On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 14:28:02 GMT, DownTime
wrote:
What, if anything are y'all planning to do this year? Anything new?
anything different?
I'd like to get over to the Abacos for about 3 weeks in early spring,
and also to go south to Shark River and Everglades Park during the
winter before the skeeters come back to life.
We also have a trip planned up to St Pete Beach in about 4 weeks where
we'll be race committee boat for one of my oldest son's sailing
regattas. We will probably go up outside weather permitting, with an
overnight in Venice. Coming back I'm planning to take the leisurely
inside route on the ICW with stops at Long Boat Key, Sarasota and Boca
Grande.
I don't think we're going all the way north this summer but you never
know. If the weather gets too miserable here we might just take a run
up to North Carolina or thereabouts
For us, it will be a lot of the same inshore fishing the Pine Island,
Matlacha with the exception being hopefully catching our targeted quarry
more often. Will venture out some, weather permitting to the Gulf for
some offshore bottom fishing and probably get back to diving a bit more
regularily. Then we have the summer trips to the keys for lobster and
some offshore blue water trolling.
Yes, life is just awful here in south Florida. :-)
Come late spring / early summer we are looking to get a few more tarpon
memories and my neighbor wants to try for tarpon by kayak in the
Caloosahatchee. I may just bring my video camera and let him go first.
Has anyone fished for and landed a tarpon fishing from a kayak?
My next door neighbor claims to know a good Tarpon spot near the Rim
Canal just south of the mid point bridge. He claims that he can chum
them in off the flats and catch them on catfish tails. It would
certainly be a gas and a half to get one from a kayak.
I expect quite a wild ride and come to think of it, the area we 'found'
is maybe about two miles from home. It does pay to go fishing with
people who know better than you thought you did. I guess you can always
learn something new. 