Sun Sentinel Palm Beach Edition
Lago Mar event mixes clubs and poles on course
The Fins & Skins event at Lago Mar Country Club was a family affair Wednesday evening, with parents and children fishing on the front nine of the Plantation golf course while those same nine holes were set up as par 3s for the parents and children playing golf.
Emry Ostroff won the fins part with four fish. Trey Croy was second.
Emry, 10, of Plantation caught three bass and a Mayan cichlid using a quarterounce spinnerbait while fishing along the third hole with her father, Greg, and her mother, Courtney.
She said she doesn’t fish a lot, as she tends to get seasick on the ocean, but she does enjoy bass fishing.
“The fish were very smart,” Emry said. “They’d bite two times, then wait and bite another time.”
Like most anglers, she also had a story about a fish she’d seen that got away.
“I put my lure right in front of it and a bass popped out of the water,” Emry said. “I was about to catch it, but I brought it in too fast.”
Already, said membership director Ellen Singer, members are asking to have another fishing and par-3 tournament.
Having family events on a golf course is a win-win, said Lago Mar president David Weisenberg of Plantation, who fished with his daughter Rianna, 8.
“The main thing is we cross-pollinate. We get golfers to fish and fishermen to golf. Tennis players, too,” said Weisenberg, whose daughter plays golf but likes fishing better. Rianna said her favorite part was “putting the worms on the hook. They were so squishy and squiggly.”
Fish of the week
Roray Kam was fishing for tarpon Sunday morning on his 14-foot stand-up paddleboard when he caught a 14-pound bonito in just 10-12 feet of water off Fort Lauderdale Beach. Kam, whose bait was a live finger mullet that he had cast-netted, fought the bonito for 10 minutes on his Shimano Tyrnos conventional reel and eventually was able to grab the fish by its tail.
Steve Papp and his son Daniel caught a total weight of 26.27 pounds Saturday and Sunday, including the big bass of 7.01, to win the Bass-N-Fools club tournament on Lake Harris. Mark Escobar and Greg Moule were second at 25, followed by Randy Greenbaum at 17.75, Chris Parrillo and Bruce McFayden at 17.16 and Josh Wells and Anthony Parrillo at 14.09.
Connie O’Day of Pearland, Texas, totaled 2,650 points over three days last week to defend her grand champion angler title in the International Women’s Fishing Association’s 21st annual Light Tackle Tournament out of the Islamorada Fishing Club. Eligible species for the event, which had 22 anglers, were bonefish, redfish, tarpon, snook, permit, ladyfish, jack crevalle and sea trout. Barbara Moore of Oriental, N.C., was second with 2,355 points. Jing Torn was the top fly rod angler with 755.
Capt. Alan Zaremba of Hollywood said topwater lures and hard jerkbaits were catching peacock bass in urban canals and largemouth bass in Everglades canals with no access to the marshes. Zaremba guided Tom Settembrine of North Miami and Al Aleman of Pembroke Pines to seven peacocks and three largemouths fishing half a day in the Snake Creek Canal. Chris Stewart of San Antonio, Texas, and Nole Tamkin of San Diego caught 28 peacocks up to 6.25 pounds and two largemouths in the C-100 in Kendall.
Steve and Ryan Warner caught 10 bass weighing a total of 25 pounds, 5.5 ounces to win the Renegades Bass Club tournament Oct. 8-9 on Lake Kissmmee. Chris Crow and Nick Mazzei were second at 23-3.5.
Bass tournament: The Bass-N-Fools has its 37th annual Giblets and Gravy open team tourney Nov. 13 on Lake Okeechobee out of Clewiston. Entry fee is $100 per two-angler team. Enter in advance at BJ’s Bait & Tackle in Plantation or call the store at 954-475-0248.