Fishing is Picking UP

Saturday & Sunday turned out some pretty good fishing. The Kingsbury with Capt. Dewitt Davenport and anglers Russ Nesbit and Paul Rumul fished the corner, released a nice Blue (two others self-released), and brought back dolphin.

Nearer home, Jorge Ryes and Steven Hovaldt fished out the inlet with Capt. Steve Chaszer and brought back this 48# dolphin and a wahoo. (Check the fishing report on St. Lucie Inlet.com for details http://www.stlucieinlet.com/ )

2007/2008 Ed Rossi Scholarships Awarded

(Pictured are Holly Bubla receiving award and congratulations from Betty Olliges of the Stuart Sailfish Club and Kelly Knoth with Andy Kubiak.)

Congratulations to Hollis Bubla (South Fork HS), Mitchell White (Jensen Beach HS), and Kelly Knoth (Martin County HS) as this year’s recipients of the Stuart Sailfish Club’s Ed Rossi Scholarships. (Learn more about the Ed Rossi Scholarships on our website: http://www.stuartsailfishclub.com/about_rossi.php.)

Hollis (Holly) plans to major in Marine Sciences at the University of Miami this fall to become a Marine Biologist. Kelly also plans to become a Marine Biologist and she has been accepted at both FSU and Florida Gulf Coast University. Mitchell hopes to attend U of F, Columbia, or Duke to become an Environmental lawyer or politician.

Best in going forward to each of them.

Dredge the Manatee Pocket...YES!

As the County Commissioners met today to hash out budgets for the coming year, they voted unanimously this afternoon to move forward with dredging the Pocket, and including it in their funding. This was important to us, as all levels of government are feeling the crunch on available funds with changes in property values as well as State induced tax cuts.

Commissioners Michael DiTerlizzi and Susan Valliere spoke out very strongly in favor of the need to get on with the dredging for the benefit of Port Salerno, Stuart, and Martin County. Susan committed $225,000 of funds for her District as it borders a portion of the Pocket. Doug Smith and Lee Weberman also strongly supported the effort. Sarah raised concerns, but in the end, didn't try to block the project.

The project team reported that over $12,000,000 have been committed from many state, federal, and environmental organizations to get this project done.

Attending the meetings this morning and this afternoon from the Club were Arthur Cox, Betsey Riley, and yours truly. Arthur and Betsey were also representing local businesses around the Pocket as well as were some of the other business owners.

Where the Fish Are

On 4/20/08 we ran offshore east/northeast of Stuart and caught fish about 35 nautical miles from the inlet on the Pursuit 3070 LONG STORY. Anglers were Brook Bullock, 8 year old Baylor Bullock, Mark Bullock and Mary Jo Grell. Baylor and the ladies teamed up on the two dolphin we caught. We missed one blue that we had three bites from but caught one about two hours later. Mark caught the blue.

(Contributed by Fritz Grell)

Fishing Report off Grand Cay

Hey David,

We have fished twice at Grand Cay this month, and we have had great success. I fished April 4th and 5th with captain Billy Black and my brother in law, Ronnie Griffiths.

The first day we caught two nice dolphin to 30 pounds, and a nice yellowfin tuna, say about 6 pounds. The next day we caught and released a blue that Billy guessed at 275, and then a pair of wahoo in the 20 pound class. All told we caught dolphin, yellowfin tuna, wahoo, a slew of barracudas, and a blue marlin on a two day trip. Billy called this a WALKER"S SLAM.

Today we just got back from another two day trip. The action was somewhat slower, however my son, Glen Richard Snow, caught his biggest ever wahoo at 78 pounds. He caught it on a black and purple islander lure with a strip bait on the wire line in about 250 feet of water right off Grand Cay. I have included a couple of pictures for you to post on the Stuart Sailfish Club's website. He is standing with his friend Greg Hall of Hobe Sound in the color picture. Please make a mention of these fishing trips. Rosie is still trying to recover from the hurricanes of 2004, and he can use the P.R. Thanks Glen Snow

(Contributed by Glen Snow)

Another Great Day for Last Mango Anglers

Last Mango Captain Tris Colcott reports that there really are fish out there, whenever the wind dies down and you can get out. Last Saturday, April 12, was another good day for this Charter Boat and it's anglers. Contact http://www.lastmango-charters.com/.

April 2 General Meeting

(Pictured are: Upper left, Tom Chamberlain
2nd, Steve Butcher, Madison Wichers receiving for Tom Wichers, and Van Wichers
3rd and 4th, Ian and Skyler Wichers)




About 40 Club Members attended the SSC general meeting last evening at Finest Kind Marina enjoying food, wine (or sodas), and fellowship. Guest speaker was Tom Chamberlain of Coral Reef Electronics who talked about the latest technologies available and soon to come for boats of all sizes. He also addressed the best ways to convert Loran numbers to lats & lons for GPS as well as WAAS and AIS. For more information, contact Tom at his office (772-283-3340) and set an appointment.

President Andy Kubiac awarded Sailfish Release Pendants and certificates for diamonds to people who had earned them since our November meeting. (For details, see the Nov. 15 posting in the Port Report.)

Joining 13 members who received Pendants in November are 5 more people, Steve Butcher, Tom Wichers, Brian Schmidt, Mike Fogel, and Van Wichers. People receiving certificates for diamonds are Mary Jo Grell (3 diamonds, 108 releases), Rudy Polselli (3 diamonds, 106 releases), Ian Wichers (2 diamonds, 78 releases), and Skyler Wichers (1 diamond, 59 releases).

People releasing 25 sails receive a pendant, and earn a certificate for a diamond for each additional 25 fish they release. Congratulations to all.

Our next general meeting is June 4. Please join us.

Fishing the Corner

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On Saturday, March 29, I was invited to fish aboard the Playtime, a 41 ft. Luhrs, with Captain Pat Price his mate Ian (not my brother), the owner, Mike (I don’t know his last name), and a few of his friends. We started out about 4:00 in the morning for the other side. Once we got there we moved around quite a bit and then got a triple header Wahoo. Around 2:00 a marlin came up in the spread and attacked the squid chains and took the mackerel off. He tried to eat Mike’s bait and then faded back to the squid chain and then to the left long. I was in the tower with Pat and he told me to go down and try to catch him. The left long was right there so I dropped back to him and hooked up. I fought him for about 35 minutes before releasing him. Pat estimated him to be about 250 lbs. It was a lot of fun and he was a beauty!
We then caught a few dolphin and two small tuna. It was a great day!

(Contributed by Jr. Anger Member Van Wichers)