Angler’s for Conservation, Coastal Angler Magazine along with GATE Petroleum and the Southern Kingfish Association will host a “Hook Kids on Fishing” event Saturday, June 9th at Metro Park in Jacksonville. The event is to be held in conjunction with the 3rd Annual Jacksonville Fishing Rodeo June 7-10 and is FREE for kids ages 6 to 16. The event will be from 9-11 AM (kids and parents should show up no later than 8:30AM) There will be clinics for kids on casting, conservation, fishing safety, knot tying, catch and release tactics and more. Professional guides and knowledgeable anglers from across Florida will work with the children in a safe, hands-on learning experience. The first 80 kids to register will receive a FREE rod, reel and tackle box courtesy of Anglers for Conservation.
YOU MUST REGISTER. Call us today at 904-461-6773 to sign your kids up or to volunteer.
Don't let our name fool you!
Written by Bill Breen
Greg Wallace, the JOSFC Fishing Director fishing from his "Big Boat"!
Don't let the name "Jacksonville Offshore Sport Fishing Club" fool you or discourage you from visiting our club to see if you like what we have to offer. We are a family orientated, fun, fishing club. We fish the river, sloughs, bay's, beach, and anywhere we can get a line wet!
Come visit us and see what we have to offer!
Red Snapper Tagging
Written by Bill Breen
The JOSFC encourages everyone to participate in the Red Snapper Tagging Program that the FWC is running. The FWC will be giving some Red Snapper Tagging Seminars and they would like to get us involved in tagging Red Snapper so the FWC can get some real data on them to counter what the SAMFC claims!
If you would like to sign up for a seminar, here is your opportunity to sign up.
Contact Patti Kalaitzis. Call her at (904) 256-7766 for information, or contact Russ Brodie and Justin Solomon from FWCC
Come and visit us!
Visit the Jacksonville Offshore Sport fishing Club’s next meeting as our guest! You will find a great historic sporting association dedicated to preserving and enhancing the family sport fishing off Jacksonville. 2011 is our 52nd year as a club. We are a working family club that welcomes the kids at our meetings, and the average boat is a 20’ to 25’ center console fishing boat. We fish the bays, backwaters, river and ocean, and welcome everyone. If you fish in salt water, you need to join, to help fight the junk science that is being used to close all our sport fishing.
Come visit us on the first and third Thursday of each month at the Mayport Boat Ramp. Dinner and soft drinks (Free) start about 7:30 PM and our meetings start at 8:00 PM we usually have great fishing and boating seminars by experts, and have a great time spinning tall stories about local fishing!
A new Web-site for fishermen.
Written by Bill Breen
One of our members has set up a new Web-Wite called Available Angler where you can hook up as crew or a captain looking for crew.
He has set it up so you can, look for crew or to crew on any specific date, or just in general. Be sure to go to his site and Register or log in ( It's FREE ) and check out his web-site.
You will also find the Available Angler link under the "Fishing Info " tab at "Fishing Links".
Our next meeting is May 17, 2012, the Third Thursday of the month. Our Guest Speaker will be - Larry the Fishman Finch. He is excited about speaking at the May 17th meeting. He will be unlocking the secrets to Pompano fishing on the first coast! Pompano are about as tasty as they come, so again this seminar will be a don't miss meeting!
Dinner . . . . Chef Larry says that this next meeting is scheduled as our Spring Pot-Luck Dinner. This means that dinner will be whatever YOU bring. We, you and I need to provide the Main Dish and sides! Cook up a big batch of your favorite dish, and bring it to the meeting! Dinner will start about 7:30 PM, with the meeting starting at 8:00 PM.
Hook Kids On Fishing!
The JOSFC encourages everyone to participate in the Red Snapper Tagging Program that the FWC is running. The FWC will be giving some Red Snapper Tagging Seminars and they would like to get us involved in tagging Red Snapper so the FWC can get some real data on them to counter what the SAMFC claims! 
One of our members has set up a new Web-Wite called Available Angler where you can hook up as crew or a captain looking for crew. 
