OUR FISHING REELS AT WORK

Great picture of a very nice sail. Our Tigre 200 2 speed

Thanks Doug

ladies, get ready for your tournament...

 

Join us on the 1^st annual lighthouse ladies kdw presented by Stingray Fishing Outfitters to benefit the lighthouse for the blind of the palm beaches. This fishing tournament is for ladies of all ages. So grab your rod, pink, purple, or whatever color suites your fancy, and join us on June 4^th to show the men the girls can fish just as well. and you will be contributing to a great cause.
Go to http://www.lighthousefishing.com/ for more information

Our Popular Pink Trolling Fishing Rod Is Back In Stock

We  are constantly selling out of our Caliente pink trolling fishing rods but finally have several hundred in stock. What makes the rods so popular is its construction. We use our lightweight composite graphite/e-glass blank, which is known for its bulletproof quality and added all Pac Bay components. This rod is an exceptional value. While our competitors charge $ 150-300 for a similar rod, we sell our pink trolling rod for $ 89.

These are very attractive professional quality fishing rods that just happen to be pink. With beautiful wrapping and anodized aluminum hardware, they look great. And as with all our other rods, they carry a two-year warranty and a two week money back guarantee. Can’t beat them.

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STINGRAY RELEASES THE NEW COSTERO ELITE INSHORE FISHING ROD

For Immediate Release
Jupiter, FL March 24, 2011 StingRay Fishing Outfitters announced the introduction of the new Costero Elite Inshore Fishing Rods. Based on an ultra-light high modulus graphite blank, the action of the Costero Elite rods have been fine tuned for inshore angling.
“The Costero Elite Inshore rod is one of the most unique rods I have ever seen. The 100% graphite blank results in a very fast action rod while keeping weight to less than 7 ounces for a 7 foot rod” said William Fernandez, a member of StingRay’s Pro Staff. “Having the weight down makes it a perfect rod cast all day on the flats or in the groves”.
The Costero Elite rods are available in a 7’ medium and a medium heavy action spinning reel blank. Both models come in at less than 6.5 ounces, ultra-light single foot SIC guides, light gunmetal aluminum reel seat and highlights and genuine Portuguese cork handles. The Costero Elite is the perfect rod for the demanding and serious inshore angler looking for a high performance rod.

THE COSTERO ELITE FEATURES:
Models: Two spinner models to choose from. A Medium and a Medium Heavy.
Blanks: Ultra-light 100% graphite, high modulus blank finished with a triple coat of clear coat for a beautiful finish. Custom gold, silver and black thread wrapping.
Guides: Single foot Silicon Carbide guides with Stainless Steel frames
Seat: A custom light anodized aluminum finished in a gunmetal grey with positive lock.
Handle: Genuine premium grade Portuguese cork.
Price Point: At $ 149 the Costero Elite is a superb value in a high performance professional inshore rod.

ABOUT STINGRAY FISHING OUTFITTERS:
StingRay Fishing Outfitters, founded in 2008 and headquartered in Jupiter, FL, provides quality and unique products to the recreational angler market. The company‘s exclusive product lines consist of fishing rods, reels, and terminal tackle. The company operates an e-commerce website, a distribution operation and a flagship retail store.

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO PURCHASE, CLICK HERE

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Spring Apparel and Footwear Sale–At Our Store and On-line

 

Celebrate Spring with fantastic prices on our best selling and newly arrived apparel. Take a look at  Hook and Tackle's new Spring line, Luau classy silk shirts, Suroviec's new fishing tees, and great fashions for the ladies by Country Sweet, Sporty Girl and our own designs by Legaci.
Break Out of the Ordinary and Wear Something
Elegant and Unique this Spring

   FROM TACKLE TO APPAREL, COUNT ON STINGRAY TO DELIVER THE  BEST VALUE EVERYDAY

WE WILL BEAT ALL BIG BOXES ADVERTISED PRICES ON FISHING TACKLE!

Directions:From I-95 (Exit 87-A) or Turnpike (exit 116), take the Indiantown Road exit to Alternate A1A, head North (left) and cross over the Jupiter Inlet bridge. Go past East Riverside Drive. Yellow building on right. For Google map, click here

REACTOR WATCHES

 

The Best Built Performance Sport Watch…Period.

That says it all.

Reactor keeps accumulating accolades in the watch world as well as in the fishing world. Recently Reactor replaced Rolex as the IGFA’s official tournament watch.

We have the complete Reactor Watch product line at the store and on-line. These awesome watches are priced right and can go head to head with any sport watch at any price. Yes, even those fancy Swiss watches.

If you are interested in the Graviton 2 Tide Watch, please send us an email to reserve yours. We are taking orders for this great watch that is due for release early next month. StingRay will be one of the first retailers to have this long anticipated watch in stock, but quantities are limited.

Check out why Reactor is different. Click here

Buy a Reactor Watch from StingRay. Click here

San Salvador Fishing

Our first San Sal fishing school was a hit. San Sal is a unique island and a place to come back to. The school is sold out for this year but we will start booking for this winter in a few months. If you are interested on these trips, send us an email (sales@stingraytackle.com) and we will keep you updated.

Our Fishing Report For Our Radio Partners

We need help with the local fishing reports we put together for WIRK. Send us news and pictures of what you have been catching. Be specific. Area, bait used, etc. If we post your pictures on the WIRK and BUZZ page, we give you a $ 20 gift certificate. If we use your picture in our sites, we give you another $ 50 . Get... your name mentioned, picture posted, 15 minutes of fame, etc. Send to catch@stingraytackle.com

SAN SALVADOR BIG GAME FISHING SCHOOL

We still have a few openings for San Salvador. This Bahamian island is one of the best places for monster fish. From wahoos to big blue marlins. San Sal has it all. Bottom fishing, spearfishing, bonefishing and more. If you are ready for a vacation out of thE ordinary, join us.
http://www.stingraytackle.com/sansalvador.aspx

STINGRAY FISHING OUTFITTERS OPEN HOUSE

Don't miss our open house this coming Saturday December 11th.

With live broadcast by WIRK and The BUZZ, many door prizes, food and incredible prices. Our new store additon will be open and will be packed with new products, including resortwear, sportwear, shoes, jewelry and many other great items to complete your Holiday gift. Santa will be visiting with gifts for children, gift wrapping to benefit the Girl Scouts. Our friends from the Snook Foundation will be joining us with great items to benefit their importat work.

Visit us, have fun, complete your shopping list and have a great time.

SATURDAY DECEMBER 11TH - 1405 NORTH ALTERNATE A1A, JUPITER FL

Stuart & Jupiter Florida Sailfish Bite "Heating Up"

This weeks weather allowed the Reel Candy crew to get offshore a couple of days in Stuart, Florida. Charters got  alot of action but most of it was on bonitas. LARGE bonitas! After a while we had to give our anglers a break. Bonitas were biting so fast sailfish and dolphin didn't have a chance to get to a bait. We did manage a few dolphin. A friend of ours fishing a little south of us saw 8 sails yesterday. After this coldfront sailfishing should really pick up. We are booked the weekends for November, but have a few weekdays open. Full day Charters booked with the Reel Candy can stay Free at the Hampton Inn & Suites Stuart, with complimentary breakfast. Visit our sponsor "Stingray Tackle & Outfitters" in Jupiter and receive discounted rates on Sailfish charters with our team. Congratulations  to Tom from Raleigh, NC, on your 1st sail on the RC. Also listen to this weeks fishing report from Candy on WIRK 107.9 Palm Beach. Reel Candy  is also a proud sponsor of Talkin' Tourism on the Treasure Coast with Gary Guertin each Friday morning.

OUR TOURNAMENTS SCHEDULE

We Sponsor and Fish the Following Upcoming Tournaments Saturday October 23rd (Sailfish Marina, Palm Beach) Rachel's First Annual KDW Fishing Tournament Summer 2011(Stuart to Palm Beach Inlet) The First Anglers Summerlong Fishing Tournament Stand-by for a new tournament that will rock the boats. The first Anglers Summerlong® South Florida tournament is expected to see over 800 anglers compete for cash and prizes worth over $ 100,000. Join our mailing list, become our Facebook Fan to receive the latest information on this exciting tournament.

Daydream Island

We all daydream of finding a beautiful island where we can forget all the hustle and bustle of our daily life. One where the weather is always perfect, the locals friendly and the water crystal clear. And if you are like us here at StingRay, you daydream about fishing. Big fish, plenty of fish.

Recently we returned from an eight-day trip to San Salvador, Bahamas and I can say I fell in love with the place. Not only did it meet all of my daydreaming expectations but also exceeded it in every aspect. Quiet, friendly, beautiful and with an abundance of fish…big fish!

Our quest started with an invitation from our own Captain Marvin. Marvin spent the summer chartering the Ms. T out of San Salvador and was having a great time catching big blue marlins on a daily basis (before he got a mild case of Ciguatera, but that is another story), and was ready to take the boat back to the States so we (John, William and my nephew Pete) figured that he needed company.

Wahoos Are Back

Reports of Wahoo catches continue to increase daily at our store with Guy Rettig reporting a Godzilla size hoo caught off Jupiter Inlet last Monday (see picture). It is exciting and welcomed news after a couple of slow months off our coast.

To get your share of the Wahoo boom, leave port early in the morning as these guys like to feed at sun-up and hide for the rest of the day. Although high speed trolling seems to be the latest craze, most of our customers report a leisurely troll speed under 9 knots. As for bait, they are striking trolled ballyhoo and any live bait. Trolled lures are more of our liking and as effective. Our Strike-Pro wood lures always do well and a number of our pre-rigged heavy head lures such as our jet Laser Knight or the Silver Bullet has been extremely successful. These are available pre-rigged with multi-strand cable (a must) or ‘naked’ for your own rigging.

Marlin University Guatemala

I had arrived from our week with Marlin University in Guatemala only to board a plane for the Orient to visit our vendors and manufacturers. Luckily the long flight is a perfect opportunity to catch up with my reading, answer emails and write this entry for my often neglected blog. After all, this year’s trip was a memorable experience and well worth a good entry.

My yearly trip with my friends from Marlin University (www.marlinuniversity.com) has become a ritual that I look forward to. It is always a great experience and an opportunity to spend time with some of the best in our sport. The ideas and inspiration for many of our products have come from late night discussion with fellow anglers and by observing the crew and captains that call the productive Pacific coast of Central America home.

This year’s StingRay group included staffers John Tobias and Walker Holcomb (a MU staffer), my son in law Mike Kress, his brother in law Orazio Nastase, my good friend and frequent partner in crime Alan Seidel, Reel Candy’s captain and friend Marvin Steiding and one of our favorite customers, Tony Oliva.

From the outside, Casa Vieja looks just like many other walled compounds down the road; non-descript guarded gates and very little indication that this is a place where our four day long adventure will begin. After a three hour ride from Guatemala City’s airport with a stopover in the colonial city of Antigua for a typical (and awesome) lunch, we are ready for action. Although reports from down the pacific’s central American coast are all the same; a slow bite since soon after the Chilean earthquake, we are all hoping for a return to earlier this year, when the average Marina Pez Vela boat was releasing in excess of 50 billfish a day.

The security gate swings open and our first impression of Casa Vieja soon changes. We find a half a dozen smiling senoritas waiting for us with cold ‘mojitos’. A warm greeting from Antonio, casa Vieja’s general manager, assures us this is no ordinary place. Soon we are ushered to the dining room to experience an excellent dinner, consisting of local fish, excellent steaks and an assortment of fruits. Our beginning to the first fantastic meal of many in the days to come. The comfortable rooms with quiet and excellent air conditioners, a ‘must’ in this hot country, and deliver a good night rest.

Next day, with our group divided, my half is assigned to the legendary ‘Finest Kind’, a 44’ Whitaker with a long history of winning tournaments and record catches. The Kind is captained by another legend, Captain Ron Hamlin. Although I have not met Ron, I feel like I know him from the stories I heard and read, always involving big game fishing, skills and a temper of great proportions.
Lucky for our group, friend and IGFA Hall of Famer Capt. Peter Wright is our instructor for the day. Peter is undoubtedly the best in the business. A wealth of knowledge and experience he shares willingly with all. We headed out of Marina Pez Vela and set course west. After an hour’s full speed run, Ron trims back and we are trolling. Five minutes later, Ron screams ‘left outrigger’. Marvin makes a run for the rod and skillfully feeds the ballyhoo, but fails to hook the first sail of the day. As we are in the middle of telling Marvin that captains not necessarily make good fishermen, the sail makes another pass and heads to the freshly deployed left rigger. This time Marvin executes his dropback perfectly and soon is fighting a beautiful Pacific sail. The first action packed day set the pace for a perfect week with 44 sails tagged and released for the week. We had several closed encounters with good sized blues as well during the week, but unfortunately they did not stick for the count.

In subsequent days we fished aboard the Release with Capt Nico Melendez, the Rum Line with Capt. Chris Sheeder and Intensity with Capt. Mike Sheeder.These meticulously maintained boats are awesome fishing machines and deliver every day under their crew’s skillful care.

Every day we arrived back at the Lodge tired but looking forward to the next day and each new day did not disappoint us. Great fishing action, great accommodations and world class food made our Casa Vieja experience one to remember.

If you are interested in joining us at a future Marlin University trip or other fishing outings, let us know by email or signing up for our newsletter.

Totals for our four days of fishing Guatemala: 92 raised, 76 bites, 44 sails released and 9 blues raised, 5 bites

www.casaviejalodge.com
www.marlinuniversity.com

below from left to right: 1: an early tag and release, 2: the boys and the crew of the 'Finest kind'. 3: release No.2, 4: The StingRay boys and MU's staff, 5: Mike sporting a 'cuban' and StingRay's fashionable cap, 6: Orazio showing off his unusual catch, a Mexican needlefish, 7: Peter doing what he does best..sharing his vast expertise.
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