SPORT FISHING
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TREASURE COAST BOATING
JIM CAREY PHOTO
Former Mets Manager Davey Johnson, center, is all smiles after catching a
white marlin in the Bahamas with Carey and Jack Noll.
owner of Precision Valve Corp. and inventor of the aerosol
delivery device. He entertained and fished all over the
Americas with a who’s who of the day: Nixon and his friend
Charles “Bebe” Rebozo, former Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger, Roger Daltrey of The Who, Jensen Beach royalty
Frances Langford and Ralph Evinrude, singer Jimmy Buffett,
New York Mets manager Davey Johnson (after the team won
the 1986 World Series), actor Christopher Plummer, singer
Bing Crosby, comedian and band leader Phil Harris. Former
Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham insisted on fishing
off the boat with a hand line.
Carey said Nixon wasn’t much for fishing, but he loved
to ride on the Sea Lion II. They were cruising Long Island
Sound when Carey noticed the Coast Guard training vessel
Eagle with sailors on deck. He radioed them that the former
commander-in-chief would be passing by. The guardsmen
scrambled into formation and gave salute, which Nixon
acknowledged with his classic wave. Carey said Nixon never
knew about the heads-up to the Coast Guard crew.
After Nixon’s wife, Pat, died, he was photographed sitting
in the fighting chair on the back of the boat, while it was
underway off Montauk, N.Y. Complete with a lurid headline,
the uncredited photo appeared on the cover of the National
Enquirer. >>
JIM CAREY PHOTO
After a day of fishing pristine Bahamian waters circa 2003, the Sea Lion II
heads through the channel to Walker’s Cay.