Club Undergoing Massive Remodel

Hey there fellow members and prospective members,

I just thought I'd share with you what has been going on with our club these past weeks. I've set as my goal for my Presidency, apart from having quality club outings, diners, and guest speakers, to REMODEL the club. With the help of all of you I think we can have a new and improved Club House by June 2009. I'm calling this project the Miami Sport Fishing Club 2.0.

The most eminent part of this massive overhaul right now, is the back wall and stage. I've already started to take down that god-awful, 1965 wood paneling, and removed all the chairs that were under the stage in order to move the stage forward to complete the project. We will then Mudd, Sand, and Paint the back wall.

After the back wall is done, we will begin to work on the floors. I was fortunate enough to find 500sqft of Wood Laminate for only $100.........These are pictures of how the club could begin to look. We need to find a black commercial carpet to cover the other 800sqft of the main room. If you have any contacts in the flooring or carpet business, please let me know.

Finally, after these things are done, we will continue with redoing the bar, making a nice Kitchen in the garage and expanding the bathroom.

The last and final project will be to redo the upstairs. We have to wait on the association to finally fix the roof so we can start on that.

Again, I think that we could have a new club by the end of my presidency and it is the one goal that I have set for myself and I plan on seeing it thru.

Permit in the Bay on a twitch n rap

Here's Jimbo and Danny's latest and greatest achievement a Permit on a twitch n rap...Congratulations guys...

Captain Ray Rosher and Future Events

Hi Everyone,

First off, let me thank each and every one of you. The turn out last night was great. Second, I want to thank Capt. Ray Rosher for coming out and answering every question we had and still being a great sport when we grilled him about the effectiveness of certain baits. I'm sure with what was said and taught last night we'll be able to increase our catches and have better days on the water.

I will be editing the video that was filmed last night in order to put together a how-to or a recap video for the club and Capt. Rosher. Don't forget to check out www.MissBritt.com and www.randrtackle.com/bait1.html for the sabiki rigs he was telling us about.

I also want to remind everyone that Art Sapp will be coming to the club in November and we will have a Wahoo outing too. The full moon is on the 13th, which is a Saturday. I was thinking about having the outing, either the weekend before or the one of the 13th. Here is a link to a video that I shot last year in November with Danny, Eric, and Mario. Eric said, "This has been the best day of fishing, I've ever had in November." Hopefully, we can have a repeat.

Finally, I will be organizing a trip to fish Key West/Tortugas in December. It's a dicey month with strong winds on most weekends but if we can have everything ready to go and just go I'm sure we'll have a great time. Again thanks for coming out last night. I appreciate all the help from Eric, Danny, Wayne, Gil, Orlando and everyone else. See you next Wednesday.

P.S.: Who's fishing this weekend.

Slow Fishing On Saturday but Red Hot in Flamingo....

Hey there faithful readers,

Just wanted to give you an update of what happened on Saturday. I got a call from Capt. Gil Gutierrez from Lucky Fishing Charters around 4:30pm Friday and told me to be at the marina at 7am. Well I got there right at 7am to meet up with Gil, Eric, and Fred. We were off after busting each others balls about what we brought for lunch. We started looking for bait in North Biscayne Bay. The bait was incredible. We caught all sorts of baits inside the bay including a couple of Goggle Eyes. After blacking out the livewell we were off.

We headed out of Haulover inlet at 9am and headed south to the Diamonds. We were met with uncooperative waves ranging between 3-5ft, coming mostly out of the east. There was green water all the way out to about 250-300ft of water. We set up the first couple of drifts around 200ft and nothing happened. A couple of more drifts and again nothing. Overall it was an extremely slow day on the water. We caught a Red Grouper and a small Kingfish and Mutton. We did hear of reports of people releasing Sails further south but we decided to stick it out in front.

We're hoping that once this winds dies down and the waters clear up a bit we can got out and do some diving for some lobsters. The fishing has been slow and we can almost expect the offshore fishing to be slow up until late November.

The inshore fishing on the other hand seemed to be red hot. Captain Jim Hobales of Caught Looking Charters was in Flamingo this past weekend and said he released over 20 Snook, numerous Tarpons, Reds, and Trout.

I think it's best to either go Diving or go Shallow...See you next time...

No Fishing with Hurricanes

Well that's it. There hasn't been much fishing these past couple of weeks with all the hurricanes coming close to Florida. The wind has been howling for the past couple of weeks and it seems like it's never going to stop. We did, however, have a break in the rain and crappy weather and Club Member and Charter Capt. Jim Hobales, was able to jump 8 tarpon and caught numerous jacks, trouts, and snappers in North Biscayne Bay last weekend. The mullet runs are in full force and with it brings the feeding frenzy that we all like to see. Some of us will try to get out there this weekend and we'll post a report as soon as we get back.

The club is scheduling numerous Charter Boat Captains specializing in sailfish tournaments. We'd like to set up an annual how-to Sailfish Tournament School with the best captains in the game. Make sure you stay posted for future dates and captain guest appearances.

Till then, tight lines!

August Outing Update

Guys,

T.J. Brought up a good point in an email. Although we know that the Eliot Key sandbar is where it's at, the Haulover sandbar is much closer for many more boats. Another good case is that we could find much more lobsters behind Elliot. Let's have a vote and decide what sandbar we want to go to.

Jorge

August Club Outing

Hello Everyone,

Just wanted to give you a recap of what was covered on Wednesday night. We decided that were going to do a fishing/diving outing. We're going to award a nice little gift for the member with the most points. Here's how the points are going to work.

1.) Pelagics are going to be worth 5 points and need to weigh more than 5lbs
2.) Muttons and Groupers are going to be worth 5 points and must weigh more than 5lbs
3.) Lobsters and any speared fish will be worth 3 points

The outing will be on the 24th of August. After wards we're going to have a wrap up party at the sandbar and cook up everything we've caught.

Just some tidbits of information to get out.

The limit for lobsters, for those of you who will dive, is six (6) per person per day and you need a valid lobster license in order to posses and lobster.

I've contacted an old club member that Jim Hobales recommended and I'm waiting on him to reply in order to set up a guest speaker for this month.

Also, I can't stress enough for you to participate in this blog. Please feel free to post whatever you might think would be beneficial to the club and or it's members.

Thanks and see you when I get back from Arizona..
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