Date: October 18, 2025

Weigh In Location: Bings Landing

More details to come.

Florida Surf Casters Trash Fish Tournament 7-27-2024

Combined length from trash fish caught and lunch afterwards!Congratulations to the winners! It was great fishing together and even better being able to break bread and talk about the day!

Winners:

1st – Mike Hathaway

2nd – Noel Kuhn

3rd – Carter Burr Melvin

A member driven organization making it to a twenty year anniversary is a pretty rare event. We wanted to make this special for current, and past members. We reached out to everyone we knew how to get ahold of that had ever been with the club to invite them to gather with us and celebrate twenty years of fishing in the surf – worldwide!

Over the years we’ve had folks from England join us (that’s who got us going!), and we’ve had members that took trips to Mexico to go after Roosterfish. Tackle-bits have been imported from all over – even as far away as Japan!

This was a truly special get together, and Steve Austin is due the credit for coming up with the idea and setting everything up. Noel, our resident orator took charge of summarizing the club’s many accomplishments and past members who contributed to surf fishing being what it is today.

In honor of the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Florida Surf Casters Club we are inviting all current AND former members* to join us for a celebration party on July 13th at Whitney Labs across from Marineland on A1A from 1pm-4pm.   

There will be a full taco bar, desserts, wine, beer, and tea.   

Those attending can bring a +1 at no additional cost.  

 We are looking forward to connecting the past, present, and future of the club.  

Details: 

Date and time:  July 13 1pm-4pm

Location: Whitney Labs 9505 N Ocean Shore Blvd, St. Augustine, FL 32080

RSVP to:  floridasurfcasters@gmail.com

*Current and former members are defined as those who were/are paid members of the club per past rosters.  

Regards, 

FSC Leadership

In the May meeting we covered alot of ground. First off we had several guests and new members present, likely the most in recent history. This was also the highest attended meeting in a while!

Old Business

• Tournament wrapup – went very well for the club and will help cover the banquet and activities for the rest of the year. Many new ideas were also provided to help the tournament run better next year.
• Steve provided an update on the July 13th Banquet – we will begin reaching out to old members soon. Three will be a taco bar provided by a catering company and it will be held in the Marineland area. Steve is taking RSVPs
• We had a table of gifts – club stickers, hats, and patches that were free to members
• We discussed making Flags for those to fly on their carts.

New Business

• Club Fishing day 6/13 A THURSDAY so the retirees/flex schedule folks can fish less crowded beaches. The Rockpile was discussed, but possibly could shift to find a beach open earlier. Stay tuned!
• Trash fish tournament – 7/27 we will have lunch afterward at the Sand Dollar. Be at the gates of Little Talbot at 8am.
• We also discussed “Come out and fish with the club day” but due to meeting time running short, this will be more planned out in the future.

It’s now in the books! We had a great turnout again this year, 75 adults and 14 juniors which for the juniors I’m pretty sure is a record.

We had a great mix of volunteers – both brand new members and tenured OBGs. Strike Zone was a terrific host again and took great care of us throughout the day. Special thanks to our other sponsors Anglers Fish-N-Mate, and Florida Surf Tackle.

We will have some pics a bit later, but I know many are chomping at the bait to see the results, so here you go!

Whiting:

Pompano

Juniors

The club had an outing on December 9th 2023 sponsored by Fishbites. The rules were that you could only use the orange Clam Fishbites provided by Brett Burford (from Fishbites) as you got to the beach – no other bait allowed.

The rules were that you could add up the aggregate length of the fish you caught. This was supposed to be a quick, simple, and fun outing for club members, and indeed good times were had by all. The club then sponsored lunch at the Sand Dollar on Heckscher Drive. Special thanks to Fishbites, and Brett Burford for taking care of us!

Fishing tough for some but not for others! Congrats to Michael Hughes on winning the 2023 Member Tournament!

The club hosted a casting demo that was open to the public on Sunday October 8th. We weren’t trying to turn particpants into 900′ tournament winners, just trying to add a few yards and take some pressure off achy shoulders. Thanks to all those that showed up – students and teachers alike!