Showing posts with label Fort Lauderdale fishing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fort Lauderdale fishing. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Boats not required for the best in South Florida fishing


By Jane Feehan


I’ve visited all its fishing piers while growing up in South Florida. I've been as intrigued by the activities of anglers on the boards as by the surrounding blue waters. Recently, as a Florida historian, I saw an opportunity to quench my interest in angling while learning a bit more about this area’s topography by reading Steve Kantner’s Ultimate Guide to Fishing South Florida on Foot (published by Stackploe/Headwater and available on Amazon). This book provides all that—and more.

A disclaimer: I am not an angler nor will ever be. But Kantner’s knowledge of these subtropical environs—the Everglades, canals, lakes, spillways, beaches, jetties, docks, and their ecosystemsimpresses anglers, tag-alongs and spectators like me.

Kantner's book is not only about the remote, secluded honey holes where he has guided both novice and expert fishing hopefuls but also about urban settings such as city of Oakland Park through which the natural Cherry Creek tributary runs. He considers this the “most pristine in-town waterway in all of South Florida.” Who knew. This is a must-read for anglers who call South Florida home.

The book also serves as a primer for anglers living near water in other parts of the state or country. He writes “the current is what triggers the action” and it’s the “wave action that serves as catalyst for shoreline fishing." That's useful information for land or sea anglers nearly anywhere. Kantner, who has a biology degree, reveals where the places are, how to get there, where to park, what to bring, the species that inhabit each, what time to catch them and how. His book is also a trove of information about flies, lures, and rigging, some of which he's invented or developed and bear his name.

There’s something for everyone who loves South Florida in this guide. It’s well written, informative, chock full of beautiful photos and more than anything, fascinating. Kantner cooks up a lot of what he catches. If only he could include his recipes in this tome ...


Tags: Fishing in South Florida, Steve Kantner, Landcaptain, Steve Landcaptain Kantner




Friday, April 30, 2021

Fishing: Three hours catch in Fort Lauderdale

 

Three Hours Catch. Fort Lauderdale is Indeed The Fisherman's Paradise

This photo made front page of the weekly Fort Lauderdale Herald, Feb. 14, 1919. Movers and shakers and journalists of the time never let an opportunity pass for promoting their new city (incorporated in 1911). The photo above was taken about two years after a bridge was built to the beach at Las Olas Boulevard.

Other news printed on the same page: bids going out for carrying mail to the Glades, an experiment station deemed necessary for the Glades, delegates appointed to the League of Nations, and a Lauderdale lot as an anglers' prize. 

The fish above ... barracuda, wahoo or ...?



Tags: Fort Lauderdale history, old Fort Lauderdale, early days of Fort Lauderdale, fishing in Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale fishing history

Monday, January 25, 2021

Lauderdale-by-the-Sea's Anglin Fishing pier, once longest in Broward County

 


Anglin Fishing Pier
2 Commercial Blvd.
Lauderdale-By-The-Sea, FL 33308
954-491-9403
For more information on Broward County Piers
https://www.saltchef.com/catch_fish/FL/Broward/fishing_piers.html

Update: See web cam for Hurricane Nicole damage to Anglin's Pier (11/10/2022)


By Jane Feehan

Lauderdale-By-The-Sea pioneer Melvin Anglin built Anglin (some now say Anglin's) Fishing Pier in 1941. No fisherman, Anglin was encouraged by his son, Tom, to build the structure to attract tourists to the small town north of Fort Lauderdale.

The original pier, made of wood, jutted out past the shoreline 800 feet into the water, over the first reef. Anglers cast their lines off its 100-foot-wide T at the farthest end. In those days, the cost to visit or fish from the pier was 10 cents. The wooden structure was rebuilt by the Anglins at least three times when hurricanes broke it apart. After a destructive storm, the family would salvage its wood planks anywhere from 10th Street in Fort Lauderdale north to Sea Ranch Lakes to begin construction anew.

Real estate agents Everett Sorensen and Frank Myatt (son of Lord’s Realty owner Ann Lord) bought the pier, not the land, with a 99-year lease in 1962. They rebuilt it with concrete pilings, extending its length to 876 feet. Anglin Fishing Pier (the name remained) reopened Nov. 22, 1963, the day President Kennedy was assassinated.

The pier recently been sold again. Currently, the fee to fish is about $10 (check for fee updates), a sightseeing walk goes for about $2 (call to confirm price changes). Anglin Fishing Pier is now 900 feet long and Dania Beach states the same; Deerfield Beach claims its pier is 976 feet in length; Pompano says its pier is about 876 feet. See https://www.saltchef.com/catch_fish/FL/Broward/fishing_piers.html.

Florida State Archives
/Florida Memory 1996

Copyright © 2012, 2021 All rights reserved. Jane Feehan. 











Sources:
Richard, Candace. Seventy-Three Years By The Sea. Lauderdale by the Sea: Town of of Lauderdale-By-The-Sea, 2000.
Sun-Sentinel, Jan. 3, 2002
Miami News, Jan. 29, 1963


Tags: History of Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea history, Broward County fishing piers