BY SUSAN COCKING
scocking@MiamiHerald.com
A one-day crash course on how to catch everything local from snook to dolphin is on tap for Jan. 24 in Palm Beach County.
The Salt Water Sportsman magazine seminar will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at William T. Dwyer High School, 13601 N. Military Trail, Palm Beach Gardens.
George Poveromo of Parkland, the magazine's editor-at-large and host of a popular saltwater-fishing show on ESPN2, will headline the program along with magazine editor John Brownlee.
Poveromo and Brownlee will act as moderators for a slate of prominent South Florida fishing authorities, including Miami captain Harry Vernon III, who runs Capt. Harry's Fishing Supply; Treasure Coast inshore captains Mike Holliday and Ed Zyak; Lake Worth light-tackle pro captain Barry Brimacomb; Jupiter-based bottom-fishing authority captain Bill Taylor; trophy dolphin specialist captain Brian ''Snap'' Pole of Jupiter; and Ray McConnell of Boca Raton, who catches trophy wahoo, tuna and dolphin.
Course topics will include beachfront, river and inlet fishing for tarpon and snook; tactics for catching monster trout; redfish in the Intracoastal Waterway; live-chumming, trolling and drifting for kingfish; kite fishing for kings, sailfish, tuna and cobia; deep-jigging and live-baiting for amberjack and grouper; locating the edges of the Gulf Stream; little-known strategies for dolphin; and scoring wahoo locally and in the Bahamas.
Tickets cost $55, which includes a 2009 fishing textbook, a one-year subscription to Salt Water Sportsman magazine, a Roffer's ocean fishing forecast analysis, a bottle of boat wash, a spool of fishing line and a discount card for Capt. Harry's. There will be a drawing to win a bonefishing trip for two to Bimini and entry to a drawing at the end of the Seminar Series' national tour to win an 18-foot Mako skiff.
For tickets, call 1-800-448-7360 or visit nationalseminarseries.com.
