Circle Saturday, January 23, 2010, on your calendar!
That’s when the Salt Water Sportsman National Seminar Series returns to Islamorada with an information-packed and entertaining day on how to catch more and bigger game fish in the Florida Keys – inshore and offshore. The 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. event, presented by the Florida Keys tourism council and Sperry Top-Sider, will be held in the Performing Arts Theater at the Coral Shores High School in Islamorada.
Headlining this special seminar will be George Poveromo – Host of George Poveromo’s World of Saltwater Fishing on ESPN2, and a Senior Editor for Salt Water Sportsman, and John Brownlee – Editor of Salt Water Sportsman and noted authority on fishing in the Florida Keys.
Entering into its 23rd consecutive year of touring in 2010, the Salt Water Sportsman National Seminar Series has earned the distinction of being the nation’s most popular and longest-running educational seminar on recreational marine angling.
Joining Poveromo and Brownlee in Islamorada:
- Captain Greg Poland – noted Upper Keys flats, channels and backcountry guide
- Captain Mark Schmidt – veteran Key West-based reef, wreck and offshore fishing specialist
- Captain John Oughton – noted Islamorada-based reef and offshore fishing authority and skipper of the Bud ‘n Mary’s-based charter boat – Pretty Work
- Captain Jimmy Gagliardini – innovative Marathon-based guide who specializes in fishing the backcountry, bridges, patch- and offshore reefs, humps, and offshore waters
- Captain Bouncer Smith – legendary Miami-based light tackle tarpon, reef and offshore guide
- Harry Vernon III – nationally-recognized authority on live-baiting, bottom-fishing, offshore trolling, and drifting for swordfish
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Dr. Mitchell Roffer – the nation’s leading authority on locating surface temperature breaks and ocean-circulation features that hold fish.
Focus of the courses for the January 23, Florida Keys-edition:
- Swordfish during the day
- Top secrets for running and gunning for more and bigger dolphin
- How to target trophy dolphin by the moon
- Cutting edge dolphin trolling tactics
- Getting stubborn dolphin to eat
- Where and how to target jumbo Florida Keys yellowtail
- Secrets for catching flag yellowtail
- Gunning for big grouper
- Effective reef-fishing tactics (sailfish, cobia, kings, snapper, grouper, amberjack)
- Bottom fish like the pros
- Wreck fishing the productive way
- How to fish the humps
- Cobia tactics
- No-nonsense blackfin tuna tactics
- Targeting big blackfin tuna
- Dialing in on wahoo
- Small boat wahoo trolling tactics
- Jigging for wahoo
- Top Florida Keys offshore trolling spreads
- Live-baiting for trophy kingfish
- How to score quality fish on the patch reefs
- Top tactics for fishing channels and bridges for tarpon, snook, permit and big snapper
- Tarpon in the creeks
- Targeting big mangrove snapper
- Trolling the bridges, mangroves and canals for more and bigger snook
- How to fish the bridges
- Top flats tactics for permit, tarpon and bonefish
- Fishing the backcountry like the pros
- Cutting-edge seatrout tactics
- Scoring more redfish
“One of the big things that sets the Seminar Series apart, in addition to the amount of information taught by our faculty, is the elaborate visual support that backs the individual sessions,” says George Poveromo. “To support the key points we are making on stage, informative visuals, video footage, line art, fish, action, and rigging images beam from twin 10’ X 10’ foot screens. Our teaching teams are flanked by these screens. It’s quite the production, and the audience gets to see in explicit detail the fine points of what we’re explaining on stage. And no two shows are alike. In fact, we have to tear down our visuals after each seminar and recreate them for the next city.”
“The best endorsement the Seminar Series has is the fact that we’ve been filling major auditoriums going on 23 years now,” says George Poveromo. “Sometimes I feel like it’s just us and the Rolling Stones! You certainly can’t do that with a second rate show. That’s a long time, and quite the credit to the seminar.”
A ticket to the Seminar Series costs $ 55.00, and includes a One-Year subscription or extension to Salt Water Sportsman Magazine, a comprehensive course textbook, a Roffer’s Ocean Fishing Forecast Analysis (offshore tuna, dolphin, marlin and major kingfish tournaments only), a bottle of OrPine Wash & Wax, a spool of Sufix Fishing line, and a $ 20.00 discount card at Capt. Harry’s Fishing Supply (based on a $ 150.00 purchase). In addition, thousands of dollars worth of door prizes will be awarded at the Florida Keys seminar!
The names of all attendees from the Florida Keys seminar will be entered into the Grand Prize drawing to win an incredible Florida Keys fishing trip aboard the Islamorada-based, Over Under Charters. The drawing will be held at the conclusion of the seminar that day, and one lucky person will win the trip for two!
In addition, the names of all attendees from the 2010 Seminar Series Tour will be entered into the drawing for the Super Grand Prize - a brand new Mako 18 Light Tackle Skiff (LTS)! The drawing for the boat will take place one week after the completion of the final seminar on the tour, and one lucky winner will take home the boat!
To order tickets by phone with a major credit card, call 1-800-448-7360. To order tickets on-line – and for more information – visit: www.nationalseminarseries.com
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