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Historical Facts: "El Jobean"

From 1888 until 1921, Southland existed solely as Charlotte Harbor & Northern Railroad depot that serviced Hall Naval Stores and Stephen Brothers turpentine camps that leased prisoners for labor.

In 1922-23, Joel Bean had the town replanted and renamed to an anagram of his name, El Jobe-an, and began building up the town by providing a Post Office & General Store and a Hotel.

 
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The Shark-Tooth Coast

With colder temperatures again here along our Shark-Tooth Coast, Charlotte Harbor through Nokomis Florida, anglers can expect to find much of the action taking place in the deeper waters of the Venice Inlet, as well as in holes throughout the canals, under docks and piers of the area. Live shrimp fished very slowly in these areas are catching trout, black drum and redfish. Best bet right now around Venice, Florida is the Alley, which is accessible both by boat and along its shoreline of the ICW. El Jobean pier has trout, mangroves and some slow to go big Snook up under the boards. Plenty of Sugar Trout to eat up your baits to, so bring the kids because, there is a lot of catching to do and they don't care; they caught a fish. Remember those days? As usual, plenty of ray to go along too, so be careful of the tail. Placida as well, Englewood on these cold snaps on the incoming tide, early in the frigid mornings have been producing nice heads (Sheepshead) on shrimp to fiddlers. The rocks to along the inlet will pull up a head or two along with the Mangos and many a tackle eating rock. Lots of rockfish to loose your rigs to, so bring plenty of gear. Before the blow of Christmas, reports of a few flounder off both Venice and Nokomis beaches on DOA or Luv lures pulled dead slow and using cut bait to live shrimp. Sharks to big Jew fish (Goliath) have been caught off the boards in Venice out on the “T” with those with serious gear, as that is to what they are fishing for and big boys are but what are out there. Cut baits to live mullets on six to eight foot and longer steel wire and 12/0 or better hooks, generally mean big fish. Boaters in the area are talking about the tripletail out along the crab-lines and a few Cobia too.

Back in the canals to the river it has been slow to no on the Bass with even shell cracker and his sun buddies too on the hide. Best action on the North Port Canals we saw was a 8 foot gator startled off the bank as we slipped by in our canoe, a few ducks and a bass, sunning itself in six inches of water that was a state record in the making; though he wanted nothing we had to offer and with a flip of the tail, he was gone. Nice Pan fish and small buckets on minnows from Captain Moss at his bait & tackle shop in North Port, from up the river along with some nice sized channels reported.

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Hot, hot, hot, wear your ‘Frogg Toggs’ and you’ll be as cool as a frog on a log or in this case and toad on the pier. Catching the heat reflecting off them boards is brutal! Talking from Tom out at Papa’s the word is not before four or its just greenies, threadfins or pinfish. The snook are beaches edge, looking down from the pier was from 15 to 28 inches, gliding along the weed line working the backwash and hiding in the breaks of the clear water. No body was angling for snook, so who knows what the bite might be. As the Greenies, Greenback minnows, balled up in the millions, leave the safety of the pillions, and the shallow water on the left side (Bait-shop), of the first sandbar about 200 feet out, the fish turn on; Feed-thirty, around fourish. Nothing in numbers but plenty of Spanish with a few in the 16 to 23 inch range was reported both from the bait shop and from locals I chit-chatted with out on the boards. Small sharks and a few small tarpon also reported but all hooked up between four and dark-thirty. Best baits are of course greenies or threads, live shrimp and Gotcha’s. A Gator, Johnston Spoon or Clark behind a plastic bubble has produced the best strikes. I f using baits, on an easterly wind, freelinned or dropshoted worked best.
Many string-shots from the rails and bikini’s galore, passes the time between bites and it is hot!

 

SNOOK HAVEN

- "You and a Canoe" –

At Snook Haven, little has but changed but the faces and styles; all that remain of a day from our past. If you sit back, you can still hear Johnny Weissmuller ordering a cold can of brew from over the bar back. Old style pictures still hang at crooked angles and if you listen carefully, ignoring the hustle and bustle of the modern world down the road, you will hear a Raptor cry, as Marlene orders the same, waiting from a break in the rain, before filming again begins with Revenge of the Killer Turtles (1947). As an old Florida, bayou-style restaurant and pleasantly primitive entertainment venue, Snook Haven Restaurant & Fish Camp has been a fixture in Venice for more than 50 years. Even before that, anglers traversing the fish-filled waters of the Myakka River in the early 1900s camped in the area. Used as everything from fish camp to fish house, this journey back into time is well worth the time to visit. Back when I first moved to Venice, Florida, Snook Haven is where I set up my head quarters and rendezvous for ReelnFish Charters twenty odd years ago. Running clients up the river for a chance to mingle with our Florida wildlife and catch Bass to freshwater Channel Catfish. Big cats in the twenty-pound plus range on light tackle to cane poles. Camping on the banks or overnight pack-ins. moving down stream, we would catch everything from Snook to Reds and if the tides are right, you can catch Bull sharks on one side of the river and Bass on the other, along with an occasional Blue crab too. Now retired to angling and writing about it instead, I enjoy my visits back where “Tarzan” slept lazily along an out stretched branch of a giant oak draped with Spanish moss beyond the restaurant's waterfront, back deck. There one can find a canoe tucked between a fleet canoes to kayaks loosely tied to the aging dock. Here you can elect to explore the slow-moving waters by powerboat or as Snook Haven's slogan states - "You and a Canoe" – paradise to me! In the canoe the river is yours, at eye level with the crocks, the beauty is bountiful. One and a half hours at fifteen dollars is a steal of a deal for either a canoe or kayak, with all safety equipment provided. If you own a boat of 17 feet or small, you may use their boat ramp at a reasonable charge of five dollars plus tax. The boat launch is closed because of the crowds and live bands on Saturdays & Sunday’s between 11-6 and on Thursday between 8-3and the rest of the time restricted to dawn to dusk exclusively!

Once the haunts of the “King”, Elvis and Senator Kennedy before he was President and twice visited by President Regan and Bush Sr., Snook Haven is a rendezvous with the past on the sun-dappled shores of the winding Myakka River in Venice. Think giant oaks draped with Spanish moss, graceful cabbage palms, and tea-colored waters flowing by. Two movies have been filmed there, the most famous a Tarzan flick called Revenge of the Killer Turtles. On Thursdays, the public is invited to hear the Gulf Coast Banjo Society practice from 11 a.m.-2 p.m., and every Sunday the place overflows with weekend bikers and other regulars who gather round the shaded outdoor picnic tables to listen to live music. For overnight stays, you can bring your own RV or rent one of the fully furnished cabins. Call first, though, as many are undergoing renovation. Snook Haven also offers guided pontoon boat charters up and down the Myakka River. Bring a camera; 1 November afternoon, one of the largest alligators the boat captain said he has ever seen charged the charter and dove straight under. Even grown men shrieked. However, the boat also meanders down some spectacularly scenic stretches of pristine county-owned lands that will never be developed. River tours are available Wednesday through Sunday. You can eat indoors or dine outside at a wooden table overlooking the river. Lunch is served from 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; dinner runs from 4-9 p.m. seven days a week. Specialties include gator bites (of course!) and grouper, fried, grilled or blackened. Try it stuffed with crab or with the shrimp and clam platter. December, when the early mornings and evening are cool, is a splendid time of year for this experience. Bring bug spray, as the mosquitoes can be vicious.

 

 

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