{"id":247371,"date":"2005-07-18T11:29:10","date_gmt":"2005-07-18T15:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/07\/florida-boy-could-net-record-for-76-pound-catch-in-bahamas"},"modified":"2005-07-18T11:29:10","modified_gmt":"2005-07-18T15:29:10","slug":"florida-boy-could-net-record-for-76-pound-catch-in-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/07\/florida-boy-could-net-record-for-76-pound-catch-in-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"Florida Boy Could Net Record For 76-Pound Catch in Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>On July 9, while Hurricane Dennis was whipping up waves off the Bahamas, 11-year-old Marshall Rinker, whom everyone knows as Boomer, was fooling around on his family boat while it was moored at the Green Turtle Club in the Abacos<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>He was fishing around the docks using a dead snapper on a stout rod rigged with 65-pound-test braided line and wire leader when he got the hit of a lifetime. After a fight, Boomer brought up a huge cubera snapper. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>&#8220;I&#8217;m guessing it was 80 pounds when he caught it,&#8221; said Boomer&#8217;s dad, Skip Rinker. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The family thought it might be a record, but they couldn&#8217;t find a certified scale in the Bahamas. So they left the huge snapper in a cooler until the hurricane moved north and they could make the ocean crossing back to their home in Tequesta.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>On Monday, they took the snapper to Pete Schulz at Fishing Headquarters in Jupiter, whose certified scale weighed it at 76 pounds.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The Rinkers submitted the catch to the International Game Fish Association. If certified, Boomer&#8217;s snapper would beat the existing junior (male) world record for cubera snapper by more than 23 pounds. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SMALL>By Willie Howard, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer<\/SMALL><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, Lady Luck arrives in the most unexpected places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}