Kelsy Park is located in Lake Park, Florida off of US-1 just south of Park Avenue. It has benches to sit on, it's lighted, and it's open all night long to fishermen.

We fish primarily big baits for big fish. We like to use cut mullet heads and middles. During the mullet run we use live bait. I like an 80-100 pound monofilament leader with an 8/0 or 9/0 Gamagutzu circle hook. The rods we use are pier rods in the 8-10 foot range and can cast a country mile. We also use a four or five ounce bank weight on a sliding swivel just above the leader.

I have a lot of friends that fish with me at Kelsey Park and here's one of them pictured to the left. That's my pal Carol who I have been fishing with for years. Here she is holding a small tarpon that she caught on live shrimp. Years ago, Carol caught one of Kelsey Parks biggest snook, it weighed in around 40 pounds.

Kelsey Park is only a mile away from the Singer Island Bridge and not very from the Palm Beach Inlet. Therefore we do hook up on a lot of sharks. Here is a picture of Crispy Rider on the left and Jeff "The Penguin" McDonald on the right holding up this 60-pound bull shark that Crispy caught on a mullet head.

A Pier Rat Looks at Forty