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Guy Harvey Interview on Fishing Florida Radio
4 Jun 20127:19 PM
Ever wonder what fish Guy loves to catch above all others? You can find out by listening to his interview with Fishing Florida Radio. Guy discusses his recent shark tagging expedition in the Bahamas and how his childhood in Jamaica influenced his career path. CLICK HERE to listen to these stories and more!
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Ever wonder what fish Guy loves to catch above all others? You can find out by listening to his interview with <a title="FFR web site" href="http://www.fishingfloridaradio.com/" target="_blank">Fishing Florida Radio</a>. Guy discusses his recent shark tagging expedition in the Bahamas and how his childhood in Jamaica influenced his career path. <a title="Guy Harvey interview with FFR" href="http://www.fishingfloridaradio.com/mp3/guyharvey_ffr.mp3" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> to listen to these stories and more! https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/guy-harvey-interview-on-fishing-florida-radio/){kind=link}
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More than one year after the South Florida fishing community's most popular live-bait fishing reef was demolished by a U.S. Coast Guard contractor, two prominent local recreational anglers have renewed a grassroots effort to replace Bug Light.
The tall, rickety metal tower located off Cape Florida, also known as the Biscayne Channel Light, was erected in 1929 to guide mariners in Biscayne Bay. Until July of 2014, it served as the go-to spot for charter captains and recreational anglers from as far away as the Upper Keys and Palm Beach County to catch pilchards, blue runners, threadfin herring and other live bait. The Coast Guard said it did not intend to replace the structure.
When Bug Light was torn down, Miami maritime lawyer Bruce Marx, former Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission chairman Rodney Barreto, and Miami charter captain Jimmy Lewis-- among others-- urged that it be replaced with a fish attracting device, or FAD such as another tower or a buoy. But that campaign got sidetracked when the fishermen learned the Coast Guard planned to demolish another popular bait-catching reef off Government Cut known as the "Bent Range". Over six months, Marx, Barreto and their supporters managed to raise more than $135,000 from private donations in a successful drive to keep the Bent Range intact.
Now they've zeroed back in on building some kind of fish attractor where Bug Light used to stand. It's critical now because an ongoing dredging project to widen and deepen Government Cut has reduced the availability of bait at the Bent Range.
Restoring a structure to the site of the old Bug Light will require local, state, and federal agency approvals including Biscayne National Park, in whose waters it lies.
Marx has taken to Facebook to urge members of the angling community to email him at bmarx@marlowadler.com detailing their reasons for replacing Bug Light with a FAD. Marx said he will forward those emails to Biscayne National Park superintendent Brian Carlstrom.
If being able to catch live bait is important to your angling enjoyment and success, then do get involved.
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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. https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/effort-underway-to-replace-bug-light-marker-in-south-florida/){kind=link}
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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}
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Killing Some Sharks in Florida Is Now A Crime
WorldFishingNetwork.com - Beginning Jan. 1, 2012, it will be illegal for anglers to harvest tiger <a href="http://www.worldfishingnetwork.com/fishing-101/species/shark-746.aspx">sharks</a> and three species of hammerheads in Florida state waters.
The motion was brought forth by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) on Nov. 16 in an effort to further protect these top predators that rely on Florida waters to survive.
"Sometimes the appropriate measures of conservation are the problems we avoid, not the problems we have to fix," said Commissioner Brian Yablonski.
The new measures will also prohibit possession, sale, and exchange of tiger sharks and great, scalloped and smooth hammerhead sharks. These sharks can still be caught, but only if released alive.
FWC's decision comes after more than a year of deliberation. Concerned citizens, shark researchers, and shark anglers expressed their desires to FWCto see increased protections for sharks.
Florida waters offer essential habitat for young sharks, which is important for species such as the slow-to-reproduce tiger shark, which takes about 15 years to reach maturity.
Sharks have been strictly regulated in Florida since 1992, with a one-shark-per-person, two-sharks-per-vessel daily bag limit for all recreational and commercial harvesters and a ban on shark finning. Roughly two-dozen overfished, vulnerable or rare shark species are catch-and-release only in Florida waters.
In addition to the new measures, FWC is also working on an educational campaign highlighting fishing and handling techniques that increase the survival rate of sharks that are caught and released while ensuring the safety of the anglers targeting them.
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