Most accomplished big game anglers agree the best place on the planet to chase and catch blue and black marlins in August and September is the Pacific Ocean, from the Perlas Islands just off Panama City, …
Joey Nania from Sweetwater TV talks with us on Fishing, Traveling, & Fun at Camp Mack
4 Mar 202011:29 AM
Hey Fishing Friends & Angling Addicts! 🎣
Clayton Keene (Tonya Keene) and I had the chance to sit down with Joey Nania from Sweetwater Fishing TV and have a chat after my Kids Fishing Clinic at Camp Mack, a Guy Harvey Lodge, Marina & RV Resort!
Thank you so much Mr Joey for taking the time to help introduce kids to the love of fishing and we hope to have you back really soon!
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![](mailto:?subject=Guy Harvey Outpost Launches Exclusive Luxury Charter in Panama&body=<a href="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/billshedd-2.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2847 alignleft" src="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/billshedd-2.jpg?w=225" alt="BillShedd (2)" width="225" height="300" /></a>Most accomplished big game anglers agree the best place on the planet to chase and catch blue and black marlins in August and September is the Pacific Ocean, from the Perlas Islands just off Panama City, Panama, south to the Zane Grey Reef at Pinas Bay.
To put anglers in the right spot at the right time, Guy Harvey Outpost Resorts has added Panama’s most exclusive mothership fishing operation, Panama Yacht and Fishing Charters (PYFC) to its system of unique fishing lodges. Based at Flamenco Marina in Panama City, the four-boat fleet is operated by Hennie Marais, considered one of most respected sport fishing outfitters and lodge operators in Central America.
Guy Harvey Outpost co-founders Guy Harvey and Bill Shedd, both trustees of the prestigious International Game Fish Association (IGFA) are no strangers to Panama big game sportfishing. Having just returned from a week long mothership expedition, Shedd, also the owner of tackle manufacturing giant AFTCO, comments, “this Outpost is the ultimate fishing experience, offering the freedom to fish where, when and how you and your friends wish. It’s no excuses fishing by day and luxury relaxation by night.”
Anglers, according to Marais, will enjoy a customized fishing experience like no other in Central America. Parties up to 12 will eat and sleep in the air-conditioned comfort of a 98-foot luxury Knight & Carver yacht, then head out to the billfish grounds aboard a 66-foot Buddy Davis sportfisher or a 37-foot Strike—or both. Rounding out the fleet is an 18 ft. Mitzi flats skiff, ideal for fishing the many mangrove shorelines throughout Panama.
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“You go out at 6:00 to 6:30 in the morning. You fish for live bait. When you get to the bait grounds, it’s just acres of bonitos and skipjacks,” Marais said. “Often before you get all your live baits out, you have a black marlin. And you’re not getting beat up by the sea conditions. You fish till you’re out of live bait, then troll lures or dead baits for sailfish and blue marlin. There’s a good opportunity for a grand slam.”
For the non-anglers who want to explore remote island jungles or those who prefer to fish close to shore for roosterfish or Cubera snapper, there’s the Mitzi skiff, kayaks, personal watercraft, stand-up paddleboards and a fully-equipped scuba diving center.
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“The big game fishing off Panama is legendary, but the entire country is one big adventure,” comments Guy Harvey, Outpost Chairman Mark Ellert. “This Outpost delivers not just fishing stories, but memories of a unique adventure that will last a lifetime.”
In January and February in the Las Perlas and Pinas waters are prime for black marlin, tuna, dorado (mahi), wahoo and roosterfish. April through June usually find the mothership plying the Pacific waters around the remote Isla de Coiba, a World Heritage Site in the Gulf of Chiriqui where yellowfin tuna are abundant. Other options throughout the year are the Bocas Del Toro and Gulf of San Blas regions in Panama’s Caribbean Sea for family snorkeling and inshore and reef fishing. https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/guy-harvey-outpost-launches-exclusive-luxury-charter-in-panama/){kind=link}
![](mailto:?subject=Lady Luck to Take A Dive&body=<img class=" size-medium wp-image-3210 alignleft" src="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/new_town_creek.jpg?w=300" alt="New_Town_Creek" width="300" height="163" />By Sue Cocking, Guy Harvey Outpost staff writer
scocking@guyharveyoutpost.com
A 324-foot ship that once carried sewage sludge for New York City is likely to become the largest artificial reef deliberately sunk in Broward County waters.
The non-profit Shipwreck Park Foundation-- a group of public officials, tourism boosters and local businesses including the Isle Casino--plans to sink the Newtown Creek next spring in about 125 feet of water about a half-mile east of the Pompano Beach Fishing Pier. Pending final approval by New York City officials, the huge steel, multi-deck vessel covered with metal piping built in 1968 will be transferred to the Pompano Beach non-profit to become a haven for fish and scuba divers.
"We're taking a ship that used to be a polluter and turning it into an artificial reef," said Jeff Torode, operator of South Florida Diving Headquarters, a Guy Harvey Outpost outfitter. "All the piping and intricate stuff on it creates so much more habitat than a flat deck. I think it'll be awesome."
But the Newtown Creek won't be deployed as is. It will be stripped of most of its equipment, cleaned of pollutants, drained of fuel and oil --then turned into a mock underwater gambling casino renamed the Lady Luck.
Prominent Pompano Beach artist Dennis MacDonald, who sculpted the Easter Island statues for the Rapa Nui artificial reef put down last summer off Deerfield Beach, is expected to create poker tables, slot machines and fish costumed like croupiers to decorate the main deck. Torode envisions underwater poker tournaments and other unique events staged aboard the Lady Luck.
The ship will join several others already deployed in the area, creating opportunities for multi-wreck drift dives, Torode said.
The Foundation paid about $100,000 for the retired ship and has raised another $525,000 to tow it from New York to a shipyard in Green Cove Springs, FL. to be prepared for sinking. The organization is trying to raise more money to ensure all costs are covered. Torode said the necessary permits have been secured from Broward County.
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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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![](mailto:?subject=Bahamas Wahoo Challenge – Day 2&body=The second and final day of fishing in Leg 1 of the <a title="BWC web site" href="http://www.bahamaswahoochallenge.com/" target="_blank">Bahamas Wahoo Challenge</a> has come to a close and all the fish have been weighed at the <a title="BBGC web site" href="http://www.biggameclubbimini.com" target="_blank">Big Game Club</a>. Airborne came on strong during day two with four fish totalling 115.3 Pounds, and Shine On came in with four fish totalling 99.65 pounds. None of the remaining competitors weighed a qualifying fish on day two.
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Using the four best fish of the two days, Shine On came in with 116.15 pounds and Airborne in with 115.30 pounds, followed by Hit That with 42.2. The difference between 1st and second places was LESS THAN ONE POUND! https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/bahamas-wahoo-challenge-day-2/){kind=link}
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