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Bonfire Series Kicks Off at Bimini Boatyard, Monday, February 23rd, 6pm
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The Burning Wahoo Tournament & Festival week starts 6 pm. Monday night at the Bimini Boatyard. Then the action moves to Old Bahama Bay Resort & Yacht Harbor, a Guy Harvey Outpost Expedition Property Feb 26 – March 1st.
To help ensure your success, Capt. Ronnie Schatman will be on hand to offer tips and secrets for catching BIG Bahamian Wahoo. To help ensure we all have a good time, Tito’s Handmade Vodka and Guy Harvey Spiced Rum will be featured at the Kick Off Party.
Join your fellow anglers and extreme sports enthusiasts at a Meet & Greet at the Bimini Boatyard Waterside Palm Bar. Discuss details of the trip and find a buddy boat for the crossing. There will be door prizes, a 50/50 raffle and free giveaways, so come on out and let’s get ready to light it up in West End, Bahamas!
The Bimini Boatyard’s waterfront site offers drinks and eats both inside and out. Monday’s event will take place waterside at the Palm Bar.
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1555 Southeast 17th St.
Fort Lauderdale, Fl 33316
Phone: 954-525-7400
Email: info@biminiboatyard.com
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To help ensure your success, Capt. Ronnie Schatman will be on hand to offer tips and secrets for catching BIG Bahamian Wahoo. To help ensure we all have a good time, <a href="http://www.titosvodka.com/">Tito's Handmade Vodka </a>and Guy Harvey Spiced Rum will be featured at the Kick Off Party.
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Join your fellow anglers and extreme sports enthusiasts at a Meet & Greet at the Bimini Boatyard Waterside Palm Bar. Discuss details of the trip and find a buddy boat for the crossing. There will be door prizes, a 50/50 raffle and free giveaways, so come on out and let’s get ready to light it up in West End, Bahamas!
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The Bimini Boatyard's waterfront site offers drinks and eats both inside and out. Monday's event will take place waterside at the Palm Bar.
Bimini Boatyard Bar & Grill
1555 Southeast 17th St.
Fort Lauderdale, Fl 33316
Phone: <a href="tel:1-954-525-7400">954-525-7400</a>
Email: <a href="mailto:info@biminiboatyard.com">info@biminiboatyard.com</a>
For Fishing with Guy Harvey Outpost: <a href="http://www.ghofish.com/">www.ghofish.com</a>
For Guy Harvey Outpost & their great resorts: <a href="http://www.guyharveyoutpost.com/" target="_parent">http://www.guyharveyoutpost.com/</a>
For the Guy Harvey Outpost Blog <a href="http://www.guyharveyoutpostnews.com/" target="_parent">www.guyharveyoutpostnews.com</a>
For Guy Harvey Outpost on Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/GuyHarveyOutpost" target="_parent">https://www.facebook.com/GuyHarveyOutpost</a>
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![](mailto:?subject=Join Guy Harvey at the Islander Resort, a Guy Harvey Outpost, In Person for a Signing Event Sept 18th&body=Artist, Scientist, Author, Conservationist, Angler & Diver; Guy Harvey will be signing autographs at the <a href="http://www.guyharveyoutpost.com/destinations/florida/islamorada-fl/islamorada-fl-overview.html">Islander Resort</a> Thursday, Sept. 18th from 10 am to 12 noon. Come join Guy at the Islander Resort, his latest signature hotel and get your autograph or a quick selfie.
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If you need to pick up the latest <a href="http://www.guyharveysportswear.com/">Guy Harvey Sportswear</a> the Islander's Outfitter Shop has a nice selection of Guy's latest designs.
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According to early settler accounts, Palm Beach received its name from a shipwreck named the "Providencia." The ship washed ashore in January of 1878 with a load of coconuts and early settlers lost no time claiming salvage and planting the coconuts (which were not native to South Florida) in an effort to launch a commercial coconut growing industry in tropical South Florida.
Not long after, <a title="About Henry Flagler" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Morrison_Flagler" target="_blank">Henry M. Flagler</a>, the millionaire industrialist and owner of the <a title="About the FECR" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_East_Coast_Railway" target="_blank">Florida East Coast Railway</a>, began buying acres of land on the island of Palm Beach. The buying spree transformed many early homesteaders into wealthy society, as orders had been given by Flagler to buy "at any price".
Some things never change! Bid high to win this package - for a century later, Palm Beach is still the seasonal home and playground of powerful billionaires, business moguls and sporting enthusiasts. For a weekend you’ll get to live such a lifestyle.
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Enjoy an unforgettable visit to Palm Beach for you and your sportfishing machine or motor yacht. Enjoy a romantic two night, three-day stay at <a title="Ritz-Carlton Singer Island web site" href="http://www.theresidencespalmbeach.com/" target="_blank">The Ritz-Carlton Residences</a>, <a title="About Singer Island" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singer_Island" target="_blank">Singer Island</a>, Palm Beach, luxuriating in an elegantly furnished oceanfront residential suite with full Ritz-Carlton amenities. Situated with a stunning pool patio stepping onto a sweeping beach, the resort is minutes from the legendary <a title="Rybovich Marina web site" href="http://www.rybovich.com/marina.aspx" target="_blank">Rybovich Marina</a> where the dockmaster awaits your arrival. Four days of dockage, including utilities for up to 100 feet, is an experience that will leave you wanting that bigger boat.
With a $200 gift credit, cap the weekend retreat off with a romantic dinner for two at Café Boulud, one of the most acclaimed dining destinations in Palm Beach. The creation of world renowned <a title="Daniel Boulud's web site" href="http://www.danielnyc.com/" target="_blank">French chef Daniel Boulud</a>, dinner at <a title="Cafe Boulud-Palm Beach web site" href="http://www.danielnyc.com/cafebouludpb.html" target="_blank">Café Boulud</a> combines contemporary appeal with his award winning style of “soulful cooking”. Café Boulud is the essence of Palm Beach cool. Before or after dinner, be sure to enjoy cocktails in the Lounge at Café Boulud. Located in the historic <a title="Brazilian Court web site" href="http://www.thebraziliancourt.com/" target="_blank">Brazilian Court</a>, rated the #1 hotel in South Florida for 2010 by Travel + Leisure magazine, you’ll never know who will be dropping in at the Ritz Carlton!. Donated by Ritz Carlton, Lionheart Capital, Rybovich Marine and Premier Sales Group.
AUCTION INFORMATION:
Tickets to nightly events of the inaugural 2011 Billfish Invitational are available for $150/pp. Price includes cocktails, dinner and participation in the auction and award presentations.
On-site auction is Thursday, May 19th at the Bimini Big Game Club. Online bids accepted through Midnight, Wednesday, May 18.
Please contact Capt. Ned Stone (<a href="mailto:nstone@guyharveyoutpost.com">nstone@guyharveyoutpost.com</a>) for details.
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It looked more like the marine version of a rodeo than a scientific expedition in the clear, shallow waters of Tiger Beach off West End, Grand Bahama Island in the spring of 2009. Dr. Guy Harvey-- renowned marine artist, scientist, conservationist and cinematographer--and a handful of colleagues were trying to capture a 9 1/2 -foot tiger shark-- one of several for which the shoal was named-- so they could implant it with an acoustic transmitter tag. The tag emits a signature beep that is picked up by an underwater receiver installed in the area. Whenever a tagged shark passes within 300-500 meters of the receiver, it stores the signal to be downloaded onto a computer. So far, the shark had successfully eluded the scientists, but they weren't giving up.
Not nearly as high-tech as today's satellite tracking tags, which can follow a shark's moment-by-moment travel for up to several years, acoustic tags are nonetheless useful, showing when and how often an animal uses a specific area. They are also a lot cheaper than the $3,500 satellite tag.
"We should tag every one of these animals to see where they go," Harvey said. "The ultimate would be to have the species protected or--if not-- this area of the Bahama Bank could be designated no shark fishing. This is the beginning of what will hopefully be a 20-year study where we involve the Bahamian government, researchers from various institutions, dive operators."
Eventually, Harvey-- along with Dr. Mahmood Shivji, professor and director of Nova Southeastern University's Guy Harvey Research Institute and their fellow researchers--managed to lasso their target underwater, bring it to the dive platform of their boat and implant the tag in its belly. It swam away smartly.
Fast-forward six years to 2015 and you'll find that Harvey's tiger shark research and conservation efforts have reaped a handsome return. Expanding well beyond the Bahamas, recent long-term satellite tagging data reported in the June 9 issue of the journal Scientific Reports details previously unknown migration patterns covering thousands of miles between completely different ecosystems.
The study-- led by Nova Southeastern University scientists James Lea, Brad Wetherbee and Shivji and co-authored by Harvey-- found that tigers tagged in Bermuda travelled more than 7,500 kilometers round-trip between the open waters of the mid-North Atlantic and the coral reefs of the Bahamas and Caribbean each year. Like snowbirds, the male sharks spent winters in warm waters, headed as far north as Connecticut in summer, then returned to the same favorite winter hang-outs in the tropics.
One shark named Harry Lindo covered the longest tracked distance--27,000 miles-- ever documented for a tiger.
For Harvey, Shivji and the other scientists, the findings have profound implications for tiger shark conservation. The animals, listed as near-threatened by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, are protected from harvest in Bahamian and Florida waters. But as a target in the lucrative shark fin soup trade, they don't enjoy the same safe haven in other waters where they travel.
Said Harvey: "Understanding how these animals use the oceans is the first step toward effective conservation. Protecting migratory species is a great challenge because they can be found in such a wide area. Protecting the areas where animals such as tiger sharks spend the most time is a tractable goal once those areas have been identified."
To track the movement of the tiger sharks tagged by the Guy Harvey Research Institute, visit the <a href="http://www.nova.edu/ocean/ghri/tracking/" target="_blank">GHRI shark tracking web site</a>. https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/lassoing-tigers-by-the-tail-2/){kind=link}
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[Okeechobee, FL--] Cows bellow, a limpkin screams and distant lightning intermittently illuminates the nighttime sky as captain Bobby Stafford idles his aluminum skiff north on the Kissimmee River. Oblivious to the eerie atmosphere, Stafford and passengers Roger McCulloch and Butch Butler eagerly scan the tannic surface with binoculars and headlamps trying to catch a pair of ruby-red lights in their sights.
Sweeping the river ahead, bank to bank, Stafford suddenly spots what they're looking for.
"There's a big one!" he whispers excitedly to his companions. "My God, he's a stud. He's coming out of that creek we were in."
The alligator's red eyes, captured in the beam, are spaced a good distance apart not unlike the running lights on a small boat -- indicating he's probably ten feet or better.
This is just what McCulloch, a highway construction foreman from Ohio, has travelled so far to capture. An accomplished hunter, McCulloch has bagged literally dozens of gators with Stafford as his guide over the past ten years or so during Florida's annual statewide public gator hunt that runs from Aug. 15 through Nov. 1. McCulloch has mounted several of these trophies, but his supply of gator meat has run out. Scoring this target will fill his freezer.
Then Stafford says something that, to the uninitiated, might sound really weird.
"Maybe we ought to just drop a chicken," he says to the other men, who nod in agreement as if this is the most normal conversation in the world to be having on a desolate stretch of river in the middle of the night.
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Unlike the depictions of gator hunting on the popular "Swamp People" television show, hunters chosen by lottery for Florida's annual reptile wrangle are not allowed to shoot gators with guns or snag them in the throat with baited treble hooks. Only certain approved methods are permitted to harvest the quota of two gators per person. One of them involves fishing with chickens, minus a hook.
Stafford retrieves a whole, raw, store-bought chicken from a five-gallon bucket with a length of coated cable attached to it. He fastens the end of the cable to a snap swivel tied to 200-pound-test braided line on his stout conventional fishing outfit. Inside the chicken, he has sewn a wooden dowel-- perfectly legal--that will hold the gator's jaws open if and when it devours the bait.
Stafford drops the chicken/bait in the water, puts the fishing reel in free-spool and motors slowly upriver until the boat is about 100 yards from the floating bait. He directs McCulloch to drop anchor and then shuts off the outboard.
"You just have to have patience and let 'em come to you," Stafford says.
The men wait and wait. Nothing happens. Finally, Stafford points the headlamp at the bait and spots the 'stud' gator far past it downriver. No other targets can be seen lurking nearby.
Stafford reels in the bait and the group decides to go looking for more prospects. They light up a small one in the middle of the river that freezes in the beam, but they agree to pass it up. Not long afterward, they spot a five-footer lurking in some reeds on the bank that has someone else's cable attached to it. They keep looking.
Several other small boats pass by during the night believed to be those of fellow hunters. No whoops and hollers of victory are heard, and only a few gators appear in their sights.
"Too many small ones. Too much boat traffic for this stretch of river," Stafford complains. Reluctantly, he turns the skiff toward the boat ramp, done for the night. He and McCulloch and Butler make plans to resume the hunt around 5:30 in the morning.
"If we can get a morning where there's not a lot of people, then we'll get it done," he declares. https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/hunting-gators-in-the-heart-of-florida/){kind=link}
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