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Fish Tales & Cocktails 2014
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Casting for Recovery Benefit Oct 3, 2014 – 6 to 8 pm Blackfly Outfitter, 11702 Beach Blvd, Jacksonville, FL 904.997.2220
Guy Harvey Outpost is proud to support Casting for Recovery. Founded in 1996 in Manchester, Vermont, by a breast cancer reconstructive surgeon and a professional fly fisher, Casting for Recovery’s mission is to enhance the quality of life of women with breast cancer through a unique program that combines breast cancer education and peer support with the therapeutic sport of fly fishing.
Casting for Recovery provides free fly fishing retreats for women with breast cancer
70% of the women who attend Casting for Recovery retreats have never been to a support group
CfR currently offers 42 retreats across the country, serving nearly 600 women each year
CfR relies on the support of more than 1,600 volunteers nationwide, including medical and psychosocial professionals, fly fishing instructors and alumnae
You can make a difference and have a lot of fun attending the benefit “FISH TALES & COCKTAILS” at Blackfly Outfitter Friday October 3, 2014. We will serve you awesome appetizers, cold beer and very nice wine while you peruse the extensive raffle and silent auction items our top vendors and friends have generously donated. The volunteers who work tirelessly for the organization will inspire you with their own stories of how CfR has impacted their lives. Aubrey Thompson, Ph.D., fly fisherman and Professor of Cancer Biology at Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center will provide the latest on breast cancer research.
An impressive list of raffle and silent auction items include: Costa Del Mar sunglasses, Orvis Clearwater fly rod, Wright & McGill Blair Wiggins fly rod, art from Vaughn Cochran, fishing charters and more. For a complete list of items check below. Purchase tickets on-line or stop by or call Blackfly Outfitter. Check out our Facebook page for daily updates
Tickets are $20 in advance or $25 at the event – 1 raffle ticket and limited edition Coozie are included with the purchase of a ticket.
We hope to see you there or, if you cannot, please consider purchasing a ticket as a donation to Casting for Recovery.
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![](mailto:?subject=Fish Tales & Cocktails 2014&body=Casting for Recovery Benefit Oct 3, 2014 - 6 to 8 pm Blackfly Outfitter, 11702 Beach Blvd, Jacksonville, FL 904.997.2220
Guy Harvey Outpost is proud to support <a href="https://castingforrecovery.org/">Casting for Recovery</a>. Founded in 1996 in Manchester, Vermont, by a breast cancer reconstructive surgeon and a professional fly fisher, Casting for Recovery's mission is to enhance the quality of life of women with breast cancer through a unique program that combines breast cancer education and peer support with the therapeutic sport of fly fishing.
Casting for Recovery provides free fly fishing retreats for women with breast cancer
70% of the women who attend Casting for Recovery retreats have never been to a support group
CfR currently offers 42 retreats across the country, serving nearly 600 women each year
CfR relies on the support of more than 1,600 volunteers nationwide, including medical and psychosocial professionals, fly fishing instructors and alumnae
You can make a difference and have a lot of fun attending the benefit "FISH TALES & COCKTAILS" at <a href="http://www.blackflyfishingstore.com/">Blackfly Outfitter </a>Friday October 3, 2014. We will serve you awesome appetizers, cold beer and very nice wine while you peruse the extensive raffle and silent auction items our top vendors and friends have generously donated. The volunteers who work tirelessly for the organization will inspire you with their own stories of how CfR has impacted their lives. Aubrey Thompson, Ph.D., fly fisherman and Professor of Cancer Biology at Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center will provide the latest on breast cancer research.
An impressive list of raffle and silent auction items include: <a href="https://www.costadelmar.com/">Costa Del Mar sunglasses</a>, Orvis Clearwater fly rod, <a href="http://www.wright-mcgill.com/">Wright & McGill</a> Blair Wiggins fly rod, art from <a href="http://www.vaughncochranart.com/">Vaughn Cochran</a>, fishing charters and more. For a complete list of items check below. <a href="http://www.blackflyfishingstore.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=189&products_id=6641">Purchase tickets on-line </a>or stop by or call Blackfly Outfitter. Check out our Facebook page for daily updates
Tickets are $20 in advance or $25 at the event - 1 raffle ticket and limited edition Coozie are included with the purchase of a ticket.
We hope to see you there or, if you cannot, please consider purchasing a ticket as a donation to Casting for Recovery.
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Check out the <a href="http://www.guyharveyoutpost.com/destinations/bahamas/great-abaco-island/overview.html">Blackfly Lodge</a>, a Guy Harvey Outpost Expedition Lodge.
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![](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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; Captain Madison MacDonald (352-601-7392) and Captain Colin Guy (352-634-2901).
For the last few years, the Nature Coast has experienced something of a snook bonanza. This hard-fighting, line-sided speedster will make you work for it, but it is so much fun. Toney and MacDonald recommend casting a C.A.L. Shad jerkbait in glow/goldrush with a 1/8-ounce chartreuse jig head or a MirOLure Little John around the points of mangrove islands all the way up to the mouths of the Homosassa and Chassahowitzka rivers on the higher stages of the tide.
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Once you've checked off the snook, the red should be a gimme. In the fall, bull reds way over the slot limit of 18 to 27 inches make their way inshore from their Gulf spawning areas following schools of mullet. According to Guy, they can often be found on the spoil banks off Crystal River, in the moats of mangrove islands and around rocky reefs on the rising tide. Guy and Toney say the best bait is live pinfish or shrimp. But for purists who prefer artificials, a good bet is 1/4-oz. Eppinger gold spoon, or various soft plastics.
Sea trout are becoming a lot easier to locate than they were a month ago. The go-to bait just about everywhere on the Gulf coast is a live shrimp fished beneath a popping cork such as a Cajun Thunder or Flats Equalizer. (Purists may substitute a soft plastic for the live shrimp.) Toney and MacDonald are finding the spotted sportsters on the south side of the Homosassa channel and north of the Chassahowitzka River channel and also just west of the St. Martin's Keys.
You certainly don't have to be an expert to score a slam; all three guides are happy to teach novices how to cast and retrieve their baits. And besides the satisfaction of besting the big three, you can have your catch cooked at any of several excellent local restaurants. Some suggestions: Katch Twenty Two in Lecanto (352-746-6691) and West 82 Bar and Grill at the Plantation on Crystal River (<a href="https://www.plantationoncrystalriver.com/">www.plantationoncrystalriver.com</a>), which is also a great place to stay during your fishing trip. Call ahead to make arrangements for preparing your catch.
Take a break from post-Irma recovery with a brief fishing excursion. You might be able to write it off as therapy. https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/catch-an-inshore-slam-near-crystal-river/){kind=link}
![](mailto:?subject=LYC Commodore Sends Letter of Thanks for Successful 2010 Bimini Blast Event at the BBGC&body=The Commodore of the Lauderdale Yacht Club recently sent a letter to the staff of the <a title="Bimini Big Game Club web site" href="http://www.biminibiggameclub.com" target="_blank">Bimini Big Game Club</a> expressing his gratitude to the BBGC for hosting a sucessful "Bimini Blast", which is the LYC's annual gathering in Bimini:
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<a title="Bimini Blast 2010 at the Bimini Big Game Club" href="http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=13362&id=127094040665962&saved" target="_blank">Click here</a> to see a photo album of the 2010 "Bimini Blast" event at the BBGC. https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/lyc-commodore-sends-letter-of-thanks-for-successful-2010-bimini-blast-event-at-the-bbgc/){kind=link}
![](mailto:?subject=Guy Harvey Outpost’s Popular “Burning Wahoo” Bonfire Series Tournament Returns to Old Bahama Bay For February 2016&body=<a href="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/obb-wahoo.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2923 alignleft" src="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/obb-wahoo.jpg?w=300" alt="OBB Wahoo" width="300" height="182" /></a>WEST END, GRAND BAHAMA ISLAND—SEPTEMBER 28, 2015— The Bonfire Fishing Tournament Series, created and managed by Guy Harvey Outpost Resorts, today has announced dates for the Second Annual Burning Wahoo Tournament , scheduled for February 25-28, 2016 on West End, Grand Bahama Island.
Chasing wahoo along West End’s Wahoo Alley and beyond this February will be top anglers looking to take home cash, prizes and bragging rights for the newest edition of the popular “Burning Wahoo” Bonfire Series tournament hosted by Old Bahama Bay Resort and Yacht Harbour.
The two-day tournament will kick off with a Captain’s meeting and barbecue on Thursday, February 25th and will then offer private party events (including a traditional Bahamian Junkanoo), a beach bonfire with a burning wahoo sculpture, and an awards ceremony dinner during the course of the tournament.
This past February, anglers in 23 boats competed for the largest wahoo and aggregate total over the two-day Burning Wahoo tournament off West End. St. Augustine’s Fishin a Loan team emerged as the tournament champion, landing the largest wahoo at 63.9 lb on Day 1 and a 60.5 lb wahoo on Day 2 for a cumulative total of 448 lbs. Cash and prizes totaled $30,000.
For the 2016 edition, Tournament Director Cliff Jensen said early bird pricing (prior to December 31) is $300 per angler with a minimum of four anglers per boat. Also the first 25 boats registered and stay at the hotel will receive a $200 credit.
Jensen said cash, trophies and prizes will be awarded to the top teams. Go <a href="http://www.bonfireseries.com" target="_blank">HERE</a> to register online.
Sixty miles east of Palm Beach, Old Bahama Bay has 70 luxury guestrooms, a 70-slip deep-water marina with fuel and on-site customs, and a full array of resort amenities.
Available for tournament charter will be legendary Bahamas/Walker’s Cay Captain Billy Black and Dutchess, his 50-foot Hatteras, as a Guy Harvey Expedition Fishing Outfitter.
Guy Harvey Outpost Resorts, as part of its “Travel With a Purpose” mission, which combines a unique celebration at Outpost Destinations while promoting conservation, awareness and education, is again partnering with The Bahamas and Old Bahama Bay to benefit the West End All Age School with an end of tournament donation. https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/guy-harvey-outposts-popular-burning-wahoo-bonfire-series-tournament-returns-to-old-bahama-bay-for-february-2016/){kind=link}
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