Fishing and Boating
Tug boat to become new reef
PANAMA CITY — The 125-foot tugboat Red Sea will begin its final voyage today to become an artificial reef off the Panama City coast, the first shallowwater sinking here since 1995.
Tourney ‘outsider’ hooks 714-pound record breaker
SANDESTIN — Chip Temple’s first major fishing tournament experience is one he never will forget.
An admitted outsider when it comes to fishing’s biggest stages, Temple hooked, battled and helped reel in a 714.7-pound, 121.5-inch blue marlin to help the crew of the Jasper Time shatter the Emerald Coast Blue Marlin Classic record
Outta Line reels in 90-pound blacktip
They were trolling for king mackerel when a shark jumped on the artificial bait.
Rueben Chasteen of Trenton, Ohio, was the angler on the rod that pulled in a blacktip shark that weighed about 90 pounds Thursday afternoon while fishing with Capt. Trey Windes on the Outta Line.
Roundtable slated for area fishermen
The next Emerald Coast Saltwater Seminar is set for Wednesday at Hooters.
Format for this seminar is a roundtable question and answer where people will get the chance to ask questions of a panel of area experts on everything from billfish to bluefish.
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Oysters on the Half Shell
Discarded shells make a reef to draw shellfish to Choctawhatchee Bay
By WENDY VICTORA wendyv@nwfdailynews.com NWDN August 11, 2006
FORT WALTON BEACH ‘ After several hours of shoveling oyster shells into buckets, the volunteers were sweating and somewhat fragrant.
‘I’m afraid of what I might smell like when I leave,’ Stacey Sargenski said while giving another shovel of [...]
That Sinking Feeling
Charter boat captains worry potential restrictions put red snapper fishing on the line
By PATRICK McDERMOTT patrickm@nwfdailynews.com NWDN July 24, 2006
DESTIN ‘ A boat coming in with the day’s catch is a comforting sight in an area where fishing is a way of life.
But some charter boat captains are worried that potential restrictions to red snapper [...]
Fishing the Oriskany
Good fishing at the Oriskany will take time
By Patrick Donohue
( 850 ) 654 – 8445 pdonohue@link.freedom.com Destin Log May 27, 2006
This summer, fishing boats will leave their slips all along Northwest Florida to venture into the Gulf of Mexico in search of red snapper, grouper, triggerfish and king mackerel that someday will inhabit the USS [...]
Diving on the Oriskany
‘You cannot imagine the scale of it’
By Patrick Donohue
( 850 ) 654 – 8445 pdonohue@link.freedom.com The Destin Log May 24, 2006
Trey Jefferies has been calling everyone he knows, not to brag, but to tell them about what he saw 130 feet deep in the Gulf of Mexico.
Jefferies, a course director at MBT Diving in Pensacola, [...]
