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Thanks for sharing man, that is absolutey the coolest / oldest man/animal artifact I've seen. The gator must have flinched right, he just missed dead center of the sweet spot for the kill. When I was getting recruited for NAIA out in Dodge City, they took me through the Boot Hill Museum - they...

Yeah I found a few in the Peace River and up on the banks, but it is mostly sandpaste pottery. I had a place you could find bucket loads pottery and the occasional cool shell tool or deer antler awl. I pieced togeter 7/8 of a pre-Columbian bowl. Well, when you get bored and need to run up north...

You're a beast - I hate to ask did the Covid economy catch up with you? Wherever you land, you'll be turning them up buddy.

It was sure a beautiful place back then, still has its charm, but changing - freking Allegiant Air came in, thought Florida was going to legalize gambling and started building a hig end condo unit on Charlotte Harbor near where the Bay Station was. Then it just stopped. Here's what we get to...

Great little Marina. It's funny Tarpon around the I-75 Bridge are smaller 15-35lbs, but you get a couple miles up river and the big ones who don;t waste any energy migrating hang there - I hear its the same in the Caloosahatchee.

That was a while ago, playing in the streets! It was 7th-12th when I started there. Where in town did you live?

This fishing post keeps getting new life and I don't want to let Thanksgiving get too far out of sight before I post this Peace River Tarpon we caught off the dock Thanksgiving Night, 2016. Right as the Cowboys were running off the field I told my boys to go reel the rod in with a big whole...

A bunch of my buddies would get together Monday afternons in the fall at a bar, hit some shots, then go castnet and snatch hook mullet in the Punta Gorda Isles canals before they outlawed it. We'd have a huge fishfry and watch Monday Night Football. Occasionally a gator would make it to dinner.

Do you do some work in the field, and if so is there anything that works? That old Bahamian guy said he’d been doing it for an awfully long time, and sure seemed to trust it. With the reefs there, I'd guess it is pretty common. In the 80s I remember a longline boat brought a haul of Hog...

Nice haul. I see flies landing on them, good sign. That means they don't have Ciguatera toxin if the flies land on them. That's how you know if a Barracudda is good to eat according to an old Bahamian years ago - he laid the filets out and if flies wouldn't land on it he'd throw it to the...

Next Thursday Season Opens for sport:

that's cool, its amazing what will run up on flats. I had a budy see some Bone Fish on a flat off Gasparilla island. In Charlotte Harbor big Cobia will be up there looking for rays.

There you go. I used to see a lot of Tripple Tail off Red Fish Pass, North Captiva on the stone crab traps years and years ago when I was running yachts. Never fished for them, too far from Punta Gorda.

Will do, but he's a Gator fan! The other two and me are Canes fans! He went to Firefighting school at Santa Fe while Tebow was at UF - hardly missed a tailgate. It was a ***** watching us give away the game last year with three of us pulling for the Canes and him the Gators. Other than that...

Naw, just go with my sons or buddies in Charlotte Harbor. Snook, Redfish, Snapper are good, some Cobia and occasional Tripple tail. You can always catch big Black Drum under the I-75 or US-41 bridges, like this one my older son caught - quarter up a blue-crab and put it on the bottom, they do...

Well, welcome to Charlotte Harbor. Yeah that's a great area. Two areas that have produced the biggest snook I've seen is further south in Ponce DeLeon Park channel (Trolling at night) and then on a hard incoming tide at night floating live bait huge shrimp into the Burntstore Marina Chanel...

Were you from the area? What High School if so. So you wading around Bull Bay? or south near Mondongo / Jug Creek Shoals? I'm a partner in one of the fish shacks in Bull Bay. We have waded a lot over the years and had a few sharks check us out, I had to bump one with a gig once to get him to...

Big *** fish brother!

The East coast gets so many more shark attacks, they're very rare over here. A guy was fighting a Tarpon last season in Boca Grande Pass and fell overboard; got his leg raked by a Bull shark chasing the Tarpon he had brought alongside -angler's fault, not shark. I can think of only a couple of...

Here's the 2nd jump, I was grabbing the wheel and one hand shooting with the other, thus the blur.