The fabulous Keys Ladies, Let's Go Fishing University is Not. 15-17, hope to see you there!

Ladies Place at Pompano Beach Rodeo

Congratulations to Yolanda Buck of Pompano Beach for placing second in the Drift Boat Division at the Pompano Beach Fishing Rodeo on May 15.

Fishing on the Helen S, Buck caught a total of 68.5lbs. including a 26.5lbs. kingfish, a keeper mutton snapper and another 30lbs. kingfish. She was only 5 lbs. from first place!

“I was close to first place, but couldn't find another fish,” she said. “I was so nervous and excited.”

This was only Buck's second experience with a fishing a tournament, she happily gushed "oh my gosh. I was a shaking mess. I've learned so much from LLGF, knots and I can do all of it myself."

Yolanda was only the second lady to ever place in the Drift Boat Division, the first lady to ever place was our own Lucy O'Connor, who took FIRST place last year! Both are members of the LLGF South Florida Chapter. Great going, gals!

Keys fishing a blast last weekend

Took the boat out fishing off Islamorada, FL Keys last weekend. We caught 5 dolphin some up to 20 lbs. and a small, legal wahoo. We lost a 35 lb. wahoo and a 15 lb. dolphin at the back of the boat when they spit the hook. Saw lots of birds and skipjack tuna. Some nice debris but took a long time to find. Went out about 27 miles. We had 9 year old on the boat who got most of the shots.

Seas calm, "Lake Atlantic"

Join us in the Keys Nov. 13-15, see www.ladiesletsgofishing.com

Bradeen booked as speaker for Nov. 13-15 Islamorada LLGF Seminar

We're excited that Skip Bradeen of the Blue Chip Too has agreed to be a speaker on offshore fishing at the "Ladies, Let's Go Fishing!" Islamorada seminar Nov. 13-15 in Islamorada, FL Keys! Skip is on the Keys Radio Show out of Wahoos with Bill Kelly and is a wonderful source of information about fishing.
He is still bragging about the 52 lb. wahoo caught by a client on his boat while fishing the Keys this summer. That's a whopper! www.ladiesletsgofishing.com

Fishing on the 2400 Bay Ranger

We had a great time in the Florida Keys fishing on the "Ladies, Let's Go Fishing!" 2400 Bay Ranger! We went kite fishing for sailfish and had a couple of exciting releases! Seas were calm last week and it was so peaceful, drifting along, until, wham, the sailfish grabbed the bait and did its awesome dance on the water's surface.

The 2006 2300 Bay Ranger is for sale, less than $30k and has all the bells and whistles! It has a wonderful, stable ride. Making room for the new 2410 Bay Ranger coming next year! If you know anyone who wants a sweet deal, tell them to call us, 954-475-9068. Photos are on www.ladiesletsgofishing.com.

The Islamorada womens fishing seminar Dec. 5-7 is shaping up nicely. The best speakers ever! Capt. Skip Bradeen of the famous Blue Chip Too, Capt. Hank Brown, founder of Hookup Lures, Sandy Moret who is a legend in fly fishing, Capt. Mark Johnson, Capt. George Mittler and Capt. Lee Lavery. There is still space. Great chance to have fun, learn or improve fishing skills and get great deals for the holidays at our fundraisers. Anyone can bid, just email billfishbetty@hotmail.com for the list before Weds. Dec. 3.

Fishing in Chokoloskee with LLGF Ft. Lauderdale Chapter!

The LLGF Ft.Lauderdale Chapter planned an outing to Chokoloskee Island this weekend. 16 girls showed up to fish and it was a total blast. We stayed in the trailers at Chokoloskee Island Park and chartered five boats for Saturday. [B]Capts. Herb Kehoe, Gary Thompson, Don Cochran, Becky Campbell and Ray Culver. [/B]
I was on Capt. Herb's boat with my friends Capt. Lee and Capt. Lanny. We started out the day catching bait and Lee even took a try on the castnet.


Then since the tide was so low, we decided to fish out front for the morning. My first cast of the day landed a 16 pound jack - that's one way to wake up....

After that, Lee caught a nice cobia and a redfish. We had the usual song and dance with the sharks and felt happy to get the cobia in the boat in one piece.

Things slowed down during slack tide and we had a few more jacks and some sharks,nothing exciting. Crabs were at a premium and we only had a few but on the incoming, we decided to chase the permit for awhile. 2 permit later, we were pretty happy. I thought sight casting to the pods was particularly awesome.

Next up, we only had about an hour left and no more bait (long story) so we decided to go throw some Berkley Gulps at the trout. That turned out to be a lot of fun and we had multiple trout in the 16-22 inch range. I personally don't like to eat trout, but Lanny wanted 'em, so she kept a couple.

We made the run back to the ramp, completely satisfied that we'd had a stellar day. We met up with the other girls and they all had equally awesome reports - I'm pretty sure every single person had a blast.

We had dinner and sat around the chiki hut telling fish stories till about 1 am.

On Sunday, we decided to "descend" upon the unsuspecting folks at City Seafood for some stone crabs. The kitchen clearly wasn't prepared for the onslaught of all us women combined with a couple of packs of motorcycles...They were pretty overwhelmed. My friend Amy, despite the fact that she's actually an attorney, decided to jump in and help out on the line and it was clear to us that this was not her first deep fryer rodeo! Amy stayed in the kitchen for about an hour and the rest of us drank beer and ate crabs. It was awesome.

So, now that the population of women on Choko has decreased by 50%, we are all back home and happy to have had such a fun weekend out there. All of the guides were awesome and treated the girls like gold. It was great.


~Jenn
LLGF Staff

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