Bimini Celebrates 40th Anniversary of Record Bonefish Catch

Mon, Mar 7th 2011, 03:06 PM

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Alice Town Bimini - In 1971 a Virginia Beach sportsman named Jerry Lavenstein and local
Bimini bonefish guide Ansil Saunders headed out on the Bimini mud flats to cast
their luck and hope for a trophy catch.

Lavenstein and Saunders gained immortality that day with a record catch, a
16-pound, 3-ounce monster bonefish, caught just 300 yards from the historic Big
Game Club.

Jump ahead to early 2011 and new Big Game Club Outpost owner, celebrated
artist Guy Harvey and his group of partners, had just opened a new outfitter
operation...

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