where in the newsletter.
We still have plenty of DIFF license plates, which cost $5 each. Send you order to DIFF, P.O. Box 531, Pineville, N.C. 28134.
Prints and license plates will be available for purchase during the fishing tournament.

Look for us on the Web
DIFF is working with member Tom Dunaway to establish it's own website. Currently, the club has space on Tom and Jack Dunaway's web page, http://drumwagon.com.
The DIFF Board of Directors voted at its last meeting to  establish a separate site for the club in an attempt to increase our visibility and reach out to groups that have similar concerns about conservation issues at national parks.
Hopefully, we'll have the page set up and an address by the time of the next newsletter.

Club making video
The club is looking for help in producing a short video about the club and surf fishing that the National Park Service could use during interpretive programs at the lighthouse. Club member Roy Byrd is putting together videos he has taken during club tournaments. We need the help of a professional videographer for additional footage and sound. If you or someone

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he DIFF club offered to help Alger Willis Fishing Camps, Inc. finish two cabins that AWFC is building to replace two destroyed in a hurricane last year, but the club and the owners of AWFC couldn't agree on a way to protect DIFF's investment in the cabins.
The club's board of directors voted at its meeting in July to spend up to $7,000 to complete Cabins 20 A and B. The owners of AWFC had spent an equal amount in  building the modular units and had asked for the club's help to finish the cabins.
The board didn't know at the time of the vote that the National Park Service will allow AWFC to take the cabins off the island in the event AWFC were to lose the concessionaire contract or otherwise stop providing service to the island.
If that were to happen, the club wanted to ensure that its members could continue to use the cabins. Alvin Tans, DIFF's president, tried to negotiate an agreement with AWFC that would allow the club either to buy the cabins or to recoup its remaining investment in them if AWFC were to stop providing service to the island.
Until an agreement is reached, the club doesn't think it prudent to spend money on cabins that might not be available for its members to use long-term.

Catching real big flatfish
Club members Chester Hiatt, Frank Long, Bill Tucker and Jack Davis of Charlotte went fishing in Alaska this summer. Catching halibut in 300-feet of

water plumb wore the old boys out.
Chester, who caught 62- and 64-pound halibuts, reports that hauling the big fish up from the depths took 20 minutes and more endurance than he could muster. "You'd crank for 5 minutes and hand the rod over to the next fella, and he'd crank a few minutes and hand it over to somebody else," Chester said. "It wasn't much like fishing."
The group also caught river salmon.
Though it was the trip of a lifetime, Chester said he's ready for the more manageable flounder and puffers of Cape Lookout.

Hurray! Pictures are here
It took three tries and a couple of months, but the club has finally found a photo lab that can produce good quality prints of our lighthouse picture. In this age of color digitization, producing quality, large-sized, black-and-white prints from a negative is a lost art. But we think we found a lab in Greensboro that can do consistently good work.
Some of you, we know, have waited months for your prints, and we apologize for the delay. All orders have been mailed. If you ordered a print and haven't received it, call Frank Tursi at 336-766-7480 (franktursi@diffclub.com). If you would like to order one, see the order form that appears else