i wanted to know why in alot of the old keys pictures and some current ones why you guys always hung up your catch at the old wooden bridge fishing camp on the edge of big pine key on the way to no name was it a old hangout for the sharkers or what ?
A lot of the sharks were caught on the Old Wooden Bridge! 
What she said!
no acuttally alot of them were not caught at the old wooden bridge alot were caught a 7 mile bahia hinda and even long key ( very far away to haul a big shark to hang up for pictures ) i lived in the keys for 23 years i can identifiy exactly where each and everyshark was caught just at a glimpse and alot of the shark pictures new and old people are fight ting the shark on another bridge and the shark is hanging up on the yard arm of the old wooden bridge fish camp
Post the pics cause I've never seen one hung there ,,,,not from our group anyways.
SOUTH FLORIDA SHARK CLUB -President SFSC-Founding Member est 1983 SFSC-Website Administrator BIG HAMMER SHARK TOURNAMENT -Founder Rene Memorial Sharkathon -Founder NMFS Shark Tagger
531 lb Hammer (1996)
heres a pic of rene ahnginf up a HAMMER AT THE OLD WODDEN BRIDGE FISH CAMP THE SHARK HE CAUGHT AT BAHIA HONDA THERE ARE MANY MORE PICS LIKE THIS IF YOU LOOK CARFULLY AT THEM
i dont see a pic
its a pic on this web site 500 lb club rene's 500 + lb hammer head
As you drive south through Marathon in the Florida keys right before the 7 mile bridge on the right and across the street from Knight's Key campground is a place called 7 Mile Grill and Marina and that 531 lb hammerhead shark you(sharkkiller) refer to, was weighed there not at Old Wooden bridge .On that day in 1996 Dr Jose Castro of Mote Marine happened to stop by and see us weighing the shark. Rene de Dios knew Dr Castro very well because he had supplied Dr Castro with nurse sharks for a study he was involved in.Another very good friend of ours Gary Spence an angler who had many World Records for sharks at that time also saw us on the side of the road at the 7 mile Marina stopped by to say hello .Most of the sharks we caught in the keys during that era we weighed at either Bud and Mary's or at Holiday Isle(the Tike Bar) .NOT ONE INSTANCE DO I RECALL WHEN A SHARK WAS WEIGHED AT Old Wooden Fish Camp.
The article
Just wanted to get the juices flowing for all those hardcore shark hunters
who wanted a glimpse of what,s been tearing up your gear from the bridges .This hammer although not huge only 531 lbs 11ft 7inch was big enough to have us chase him for one and a half hours .It was 1996 on my boat the "Shark Fever" it was April and we were fishing beneath the old bahia honda bridge outgoing tide 5am hits a big tuna head on the 14/0 and all hell breaks loose Rene de Dios the lejend is hooked up and screaming for me to cut the anchor rope cause i can't get it off the bottom against the current I can't so i cut the rope and we're off and running after what we knew had to be a big hammer;once you've hooked one you never ever forget there tremendous strength and agility so we chase the shark cuz he,s like a freight train and it,s just me and my buddy and i'm working the throttle the wheel the spot light and the video camera that's sitting atop the console he's hitting crab traps and i'm having to lunge for the transom knife in hand and cut lobster buoys off 4 times in total .Rene keeps barking out the commands i'm fighting to keep the propeller away from the shark we see him and we,re freaking out he,s big and everytime he sees the boat he's off to the races .We end up about 4 miles out but we got him a two man team has done what is considered by many one of the ultimate rushes in sportfishing -to catch a big hammer.
The article as it appeared in the Key Noter magazine.
SOUTH FLORIDA SHARK CLUB -President SFSC-Founding Member est 1983 SFSC-Website Administrator BIG HAMMER SHARK TOURNAMENT -Founder Rene Memorial Sharkathon -Founder NMFS Shark Tagger