Its the same barge. RFRA leases it from time to time when they have some members reefs to deploy.

Material cost for a home-made 600# reef, (steel value) $60.00. Work involved, at least 1/2 day.

Catching a nice fish off something you designed and built..... priceless!

Sea-r-cy

1.  these coups are 9ft long 4.5 ft high and 4 ft wide.  They weigh about 500 lbs and are made of steel.  There are not many people who can safely transport, load and deploy one of these.  Not to mention the steel (and the rusty rebar used at the RFRA) is hell on the gelcoat.

2.  the barge can haul 26 of these in a single load so the part about "hauling as many as the barge" is really not accurate. If you add the fuel and hassel for 26 trips plus the time and wear on your boat it would cost way more than the using the barge. On tuesday I fueled after fishing and put 50 gallons in my boat for $200.  With the price of fuel going up, it is worth the money to know you have a productive private spot.

3. There is understandably a concern about the privacy of the numbers.  We have put procedures and technology in place to secure the numbers as much as possible.  Ultimately it comes down to trust and reliance on the fact that we are doing this primarily to assist the fishing community and RFRA and provide this resource.  Stealing numbers does not further this goal.  Plus, we own a barge.  There is no need to steal numbers when we can build 26 spots in a day.

4. The price of a two coup spot is 450, with a discount for multiple spots. This is approximately the cost of the coup, transportation, fuel, crew and insurance. The math only works if the barge takes a full load.  In short, there is no profit, ecspecially if you consider the odd mechanical issue.  Again, this venture is to benefit the fishing community and provide a resource.  Given this purpose, it is difficult to understand criticism of the concept.

5. Finally, I have fished here for 25 years and have hundreds of spots (at least I did before Ivan!!) These coups make great reefs.  On tuesday I fished some that were put out in December and pulled nice snapper off of them. They also produce good triggerfish.

I hope this answers some of your concerns. 

We also have the baby barge. I think tha't s one he was referring to.

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Bleach is for socks, not for docks, jackass!

Does the price include deployment?

RUSTY
ROLL TIDE

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I didnt see what was written earlier by sniper, but after spearfishing all weekend with him, and cleaning fish all day with him (5 hours worth), and drinking a "few" beers with him before he left about an hour ago, this post and conversatiopn came up.

Here is what I would like to say. I KNOW chicken coop0s rock ass. And I know 300 for one or 450 for 2, deployed, is a sweet deal.

My personal opinion, which doesnt count for much, and I am a member of the RFRA, is that I would be willing to pay alittle more, to see the number, and tracking, erased from the ggps after deployment.

Now I am not saying you guys are number thiefs. Please dont take this as an insult, or an accusation.

But it was said that you wouldnt fish them too hard since you have others.

I persoanlly have not taken the time to build a reef, even though being a merber for almost a year, so I think this is a sweet idea.

But you have to remeber, that some of us were aluminum foil on our heads so the CIA cant reads our brain waves, ansd we are a little paranoid.

If you DIDNT keep the numbers, would there maybe be a price you had in mind? Some of us are selfish, and want it all to ourselves, and dont want to trust anyone else with it.

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 Thats similar to the conversation we had. What keeps someone from selling the SAME numbers multiple times. Once again, not questioning anyones moral fiber. Just a thought. You sink one reef sell the numbers 30 times at 300 a time. Next year your building all your PRIVATE spots for free. Not that anyone on here would do anything like that. But it does cross the minds of soomeone wanting to purchase reefs.

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I would agree.  Sounds like a sweet deal and I am interested.  But the term "I won't  be overfishing these spots at all" doesn't give me the warm and fuzzies. Small spots that are private can produce awesome fish but have to be managed carefully due to their size.  Thats hard to do when you don't know who's been fishing it and how often.

Two very good pictures of our boat! That first one looks like the set that got hung up going over.  Thanks for doing business with us and helping to keep the barge moving.

 We would like to buy two shared spots from you. How many people share them? Us and you? Please contact me when you get a chance and we can discuss specifics,

 thank you for the oppurtunity to get in on some great spots!!

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Thanx for offerin up the price for that!

Last question...since you offered the second coop at half price with the "shared" pricing...got a price in mind to make it more worth while on the second coop if it was completely private?

Good luck guys!

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Harry

Hell, that means, depending on how long they have been down, there already got some good fish on em probably!

Again...good luck man!

One weekend Im gonn actually go up to the RFRA, and burn my eyballs again weldin somethin upwith an auto darkening helmet that I didnt know you had to turn on first!!!

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I hear ya man, thing is it is a major pain in the ass to get coops permitted for florida (escambia county at least). You have to remove the shelves that requires cutting the support bars, pressure wash them, permit them which is twice as much as alabama, then once you sink them you have to turn in the exact numbers to Mr. Turpin. He dives them to make sure they are where you say they are (read this as someone has the numbers besides me). That is why i sunk them in alabama, its much easier and more user friendly to put reefs out there. Go figure why they have such great snapper fishing out of orange beach, there was actually an article in Fl Sportsman magazine a while back basically saying that Florida needed to follow alabamas lead on reef deployments.

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