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 Re: Visit the Florida keys
[Re: Bigbob_FTW]
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01/22/18 05:41 AM
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Here is a good tarpon video of that exact area.
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Re: Visit the Florida keys
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01/22/18 03:37 PM
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I thought Key West was a S-hole in the 80's. Can't imagine what it's like now, but thinking probably not so good.
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Re: Visit the Florida keys
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01/22/18 07:12 PM
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Just avoid Key West. Stay in Islamorada or Marathon. Problem solved. I have seen more gay people in Texas than Florida , I love Key West . Any place you can catch fish like this , 10 minutes from the dock , I approve.   MO
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Re: Visit the Florida keys
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01/22/18 07:25 PM
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Here is a good tarpon video of that exact area. Thats some really good boat driving, going thru bridge pillars with all that current takes skill.
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Re: Visit the Florida keys
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01/22/18 07:26 PM
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Dfitz
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Mo-Permit 
Don't worry about the mule, just load the cart
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Re: Visit the Florida keys
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01/22/18 07:27 PM
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Bass&More
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Re: Visit the Florida keys
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01/22/18 07:29 PM
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lconn4
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Here is a good tarpon video of that exact area. Thats some really good boat driving, going thru bridge pillars with all that current takes skill. Try it in an inner tube.
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Re: Visit the Florida keys
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01/22/18 07:36 PM
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Dfitz
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Don't worry about the mule, just load the cart
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Re: Visit the Florida keys
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01/22/18 07:53 PM
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are there goliaths on those bridge pilings?
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Re: Visit the Florida keys
[Re: Dfitz]
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01/22/18 07:55 PM
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Mo
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Mo-Permit If you look over my shoulder , you can see the cruise ship dock. This fish ( and a half dozen others ) were caught over a wreck in about 25 ft of water. Amazing fishery. MO
MY BACKYARD , 20,000 ACRES , NO MOWING
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Re: Visit the Florida keys
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01/22/18 08:21 PM
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lconn4
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are there goliaths on those bridge pilings? Have heard lots of stories from guys fishing from top of fishing bridge there that hung things that tore them a new one.  Unless you were geared up for them you would never even get close to getting a big one to the surface.
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Re: Visit the Florida keys
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01/22/18 08:22 PM
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senko9S
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now that would be fun in a kayak... 
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Re: Visit the Florida keys
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01/22/18 08:25 PM
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lconn4
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I had a bad experience going through those same bridge piling while fishing from an inner tube 30 years ago. Had to use feet to kick myself away from barnacle encrusted pilings while being pushed so fast I couldn't control my direction. Much easier from a kayak but current can get so strong I couldn't make it through one time. During slack tide or beginning or end of a tide it was doable.
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Re: Visit the Florida keys
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01/22/18 08:35 PM
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are there goliaths on those bridge pilings? Have heard lots of stories from guys fishing from top of fishing bridge there that hung things that tore them a new one. Unless you were geared up for them you would never even get close to getting a big one to the surface. I forget which wreck it was but there was one somewhere South of Summerland we'd go that you could fish at. At the right buoy, when the wind and current were right, you'd be positioned right over the back of the ship and it was kind of like a ledge and they'd be stacked up under it. We'd go out with those little short stumpy rods rigged up with the biggest gear we could find and try to pull one out from under neath. Never managed to get one to the surface, but spent many hours trying. Did manage to pull this out though. The other grouper.... I spent 4 or 5 months down there in 05 working for the BSA. Had quite a time. 
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Re: Visit the Florida keys
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01/22/18 08:50 PM
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 I caught this one off a wreck Atlantic side, just a baby, back then they were still called Jew fish, estimated 175#'s
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