richards1994 Capt. Dellwin Sooy, Robert D. Conti, Lorna Chadwick Shinn, Dave “Cricket” Winton, Winston Newman, Carolyn Chadwick, Capt. Ken Allen, Ed Brown, Enoch Jablonski, Walt Lud-low, Cliff Lashley, Capt. Herb Schoenberg1995 Phil Hart, Gurney Hart, Walter “Shorty” Hart, Paul D.

“Pete” McLain, Cliff Frazee, Gladys Eayre, Herschel Abbott, Eldora Abbott, Leah “Sis” Horner Marr, Russell Bowen, John Cavileer1996 Horace Cavileer, Milt Heinzer, Major Leek, Don Maxwell, Jack Parsons, Ma-son Price, Maurice “Merce” Ridgeway, Edward J. Smith, Arthur “Oppie” Speck, Stella S. Wegst1997 Reeves O. “Slim” Hornby, Norman Dupont, Joe Forsyth, Capt. Paul Bonnell, Herlan “Blue”Cornelius, Florence Cavileer, Marion Speck, Stanley Conklin, John Marvin Inman1998 Bill de Freitas III, Harry de Freitas, AlstonAllen, William Jenks, Charles Paul, Kenneth Holman1999 Bob Gaskill,Gus Heinrichs, Harry

Shourds, Edna Marshall, Herb Bell, Jack Scheimreif, Harry Rogers2000 Ken Maxwell, Edward Ahearn, Janice Sherwood, John Lafferty, Sam Leifried, Elwood Harvey2001 Steven Potter,Benny Allen, Enoch Pharo, John Chadwick, Dave Paul, Sr., Bob Wilson 2002 Bub Johnson,Gary Giberson, RossWilson, Jim Hutchinson2003 Ronald M. Bozarth, Nelson Holloway, Richard Crema, Richard Beckley2004 Ray Nyman,Edwin P. Thompson2005 Capt. John Larson, Henry Althouse, William Shoemaker, William Godfrey2006 Richard W. Matthews, John “Jack” Vanaman2007 Alvin Shourds,

John Scott Rutherford2008 Capt. Bob Fricke2009 Jim Leek, Malcolm Robinson, Captain Phil Anderson2010 John R. Holloway,George Mathis Sr.,Carl Tarnow2011 Albert Gabriel,Capt. Michael “Mickey”King, Halvor “Sonny” Skie,Capt. George Svelling2012 Anthony A. Schairer,Capt. John “Jack Jr.” Kennell2013 John M. Chadwick, Don Cramer, George Miku-letzky, Dale Parsons, Wanda Parsons2014 Ron “Poss” Hammell,Ray Huber Jr., John Joseph Maxwell

Past Hurley Conklin Award Winners


lynx, badger, mink otter fisher martin coy-ote, red and gray fox, raccoon, skunk, pos-sum, armadillo, wild hog, wild bear. On his “bucket list” mountain lion, kit fox, wolverine. Sterling outlined his annual cycle: In springtime he cleans up the fur shed, re-pairs and treats his traps and prepares to go to North Carolina to buy and trap snap-ping turtles, through July, when it gets hot. Then the trapper conventions start. So he’ll load up with supplies and travel all around the eastern U.S. attending trapper conventions, starting with Pennsylvania and ending with the New Jersey Fur Har-vesters’ annual convention in Atsion, and by then it’s November. “Trappers are trappers, they’re all the same,” he said of the strong sense of na-tional community. “The accents change, a lot, but they’re all the same. Everybody comes together in one group, and it’s all friendly.” In the meantime, in September he’s gearing up for fur trapping. In November there’s raccoon and fox to buy, and musk-rat season starts December 1 in South Jer-sey. Through the winter, Sterling works as a predator control contractor with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Holgate and Little Beach, protecting the piping plover and black skimmer from raccoons, red fox

and Norway rats. “That’s a well paying job, I really enjoy doing it,” he said. On recent trends, Sterling remarked he has sold a lot of coyote snares, he said. Ev-ery deer hunter wants to kill the coyotes that are killing their deer. But are coyotes lucrative? The best coyote pelt in South Jersey up for market might be worth $20, he said. Factoring in the hours to trap and prepare them, he said, he doesn’t feel they’re worth the bother. Sterling has published how-to guides and made a series of instructional DVDs. He has designed locking systems and devel-oped different snaring methods. He has attended and taught classes at Fur Takers of America, Purdue University’s Trapper College in Indiana. “I keep going back, because you can never know every-thing about any subject whatsoever.” When he first learned to trap turtles, the traps were about 4 feet long, with a flat bottom, an arched top and two net funnels for entryways, with a wire bait cage inside. “Every true fisherman, hunter, trapper is never satisfied with the equipment he has, but always trying to improve it,” he said. Non-climbable horse fence was a big improvement; collapsible traps; floating traps. Addressing some of the misconceptions about trapping, Sterling said the technol-ogy available today makes trapping more

humane than ever. New traps are designed to hold the animal in place until the hunt-er arrives to either dispatch the animal or set it free. “It’s just an old wives’ tale that animals chew their legs off,” he said. “You take just about any trapper who’s worth his salt, they’re animal lovers. We’re all animal lovers. We need to know ev-erything we can about any given animal we’re trapping to be successful. You have to know his habits. What a good trapper does is use the animal’s habits against him. You just reverse them.” Commercial trapping today is character-ized by best management practices, better equipment and enhanced humane meth-ods for catching an animal. Overpopulation, he pointed out, brings its own problems. When a species becomes overpopulated, they fight amongst them-selves in competition for food sources. (That’s why people in the city are mean and angry, he said, because they’re con-densed beyond carrying capacity.) “Mother Nature is going to come in and put a disease or something in there, and that is not pretty. Mange is the most ugly thing there ever is. Let fur trapping in there, take off access, you always have healthy animals. Once you let an animal go, overpopulate, health-wise, they go way down.”


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on the water. He tells people, “I was on a cruise for 33 months (in the Navy). That cured me.” “I loved the water as a kid, but now I love the golf ball.” He also loves to shoot pool. “We decided to start an eight-ball league, with the lo-cal bars around. I was with the Redmen, there was Jenny’s Great Bay Tavern, and we had the option of writing up the rules. My rules are probably still in effect.” He played billiards at a restaurant called the Nook, where an expert taught him how to play, how to stroke a cue ball, so I became pretty adept at it. I would rack the balls, he would run them. I saw him run 56 balls one day like it was nothing.” He would bet the young Mott ice cream sodas against his skill – and teach him a life lesson or two. “I will say that my generation grew up at the greatest time anybody could around here.” Tuckerton was a small town, with no problems, and it was just a nice way to grow up, he said.

Newt Sterlingby Victoria Ford

Newton Stewart Sterling, 64, of Port Republic, is an expert snareman, trapping supply dealer and instructor, a born out-doorsman who has honed his talents and trades to earn himself a widespread reputa-

tion across the United States and in Can-ada. “I do this as a professional, making a living,” he said. “I can’t be just a hobby trapper.”As a boy growing up in Fallsington, Pa., the oldest of six children (four sisters and a brother), Newt learned to trap, hunt and fish from his dad, who was a builder by trade and owned a 1953 19-ft. Chris Craft Racing Runabout. Sterling married his love of 23 years in June 2014. He has two daughters, one in Florida and one in Michigan, and a total of six grandchildren. “Right now I’m the second biggest buyer of common snapping turtles on the East Coast,” Sterling said. After pursuing a va-riety of career paths, including clamming, cabinet making and boat building, now his mainstay is turtle trapping and harvesting. He stocks the largest assortment of snar-ing supplies east of the Mississippi, he said, with customers all over the country, and the world. Fur trapping has taught him to pick up on the slightest nuances in nature, to zero in on the details, the telltale signs of an an-imal’s path. “A snareman always walks with his head down, constantly looking for ani-mal signs. Everywhere I go.” “I can track deer without a blood trail,” he said, “because I notice the little sticks and twigs and leaves, just knocked out of the way.” On his dad’s boat he learned a lot about woodworking, and from his grandfather, a German cabinetmaker, he learned to use woodworking hand tools, for which he found a natural aptitude. In 1964 when Newt was 14, his dad bought the White Horse Motel in Absec-on, and the family moved there. His for-mal introduction to the bay came from another award-winning bayman, Ron Hammel, whose uncle owned the gas sta-tion next door to the motel. “Ronnie was the first one that took me out in the bay, clamming,” Sterling recalled. “And I just I fell in love with the bay. … And the more I learned about it, the more I wanted to be a waterman, to make my living that way.” After high school, Sterling attended a cabinet making trade school in Michigan, where he received an honors award. “It was for my ability, not my schoolmanship,” he

said. In 1973 Sterling met Capt. Kenneth Wilson, who led him to commercial trap-ping work. “Always anxious to make a buck on the water,” Sterling has trapped turtles on the Mullica River, Bass River, Wading River, Naked Creek, up in Maine and as far south as North Carolina. In the mid-’70s, fur prices boomed, he said, and in addition to his cabinetry work he would trap and sell muskrats at $8 to $12 a piece. In 1978, he bought his first new vehicle, a full-size, four-wheel-drive Ford F-150 with an 8-foot bed for $5,500. In the ’80s he got into the surf clam busi-ness, working aboard the Amy Lynn and the Miss Francois. At that time the clams had to be shoveled, without the conve-nience of conveyor belts. The Amy Lynn was an 18-cage boat, each 3-by-4-by-5-foot cage full of surf clams weighing about a ton, divided between two deck hands in six hours. “It’s a young man’s job,” he said. Today, his boat is a 17-foot skiff he built himself. Sterling has built monkey snares that went to Gibraltar and cattle snares that went to South Africa. He has taught Cana-dian wolf trappers how to snare. “An animal’s an animal,” he said. “Once you learn how to snare, it’s easy to catch them – just use their instincts against them.” He’s done predator control work as far west as Texas, killing bobcats and coyotes on deer management areas for ranch own-ers, and on Indian reservations in New York state; hog trapping in Mississippi. He’s caught bear in foothold traps and leg snares in Maine. But. “I never came across an animal more exciting, more difficult, to snare and trap than a wild hog. Trappers are always taught to catch things with paws. When you put hooves on an animal, the whole game starts all over.” A big bear, he said, will act like a raccoon in a trap, just hiding his face. A wild hog is a different story: “They are coming after you ’til their last breath. You got a 200-pound hog charging you, you just pray that ca-ble is not going to break. They just do not stop. And they are the smartest animal out there that I think there is.” On his conquest list: wolves, bobcat,



“Where’s the ring?” That’s the question many novice birders or hunters ask the first time they view a Ring-necked Duck. The bird’s common name, as well as the species part of its scientific name, “collar-is”, refers to the chestnut collar around the base of the neck. This field mark is all but invisible from a distance, but is much more apparent in-hand, indicating that the early biologists may have been examining a dead specimen when they coined the name. Some have suggested the “Ring-billed Duck would have been a more appropriate name, given the bird’s

distinctive bill markings. The drake su-perficially resembles a Greater or Lesser Scaup, but the unique bill markings and distinctly peaked head easily separate this species from the others. The hen resem-bles a hen Redhead, with its light brown overall plumage and a paler area towards the front of the face, but is smaller and has a more angular head. The Ring-necked Duck feeds primarily on aquatic vegetation, but will supple-ment its diet with various invertebrates. While it dives for its food, as do other diving ducks, it is the diver most likely

to be found on small lakes and ponds during its winter migration. In fact, the lake where the floating decoys are judged at the Ocean County Decoy and Gun-ning Show hosts a flock of wintering Ring-necks almost every year. Breeding bird surveys have indicated that the Ring-necked Duck has gradu-ally increased in numbers since the mid 1960s, so this bird should provide ample opportunities for enjoyment for birders and waterfowlers alike for some time to come.

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“So, I turned 17 in August, and on Sept. 11, I joined the United States Navy. Sept. 12, I was wondering ‘What are you doing here?’” He went to boot camp in Bain-bridge, Md., and put in 13 months there. He was in a total of four years. “That’s enough.” He recalled his early morning duty aboard a ship off the coast of New Finland, or Portugal, doing 20-mile circles for 33 days at a time. “No one knows the north Atlantic. Don’t bother learning it. It is awful out there when it acts up. But, we all got through it.”When he came home in 1960 he started tree trimming with Asplundh tree compa-ny. Soon his foreman invited him to try climbing. “I thought my arms were going to fall off,” Mott said. “From being up in those trees and holding a saw, you can’t imagine, you use every bone in your body, every muscle when you’re climbing. While doing electrical work by day, out of Local 269, Trenton, Mott went to four years of night school for electrical inspec-tor, which led to a 25-year career with the Ocean County Construction Department. “Quite a ride, up 539, for years and years, but that’s where the money was,” he said. “To make pretty good money you had to travel away from Tuckerton, at the time.” He also had his own business, doing ca-ble TV over in Audubon, which was “very good to me.” Mott started as an electrical inspector in 1980. It was in the ’70s he did most of his clamming. “A lot of school teachers would be out there clamming in the summertime,” he recalled. “In the wintertime what you saw out there mostly was full-timers, just trying to scratch out a living. It was all hard work. Nothing comes easy out of the water.” As the second born of nine kids, Mott said it was “nice growing up in Tuckerton. You knew everybody.” He marveled at how the population has exploded in Tuckerton and Little Egg Harbor since the ’50s. His family’s home was at 201 West Main Street, right across from what is now Doyle’s Pour House, which was his father’s bar at the time. When he was 13 or so, his parents would wake him up at 4:30 in the morning in the wintertime, and they would go down Radio Road, to Gravelling Point. “We would go

out and catch oysters and put them on my dad’s lots that he had leased from the state, and then as he needed them, he would take them up. They used to sell oysters for $1 a quart.” His mom, dad and grandfather would open the bushels of oysters. Right around 1972, Mott recalled, an unbelievable set of clams happened over by what they call the Goose Bar, between Tuckerton and Beach Haven, where it’s all sugar sand. “For four years, that water nev-er froze,” he said. “Otherwise, these clams would have all died.” The first day the Goose Bar opened, Mott estimated they caught 50,000 clams, hard as it is to imagine now. But as it was, “you could go there and make all the mon-ey you wanted. It only lasted like that for one year, because you can only catch clams once. And it takes four years for a clam to get three quarters of an inch (and sellable). But it was quite an experience, something you’ll probably never see again. In no time at all, there were like 300 boats out there, catching clams every day.” He also treaded for clams, sometimes catching more than 3,000 clams in a day off of Ham’s Island. “That’s going back-ward, with a tube, basket, feeling the clam, going down, picking it up, throwing it in the basket – and in four hours, if you’re catching 3,800 clams, you’re busy.” They would get $40 per thousand clams. At the family’s acreage off of Rose’s Cove, behind Paradise Cove, “if it was northeast, you could always go up there with a big rake and make a day’s pay. Hard work, but you could still make a day’s pay.”

He would sell his clams on South Green Street, to Jack Parsons or Roger West, or to Bob Stovall in Red Bank. “It was an interesting time. A fun time.”One winter he dredged for crabs, alone out in Little Egg Harbor Bay, calling it some of the hardest work he ever did. But it had its advantages: “I don’t think I ever worked more than an hour selling crabs and they were gone. So, that worked out good for me.” “When you work the bay, you have to hunt for clams. So we did.” He has fond memories of fishing with his dad, who was a great striped bass fish-erman. With his grandfather Jeff Cramer he would go perching – catch shrimp in mosquito ditches, then go out for perch. “I’ve seen him walk off the meadows with 300-some perch in a burlap sack, carrying it like it was nothing. He was some man. Big and strong.” As for boats, Bobby Frick built him a 19’6” garvey with a 115 Evinrude on it, it would do about 40 mph, “so we could get where had to get in a hurry.” As an uncle and a father, Mott got in-volved in Little League. His mother was the official scorekeeper for the Bayshore Little League for 30 years. Another love was his hunting buddy. Mott always enjoyed “being in the woods or out in the field by myself.” But his sometime companion was a black lab named King. “The problem with King was, if I took him to the meadows – like, I used to walk out from behind Paradise Cove out to my grandfather’s shanty on Thompson’s Creek – if a mud hen jumped up, he’d catch it before I could shoot it. “But he was a great dog.” Another significant part of Mott’s life has been his love of golf. As a kid, Mott would go stay up in Lakewood, at John Rockefeller’s estate (now Ocean County Park), where his uncle was caretaker. That’s where he discovered golf clubs and his love of the game. In his life he’s had three hole-in-ones – two at Atlantis in Mystic Island, and one in Florida. He played Atlantis for years, he said, “more than anyone alive,” until he moved up to Ocean Acres, where he still plays four times a week, weather permitting. These days he has no interest in being


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Scott was a great landlord, he said. His hatchery produced as many as 600,000 baby clams per year with the help of his mother and father. Raising clams in a field nursery, Mathis said he did a lot of things that hadn’t been done and enjoyed success on a small scale. “It was lot of crazy work to just make a living.” In the mid-’90s he got hit with a bad strain of seed, and QPX disease wiped out his share in 1995/96. He began as a work-ing partner with Nautical Nuggets Hatch-ery in AC, until 2013 when health prob-lems interfered). “I like raising clams, but I don’t like being tied to one spot in the bay. I really miss going out on the wilds. I’ve clammed everywhere” – Sandy Hook, the Atlantic City relay, Grassy Sound behind Wild-wood, “every other bay from here to there. And I miss it.” When he first started out clamming, he worked with old wooden rakes with spliced handles. “It would take you 20 minutes to make a change in the handle length.” The tools available then weren’t ideal. But as technology brought better tools, and the clam populous was thriving, “It was a reasonable living to be made in the ’70s, in the water.” While it was a good thing culturally, it was an enormous amount of pressure put on all the bays in the sum-mer months, he said. A lot of guys his age caught their college tuition in the bay. “It was a rite of passage. You got old enough to get treading slippers and a boat, and out in the bay you went. So that doesn’t seem like a harmful thing, but it was.” Then recreational clamming became popular, further adding to the pressure on the stocks. Mathis fondly recalls the simpler days, when a young clammer would go to the clamhouse, where his boat was tied, and he caught the clams and brought them back, then hand counted them, and at the end of the week he got his pay in an envelope. “It wasn’t this rat race that clam farming has turned into.” Now it’s a harvest-to-order business, he said. Presently Mathis is one-third of the Her-itage Shellfish Cooperative, a partnership of New Jersey shellfish growers – Mathis and his two partners, Peter McCarthy and Jeff Pritchard – with a goal of preserving

the state’s clamming tradition by “using sustainable aquaculture practices and ad-hering to the highest standard for marine stewardship and preservation.” Over the years Mathis engaged in oth-er activities in the bay. He caught spear-ing and starfish; he tonged for mussels for a couple of years. The last year he caught mussels was 1984, he said. But its heyday was 1976, ’78. He caught bay scallops in 1974. He caught diamondback terrapins, surf clams, eels, crabs, minnows, bank mussels that he sold to winter flounder fishermen. “We did just about anything for a buck that came out of the bay.” He even picked sea lavender. “Most of what we did was for a break from clamming,” he said. “Also for the ad-ventures.” Since he was a little boy, he said, he has always loved to fish, and he still fishes when he can. He used to hunt duck and deer, even pheasant in Iowa, but he quit both by 1980. Nowadays, he said, he would rather hike in the woods with his camera. He recalled some harrowing occasions out on the water, when he “kissed the ground” upon arriving safely to shore. Some days, coming across to Tuckerton from East Edge could be quite an experience, he said. Some of his worst experiences in the area were going around Long Point in a 16-foot garvey with the wind blowing at 45 miles per hour. “Times we were bailing the boat on the way in, to keep the water from go-ing over the battery.” He’s been caught in ice. On the downside of the clamming in-dustry, “I don’t see a lot of initiative in the generation behind this,” he said, mainly because fewer opportunities exist. Looking to the future of clamming, Mathis would like to see regulations opened up to make it easier for people to get into aquaculture. “I’m an eternal optimist, I guess – all farmers are, by nature.” The world needs food – protein. And people are concerned about water quality, so that’s a hopeful sign. The only issues facing the aquacul-ture industry are economic and political, he said. In Mathis’s view, differentiating between conservationists and modern-day environmentalists, a conservationist says a certain amount of a resource can be used wisely, sustainably, responsibly; whereas an

environmentalist wants nature to stay ex-actly the same, never improving and never changing. “There is a group of people who want high quality, and they want it local, and they want to know who their supplier is. And we have a nice heritage, and we can show them we’re good, hardworking folks and we’re bringing them the best product their money can buy. And we can charge them more to do that. If we can continue that groundswell that we’re seeing, I think the future could be pretty good.” Mathis has participated in many research projects funded by national agencies and served in leadership capacities on numer-ous bay- and shellfish-related bodies at state, regional and national levels. Visit baymenspride.com and heritageshellfish.com to learn more about locally farmed, hand-harvested clams.

Joe “Spike” Mottby Victoria Ford

Joseph Mott was born and raised in Tuck-erton, like his father before him. His dad Elmer Mott was postmaster in Tuckerton; his mom, “my Rosie,” he called her, was a big Yankees fan who bore and brought up nine children. Joe Mott, nicknamed “Spike” for rea-sons to remain unknown, was born Aug. 28, 1939, and went to Tuckerton Elemen-tary and High School. He now lives in Ea-gleswood. When he finished high school at age 16, at first he celebrated because he had hated school, and then reality sank in: “You’re 16 and you have to work for a living. What are you going to do?”


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trial and error experiences from his previ-ous positions, he helped design improved spray rigs for the helicopters flown by the commission. Once, while taking the Chairman out in the helicopter to inspect recent improvements to the impound-ments within the Manahawkin Wildlife Management Area, the pilot attempted to land on one of the larger dikes. The weight of the right skid of the helicopter caved in a muskrat run and the skid became entan-gled in Phragmites roots. This caused the craft to tip over onto its side, destroying most of the rotor blades and drenching the pilot. Luckily, no one was injured. On another occasion, the helicopter Fred was riding in lost power and the pilot managed to autorotate down to a sandspit on the bay, just inside Island Beach. The landing did destroy the tail rotor, and a barge had to be towed in to retrieve the copter. Eventually, Fred left the Mosquito Com-mission and worked as a pest control con-sultant for a time. He then began work-ing for the Ocean County Department of Parks and Recreation in a variety of roles, including his last 20 years until retire-ment as a naturalist. During this time, he not only conducted a variety of environ-mental education programs, but was also involved in running the contests at the Ocean County Decoy & Gunning Show. Fred’s bird identification skills came into play many times, when a bird was misiden-tified on the contest entry form, or set in the wrong place by a novice show worker. Fred’s sharp eye never missed the error. He also often played a role as a contest judge. Fred’s birding skills and knowledge of the bay became extremely valuable when he was asked by Dr. Joanna Burger, a pro-fessor at Rutgers University, to assist in conducting a colonial nesting bird census in the mid-1970s. Using Fred’s boat, they surveyed the approximately 300 islands in Ocean County’s waters nearly every year, noting the number of bird colonies and estimating the number of individual birds per colony. They also collected early season eggs and shell fragments, as well as feather samples, in order to test for residual pesti-cides and heavy metal levels. The research gathered contributed to a number of scien-tific publications. Fred continued to vol-unteer this help until only a few years ago.

During all this time, Fred enjoyed his biggest passion, bird watching. He would often drop what he was doing at a mo-ment’s notice, traveling several states away to pursue reports of rare bird sightings. He has also traveled all over the world, estab-lishing an immense life list of bird sight-ings. Fred retired from the County in 2013 and relocated to Maryland to be closer to his family. He returns to New Jersey from time to time, especially to volunteer at the Decoy Show. He can usually be found un-der the decoy contest tent. He will be easy to pick out. He’s the one with the binocu-lars handing from his neck, always ready to spot the next bird.

George Mathis comes from generations of clammers and oystermen. Born April 9, 1955, he grew up admiring his father, who worked the bay full-time and also worked as a night janitor and later as an engineer at the Bacharach Institute in Pomona. Mathis was four years old the first time he got overboard and caught his first clam. His dad, now 84, is still clam-ming. “We ate a lot of crabs, and we ate a lot of clam chowder in the winter. It was a differ-ent world. I grew up behind Little Beach, largely. We clammed the bays back there because everything else was closed.” He spent formative years in Northfield, NJ, primarily, and as a young teenager he got his first boat – a garvey built by John

Mayer of Mayer’s Marina (now Somer’s Point Marina) with an Evinrude motor on it. Mathis fiberglassed it himself. When “sex, drugs and rock and roll” took over, Mathis quit high school and took off for the Florida Keys and spent some time in the Caribbean. Eventually he shift-ed gears again and returned to the Jersey coast, clamming on the wilds until 1976 or ’77, working primarily on Tuckerton Bay. After a stint at an agricultural supply company out in Iowa, “I decided the only thing I wanted looking over my shoulder was going to be a seagull.” Gradually Mathis had taken notice of the dwindling number of clams, so aqua-culture seemed the obvious direction to take. Among factors contributing to the declining clam population, Mathis cited pollution (DDT kills crustaceans) and outpacing technology (e.g., wetsuits and telescoping rake handles). “I don’t think there’s anything fundamentally wrong with the water,” he said. “So I’d have to say an increase in the predators and a decrease in the spawning population.” “I had always been fascinated with aqua-culture,” he said. His first go at it in 1978, in Jenny’s Creek, was a loss, due to preda-tion. He spawned his first clams in 1983 with Dave Vaughn of Great Bay Aqua-farms, down at the end of Radio Road. “That showed us what we could do.” Since he couldn’t buy a land-based facil-ity, Mathis bought a 40-ft. houseboat and lived on it for a few years, rearing clams out of that. He docked at Cape Horn Ma-rina down Seven Bridges Road, where Bill


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Fred Lesser was born in Glens Falls, NY, in 1937. His father worked for the S. S. Kresge Co., which operated a chain of five and dime stores. His father’s job required the family to relocate several times, even-tually settling in Beachwood, NJ in 1943, after he obtained a position teaching math and science at Admiral Farragut Academy, located on the banks of the Toms River in Pine Beach. Fred was attracted to the natural world early on and did a bit of muskrat trapping as a youth back before much of the area’s salt marshes were filled and developed. He recalls never making much money at it but had plenty of fun and learned to observe the nature that surrounded him, a trait that would serve him well later in life. His first “real” job was obtained at the age of fourteen, candling eggs for the Harold Scott Egg Company several nights per week. In a short time he saved enough money to purchase a nice fishing rod and reel. He next saved enough of his earnings for his first shotgun, a Kessler bolt action. As he did more waterfowling, he decided he needed a gun that could get off addi-tional shots more quickly, and saved for a Remington 870 pump action, which he bought from Western Auto. Fred was able to access more water for fishing and hunting when their father bought a 12-foot Trojan plywood boat, powered by a 14 hp Evinrude. Once again, Fred desired an upgrade, saving his own money to buy an Aristocraft, which was the same size as his first boat, but much sleeker and more attractive-looking. He also powered it with a larger 30 hp Mercu-ry outboard. His time duck hunting and observing the nature surrounding him led to a love of bird watching, which only be-came stronger as his life progressed. Fred’s outdoor pursuits eventually took a back seat to his education when he left for Paul Smith’s College and received an as-sociate degree in forestry. While there, he met his future wife, Barbara, with whom he had three children. He next obtained a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology at North Carolina State University. During his time there he took a summer job at

Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, trapping wildlife. While at this job he de-veloped connections with the University of Delaware and was offered an assistantship, allowing him to earn a master’s degree in entomology while he worked on research-ing the relationships between mosquitoes and wildlife. He then obtained a position as a state waterfowl biologist, in Florida, for a little over a year. This was followed by an appointment to the St. Johns County Mosquito Commission as Director, also in Florida, which he held for approximately one year. The next three years were spent working for the Lee County, Florida, Mosquito Commission, where he helped develop an inspection and mapping sys-tem for identifying problem areas for mos-quitoes using helicopters. He also worked with others to devise equipment to spray pesticides from the same helicopters. Up to this time, most spraying was done from fixed wing aircraft. In 1969, at an annual meeting of mos-quito control professionals, Fred met the Chairman of the Ocean County Mosqui-to Exterminating Commission. Fred was soon lured back home to develop a pro-gram of inspecting and treating mosquito populations using helicopters. Using the

HurleyConklinAwardPresented to people whohave lived in the Barnegat Baytradition. This award has beennamed in honor of the last ofthe Great Old Time BarnegatBay Carvers, Hurley Conklin.

This year’s recipients:

Fred LesserDonated by Ocean CountyParks & Recreation

George Mathis, Jr.Donated byBraden Chiropractic Center

Newt SterlingDonated byTuckerton Seaport& Baymen’s Museum

Joe “Spike” MottDonated byRenee’s UltimatePet Sitting Services

This program is dedicated to allof the Hurley Conklin Awardwinners – past and present.

Fred Lesserby German Georgieff

The Tuckerton Seaport Youth Carving Club is an important part of the story of carving in New Jersey, which we tell in displays at the Tucker-ton Seaport and through presentations by our demonstrating decoy carvers. The Tuckerton Seaport Youth Carving Club partners young people ages 11- 17 with master decoy carvers to learn the traditional art of decoy carving, paint-ing, and pattern making. 2015 marks the 10th year of this popular program. We turn chil-dren who have never picked up a carving knife into world champion carvers, while mentoring them in life skills and providing them with positive role models. We are not just preserving a traditional art, but keeping it alive by empowering our community and inspiring our young people. Here in Tuckerton, the most influential carver was Harry V. Shourds. His great-great-grandson, Malcolm Robinson, was one of the first demonstrators at Tucker-ton Seaport and an early member of our Board of Trustees. In addition to teaching carving for adults, Malcolm began teaching the Woodcarving Merit Badge for the Boy Scouts, and he found that he was able to spark an interest for learning more in the boys who participated. Malcolm thought this would be a great opportunity to final-ly start something he had been dreaming about for years. Since then, working with the youth has been his passion, and he is joined by Nancee Jo Luciani who jointly runs the club with him. In addition, Dick Zaengle assisted Malcolm for the first seven


Tuckerton Seaport’sYouth Carving Club


years of the club and was instrumental in its inception. Malcolm primarily teaches knife safety and carving, while Nancee Jo focus-es on painting. Students generally stay with the club for 5-6 years. The students produce art pieces that are nationally recognized through competi-tions. We believe this program is a model that other organizations can emulate. In ad-dition to working with the master carvers, students also work at home on projects and they are encouraged to take adult classes at Tuckerton Seaport with other artists as part of our scholarship program. In addition to passing on the tradition-al art of decoy carving to another genera-tion and keeping the art alive and dynamic, the students also learn about the culture of carving, the history of our area, the ability to work on both short and long term goals, public speaking skills, and the need to be reliable and devote yourself to a project and to the other members of the group. We’re especially proud of Andrew’s “First in Cate-gory” award for his Contemporary Antique bird at the Ward World Competition, as he

competed against some of the best carvers in the world, and came in first place, in his first adult competition. Deep relationships have been forged be-tween both students and from students and their mentors. Seventeen year old Scott joined the club at 12. He says,“For me, carving is about connec-tion- I’ve grown up sur-rounded by decoys and the people who created them, most of whom are relatives are mine…Now

when my own knife slowly shapes a block of white cedar, transforming it into something entirely new, I gain a deeper connection- not only with my grandfather, but with my wonderful mentors Malcolm Robinson and Nancee Jo Luciani, and with the other kids in the Youth Carvers Program.” The mentoring students receive in the club translates to success in the rest of their lives. As Sarah’s mom Desiree states, “[Sar-ah] has gained a special kind of confidence from carving as well. When you know you have these special skills to make a beauti-ful creature out of wood you pretty much know you can face any challenge that comes your way.” The Tuckerton Seaport’s Board of Trustees and Executive Director, Paul Hart, consider keeping traditional arts alive through our young people to be one of the most import-ant things that we do as a museum. If you are interested in learning more about par-ticipating in the club, please contact Jaclyn Wood at: [email protected] or call 609-296-8868 x122


er down the Mullica River, extensive salt marshes surround the watershed (Fig. 2). Lower in Great Bay, there are extensive salt marsh islands and adjoining sand bars that were formed as sediment com-ing in from the ocean was deposited on flood tides during a prior period of sea level rise (Fig. 3). Even more extensive and unaltered salt marshes occur on the peninsula known as Sheepshead or Tuck-erton Meadows (Fig. 4). This peninsu-la, especially, is cut by several thorofares such as Little and Big Sheepshead creeks. Some of these are relatively deep (more than 15ft) and have immense (2-3ft tall) yellow sponges attached to the bottom. Some of the deepest portions of the estu-ary are in Shooting Thorofare (40 ft) as it passes by the Rutgers University Marine Field Station. The mouth of the estuary is the most dynamic, with inlets coming and going over the years, with names like New Inlet and Beach Haven Inlet. (Some of this is detailed in a book-length history of the region by this author – Station 119: From Lifesaving to Marine Research.) Additional underwater habitats pro-vide even more diversity and range from large mats of broken down plant material and numerous stumps of ancient white cedar trees, especially in the vicinity of Hog Islands, to deeper channels joined by extensive continuously flooded marsh creeks and other creeks that are only flooded on high tides. Further down-stream, especially in the meandering, deeper portions of the lower river down to Graveling Point, there are accumula-tions of oyster shell and living oysters. In the central portions of Great Bay there are few hard bottom habitats such as these, and the bottom consists of muddy sand or sandy mud, and becomes even sandier as you enter the lower portion of the bay. Closer to the inlet, in the deepest (up to 30-40ft) habitats, where the currents are quite strong, the bottom is covered with extensive sand waves, with some up to 6ft in height. Also in these deep waters, adjacent to salt marshes such as in Shoot-ing Thorofare, there are large chunks of marsh peat that have calved off the edge of the marsh and accumulate on the bot-tom as “peat reefs”. These provide rough bottom topography where they occur.

These unique combinations of diverse, clean habitats are reflected in the diversi-ty of plants and animals that are resident or seasonal occupants of this estuary. The extensive and productive salt marsh-es, which provide for the overall produc-tivity of the system, are central. These are supplanted by extensive macroalgae

beds, like that of sea lettuce. All of these plants collect energy from the sun that is eventually conveyed to the animals in the system. This diversity includes some an-imals that only dabble beneath the sur-face (many kinds of ducks), others that skim the surface of the water (appropri-ately named Black Skimmers), penetrate the water only briefly and very shallowly (several kinds of terns), or more deeply (cormorants and loons), or stay under

for long periods of time (marine mam-mals such as harbor seals in the winter, bottlenose dolphins in the summer, and an occasional river otter). A diverse array of fishes are found in this estuary. Many of these occur most commonly along certain salinities (white perch in fresh or low salinity water, bluefish, weakfish and summer flounder or fluke from the inlet to the lower river, and tautog which are most typically found in the lower por-tions of the estuary near the inlet). Oth-ers such as striped bass use all portions of the estuary from the inlet to tidal fresh-waters up in the Mullica River. Crabs also use the system in different ways. Rock crabs come into the lower estu-ary in the winter but leave as the waters warm in the spring. Blue crabs are found throughout the estuary, but where they are found differs somewhat by sex, with males more abundant upstream, in the lower salinity waters, and females more abundant downstream near the inlet, es-pecially in the winter. One of the reasons so much is known about this estuary is that it is home to several institutions whose job it is to un-derstand it as much as possible. Several academic institutions (Rutgers Univer-sity Marine Field Station located near Little Egg Inlet, Stockton University’s Marine Lab on Nacote Creek) have been active for decades. Personnel at the fed-eral facilities of the US Fish and Wild-life’s Forsythe Refuge are actively en-gaged in management of their extensive holding and the same is true of the JC-NERR with its intensive monitoring in the aquatic portion of the estuary. Over the years, the NJDEP Bureau of Fish and Wildlife, which is also located in Nacote Creek, has contributed extensively to our understanding of the commercially and recreationally important fish and shell-fish in this estuary. All of these attributes and facilities make the Mullica River – Great Bay estu-ary an exceptional baseline to figure out how natural estuaries function and how these functions change in more impacted estuaries such as northern Barnegat Bay and New York Harbor. The aerial photos were provided by Pete McClain and Lisa Auermuller. Some of the bottom habitats are based on earlier work by Mike Kennish.

Fig. 2. Aerial photo of Mullica River where it is crossed b the Garden State Parkway

Fig. 3. Aerial photo of extensive sandflats at marsh islands near abandonedfish factory

Fig. 4. Aerial photo of extensivemarshes around Great Bay Boulevardat Little Egg Inlet


The decoy used as a model for the 2015 Decoy Show collector’s Pin was carved by Steve Tarnow. Steve,a welder by trade, has been carving decoys from his West Tuckerton residence since 1997, and has won over

50 ribbons for his decoys. He served as the Secretary on the Board of Trustees during the formative stagesof the Tuckerton Seaport, and has since taught several carving classes there. He has also volunteered as a

member of the Ocean County Decoy & Gunning Show Committee since 1999, fine-tuning contest rules,developing improvements to the show and serving as a judge for the Art and Photography Contests.

Steve’s Ring-neck decoy won ribbons in the 2003 Ocean County Decoy & Gunning Show as 1st place Ring-neck Duck and 3rd place Best Diving Duck. At the 2004 Ocean County Wildfowl Art & Decoy Show, it won ribbons as

1st place Ring-neck Duck, 1st place Diving Duck and 2nd place Best Barnegat Bay Traditional Decoy.


20th AnnuAl

Decoy Show collector’S Pin

Add To Your CollectionEach year the show highlights one species of waterfowl.

The 2015 commemorative pin features this year’s “Bird of the Year”– the Ring-necked Duck ~ Aythya collaris.

Look for this cloisonne pin on sale at the Ocean County Parks& Recreation show booth, show gate and the Tuckerton Seaport.

For order information call Wells Mills County Park: 609-971-3085

only $5

This estuary, as for others, is a location where freshwaters from the land meet and mix with the salty waters from the ocean. The Mullica River – Great Bay es-tuary is an exception-al body of water, not just by New Jersey, but also by east coast of the US, standards. This drowned riv-er valley, which was formed over the last 1,000 years is un-usual and unique for several reasons. The greatest overwhelm-ing influence is that it has relatively few people living in the watershed. Further, this watershed is likely to remain that way into the future because of numerous federal and state holdings that provide protection from development. Much of the upstream portion, both land and water, is part of the Pinelands National Reserve. As you come downstream, and the water becomes saltier, there are state protected properties such as the Whar-ton and Bass River state forests (Fig. 1). Further downstream, near the mouth of the Mullica River where it joins Great Bay, the salinity is even higher and many of the surrounding marshes are part of the Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge. These holdings in the Refuge, and the Great Bay Boulevard Wildlife Manage-ment Area, continue down to the saltiest part of the estuary where water from the ocean comes into Little Egg Inlet.

This estuary and its watershed is a moderately large system, about 365,000


THE MULLICA RIVERGreat Bay is a Unique Estuary

acres, and of this, approximately 115,000 acres are protected as part of the above holdings. This combination of protected watershed, low human population den-sity and general lack of extensive devel-opment makes this the cleanest estuary in the northeastern U.S. and one of the cleanest estuaries along the east coast of the U.S. This is often hard for many peo-ple to believe because it is embedded in the most densely populated state in the U.S. with hundreds of years of develop-ment in the state’s history. But once peo-ple have seen the system and understood the connectivity of protected waters, from freshwaters to the ocean, they ap-preciate its unique nature. All of this has been substantiated because the Mullica River – Great Bay is a central part of the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve. Many of the unique attributes of this

estuary were first generally realized in John McPhee’s book on the Pine Barrens. Subsequently, many have contributed to our understanding of this estuary, but the focus has often been on the forests and marshes. Less is known about events beneath the surface of the waters of the estuary. One of the other unique features be-neath the surface of this estuary is that it has naturally low pH (acidic) waters in much of the Mulli-ca River. This results from leaching of

tannins from the oaks and pines in the upper watershed that, when mixed with the water, create tannic acid and give the system its acidic, tea-colored water. In addition, these waters are unique because they typically have very high levels of dis-solved oxygen that many animals such as fishes and crabs rely on, yet are lacking in many other estuaries. This estuary is also exceptional because of the diversity of its aquatic habitats. A bird flying over the watershed can see that the watershed is dominated by numerous tributaries from Hammonton Creek, Nescochague Creek, Sleeper Branch and Atsion Riv-er in the upper portion, to larger ones, such as the Wading and Bass rivers in the lower portions. Elsewhere, large is-lands, such as the Hog Islands, near where freshwaters first meet saltwaters, and the waters are most turbid in most years, provide more shallow edges. Low-

Figure 1: Map of watershed with protected holdings and location names


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Located along the Tuckerton Creek in historic Tuckerton, NJ, this one-of-a-kind attraction brings the Jersey Shore’s maritimetraditions of the past and present to life through people, exhibits and hands-on activities. Discover the rich traditions of the

Jersey shore and its baymen with the Seaport’s recreated and historic buildings, exhibits, activities and programs.

Open Daily, All Year,Rain or Shine, 10am-5pm

Spend An Hour or Stay The DayLive Aquatic Exhibit & Animals

Nature Trail • BoardwalkHistoric Mini-Golf Course

NJ Surf MuseumDecoy Carving • Boat Building

Discoverby Doing!

Classes • Programs • Festivals • Events • Exhibits • Activities

Museum ExhibitsExplore a Working Boatworks

Meet a Decoy Carver Climb the Lighthouse Tower

Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Coast Guard

View the Oldest SneakboxEncounter the Jersey Devil Legend

Visit the Largest Surf Museumon the East Coast

SAFETY FIRST – CHILDREN MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULT AT ALL TIMES

Children’s InterestsDress Up Like a PirateMake and Take Crafts

Visit Live Aquatic CreaturesLift 50lbs With Block and TacklePutt Your Way Through History

See a Clam WalkFeed the AnimalsMake a Train Run

“Hang Ten” on a Surf boardWhere are the restrooms? Visitor Center 1st &2nd Floor, Hunting Shanty, Lighthouse 1st Floor

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