"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:
"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.



I have a friend who launches his Whaler out of Haulover. He lives just
south of there, across the bridge, in Bal Harbour, one or two condos down
from that bridge on the ocean side. When I'm down there, he lets me borrow
the Whaler. You sure don't have to go far out of Haulover to catch some
really nice fish.

It's a sloppy inlet on an outgoing tide and an onshore wind, though.