The Rockaway Times: Aug. 14, 2014

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Back In The Day

The Beef Chip The Fishing with Team Cyclops Report

By Matt Whalen Reviews On The Side A Shot Of Movie

We know you have been waiting. The anticipation is palpable, the emotion is ground shaking, and the people are about to get exactly what they want. The ill-fated, dreaded! and despised Ahoy Rockaway Countdown List. We start this weekend off with You know you are from Blah some great weather! We have Blah Blah, 37 things to do while in warm days, and with over night Blah Blah Blah or 17 sayings people temperatures in the upper 60’s, ofsayaccompanied while Blah Blah ten withBlahing. cool ocean This week, we at or Beefchip & breezes. The window attic fan Team Cyclops have compiled a list can do the job of cooling off the of motion that are often house over pictures night (hopefully) lowoverlooked, and hardly given ering your electric bill. We havethe a credit theyon areSunday due. WeAug. do not offull moon 10th, ferthere a rank these movies top so is aoflarge tidal rangeonwith 3 or top 5 as with all other lists a LOT of water moving in and out because, a waste of time of the areawell withit’s very fast currents, and like our hipster friends, very low, and very high tides. WE WANT Beach TO 19thBE St.DIFFERENT! and east: The movies yesteryear ofPauly T. has hisof boat back in the fered pop culture references many water and is the first one out of of the of morning our generation the gate people Saturday to fish could relate to on a personal basis, the incoming tide. Paul drifted beand often sent a deeper message tween B-19th St. and just east of on Atlantic the rights and wrongs, the the beach bridge inand Reyndo’s and do not’s of this game we olds channel using spearing and call life. smelt (spearing producing more The and Shawshank Redemption results) caught between 40 for example is a movie that by all

rights should have won multiple Academy Awards. Paltry box office sales that barely recouped the films original budget and a face-to-face showdown with blockbuster Forrestwith Gump and 50 fluke film in 5 hours his were contributing factors that left party of three anglers. Most of the Shawshank collecting the fluke that they caught dust wereforvery next several years. close to 18” except for three of Though rethem at 21” Morgan 18.5” andFreeman 19.5”, they ceived an Academy nomination for are headed for the dinner table afBest Malemeasured Actor it was notthe until the ter being (over legal film made it to VHS and 24-hour 18” length) and put on ice. Paul TNT reruns thatout it received the atsaid that he was at the “Coney tention it was due. Not to mention Island” flats, and the “Ambrose” the film has been #1 on IMDB’s area earlier but, it only produced top 250 since 2008. Be that as it one fluke because, the full moon may, as I am sure many can relate, (Aug. 10th) had the tide moving Shawshank instantaneous too fast to set is up an a good drift. click on the ‘OK’ button while Don’t forget that the bay is the channel surfing. All outside activnursery for the ocean. It is very caity ceases and nothing elsefish exists pable of producing many as while to Andy tell fish. Red, well as listening holding VERY LARGE “Remember Red, have hope you is a seen good How many times thing, maybe the best of things, something unusual in the bay and and no good thing ever“Idies.” thought to yourself, thought Though the life way of anout amateur that only happened in the turned? professional poker ocean” Some years ago oneplayer sumis a roller coaster ride statistimer Rockaway had a that friendly 10’ cally may often lead to the up depths Beluga whale that showed evof bankruptcy, ‘Rounders’ provided

ery morning at the Atlantic Beach en by Capt. Bud’s son “Ryan”. Some bridge and it would feed along the other local anglers stopped by “Big sand bar at B-19th St. well inside of Ron’s” to show the larger fish that Deb’s inlet, and even further east they caught and that are moving into the Rockaway area. Photos up Reynolds channel. Some small blue fish that were were provided courtesy of “Dawn” a little bit too big for the snapper at Big Ron’s bait and tackle in Howspoon that Chris Whalen was us- ard Beach. Tom’s Wave service station/bait ing on Sunday made their way across the flooded tidal flats. The & tackle on B.C.D. in Rockaway mini monsters showed up in the Park. some bittersweet memories in this great shot of Ruggers at a 7s tourney. Not We called and he back bays and creeks necessarily in order are: of TimReynolds Tubridy; Kevin Griffith; RickTom Sternberg Petereports Brady; that the fluke fishing is still going channel forTommy a surprise attack Joe Moore; greaney (RIP);on Timmy stackpole (RIP) Pat savage; Kevin Callaghan. some small bait fish. Chris hooked strong. Tom said that the surprisup on two hungry mini blue fish ing thing this year is that the fluke a platform on which to make that are of Texas Hold’em on the map usually all moved out of and the but, they spit the lure out when dream a reality. Matt Damon’s notethe movie ‘Rounders’ started all. bay by mid August. He hasitalso they reached the boat. worthy performance of a seemingly Since his win, no “professional” has heard no reports of “spots” (VirHoward Beach/Jamaica Bay: relatable postbait grad and student turned ever won the Much to the spot) inWSOP. the bay. There are Big Ron’s tackle on ginia poker pro, gave a young accountant chagrin of pros like Phil Helmuth, Cross bay Blvd., Captain Joey Bud some striped bass on the outside namedus Chris Moneymaker push of who their theberate inlet.amateurs Tom saidfor that thestyle fish shows “How it’s done”, the AGAIN! to accomplish what “only happens of play, the game itself would not Joe keeps slamming some BIG Fish in the bay are on an unusual cycle in the movies.” attain the popularity without an out there. The Captain nailed this this year, and we agree. In what has been called “The ordinary person such as MoneyTil next time... huge 6.0 lb Sea Bass on the “Bud” Moneymaker Effect”, his win at the maker accomplishing this feat. It Monday Morning. Photo was tak(Continued on page 20) World Series of Poker put the game

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