annual contest standings angling news Interested in helping collect valuable fisheries information while getting a chance to win a nice prize?  If so, get ready to par- ticipate in the Lake Worth Lagoon Fishing Challenge, a free fishing event that willbeheldthisJune. ThePalmBeachCountyDepartmentofEnvironmental Resources Management (ERM), and its partners in the Lake Worth Lagoon Initiative are working with the Snook & Gamefish Foundation and your West Palm Beach Fishing Club to produce the unique data collection effort. By taking a photo of your catch in the lagoon and using a smartphone or computer to report it, participants will be eligible for some great awards, and will behelpingcontributetoERM’s data collection needs.  Here’s your chance to be a citizen scientist and aide researchers in this cooperative effort. “The Fishing Club has a well documented history of collaborating with the scientific community to help gather fisheries data.  We are excited to be an event partner and hope our members will take part by logging their Lake Worth Lagoon catches in the challenge,” said WPBFC Chairman Pete Schulz.  Stay tuned for future an- nouncements on this new fishing event.  Visit online at www.LWLI.org for additional details and registration information. LWL Fishing Challenge Fish like Chase Perry's snook, caught last summer in the north end of the Lagoon, will be the focus of study in the upcoming Lake Worth Lagoon Fishing Challange. Flagler Bridge Material to be added to Reef Site Large slabs of the old Flagler Bridge, which is currently being dismantled to make way for a new span, are being added to an existing artificial reef site located about one mile south of the Palm Beach Inlet in approximately 35 to 45 feet of water. The artificial reef was created a few years ago using old dock rubble from the Riviera Beach Marina. The reef site has attracted a wide variety of fish including barracuda, snapper, cobia and baitfish like goggle-eye, sardines and blue runners. In recent years the county's artificial reef efforts have included multiple proj- ects in similar depths not far from local inlets that serve as 'Stepping Stone Reefs' between inshore and nearshore hard bottom areas, leading out to deeper natural reefs. The Flagler Bridge material will compliment an already productivereefsitebyprovidingadditionalhabitatforfish and other marine life. Some material will likely be spread out adjacent to the main reef. The GPS coordinates for the main site are N 26º 75.44/W 80º 02.59. bridge slabs await their final resting place offshore