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Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Symposium Set for Nov. 11th & 12th
29 Aug 20112:41 PM
The Fourth International Bonefish and Tarpon Trust Symposium will take place on November 11th and 12th, 2011 at the International Game Fishing Association Hall of Fame in Dania Beach, FL. Representatives from Guy Harvey Outpost will be in attendance.
Held every third year, this Symposium promises to be the largest and most informative to date. Two full days of presentations on cutting edge scientific research of bonefish, tarpon and permit from fisheries scientists around the world is scheduled, as well as panel discussions, fly casting seminars and tying clinics by some of the world’s noted flats anglers. On the final night an “Evening with the Legends” banquet will be emceed by author and angler Andy Mill, participants include; Joan Wulff, Bob Popovics, Lefty Kreh, Flip Pallot, Chico Fernandez, Sandy Moret, Rick Ruoff, Mark Sosin, Ralph Delph, Steve Huff, Bill Curtis, Stu Apte and George Hommell.
Leading up to and as part of the Symposium, Bonefish and Tarpon Trust will be auctioning multiple guided days of fishing and special one of a kind fishing adventures with expert guides who have donated their time to benefit BTT. For more information on these auctions and to submit your bids please go to the “Symposium Auctions” button on the BTT web site.
Space is limited, so be sure to register early. All interested anglers are welcome. For more information and a complete schedule of events, please visit the BTT web site, or call 239-283-4733.
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![](mailto:?subject=Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Symposium Set for Nov. 11th & 12th&body=<a href="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/vaughfred-bonefish.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-830 " title="Bimini Bonefish" src="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/vaughfred-bonefish.jpg" alt="" width="495" height="329" /></a>Fly fishing guru Vaughn Cochran and Bimini Big Game Club guide "Eagle Eyes" Fred enjoy a bountiful day bonefishing on the Bimini flats.
The <a title="2011 BTT Symposium" href="http://www.tarbone.org/component/content/article/318.html" target="_blank">Fourth International Bonefish and Tarpon Trust Symposium</a> will take place on November 11th and 12th, 2011 at the <a title="IGFA web site" href="http://www.igfa.org" target="_blank">International Game Fishing Association Hall of Fame</a> in Dania Beach, FL. Representatives from <a title="About GHO" href="http://www.biggameclubbimini.com/aboutus.htm" target="_blank">Guy Harvey Outpost</a> will be in attendance.
Held every third year, this Symposium promises to be the largest and most informative to date. Two full days of presentations on cutting edge scientific research of bonefish, tarpon and permit from fisheries scientists around the world is scheduled, as well as panel discussions, fly casting seminars and tying clinics by some of the world’s noted flats anglers. On the final night an “Evening with the Legends” banquet will be emceed by author and angler Andy Mill, participants include; Joan Wulff, Bob Popovics, Lefty Kreh, Flip Pallot, Chico Fernandez, Sandy Moret, Rick Ruoff, Mark Sosin, Ralph Delph, Steve Huff, Bill Curtis, Stu Apte and George Hommell.
Leading up to and as part of the Symposium, Bonefish and Tarpon Trust will be auctioning multiple guided days of fishing and special one of a kind fishing adventures with expert guides who have donated their time to benefit BTT. For more information on these auctions and to submit your bids please go to the <a title="BTT Symposium Auctions" href="http://www.tarbone.org/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=26&zenid=b7til449h12ti6cs07e6lv3gb5" target="_blank">“Symposium Auctions”</a> button on the BTT web site.
Space is limited, so be sure to register early. All interested anglers are welcome. For more information and a complete schedule of events, please visit the <a title="BTT web site" href="http://www.tarbone.com" target="_blank">BTT web site</a>, or call 239-283-4733. https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/bonefish-tarpon-trust-symposium-set-for-nov-11th-12th/){kind=link}
![](mailto:?subject=More Press Coverage of the Bimini Big Game Club Hosting the Bahamas Wahoo Challenge&body=News of major fishing tournaments returning to the <a title="Bimini Big Game Club web site" href="http://www.biggameclubbimini.com" target="_blank">Bimini Big Game Club</a> continues to generate press in the U.S. and International media. The latest coverage comes from <a title="The Tribune web site" href="http://www.tribune242.com" target="_blank">The Tribune (Bahamas),</a>which recently published an article about the Club's hosting of the <a title="Bahamas Wahoo Challenge web site" href="http://www.wahoochallenge.com/" target="_blank">Bahamas Wahoo Challenge</a> in Nov 2010. This is the latest in a <a title="Articles about the Bimini Big Game Club " href="http://www.biggameclubbimini.com/press.htm" target="_blank">series of print and online articles covering the return of the Bimini Big Game Club</a> to its rightful position as one of the world's premiere fishing/boating/diving destinations.
The Bahamas Wahoo Challenge article from the Sept. 17th edition of The Tribune (click to enlarge):
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![](mailto:?subject=Low Key Christmas Boat Parade in Paradise&body=<img class=" size-medium wp-image-3206 alignleft" src="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/boat.jpg?w=300" alt="boat" width="300" height="225" />By Sue Cocking, Guy Harvey Outpost staff writer
scocking@guyharveyoutpost.com
The parade's Grand Marshal was a mentalist who performs card tricks in Vegas. The winning floats featured a western saloon and the Grinch who stole Christmas. One year, a rescue boat had to be deployed to shore in the middle of the event to fetch a corkscrew for wine guzzling party goers on the lead boat.
Welcome to the Key Largo Holiday Boat Parade-- the antithesis of its glitzy counterpart to the north, the Seminole Hard Rock Winterfest Parade held the same night in Fort Lauderdale. I was at the Key Largo event, and I bet it was a lot more fun.
For one thing, nobody had to close any bridges or re-route traffic to accommodate the parade route. There was a lone security guard helping park cars in the Sundowners restaurant lot near the docks where many of the boats staged, and the parade itself just made a big circle through Blackwater Sound. With only 22 vessels participating, it didn't take all night.
I got to ride on the lead boat, a 52-foot motoryacht called Kenny's Kork skippered by Captain Spencer Slate, owner/operator of the Guy Harvey Outpost dive outfitter in Tavernier. Slate has served as either grand marshal or captain of the lead boat for all 30 years of the event. This year's grand marshal was Henry Rosenthal-- a prominent Keys businessman and self-styled mentalist with the stage name of "Bastille". (Why he chose the name of a French prison, I never found out.) The boat was packed with lots of revelers drinking beer and wine and chowing down on a delicious catered buffet prepared by Sundowners.
As the procession chugged slowly along the shoreline, gaggles of spectators cheered from docks, back porches and waterfront restaurants. Kenny's Kork was followed by an assortment of lit-up motorboats and a flotilla of kayaks from Florida Bay Outfitters.
One colorfully-lighted kayak carried a paddler with a blow-up penguin standing in the bow.
"Isn't he festive?" the kayaker called to us.
Another kayak carried Santa Claus; others bore fake palm trees lined with white lights and one double kayak sported a manger scene in the rear seat.
"For me, this parade transforms December into Christmas time," said Key Largo businesswoman Laurie Scanlon.
The parade ended back at Sundowners where the judges convened to decide which floats should win prizes. While they deliberated, "Bastille" performed his signature show on the restaurant's patio stage. It involved lots of audience participation and shuffling of decks of playing cards. Kenny's Kork's owner was so enthralled that he tipped the performer a C-note.
Finally, it was time for the announcement of the winners by emcee captain Skip Bradeen, a popular veteran charterboat captain and local radio personality.
The award for best overall float went to the Grinch who stole Christmas-- one of Slate's dive boats lovingly decorated over two days by his daughter Sky and ex-wife Annette and their friends. The Grinch's light display was stunning and creative and Sky was compellingly costumed as the Grinch while Annette looked fetching as Cindy Lou Who in her blonde top-knot wig. Admirers quickly moved in to take selfies with the winning team.
What a hoot. Hope I get invited back next year!
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Sue Cocking chronicles the Guy Harvey Outpost travel and adventure experience in regular blog posts on GuyHarveyOutpostNews.com/. For 21 years, Cocking covered the full spectrum of outdoors adventure opportunities in South Florida and beyond for the Miami Herald, including fishing, diving, hunting, paddling camping, sailing and powerboat racing. She is a certified scuba diver and holder of an IGFA women's world fly fishing record for a 29-pound permit.
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<a title="Bimini web site" href="http://www.bahamas.com/out-islands/bimini" target="_blank">Bimini</a> continues to live up to it's reputation a the "Sport Fishing Capital of the World". The <a title="IGFA web site" href="http://www.igfa.org/" target="_blank">IGFA</a> recently announced FOUR new <a title="IGFA World Records Database" href="http://www.igfa.org/Records/Default.aspx" target="_blank">world records</a> were landed in Bimini waters - all caught by the same husband/wife team during a 2-day fishing trip with <a title="Web site for Capt. Bouncer Smith " href="http://www.captbouncer.com/" target="_blank">Capt. Bouncer Smith</a>! Angler Roberta Arostegui set three new women's records - a 3 lb., 8 oz Black Grouper on 20#, a 2 lb., 12 oz Lane Snapper and a 3 lb., 8 oz Lane Snapper - and husband Martin Arostegui set a new 8# Tippet World Record for Amaco Jack! These are not the first records the Arosteguis have caught. In fact, they have caught a number of other records in Bimini. Just goes to show - good thing happen when you go where the fish are! https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/four-new-igfa-records-set-in-bimini/){kind=link}
![](mailto:?subject=September Highlights for Ocean Lovers: Lionfish Safari and REEF Fest&body=Harvest, eat, win cash, and learn about exotic lionfish in the Lionfish Safari Sept. 9-11 at Guy Harvey Outpost, a Tradewinds Beach Resort in St. Pete Beach. The Outpost, in conjunction with the non-profit Reef Monitoring, Inc., will award $600 for the most lionfish and $600 for the heaviest lionfish, plus other cash prizes in the weekend-long, family-friendly ocean bash.
The hunt for the exotic predators from the Indo Pacific will take place all day on Sept. 10, with no boundaries and no time limit. Entry fee is $35 per diver. Weigh-in festivities and a family fun day will follow on Sept. 11. Chefs from the Outpost's RumFish Grill will cook and serve the harvest on the beach after researchers from Reef Monitoring take samples for scientific research.
One of the teams to beat will be led by Captain Scott Crawford, owner/instructor at Rock Bottom Divers near Tarpon Springs. Crawford, a U.S. Air Force veteran, and eight other vets-- four of them amputees--will employ their formidable combat skills in the campaign to mow down the aquatic invaders.
For more information and to register, go <a href="http://www.reefmonitoring.org" target="_blank">HERE</a>. Guy Harvey Outpost will offer a Florida Resident Special rate during the tournament.
Then from Sept. 29 through Oct. 2, Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF) will host REEF Fest 2016 in Key Largo. This celebration of marine conservation in the Keys will feature educational seminars by scientists and diving greats, exploration dives and snorkeling with the experts, eco-adventures such as paddle boarding, kayaking, and glass-bottom boat tours, and evening social gatherings. For more information and registration, visit the <a href="http://www.reef.org/REEFFest" target="_blank">REEF web site</a>.
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