Port Charlotte to Naples

Excerpt from CATCH FISH NOW! on Florida's West Coast

OFFSHORE


	Between 6 1/2 and 14 miles off the beach, you'll find a fine system of artificial reefs. Obviously, they're complemented by non-permitted sites and a variety of isolated but fairly extensive natural bottom features. And there are some other possibilities much farther out. We'll touch on these shortly!

Some of the hundreds of coordinates for artificial reefs in the waters off the Port Charlotte
to Naples area (numbers correspond to map above).


Spot #	Name	LORAN Coords	Latitude / Longitude	Depth (ft)	Structure
1	Stump Pass 7 Mi Reef	14126.3 / 44209.7	26 52.102 / 82 26.484	43'	Concrete culverts, boxes
2	Boxcar Reef	14082.6 / 44239.6	26 42.00 / 82 36.00	72'	48 steel boxcars, concrete culverts, wreck
3	Power Pole- Searun Power Pole - BARCRN	14108.6 / 44124.5	26 40.88 / 82 22.25 26 41.87 / 82 22.47	46'	Wreck, Concrete rubble, power pole, 65' steel ship, cement mixer
4	Aaron Hendry Reef		26 39.00 / 82 36.00		Unknown
5	School Bus Reef 2	14086.0 / 44152.4	26 36.22 / 82 28.29	70'	School bus, culverts
6	Deep Reef	14045.2 / 44260.0	26 33.27 / 82 43.47	90'	Two piles of hopper cars
7	ARCOA	14083.9 / 44111.4	26 32.48 / 82 25.08	57'	ARCOA prefab units
8	12 Mile Reef - Culverts 12 Mile Reef - Barge	14085.3 / 44111.4	26 32.74 / 82 24.62 26 32.88 / 82 24.75	60'	Culverts Barge, concrete culverts
9	A.R.C. Barge Reef	14067.9 / 44080.0	26 25.15 / 82 24.60	60'	110' steel barge
10	Edison Barge Reef	14078.3 / 43968.7	26 18.45 / 82 13.36	42'	1400 cu yds bridge rubble
11	Jaycees Reef	14097.9 / 43912.0 14098.5 / 43912.0 14097.9 / 43913.4 14097.2 / 43912.9	26 20.24 / 82 05.25	33	Barge with rubble 225 tons concrete 300 tons concrete 310 tons concrete
12	Wiggins Reef 14 mi Reef	14080.5 / 43912.2 14085.0 / 43900.0	26 14.010 / 82 07.736 26 14.86 / 82 05.83	42 48	800 tons concrete concrete culverts
13	Doctors Pass 5 mi reef	14098.5 / 43818.6 14098.5 / 43827.6	26 10.22 / 81 54.34 26 12.681 / 81 57.271	28 30	Concrete culverts 800 tons concrete
14	Gordon Pass 9 mi reef	14076.5 / 43834.0	26 04.04 / 81 59.32	36	92 concrete modules

In addition to the 14 sites we've just visited, there are obviously many more. Six that may be of interest
are much farther offshore - - from 25 to 75 miles or so off the beach:

The Bayronto - A 400' British steamer sunk during a hurricane more than 50 years ago. Depth 110',

Fantastico - A 200' freighter that went down in 1993. Depth 112', LORAN 13994.0 / 44248.0,

Stoney Point - A Hudson River passenger ferry that was scuttled in 1968. Depth 132',

Captiva Blue Hole - Depth (at the rim) 80', LORAN 14033.4 / 44247.6, GPS 26 28.92 / 82 44.22

Naples Spring - Depth (at the rim) 70', Depth (at the bottom) 224', LORAN 14028.5 / 43864.5,

Baja California - A Norwegian freighter sunk by a German submarine in WWII. LORAN 13920.7 / 43961.5,

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