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Updated Rod & Gun Club Website

RodandGun.Org is our newly updated website and it is a wealth of information at your fingertips! What days are the Range Open? Click the “Clay Target” on menu at the top and you will read Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 10am-3pm. There is a Google map link for exact driving directions. There are great photos of the Range and a fly over video on the website! Click the News link for the latest happenings. Click the Photo Gallery to see your pictures that you send me. Do you want to know when the next Monthly Get Together is? Click the homepage menu “Events Calendar” and you will read our next Get Together is Thursday, February 28th at 5pm at the Tennis Center Card Room. The Guest Speaker will be the director of the Florida Keys Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center. She will be bringing a live bird!

 Attention flats anglers, our first Flats Tournament in many years is scheduled for Wednesday April 24th. Eligible species will include Tarpon, Bonefish, Permit, Snook and Redfish. This is an angler tournament with points awarded for bait, artificial and fly. As this is Tarpon season you are encouraged to book your guide soon.

Upcoming Events:

Share your Member Sporting Pictures by texting Wendy Brainard at 203-253-7790. We love sharing our Rod and Gun members’ photos and including them in our Annual Event slide show. If you are interested in joining, please email membership@rodandgun.org.



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Upcoming Rod & Gun Fishing Tournaments

The Rod and Gun Club has 3 more fishing tournaments scheduled. The Small Boat Sailfish Tournament will be held on Wednesday March 20th.  The 7th Annual Swordfish Tournament will be Friday April 19th and the Flats Tournament will be Thursday, April 25th.  All three Rod and Gun Club tournaments are fun tournaments with a Captain’s Meeting, Awards Reception and great swag!

February Fish of the Month is Snook and Tuna. Bring in your Tuna and Snook to Marine Max to be crowned fish of the Month and win a Marine Max Gift Certificate.

  • Sea Trout – Jack Salisbury
  • Dan Leban Reef Cup 2019 on Red Lion

Upcoming Events:

Share your Member Sporting Pictures by texting Wendy Brainard at 203-253-7790. We love sharing our Rod and Gun members’ photos and including them in our Annual Event slide show. If you are interested in joining, please email membership@rodandgun.org.

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“Keep them Wet”

“Keep them Wet!” With the great fishing and fishing tournaments in full gear comes a reminder for best practices. Sailfish, Tarpon, Bonefish and Permit need to stay wet so they can survive after being released.  Below, Rod and Gun member Bill Legg shows the proper release of a Bonefish caught here in our waters. Catch and Release only works if the fish are spared from coming out of the water. Sailfish a favorite sport fish should never come out of the water for a photo!   The Bonefish and Tarpon Trust have the following recommendations for catch and release:

  • Best practices include: Always use barbless hooks. When fishing with bait, use circle hooks. Minimize handling all fish; slime and scales can be easily damaged and removed with excessive handling, thereby greatly increasing risks of infection. If a bonefish loses equilibrium after you land it, revive it until it can swim upright, then shorten the fight time on future fish. More on proper catch and release can be found at the Bonefish & Tarpon Trust.

Upcoming Events:

Share your Member Sporting Pictures by texting Wendy Brainard at 203-253-7790. We love sharing our Rod and Gun members’ photos and including them in our Annual Event slide show. If you are interested in joining, please email membership@rodandgun.org.

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Great Day at the Range!



Almost 40 Rod & Gun members and guests were in attendance for the Paul Giambrone Skeet Clinic and Presentation. Even Two Dade County Helicopter Officers saw the activity and landed to watch and were treated to the cookout. The Paul Giambrone Clinic was a huge success! For those Rod and Gun Members who have not been out to the newly renovated Range we highly recommend coming out and seeing what all the talk is about!

This year’s Men’s Night is in production. It will be a fun filled night!

When: Thursday, March 14th, 6pm
Where: Cooking school room at Carysfort Hall
We will be serving Quail & Elk with an Open Bar
Wear your finest hunting attire – with prizes for “best dressed”.

We will be having a storytelling contest by our funniest 5-6 Members and the attendees will vote on the winner.

Great Raffle Prizes including a gun or two.

Upcoming Events:

Share your Member Sporting Pictures by texting Wendy Brainard at 203-253-7790. We love sharing our Rod and Gun members’ photos and including them in our Annual Event slide show. If you are interested in joining, please email membership@rodandgun.org.



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Rod & Gun Club – Monthly Get Together – Jan 24

The January Monthly Get Together will be a great introduction to
Sporting Clays with Truel Myers. Truel is an instructor with Orvis and
his talk is designed for women shooters. We are opening this meeting to
the Bonefish Bonnies in preparation for their Blast and Cast in February.
The basics of skeet shooting will be covered and shotguns will be on
hand to prepare for shooting clays at the Range. Light refreshments will
be served. We hope to see you on Thursday, January 24th in the Card
room at the Tennis Center – 5pm.

Upcoming Events:

  • Monthly Get Together – Thursday, January 24
  • Burgers and Bonefish – Wednesday, February 6
  • Monthly Get Together – Thursday, February 28 (TBA)
  • Men’s Night – Thursday, March 14
  • Small Boat Sailfish Tournament – Wednesday, March 20
  • Swordfish Tournament – Friday, April 19
  • Flats Tournament – Thursday, April 25

Share your Member Sporting Pictures by texting Wendy Brainard at 203-253-7790. We love sharing our Rod and Gun members’ photos and including them in our Annual Event slide show. If you are interested in joining, please email membership@rodandgun.org.

  • American Red Snapper. Caught offshore in 378’ of water aboard Fly By (Link’s boat) with Captain Zane Albury… released.. Caught by Deb Link

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Rod & Gun Range Family Day – Huge Success!

A record number of shooters came to see the newly renovated Card Sound Sporting Clays and NOW the new Archery Range!

Range Details:

The Range is open Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays 10am to 3pm.

Located 6.7 miles past the Toll/Alabama Jacks on your right coming from the Reef. For Google Maps directions, click HERE.

Clay shooting incudes: Skeet, Five Stand, Wobble Trap, and
and a pellet gun shooting range. There are shotguns available for rent.

The brand new multi-station Archery range includes 3D simulated game targets.

Non- members may visit as a guest for their first visit but must be sponsored by a Rod & Gun member (and provide the R&G member’s Ocean Reef Account number). Following the first visit, you must become a Rod & Gun Member. For more range information, click HERE

Rod and Gun Club Membership is an annual fee of $150 open to all Ocean Reef Club Members. To join, please complete the membership the form at the bottom of THIS PAGE.

Members can organize private/family Range days by contacting John Weiland at Range@RodandGun.org

Upcoming Events – See our Events Calendar:

• Burgers and Bonefish – Wednesday, February 6th
• Men’s Night – Thursday, March 14
• Small Boat Sailfish Tournament – Wednesday, March 20
• Swordfish Tournament – Friday, April 19
• Flats Tournament – Thursday, April 25

Share your Member Sporting Pictures by texting Wendy Brainard at 203-253-7790. We love sharing our Rod and Gun members’ photos and including them in our Annual Event slide show. If you are interested in joining, please email membership@rodandgun.org.

  • Emily Rule wiith Corey