John Hemingway, grandson of the legendary Ernest, is in Bimini this week while on assignment for Showboats International magazine. John, who is being hosted by the Bimini Big Game Club, is sampling the …
History of Bimini Bluefin Tuna Fishing Featured in Marlin Magazine
2 Feb 20122:39 PM
If you missed Marlin Magazine’s fascinating January 2012 account of the history of Bimini’s bluefin tuna fishery, then you are in luck – you can now read the full article at the magazine’s web site. The pairing of Peter Wright’s excellent narrative with a collection of nostalgia-inducing photos from the ’50s & ’60s gives an exciting glimpse into the history of the sport fishing capital of the world!
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![](mailto:?subject=A Hemingway Returns to Bimini – Part II: Of Boats and Bonefish&body=John Hemingway, grandson of the legendary <a title="About Ernest Hemingway" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway" target="_blank">Ernest</a>, is in <a title="About Bimini" href="http://www.bahamas.com/out-islands/bimini" target="_blank">Bimini</a> this week while on assignment for Showboats International magazine. John, who is being hosted by the <a title="BBGC web site" href="http://www.biggameclubbimini.com" target="_blank">Bimini Big Game Club</a>, is sampling the best of Bimini - including many of the pursuits and places that were favorites of his grandfather during his years on the island (1935-1937). John filed the following dispatches after spending the day with Bimini's famed guide and boat builder, Ansil Saunders:
Mr. Saunders is a very interesting man. Apart from having bonefished for over fifty-five years, he was a good friend of <a title="About Dr. Martin Luther King" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_luther_king" target="_blank">Dr. Martin Luther King</a>. King visited Bimini several times in the 1960s and on one of his last visits in 1968, he told his friend Ansil, while the two of them were out fishing, that he knew that he was going to die soon, that his time had come, but also that God must exist, saying "look at the sheer abundance of life you have here, in the air and in the sea. This is proof, if ever proof was needed.
Here Mr. Saunders is seen holding a photograph of himself and the US ambassador to the Bahamas when she gave him a plaque commemorating his friendship with Dr. King.
<a href="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ansil12.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1162" title="Bimini's legendary boat builder and fishing guide, Ansil Saunders" src="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ansil12.jpg" alt="" width="550" height="412" /></a>
Here I'm standing behind my fishing guide, Mr Ansel Saunders. He built the bonefishing boat we're standing next to, the cost about $30,000, incredible craftsmanship.
<a href="http://guyharveyoutpost.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/ansiljohnboat.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1163" title="John and Ansil pose next to one of Ansil's custom-built boats" src="http://guyharveyoutpost.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/ansiljohnboat.jpg" alt="" width="550" height="412" /></a>
This guy was heavy and towards the end I was bringing in one after the other, and god do they fight (all of them were released afterwards, you don't eat bonefish). What a morning!
<a href="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ansiljohnbonefish.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1164" title="John and Ansil with one of the many bonefish caught in the Bimini flats" src="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ansiljohnbonefish.jpg" alt="" width="550" height="412" /></a>
The first bonefish I caught, out of about a dozen, incredible morning, about six pounds, of the eastern coast of South Bimini, Bahamas.
<a href="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/johnbonefish.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1165" title="John and one of the many bonefish he caught with Ansil on the Bimini flats" src="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/johnbonefish.jpg" alt="" width="550" height="412" /></a>
Stay tuned for more updates from John's trip to Bimini! https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/a-hemingway-returns-to-bimini-2/){kind=link}
![](mailto:?subject=Billfish Invitational $300 Fuel Credit From Bahama Out Island Promotion Board&body=Register now for the <a title="TBF web site" href="http://www.billfishinvitational.com" target="_blank">Billfish Invitational</a> fishing tournament at the <a title="BBGC web site" href="http://www.biminibiggameclub.com" target="_blank">Bimini Big Game Club</a> and you'll receive a $300 fuel credit from the Bahamas Out Island Promotions Board! The offer is available to any registered boat participating in the Billfish Invitational, and the $300 fuel credit will be applied to the folio of the registered boat at the time of the tournament. The fuel credit offer is limited to one fuel credit ($300) per registered boat. For more information, call 800.867.4764.
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![](mailto:?subject=An Invitation from Vaughn Cochran to View his New Exhibition at the IGFA Hall of Fame Museum Through April 15th&body=<a href="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/vaughn11.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1069" title="Vaughn Cochran Art Exhibition" src="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/vaughn11.jpg" alt="" width="550" height="402" /></a>Ned Stone and Vaughn Cochran hang the artist's self-portrait during preparations for an exhibition of Vaughn's work at the IGFA.
From Vaughn Cochran - artist, conservationist, fly fishing guru and proprietor of <a title="About Bonefish Bimini" href="http://www.biggameclubbimini.com/bonefish-bimini.htm" target="_blank">Bonefish Bimini</a> at the <a title="BBGC web site" href="http://www.biggameclubbimini.com/index.htm" target="_blank">Bimini Big Game Club</a>, a <a title="GHO web site" href="http://www.guyharveyoutpost.com/" target="_blank">Guy Harvey Outpost Resort & Marina</a>:
You are invited to attend the GRAND OPENING of my newest art exhibition at the <a title="IGFA web site" href="http://www.igfa.org/" target="_blank">IGFA</a> Hall of Fame Museum in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. There will be a reception in the main entry to the Museum on Wednesday, January 25th from 5 to 7 pm serving food and drink. The exhibit will run until April 15th.
ABOUT THE SHOW
The invitation to do this show arrived at the same time I decided to venture into the difficult world of portraits. Not just any portraits but drawings and paintings of the legends of the industry, following the path I chose years ago to create art that spoke about the images, ideas and concepts of the fishing industry....the tools, the colors, boats, familiar scenes and of course the fish. Degas painted dancers and Andy Worhol through his colorful paintings, silkscreen prints and sculptures elevated everyday items of the popular culture into the art world, (where the term "Pop" came from). This would be my chance to elevate the icons of fishing and to explore bringing my interpretation of my friends to the walls of the IGFA. What better way to force myself to actually execute the idea of contemporary portraits from conception to "hanging a show".
Each piece in this show could be a starting point for another show, paintings that would be take offs, exploring the concepts that were established in that particular painting. I'm sure you'll see these thoughts again in paintings somewhere down the road, as every artist is always asking the same question...where do I go from here? Should I keep painting the same thing over and over again or should I take a chance and risk failure?
Take a chance.....failure is not an option!
I hope you enjoy the show. https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/an-invitation-from-vaughn-cochran-to-view-his-new-exhibition-at-the-igfa-hall-of-fame-museum-through-april-15th/){kind=link}
![](mailto:?subject=Effort Underway to Replace Bug Light Marker in South Florida&body=<a href="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/buglight-2.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2917 alignleft" src="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/buglight-2.jpg?w=300" alt="buglight (2)" width="300" height="210" /></a>
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}
![](mailto:?subject=Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Symposium Set for Nov. 11th & 12th&body=<a href="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/vaughfred-bonefish.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-830 " title="Bimini Bonefish" src="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/vaughfred-bonefish.jpg" alt="" width="495" height="329" /></a>Fly fishing guru Vaughn Cochran and Bimini Big Game Club guide "Eagle Eyes" Fred enjoy a bountiful day bonefishing on the Bimini flats.
The <a title="2011 BTT Symposium" href="http://www.tarbone.org/component/content/article/318.html" target="_blank">Fourth International Bonefish and Tarpon Trust Symposium</a> will take place on November 11th and 12th, 2011 at the <a title="IGFA web site" href="http://www.igfa.org" target="_blank">International Game Fishing Association Hall of Fame</a> in Dania Beach, FL. Representatives from <a title="About GHO" href="http://www.biggameclubbimini.com/aboutus.htm" target="_blank">Guy Harvey Outpost</a> will be in attendance.
Held every third year, this Symposium promises to be the largest and most informative to date. Two full days of presentations on cutting edge scientific research of bonefish, tarpon and permit from fisheries scientists around the world is scheduled, as well as panel discussions, fly casting seminars and tying clinics by some of the world’s noted flats anglers. On the final night an “Evening with the Legends” banquet will be emceed by author and angler Andy Mill, participants include; Joan Wulff, Bob Popovics, Lefty Kreh, Flip Pallot, Chico Fernandez, Sandy Moret, Rick Ruoff, Mark Sosin, Ralph Delph, Steve Huff, Bill Curtis, Stu Apte and George Hommell.
Leading up to and as part of the Symposium, Bonefish and Tarpon Trust will be auctioning multiple guided days of fishing and special one of a kind fishing adventures with expert guides who have donated their time to benefit BTT. For more information on these auctions and to submit your bids please go to the <a title="BTT Symposium Auctions" href="http://www.tarbone.org/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=26&zenid=b7til449h12ti6cs07e6lv3gb5" target="_blank">“Symposium Auctions”</a> button on the BTT web site.
Space is limited, so be sure to register early. All interested anglers are welcome. For more information and a complete schedule of events, please visit the <a title="BTT web site" href="http://www.tarbone.com" target="_blank">BTT web site</a>, or call 239-283-4733. https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/bonefish-tarpon-trust-symposium-set-for-nov-11th-12th/){kind=link}
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![](mailto:?subject=Congratulations Bouncer!&body=Capt. Bouncer Smith inducted into IGFA Legendary Captains & Crew!
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Infectious enthusiasm could easily be the catch phrase for fishing on <a title="Bouncer's Dusky" href="http://www.captbouncer.com/">Bouncer's Dusky</a>. For a big and energetic guy Bouncer always manages to convey the best of humanity. He is known for always treating people with kindness and dignity. On top of that he is a fabulous fisherman. His clients have caught a long list of World Record fish. He is just as proud of all the families who fish with him and all the kids who can say they caught their "First ________ (fish in the blank)" fishing with Bouncer.
Congratulations Bouncer on an honor well deserved! Check out Fishing with Bouncer on the web at: <a title="www.captbouncer.com" href="http://www.captbouncer.com/charter.htm">http://www.captbouncer.com/charter.htm</a> https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/congratulations-bouncer/){kind=link}
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