Compliments of Coastal Angler Magazine – Flahama Edition Bimini will be crawling with wahoo this month. The fish will be thick and of good size. The cold fronts in November worked their magic and this …
Get a Double Shot of Capt. Bouncer Smith’s Fishing Knowledge This Week
17 Nov 20144:39 PM
Captain Bouncer Smith gives back on a regular basis but this week you can get a two-fer. Tuesday Nov. 18th Bouncer will be teaching Bottom Fishing Wrecks and Reefs at the IGFA School of Sportfishing. Thursday Bouncer will be teaching Live Bait & Kite Fishing at the Dusky Sport Center. In addition to his knowledge of fishing, Bouncer is well known for his generous spirit and his willingness to share. His easy going demeanor makes him and excellent teacher. One of the reasons Bouncer was inducted into the Legendary Captains & Crew is his regular support of conservation and children’s causes. Pictured below is Bouncer helping Fish To Make a Difference
Bottom Fishing Wrecks and Reefs is the prefect class if you have ever had a slow day of fishing and want to improve your performance on the reef. You will learn techniques for catching snapper and grouper from one of the best bottom guys in South Florida. IGFA School of Sportfishing classes are held at the IGFA’s Fishing Hall of Fame: 300 Gulf Stream Way
Dania Beach, FL 33004. Classes are from 7pm-10pm.
Live Bait & Kite Fishing takes place from 6:30-8pm Thursday November 20th. Weather you are a novice angler or an old salt you can always pick up a few pointers from Capt. Bouncer to improve your catching. If you have never been to the Dusky Sport Center go early cause they have almost everything you need for fishing and boating. Dusky Sport Center: 110 N. Bryan Rd. – Dania Beach, FL 33004
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![](mailto:?subject=Get a Double Shot of Capt. Bouncer Smith’s Fishing Knowledge This Week&body=<a href="http://www.captbouncer.com/">Captain Bouncer Smith</a> gives back on a regular basis but this week you can get a two-fer. Tuesday Nov. 18th Bouncer will be teaching Bottom Fishing Wrecks and Reefs at the <a href="http://igfa.org/Educate/School-of-Sportfishing.aspx">IGFA School of Sportfishing</a>. Thursday Bouncer will be teaching Live Bait & Kite Fishing at the <a href="http://www.duskyonline.com/">Dusky Sport Center</a>. In addition to his knowledge of fishing, Bouncer is well known for his generous spirit and his willingness to share. His easy going demeanor makes him and excellent teacher. One of the reasons Bouncer was inducted into the Legendary Captains & Crew is his regular support of conservation and children's causes. Pictured below is Bouncer helping <a href="http://fishtomakeadifference.com/">Fish To Make a Difference</a>
<a href="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bouncer-at-the-helm.jpg"><img class="wp-image-2348" src="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bouncer-at-the-helm.jpg?w=225" alt="Bouncer at the helm" width="500" height="667" /></a>Bouncer supporting Fish To Make A Difference. Photo courtesy of Brooke Heddon
Bottom Fishing Wrecks and Reefs is the prefect class if you have ever had a slow day of fishing and want to improve your performance on the reef. You will learn techniques for catching snapper and grouper from one of the best bottom guys in South Florida. IGFA School of Sportfishing classes are held at the IGFA's Fishing Hall of Fame: 300 Gulf Stream Way
Dania Beach, FL 33004. Classes are from 7pm-10pm.
Live Bait & Kite Fishing takes place from 6:30-8pm Thursday November 20th. Weather you are a novice angler or an old salt you can always pick up a few pointers from Capt. Bouncer to improve your catching. If you have never been to the Dusky Sport Center go early cause they have almost everything you need for fishing and boating. Dusky Sport Center: 110 N. Bryan Rd. - Dania Beach, FL 33004
For Fishing with Guy Harvey Outpost: <a href="http://www.ghofish.com/" target="_parent">www.ghofish.com</a>
For Guy Harvey Outpost's 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>
For Guy Harvey Outpost on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/GHOutpost" target="_parent">https://twitter.com/GHOutpost</a>
For Guy Harvey Outpost on YouTube <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/GuyHarveyOutpost" target="_parent">http://www.youtube.com/user/GuyHarveyOutpost</a> https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/get-a-double-shot-of-capt-bouncer-smiths-fishing-knowledge-this-week/){kind=link}
![](mailto:?subject=Big Game Club Fishing Report&body=<a title="BBGC web site" href="http://www.biggameclubbimini.com" target="_blank">BIMINI BIG GAME CLUB</a> FISHING REPORT
CATCH: <a title="Wikipedia entry for Wahoo" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahoo" target="_blank">Wahoo</a>, <a title="Wikipedia entry for Blackfin Tuna" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfin_tuna" target="_blank">Blackfin Tuna</a>
LOCATION: <a title="Wikipedia entry for Great Isaac Cay, Bahamas" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Isaac_Cay,_Bahamas" target="_blank">Great Isaac Cay</a>, Approx. 20 mi. NNE of Bimini
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Left the BBGC dock at 6 am only to be greeted by a 3 - 5 chop, with a swell on top of that. We made the decision to go anyway. Fortunately, the seas subsided once we were about 10 miles from Great Isaac. The sun warmed us up and the seas remained nearly flat the entire day. We started the hi-speed troll just east of Great Isaac and immediately got a double header. We boated one of those and 9 more while trolling between 150-350! We had over 15 bites and even caught a nice blackfin on the wahoo troll! https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/big-game-club-fishing-report/){kind=link}
![](mailto:?subject=Surf Fishing in the Nation’s Oldest City&body=A great advantage of being a Florida native and living on the coast is the abundance of fishing opportunities our state offers. Whether it’s fishing on the open ocean, lake, river, or fishing from the surf, Florida has a thriving ecosystem that provides anglers an array of fishing experiences. As Florida begins its summer months, I’ve already landed a few pompano, redfish, and whiting on the Atlantic side of the state. While I’ve mostly fished the intercoastal waterway, I recently had the opportunity to learn more about surf fishing alongside Guy Harvey Resorts Pro Guide, Noel Kuhn. Guy Harvey Resorts St. Augustine Beach offers an excellent surf fishing academy for anglers of all experience levels at its resort location. As a founding member of the Florida Surf Casters Club and an expert in surf fishing techniques, Noel will hook you on this sport and have you casting up to 600 feet by the end of your lesson.
<a href="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/LRM_EXPORT_71321871609650_20190627_163932553.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-5336" src="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/LRM_EXPORT_71321871609650_20190627_163932553.jpeg" alt="" width="779" height="778" /></a>Photo by Katie McCafferty
The beautiful pristine coastline of St. Augustine Beach is well known as one of Florida’s premier fishing destinations, which makes it an excellent location for an early morning surf fishing excursion. I met Noel on the beach just north of Anastasia State Park before dawn and began the process of finding the prime location. After choosing our spot near the runout, Noel demonstrated the proper cutting and baiting techniques when using a fresh assortment of blue crabs, clams, sand fleas, and small fish.
<a href="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/LRM_EXPORT_71499200935468_20190627_164229882.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-5338" src="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/LRM_EXPORT_71499200935468_20190627_164229882.jpeg" alt="" width="1496" height="999" /></a>Photo by Katie McCafferty
Throughout the summer months, surf anglers on Florida’s east coast can expect to catch a wide variety of species including redfish, flounder, jacks, whiting, seatrout, and sharks. Due to differences in fish species size, diets, and depths at which they feed, each pole is outfitted with specialized rigging. Noel shared factors such as hook size, test, lures, and types of sinkers that affect your probability of catching fish. Having the proper surf fishing gear combined with the knowledge of fish species migrations are essential to hooking the fish you’re targeting.
As an accomplished surf angler, Noel specializes in long distance casting techniques and demonstrates on multiple rigs the importance of mastering the timing, technique, and tempo of your cast. Regardless of your skill level, he will teach you how to cast long distances and effectively land within the prized sandbar location. An additional benefit of attending the Guy Harvey Outpost Angler Academy is learning from Noel’s expertise in reading the structures of waves and tides and checking for differences in surf to locate the runout and sandbars.
<a href="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/LRM_EXPORT_17719764501515_20190623_110901381.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-5337" src="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/LRM_EXPORT_17719764501515_20190623_110901381.jpeg" alt="" width="1003" height="1002" /></a>Photo by Katie McCafferty
Whether you are a local or vacationing in Florida, the <a href="http://www.Guyharveyresortstaugustinebeach.com">Guy Harvey Outpost Resorts in St. Augustine Beach</a> offers you the opportunity to try your hand at surf fishing while improving your casting techniques. The Angler Academy has surf fishing spots available with Noel Kuhn on ,July 21, August 18, September 22, October 20, and November 17 and can be booked at <a href="http://www.outpostacademy.com">OutpostAcademy.com</a>. All gear and equipment will be provided and ready on site when you arrive. The only items necessary for you to bring along are your fishing license, sun protection, and a notepad. In addition to surf fishing, Guy Harvey Outpost Resorts offers many ecoadventures for the whole family that can be booked directly on the Outpost website. https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/surf-fishing-in-the-nations-oldest-city/){kind=link}
![](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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![](mailto:?subject=Wayne Nelson: An Everglades Warrior Lays Down His Shield&body=The following editorial about <a title="Everglades National Park web site" href="http://www.nps.gov/ever/index.htm" target="_blank">Everglades</a> activist Wayne Nelson was posted to the blog "<a title="Eye on Miami blog" href="http://eyeonmiami.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Eye on Miami</a>" after Nelson's <a title="Wayne Nelson's Obituary" href="http://www.tributes.com/show/Wayne-L.-Nelson-93742562" target="_blank">death</a> last week. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that memorial contributions may be made to the <a title="GHOF web site" href="http://www.guyharveyoceanfoundation.org" target="_blank">Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation</a>, 10408 West SR 84, Suite 104, Davie, FL 33324.
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By gimleteye:
When Wayne Nelson, 88, died this week, the liquid heart of Florida - <a title="About Lake Okeechobee" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Okeechobee" target="_blank">Lake Okeechobeee</a> - lost a fierce and knowledgeable advocate. Wayne was of a generation of modern-day Everglades activists; including, recently, the late Johnie Jones and his wife, Mariana, who were young in the 1940's and 1950's and experienced the Everglades firing on all cylinders.
Wayne was Korea War veteran and a retired air conditioning contractor whose advocacy for Lake Okeechobee led <a title="Nelson's Supreme Court Case" href="http://www.eswr.com/docs/courts/ussc/01-196/FOEpetition.pdf" target="_blank">all the way to the US Supreme Court</a>. He began fishing in West Palm Beach and Lake Okeechobee in the 1960's. He organized one of the first bass fishing clubs in Florida and was the organizer of the small group, Fishermen Against the Destruction of the Environment (FADE) that was a co-plaintiff in federal Clean Water Act litigation challenging the South Florida Water Management District and Big Sugar. Wayne was at the first meeting of the Everglades Coalition at Port of the Islands in 1984 and was once a member of the board of <a title="Friends of the Everglades web site" href="http://everglades.org" target="_blank">Friends of the Everglades</a> <> (of which I am now president).
Friends of the Everglades, Nelson's FADE, and other conservation groups brought citizen suits under the Clean Water Act against the US Environmental Protection Agency to require the South Florida Water Management District to obtain permits in order to discharge polluted canal water into Lake Okeechobee. (FADE and Friends of the Everglades have been involved in several federal CWA lawsuits, with important implications for the nation's water policies, not just the Everglades.)
This practice is known as "back-pumping" and its purpose is to make sure that the 700,000 acres of the Everglades Agricultural Area -- dominated by Big Sugar-- are never too wet in rainy season. Back-pumping controls water levels on sugar land and through the extensive canal system, forcing water uphill as it were, against gravity, into Lake Okeechobee.
At the same time, the water management practices that deliver immense benefits and profits to sugar barons like the billionaire Fanjuls also deprive the natural system of the rainfall cycle that nourished the Everglades and Florida Bay with clean, fresh water at the right time of year.
He launched his boat in Belle Glade and would fish through the weekend. "To get to the Lake," Nelson testified in a Friends' affidavit filed with federal court in 2011, "you have to cross the rim canal and enter the Lake through one of the cuts. I would typically see the pumping while I was going out to fish or coming back in from fishing and was traveling in the rim canal to the boat ramp. You can see the turbulence and tinged color of pumped water all the way across the rim canal and into the Lake."
Wayne Nelson was a fierce supporter of grass roots environmentalism. His friend, Jim Harvey, says, "If people were classified like naval ships, Wayne Nelson would be the Warrior Class. He never faltered to say it like he saw it. He believed in watching the ass not the lips to ascertain where things were going. You didn't go fishing with Wayne. He went, listening to him. He loved Lake Okeechobee and held no quarter or gave no quarter when it came to saving the Lake."
Wayne didn't seek out the spotlight. He could be cantankerous and prickly. But anyone who loved the Everglades, fought battles against industry pressure, endured endless delays by government, obfuscation, and false declarations of progress while the liquid heart of Florida turned into a sewer would be spewing comets and fury at the misdirection.
"Water transfers of polluted, nutrient-rich water to Lake Okeechobee results in increased nutrient pollution in the Everglades system,"
Nelson said in his affidavit. "Nutrient pollution is one of the biggest threats to the Everglades today. Nitrogen and phosphorous from the canal waters feeds algae growth that chokes out sea grasses and other native plants. Algae also depletes oxygen, resulting in "dead zones" below the the surface where few native Everglades species survive. Invasive flora and fauna are increasingly taking over the niches created by the degredation of the water quality in the Everglades."
It has been nearly forty years since the historic agreement between the federal government and state of Florida to end the pollution of the Everglades, and its results keep a permanent incumbency in place; from local county commissions, to the state legislature -- that still refuses to hold Big Sugar accountable for the costs of its pollution and won't even impose the most rudimentary system to honestly account for polluting farming practices -- to Congress and the White House.
"We don`t need any more studies of Lake Okeechobee or the Everglades,"
Nelson told the Sun Sentinel in 1988. "We know what the problems are and we know what the solutions are. We need action. The farmers are hiding behind (government agencies they control)." ("Lake Okeechobee Scientific Group Back In Business", Orlando Sentinel, July 14, 1988)
Wayne knew that the environmental warriors were badly outmatched by the Great Destroyers, and he understood the clock was ticking. He didn't stand for niceties; he wanted environmentalists to do more and he had no tolerance for waving banners. He strongly believed that grass roots organizations were the key. Jim Harvey says, "He was pure passion and "old school" on freedom of speech. He hated equivocation and figured political correctness was being accurate. Period. He was in the truest sense, an egalitarian warrior with little regard for large national environmental groups that danced around to keep the Everglades ball in play."
Wayne Nelson just wanted to go fishing, and it made him angry that pollution deprived him, Florida and the nation of that opportunity.
Nelson told the Sun Sentinel in 1990: "Reagan missed the boat when he called Russia the Evil Empire". Thrusting a finger toward the sugar cane farms ringing Lake Okeechobee, he said, "I'll tell you where the goddamn Evil Empire is... it's out there!" (A Sweet Deal Has Become The Source Of A Bitter Poison, The Sugar Dynasty, Sept. 16, 1990) And it still is. https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wayne-nelson-an-everglades-warrior-lays-down-his-shield/){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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