BACK COVER Capt. Ben Marler Sr. unknowingly started an important industry in Destin in 1934: namely, fishing for hire. On day a fortuitous "party line" phone call from a hotelier in Ft. Walton Beach, Mrs. Bacon asked if a small group of her guests could accompany him in his small seine boat into the Gulf of Mexico to fish. The first wooden bridge had just been completed, and the lady at Bacon's by the Sea kept calling. And calling! Soon seeing the light, Ben dropped his backbreaking commercial nets and with his father William T. Marler, built a larger boat, The Plymouth. A fitting name. The next season, he "carried parties" to the incredibly rich fishing grounds off the sugar white sands of the hamlet whose name would soon become, The World's Luckiest Fishing Village.  His elder brother, Dave Marler and brother in law Nick Maltezo would soon join him with their own boats, and thus the fledgling party boat fishing fleet was born.  All the brothers, uncles, c...