Catching up w Whitebacon

Bacon said best in the U.S. Ohmy, you said best in the world. That’s a slight difference…

Pics or it didn’t happen , whole lotta big dicken and zero evidence. Polaroids existed 40 years ago.

Climbing to the top of Everest is hard. Having receipts for mad shit talk should be easy.

I stand corrected on world vs US.

I would rather offshore fish in the Keys than Boca Grande, that's my opinion.

If someone asked me.. where would you choose to live to do the best inshore and offshore fishing I would tell them to live in Islamorada.

Catch the same species and not have to drive the boat 3 hours to start fishing.

I spent a month in the Keys from age 8 to 35 years, every year. Sometimes Key West, many times Islamorada, many times Marathon. I will leave the rest of it out.

Belize ain't for everyone. But I will guarantee you I can walk 15 feet. Repeat that, 15 feet. And catch a permit and a bonefish. From my front door.

I still think the Keys are great. We don't have things down here that the Keys have. Like effing people and effing boats. And effing traffic. And effing cars.

35 years ago we'd run from Key West to the Marquesas (sorry spelling) which is a good 30 miles from KW. Only to find 3 assholes already there. We don't have that problem here. I'd wager, in my lifetime, we will never have that problem here.

Congrats.

You could have done the same in the keys and saved about 10K in fuel. 

Tortugas is also fantastic fishing. Did you ever slam the throttles down on your yellowfin and fish there?

Amazing. Just amazing fishing.

That hurts my feelings to hear that. Like really. I felt overfishing 15 years ago. Bothers me to hear that.


But you know me. You know where I live. We get some commercial guys from down south....my boys arrest them and I sink their boat. We get a new spot. You know I'm fanatical about it.

As bad as the regulations are getting in Florida and Gulf waters I could see many people heading to South America on fishing vacations.

The good part here, is that we are in charge. It is a infantile fishery. Most normal people are scared to come here. They don't understand. I will not permit this fishery to get ruined.

We control visitor traffic. Air traffic. I'm a psycho about it. I've fished all over the world. Saw many.places ruined.

This is the greatest fishing destination on the planet. Ain't no one coming down here to take it from us.

Tortuga fishing is meat fishing not for inshore or offshore slams. 

You can catch an inshore grand slam and and offshore grand slam in Islamorada and save the 10K on fuel.

And that Señor is why Islamorada fishing is the best in the US. 

I agree - the Keys are a shell of what they used to be - on the shore and on the water.  Where else can we get a 30-mile traffic jam than early lobster season.  

We used to go every year.  Will go again but for what you get, there are plenty of places with less traffic and just as much fishing.

Take a trip with Hammer. 

I have fished next to him at the Tortugas but never with him.

He always brings in a haul. 

I’m sure you have hauled in more metric tons of fish in your commercial fishing time than all of us combined in the chat room. I did a few trips on my uncle’s roller boat for Spanish and Kings where we had to cut the net and give it to another boat to haul but the 70’s are long gone also. BTW glad to see you back.