"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Don White wrote:
Harry Krause wrote:

Maybe NOYB will open a B&B to make ends meet.



Wonder if he'd throw in use of his boat? I wouldn't mind getting some
Florida sun in January or February.


There is a place in the upper to middle keys that does that. It's an ok
older motel right on the water, with a good restaurant and the use of a
whaler skiff and outboard is included. The beauty of the place is that the
"offshore reef" is about a half-mile offshore, and that's as far as you
have to go to catch some damned nice fish. I stayed there for a few days
about five years ago. Nice beach, too.

I lived down here for 4 1/2 years before I went to the Keys. I don't know
what I was thinking. I finally "discovered" them this year, and have been
there twice already since Memorial Day...and I'm going back in 3 weeks. I
realized that if I want to head out to deep water to catch pelagics, it's
cheaper and easier to put the boat on the trailer and drive 3 hours to the
Keys with boat in tow. I can be in deep water off Islamorada in 3 1/2
hours...which is the same time it would take to run my 25' boat out 110
miles off Naples to reach the 100 fathom mark. And the fuel spent on the
Keys trip is 1/5th what I'd spend running to the deep water over here.

A better alternative yet, is running across the Alley and launching at Miami
Haulover or Port Everglades. This area is great for snook, tarpon, grouper,
jewfish, sharks, redfish, cobia, and snapper, but if you want pelagics
(dolphin, tuna, billfish) you need to run across to the East coast or Keys.