Saltwater Style’s Salty Girl of the Week – Breanna Jones

Salty Girl of the Week:  Breanna Jones

Breanna of North Fort Myers in Florida started fishing at the age of two!  She keeps a memento newspaper clipping of her & her dad when she won a fishing contest for the smallest fish.  You can always find her on a boat bending a rod. 

Breanna loves fishing in the Keys because of the many possibilities to catch different species.  Breanna’s most unusual catch was caught a few weeks ago.  She caught a 21 inch needle fish on cut ballyhoo.  Her favorite fish to catch and eat is Redfish while her favorite release fish is Tarpon.  She loves the fight of the Tarpon and it’s one of the largest fish that she has landed.   Her favorite memory of fishing was two years when she brought her first tarpon of the season to the boat!

Breanna loves tower boats, but you can always find her on a 21 foot Jupiter Flats Boat.  Her favorite captain is her own boyfriend, who always hands her off rods to land the perfect fish if it’s not already hooked on her own pink mossy oak fishing pole.  Breanna’s must haves on the boat while fishing are her Costa's, a camera, Gardetto's Snack Mix and a couple beers!

Why is Breanna successful at fishing?  She knows that the big fish are there, and she doesn’t get discouraged if she doesn’t see them!  They will come around when she least expects it!

You can also see Breanna in the Florida Sportsman.  She was featured in the past for her Mutton Snapper while she was fishing the Keys.   Way to go Breanna!

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Saltwater Style’s Salty Girl of the Week – Nancy Brown

Saltwater Style’s Salty Girl of the Week – Nancy Brown

 Nancy loves surf fishing and is always on the hunt for the elusive 50 pound striped bass on Plum Island in Massachusetts.   Nancy has fished as long as she can remember. When she was a young girl she started going with her Dad on deep sea fishing trips.  She spent summers in Duxbury with her family and they would take their Boston Whaler out everyday loading it with flounder. During the 80’s Nancy fished freshwater every day for Large Mouth Bass, catching pickerel, smallies and trout.   Nancy started to seriously fish the salt for striped bass about 15 years ago.

Nancy’s favorite memory was when she was fishing the beginning of a hurricane about 2 years ago.  There were sets of waves reaching 13 or more and reaching 8-10 feet high. Nobody was catching anything and her rod was bent in half. The waves were pushing that fish in at her and she could hardly reel fast enough to keep up. She knew it was a keeper but could not judge how big. It was pitch dark and Nancy felt the fish hit the beach and stop like a freight train.   She could not see what she brought in or move it another inch. Nancy and her husband turned on their lights and the next words out of her husband’s mouth were expletive. He never even knew that Nancy was reeling in a fish and she didn’t think it was a big deal. That fish weighed in at 27.4 pounds 40 inches of beautiful striped bass. That fish won Nancy 3^rd place in that year’s Plum Island Surfcasters Tournament.

Nancy’s most unusual catch was a fluke that she caught from the beach at night. It was dark and she held it up and saw the silhouette. Nancy thought it was a flounder which is not unusual at that specific place but was odd for being caught at night.  When she went to unhook the fish, it bit her and then she knew it was not a flounder.  OUCH!

Nancy’s favorite fish to catch and eat is the Striped Bass, but she loves a good fight with a bluefish.  Twizzlers is her magic MoJo for catching those big stripers.  It’s her number 1 must have!

Why is Nancy successful in fishing?  Nancy reads everything on fishing, she puts her time in and learns to read the water and she knows her target fish.  She also urges everyone to attend seminars and listen carefully to those who are there to guide. The best advice that Nancy wants to share is to have fun and enjoy the wondrous beauty that surrounds you.

Nancy holds a 1^st and 2^nd Place Award for The MBBA Everill MacKay Derby, she won 2nd Place in the Casting Contest for The MBBA-Women’s Spinning, She was on the First Place Team in 2011 for the Plum Island Surfcasters Invitational, Nancy’s won Sportsman of the Year in 2010 from the MBBA and she won 3^rd Place in the Plum Island Surfcaster Year Long Tournament in 2009.

Nancy’s Seafood Casserole

1 # striped bass (give or take some) cut in chunks

1# Sea Scallops

1# Shrimp

1 C. Brown Minute Rice

2 cans Newburg sauce or 2 cans cream of shrimp soup

1 ½ cans milk

1 stick of butter

1 sleeve Ritz Crackers

1 small onion

Layer fish and shellfish in a large foil pan mix soup/sauce with milk until well blended. Pour over seafood.

Saute’ onion in butter until translucent add roughly crushed crackers and a touch of garlic salt and spoon on top of casserole and bake at 350* 45 minutes. to 1 hour. Call in the troops.

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