Jacksonville Offshore Sport Fishing Club

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Marc Hardesty Browns Creek Fish Camp, Inc.
Darrin Willingham Paul Malone

New Offshore Artificial Reef for Northeast Florida Website: jaxfish.com

From our JOSFC family to yours, HAPPY 4TH OF JULY 🇺🇸 Hope everyone has a fun & safe holiday weekend filled with family, fishing, and friends while celebrating our 250 years!

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ICYMI: Last night's club meeting was AWESOME 🙌🎣💙

We had a wonderful cookout dinner to celebrate the 4th, handed out many fish slips, welcomed new members, talked about the July Club Tournaments, discussed the Harm’s Ledge deployment & upcoming reef projects, learned from the Cast Net Master Capt Steve Thompson, and got tips and tricks for Kingfish rigs and downrigger techniques 🎣 Thank you to all who made it a successful evening 🙏

Don't forget the July Club Tournaments are ON! The weather is looking good and the fish are biting!! Go catch 'em up JOSFC Fam 💪

OFFSHORE: KINGFISH TUNE-UP
INSHORE: ROULETTE = MANGROVE SNAPPER, SPECKLED TROUT, FLOUNDER

🇺🇸🎣🇺🇸 See ya tonight!!! 🎣🇺🇸🎣🇺🇸

JOSFC Family - it's meeting week🎣📣

Join us this Thursday evening for a fun summer cookout to celebrate America's 250th birthday & our ONLY meeting in July with hot dogs, burgers, and watermelon. Please bring your favorite summer picnic side or dessert for the potluck (think baked beans, pasta salad, potato salad, coleslaw, mac and cheese, deviled eggs, cobbler, cupcakes....)

Also, this is our annual “Kingfish Skills Tune-Up Night." Don't miss the World Famous Steve “SeaSnake” Thompson teaching his Facebook-Gone-Viral Cast Net Technique. Plus another team will teach Kingfish Pogie Rig tying and Ribbonfish Rig tying, and hands-on downrigger techniques.

And of course, we'll have a table full of awesome raffles, chat about July tournament updates (we're spinning the wheel for the inshore roulette), and hear about some exciting reef development news!!

See y'all there 🙌

JOSFC Family - it's meeting week🎣📣

Join us this Thursday evening for a fun summer cookout to celebrate America's 250th birthday & our ONLY meeting in July with hot dogs, burgers, and watermelon. Please bring your favorite summer picnic side or dessert for the potluck (think baked beans, pasta salad, potato salad, coleslaw, mac and cheese, deviled eggs, cobbler, cupcakes....)

Also, this is our annual “Kingfish Skills Tune-Up Night." Don't miss the World Famous Steve “SeaSnake” Thompson teaching his Facebook-Gone-Viral Cast Net Technique. Plus another team will teach Kingfish Pogie Rig tying and Ribbonfish Rig tying, and hands-on downrigger techniques.

And of course, we'll have a table full of awesome raffles, chat about July tournament updates (we're spinning the wheel for the inshore roulette), and hear about some exciting reef development news!!

See y'all there 🙌

You miss by an inch, you miss by a mile ⚓️

Here are the coordinates of where the artificial reef was deployed last week:

“Official Numbers”
30°22. 109 N
80°54. 028 W

You'll get better markings with the numbers below, but be sure to work the area because, of course, there was current and drift during deployment. Happy Fishing 🎣

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30°22. 133' N
80°54. 055' W
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30°22. 135' N
80°54. 044' W

Here fishy, fishy 🎣 Deployment success 🙌

The JOSFC team applied for this grant & started the process back in March 2025 and on Thursday, June 25th, 2026, it happened! We are so thankful for everyone who has helped along the way to make it happen 🙏

Special thanks to:

FWC - Keith Millie and team
U.S Fish and Wildlife conservation
Duval County, Melissa Long
Jacksonville Waterways Commission & Marc Hardesty
Mobro Marine
Kistel Media, Joe Kistel

Material Donations:
Rinker Material - Barry Cobb, Brandon Powers
Duval County Public works - Tim Smallwood, Keith Blevins and crew
Material Consultant - Chuck Piwowarski
Jax Utilities - Chris Newton, Brandon Powers and team
Phillips Heavy Civil Construction - Chris Cantor Darrell Matt Duffy

And shout out to all those who reached out for additional material donations!! We look forward to your help on our future projects that will be coming soon! 🎣📣

P.S. check out the last photo of what it looked like underwater just after deployment 👀

A note from our JOSFC President regarding a special trip to Washington D.C. this week:

Five teams from our four South Atlantic states (NC, SC, GA and 2 teams from FL) met with U.S. Representatives , Senators and their staffers to present our concerns, face-to-face, explaining the financial hardships that our Bait and Tackle shops, our For-Hire Captains and our Recreational Anglers suffered after U.S. District of Columbia Judge Contreras forced the Preliminary Injunction to cease our promised 2026 Red Snapper season.

We worked diligently to get our message heard and there are upcoming plans and strategies to hopefully get a 2026 Red Snapper season before the end of the year.

U.S. Legislative actions follow lengthy, time consuming processes, but it is the only way to proceed in hope of a delayed positive 2026 outcome.

Pray for wisdom, perseverance and logical next steps 🙏🎣

Darrin Willingham "Doc"

A big thanks to Martha Guyas with The American Sportfishing Association, Dave Workman, Jr. with Strike-Zone Fishing Jacksonville, Trip Aukeman with Coastal Conservation Association Florida Coastal Conservation Association