If you have been keeping up, you know that for several years now, almost ten to be exact, we have been working on getting an artificial reef sunk here in Key West.  Well, not actually in Key West, but in the waters off of Key West to add to our collection of wrecks and reefs that attract fish and secondarily make for great snorkeling and diving too.

It’s the fishing part that we are most concerned with and when we get wind of a rumor of a 588 foot long ship well over 100 feet high, we get very excited by the idea of what quality and quantity of fish this might bring to our back door!  This is exactly what happened 10 years ago when the dive operators in Key West got together and started making this idea happen.  I never gave it much chance, being the pessimist that I am, but now that the ship is here,  and we have a date on the books to scuttle her, I am filled with the highest of hope!

All of the details of this ship and its subsequent sinking can be found on the internet so I don’t need to go into them here.  Just suffice it to say that we are thrilled and once it is on the bottom, we should have even more opportunity to catch bottom fish such as Snapper and Grouper, Sharks love wrecks, the donkeys (Amberjacks) should be world class size, pelagics like Tuna, Bonita, Wahoo, and Dorado will find this structure home as well as the errant Billfish. 

Again, we will be sinking the U.S.S. Vandenberg, a 588 foot fully intact ship within 10 miles of Key West by the end of next month.  AND WE ARE JAZZED!

Courtesy of www.keywestfishtales.com