The DIFF Club is offering this nylon hat with a detachable neck protector and embroidered club logo. They come in off-white only.
The cost is $21, which includes shipping and handling. Send you check and order to DIFF, P.O. Box 268, Mooresville, N.C. 28115.

Website is popular
The club's website, www.diffclub.com, is attracting attention. Tom Dunaway, the club's web master, reports that the site has had 3,655 visits since October. The newsletter, Tom says, is the most popular item on the web page.

Tourney results needed
The club's Tournament Committee is missing tournament results from 1984-87. If you have them, call Jack Davis at (704) 542-9732.

Dues are due
If you haven't renewed for 2001, your club membership  expired July 31. Annual memberships are still $20 and lifetime memberships are $250.
You'll find an application and tournament entry form on Page 5. Be sure to include any e mail addresses you have.

Club financial statement
The club had about $12,000 in its checking account as of July 1, reported Treasurer Bill Stiles. That included $6,100 for prize money for the fishing tournament.
The club has an additional $15,000 in various certificates of deposit.
The DIFF board is investigating a variety of projects that the money could be used for, includ

ing restrooms at the north end. See the questionnaire on Page 4 to help the board decide.
 
Plates, photos on sale
We still have plenty of DIFF license plates, which cost $5 each. Send your order to DIFF, P.O. Box 268, Mooresville, N.C. 28115.
An order form for the historic lighthouse photograph is available from the Home Page.

Next board meeting
The DIFF Club Board of Directors will have their next meeting Wednesday, Sept. 26, in Cabin 10A on the island. Club members are invited to attend.
Club hats for sale
How about a stylin' new hat for that next trip to the island?

New gray trout size, bag limits are clarified

as a "vessel." Though the fishermen driving them may have spent most of the day miles apart, they were both required to follow the same size limit because the officer checked them while they were fishing together.
Such an interpretation is obviously nonsensical and has since been cleared up by the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries. Two trucks parked together on the beach shouldn't be a "vessel" unless the fishermen share the same cooler to store their catch.

Anglers and law-enforcement officers were bit confused by the state's new regulation on gray trout, or weakfish. Fishermen at Cape Lookout National Seashore, fishing from different trucks, were surprised to learn soon after the limits went into effect in June that wildlife officers considered them a "vessel" under the law.
All that's been cleared up. As long as you follow these requirements, you shouldn't have any problems:
You have the option of keeping up to four gray trout under 14 inches per day or up to 10

that are 14 inches or larger.  You can't keep any trout under 12 inches.
Fishermen have to follow one or the other of the size limits.  For example, you can't keep four trout between 12 inches to 14 inches and also possess trout that are 14 inches or larger. It's one size  or the other. Everyone fishing from a boat or "vessel" must stay with the same size limit.
That's where the confusion started. Some law-enforcement officers in the park interpreted two trucks parked together on the beach