Get your New Year’s Game On at the legendary Bimini Big Game Club. Get yourself and your friends to our “New Years party at the end of the world” in the original party town, Alice Town. …
Dive With A Legend, Scuba Radio & Mermaids – No Foolin!
14 Mar 20115:34 PM
Spend April Fools Weekend diving with Neal Watson, World’s Scuba Depth & Distance Record Holder, Scuba Radio host Greg (The Divemaster) Holt and Mermaids, at the new world class dive operation, Neal Watson’s Dive Bimini located at the Bimini Big Game Club, a Guy Harvey Outpost Resort.
Friday: Sunset cruise aboard the 60’ Bimini Blue Glassbottom Dive Boat with music and adult beverages.
Saturday: Two tank morning dive off Bimini Island returning for lunch and then a special afternoon snorkel with the wild dolphins, or join Neal, Greg and Mermaids for a live remote Scuba Radio broadcast.
Sunday: Two tank day trip to the Victory Reef and Tuna Alley South of Bimini off Cat Cay. (Sunday diving not included on a 3 day / 2 night package).
3 day / 2 night $592.00
4 day / 3 night $769.00
Package Price based on a per person rate / double occupancy in the room
Package includes
- Round trip airfare from Fort Lauderdale including US Departure Taxes ($20.00 Bahamian departure tax not included)
- All New Guestrooms & Facilities
- Sunset Cruise
- 2 Tank Dive Daily (excluding arrival & departure days)
- Special Wild Dolphin Encounter
- Tanks, Weights & Belts
For information about extending your package stay, call 800-867-4764 or email: sales@guyharveyoutpost.com.
You never know who may show up during the week!!!
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Spend April Fools Weekend diving with <a title="Neal Watson's web site" href="http://www.nealwatson.com" target="_blank">Neal Watson</a>, World’s Scuba Depth & Distance Record Holder, <a title="Scuba Radio web site" href="http://www.scubaradio.com" target="_blank">Scuba Radio</a> host <a title="Greg The DiveMaster's blog" href="http://www.scubaradio.com/dive-blogs/gregthedivemaster/" target="_blank">Greg (The Divemaster) Holt</a> and Mermaids, at the new world class dive operation, Neal Watson’s <a title="About Dive Bimini" href="http://www.biggameclubbimini.com/dive-bimini.htm" target="_blank">Dive Bimini</a> located at the <a title="BBGC web site" href="http://www.biggameclubbimini.com" target="_blank">Bimini Big Game Club</a>, a <a title="About Guy Harvey Outpost" href="http://www.biggameclubbimini.com/aboutus.htm" target="_blank">Guy Harvey Outpost Resort</a>.
Friday: Sunset cruise aboard the <a title="About Bimini Blue" href="http://www.biggameclubbimini.com/our-boat.htm" target="_blank">60’ Bimini Blue</a> Glassbottom Dive Boat with music and adult beverages.
Saturday: Two tank morning dive off Bimini Island returning for lunch and then a special afternoon snorkel with the <a title="About snorkeling with wild dolphins" href="http://www.biggameclubbimini.com/dolphin-experience.htm" target="_blank">wild dolphins</a>, or join Neal, Greg and Mermaids for a live remote Scuba Radio broadcast.
Sunday: Two tank day trip to the <a title="About Bimini's dive sites" href="http://www.biggameclubbimini.com/favorite-dives.htm" target="_blank">Victory Reef and Tuna Alley</a> South of Bimini off <a title="About Cat Cay" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Cays" target="_blank">Cat Cay</a>. (Sunday diving not included on a 3 day / 2 night package).
3 day / 2 night $592.00
4 day / 3 night $769.00
Package Price based on a per person rate / double occupancy in the room
Package includes
Round trip airfare from Fort Lauderdale including US Departure Taxes ($20.00 Bahamian departure tax not included)
All New Guestrooms & Facilities
Sunset Cruise
2 Tank Dive Daily (excluding arrival & departure days)
Special Wild Dolphin Encounter
Tanks, Weights & Belts
For information about extending your package stay, call 800-867-4764 or email: <a href="mailto:sales@guyharveyoutpost.com">sales@guyharveyoutpost.com</a>.
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![](mailto:?subject=Bimini Big Game Club’s New Year’s Three Peat Package Includes Free Room and Free Airfare&body=Get your New Year's Game On at the legendary <a title="BBGC web site" href="http://www.biggameclubbimini.com" target="_blank">Bimini Big Game Club</a>. Get yourself and your friends to our "New Years party at the end of the world" in the original party town, Alice Town.
Got plans? Change them!! Bring the party with you! Have we got an offer for you! We call it the New Years Three Peat Package, because we love those Miami Heat...
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Book three rooms for a minimum of four nights, checking in anytime between Christmas and New Year Eve, and we'll give you one of the rooms free! And, there's more! There's also 2-for-1 airfare...now, getting to Bimini is as cheap as a drive to Key West!
Take charge. Get your friends off the couch. Get your Game On...at the Big Game Club. Guaranteed more fun and less money than staying at home stateside, and no risk of a late night run in with the law!
Join us New Year's Eve for the <a title="New Year’s Boat Parade & Pool Party, Bimini Style!" href="http://guyharveyoutpostnews.com/2010/12/09/new-years-boat-parade-pool-party-bimini-style/" target="_blank">1st Annual Bimini Boat Parade and Pool Party</a>. Cruise the harbor with the Scuba Radio Mermaids on our 60' twin deck party machione, <a title="The Big Game Club’s Name That Dive Boat Competition is Over! It’s…Bimini Blue!" href="http://guyharveyoutpostnews.com/2010/10/15/the-big-game-club%e2%80%99s-name-that-dive-boat-competition-is-over-it%e2%80%99s-bimini-blue/" target="_blank">M/V Bimini Blue</a>. Then, join us poolside for live music by Mango Man, and drink specials till midnight when we ring in the New Year.
On New Years Day, its Rum Bloody Marys and football - all the games, all day long.
For all the details and to book your group's Ultimate New Year's Three Peat Package, call the Big Game Club today at 800-867-4764. https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/bimini-big-game-clubs-new-years-three-peat-package-includes-free-room-and-free-airfare/){kind=link}
![](mailto:?subject=Sword Fights in the Cayman Islands&body=About 12 years ago, Cayman Islands businessman Clarence Flowers-- an avid sport angler-- chartered Miami Beach captain Bouncer Smith for a South Florida swordfishing excursion. Smith shared his tactics and techniques with his customer and they caught a fish. Flowers told the captain about the nascent recreational swordfishery in his Caribbean home waters: a 600-pounder had actually beached itself in Grand Cayman Island's North Sound and recreational anglers were taking some hefty ones on hook-and-line. That fateful conversation led to the inaugural Cayman Swordfish Challenge in 2005.
The 11th Challenge just wrapped up last weekend with local angler Thom Guyton taking top honors for boating four swords--including the tournament's largest, a 108.2-pounder--and releasing one off Cayman Brac.
The contest also serves as an on-water laboratory for scientists seeking to learn as much as possible about this unsung, but robust recreational fishery.
"Better than ours-- especially the night fishing," Smith, a 50-year-veteran charter captain, said of Cayman Islands swordfishing. "The daytime I would say is on a par with here--maybe slightly better."
Fisheries scientist Travis Moore of Pompano Beach-based Gray FishTag Research was on the water for the two-day contest and implanted a 54-incher with a satellite tag before releasing it. The tag, anchored in the dorsal fin, will detach after a year and beam minute-to-minute data about the fish's movements to a satellite which downloads the data to Moore's computer. It is the ninth satellite tag to be implanted in Cayman Island swords by Moore and colleagues since 2011.
"What we're doing is to help develop this fishery for the Cayman Islands," Moore said. "The Cayman government may decide to use this data to regulate foreign fleets coming into their waters."
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Right now, both Moore and Smith say, there 's really no directed commercial fishery for swords in the Cayman Islands; the effort is primarily recreational with a few fish kept to eat or sold to local restaurants. But as word of the bounty gets out, the powerful and tasty billfish potentially could face heavy exploitation and would require careful management. The islands' record is a 392-pounder caught in 2012.
Moore says preliminary satellite tracking data shows the Cayman Islands serve as a "rest stop" for the tasty pelagics that hang out here roughly from November through May, then head north as waters warm.
"They're feeding in a perpendicular pattern to the Cayman Trench before going north," he said.
Recreational anglers target them in ways similar to their South Florida counterparts: deep-dropping squid, small tunas, bonitos or belly strips in 1,600 to 1,800 feet of water in daytime and either drifting or slow-trolling baits with planers 100 to 300 feet deep at night. Smith says all three of the Cayman Islands-- Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman--are basically sea mounts surrounded by very deep waters where upwellings concentrate bait, and therefore swords could be found just about anywhere.
"You can fish so close to the islands that you can read the license plates on the cars," he said.
Moore relishes the opportunity to enjoy the sport and collect important information at the same time.
"The fishing there is really off the charts," he said. "Amazing." https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/sword-fights-in-the-cayman-islands/){kind=link}
![](mailto:?subject=New Title, Huge Turnout, Big Haul Expected in Lake O Bass Tournament&body=<img class=" wp-image-3232 alignleft" src="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/lakeoblog.jpg?w=300" alt="LakeOblog" width="282" height="282" />by Sue Cocking, Guy Harvey Outpost staff writer
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The 2016 Costa FLW Series opens Jan. 14-16 with a fleet of 250 boats with 500 pro- and co-anglers anticipating big sacks of bass on Lake Okeechobee.
The kickoff of the former Rayovac series, renamed for new title sponsor Costa del Mar sunglasses, comes to south-central Florida just as unseasonably warm winter weather gives way to cooler, blustery conditions that could send hungry hawgs into overdrive.
"This place is going to go off like a bomb," predicted Fort Lauderdale competitor Anthony Hunt, a co-angler who doubles as a five-star chef. "The big spawn is probably going to happen in this tournament. I caught one over eight in practice, so I know there's a lot of fish moving up right now."
Last year's winner Val Osinski of Pompano Beach, who totaled 70 pounds, eight ounces over three days, agrees.
"The lake is fishing very well from north to south," Osinski, president of Gambler Lures, said. "It's already taking 25 to 28 pounds [per day] to win the local tournaments right now."
Osinski predicts a sack about as heavy as his last January will top the event. But weather, he says, will be the key factor in deciding where to go and what to do.
"I'm still wide open," he said. "I don't have a good feel. I'm not locked into anything."
Lake levels are deep for January at just under 15 feet, scattering fish which are in various stages from pre- to post-spawning. If a cold front brings strong northerly winds to the tournament, Osinski believes that finding clear water on the lake's north end could be the ticket. If that happens, he plans to use his brand's Why Not craw-style bait to flip the outer edges of grass lines for "lake fish"-- meaning groups of big bass heading from offshore to inshore to spawn.
But the defending champ also is prepared for changing weather which could send him to the lake's distant south end.
"I'm going to be on the go, trying to catch pre-spawn and post-spawn fish going either way," he said.
The top pro at the Okeechobee event will take home $60,000 plus a Ranger boat while the winning co-angler gets a Ranger boat plus $5,000. The tournament is one of three to be held in each of five divisions around the U.S. leading up to the Costa FLW Series Championship on Missouri's Table Rock Lake in November.
Daily weigh-ins--free and open to the public--will take place at 3 p.m. at Scott Driver Park in Okeechobee.
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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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Bouncer's Dusky Takes Top Honors at the Bonfire Tournament
<a href="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/dsc1953-team-bouncer-horiz.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2087" src="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/dsc1953-team-bouncer-horiz.jpg?w=300" alt="Bouncer's Dusky Takes Top Honors at the Bonfire Tournament! (Click image to enlarge.)" /></a>L-R: Ned Stone (Outpost), Rick Benitez, Capt. Bouncer Smith, Victor Escobar, Billy Springer (Click image to enlarge.)Bimini Beach Bash, Bonfire & Tournament Results
Bonfire Tournament Winner: Bouncer’s Dusky
Bonfire Runner-Up: White Pearl
Bonfire 3rd Place: Pisces
Top Angler, Victor Escobar, Bouncer’s Dusky
2nd Place Angler William Senne, White Pearl
3rd Place Angler, Chad Conner, White Pearl
Top Lady Angler, Irynne Mackay, Pisces
2nd Place Lady Angler, Margie McGough, Pisces
3rd Place Lady Angler, Danielle Keyser, White Pearl
Top Junior Angler (11-16) Devin Dellacava, Offshore Express
Top Small Fry Angler (10 and under) Bryanna Dellacava, Offshore Express
Top Reef Team: Bouncer’s Dusky
Top Offshore Team: Bouncer’s Dusky
Top Billfish Team: Tiboron
Largest Mackerel (Wahoo, Kingfish, etc): Brown’s Dusky
Largest Dolphin: White Pearl
Largest Tuna: Tito’s Vodka
Top Captain: Bouncer Smith
Bent Shaft Award (Hard Luck Trophy): White Pearl for a broken rod and lost fish that could have moved them within striking distance of Bouncer’s Dusky.
Most Unusual Catch: Bobby Little, Burning Marlin!
Sportsmanship Award: Pilot Rob Lowe
For more details about the <a href="http://www.guyharveyoutpost.com/newsletter/beach-bash-bonfire-tournament/index.html">Bimini Beach Bash, Bonfire & Tournament</a>
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![](mailto:?subject=Calling All Pups: Stand Up for Warriors&body=Prop your pup on your paddleboard and race for fun, glory, prizes and to support a worthy canine cause at the first annual Pups & Sups event July 30 on St. Augustine Beach.
Humans and their pets will compete to see who can ride the biggest wave, take the longest ride, cruise in highest style, and take the best wipe-out-- among other categories-- in this family-friendly competition. Proceeds will benefit <a href="https://www.k9sforwarriors.org/">K9s for Warriors</a> -- a Ponte Vedra non-profit dedicated to supplying combat veterans returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan with service dogs that ease their adjustment into civilian life.
Paw-ticipants will be divided into weight divisions: large dogs (51 lbs. and up); medium dogs (21 -50 lbs.); and small dogs (20 lbs. and under). They will be launched by their owner/handler, with winners in each weight division advancing to the finals.
Registration is $40. Check-in time will be 7:30 a.m. at 860 A1A Beach Boulevard-- future site of the <a href="https://guyharveyoutpost.com/lodging/beach-resorts/st-augustine-beach/">Guy Harvey Outpost Resort, St. Augustine Beach</a>. Competition will begin promptly at 8:30 a.m.
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Tahoma Guiry says it should be a fun time for both people and dogs. Guiry--chief marketing officer and education director of K9s for Warriors-- says she and her three kids aged 11-18 really enjoy paddleboarding with their 1 1/2-year old Labradoodle Nash. The family adopted Nash last year after he washed out of the organization's rigorous training program for service dogs --("He got guarded with his toys, so I took him home," Guiry explained.) Today Nash fits right in with the Guirys and their other dog and enjoys SUP-ing on local lakes.
"He just chills out and goes along for the ride," Guiry said. "He loves the water and loves being with people and our family."
Since launching in 2011, K9s for Warriors has matched 323 military veterans with service dogs-- mostly pets from shelters, other rescue organizations, and a few breeders. The dogs perform a multitude of tasks for their warriors who may suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, brain injury and other conditions. The dogs help them avoid panic attacks, wake them from night terrors, enhance their physical mobility, and ease their anxiety in social situations.
U.S. Army veteran Matt Berg of St. Augustine was paired with his Labrador-mix service dog Sunny last year. At 98 pounds, Sunny is too big to ride Berg's surfboard with him, but Berg says "he's a good dog....always there....a good companion."
more information and to sign up for Pups & Sups, go to http://bit.ly/2tKyPA3.
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