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Post by mackeralsnatcher on Apr 11, 2024 17:41:44 GMT -5
Yea, it sucks
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Post by whitebacon on Apr 12, 2024 0:05:53 GMT -5
I never thought I would hear of place better than Florida, which I love. Please keep your reports coming Mr. Whitebacon, between the fishing and extracurricular activies, its good stuff. Will do. Thanks for the kind words. Couldn't agree more with your first statement. I spent north of 30 years fishing Charlotte Harbor/Boca Grande, which I consider the finest fishing in the United States, both inshore and offshore. Hard for me to believe this place is better. Thx buddy.
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Post by whitebacon on Apr 12, 2024 0:12:32 GMT -5
I would only go for the fishing. I can get robbed and laid all I want in Florida. LOL I will let you slide, as we're friends. Crime doesn't really exist here, unless you're in the gang wars on the south side of Belize City. I told you, I just give the girls money now, so they don't rob me. Biggest gangster/doper where I live, is basically my best friend. Took a while took get there, and I've said all this before. I feel very safe. Even on the mainland, or in the city, I feel very safe.
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Post by whitebacon on Apr 12, 2024 0:17:55 GMT -5
Where WB lives is beautiful. I spent a week there and it is on the second largest barrier reef in world. Only the great barrier reef and Australia is larger. I also spent time in Guanaja one of the bay islands in Honduras. Same reef. This was thirty years ago and things change but truly both beautiful places. Fortunately, bacon retired early and move there while still somewhat young and medical care is not an urgent necessity at this point in his life. For folks a little bit older, it would be a gamble to go to one of those places to live permanently. Amen, 100% to everything you said. Guanaja, my BF in Florida married a girl from there. To further agree, I've said many times, where I live, anything serious, like a heart attack, a serious injury, you will not survive. It's just a fact we live with. I have no problem accepting the trade-off.
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Post by whitebacon on Apr 12, 2024 0:23:16 GMT -5
For us old folks it’s a gamble to go anywhere not very near a first class hospital. Seems like we spend half of our time “doctoring” now a days. That's exactly why I try to tell the truth about the downside of here. We live close enough to Chetumal, Mexico, where routine or even specialized care is available, cheap, and excellent. But to repeat, emergency care doesn't exist where I live.
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Post by whitebacon on Apr 12, 2024 4:54:29 GMT -5
Anyway, fishing report from yesterday. And yes, I'm staying up to see Tiger finish his round from yesterday at the Master's.
Wind finally backed off a little bit. Maybe 10 knots out of the east. Kids and I went and caught four dozen silver dollar blue crabs, and 50 dozen fiddlers. Decided permit and bones only. This is yesterday.
We anchor in the channel about 500 yds off the beach. Just start smashing the fiddlers for the chum line. Five minutes, maybe. Three stud permit on, all on blue crabs. Total circus to catch all three. 20+ lbs apiece.
I kept chumming the whole time. Overcast, not too hot. I didn't count. But at least 20 beast permit. Spooled once. Nothing under 20 lbs. This should be in a magazine. 10 feet of water. Gin clear. We kept one, which is going on the grill after the first round at Augusta finishes this morning.
I'm sure there are other places that this is possible. But I've never seen it other than here. I know I've got two boys who are now basically men, who will be wildly successful as guides, and probably be on the cover of some magazine someday, or have their own show. They are that good, that polished.
As far as the women go, I will say not my best week. Got two of them, both in their 40's, overweight. Pretty faces, but way over what I consider acceptable. Whole island has been busting my balls for a couple of days about it. Not my finest day, not even close.
I'm an ex-golfer, so today is Master's day. Love all of you.
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Apr 12, 2024 5:11:33 GMT -5
Great report Mr Whitebacon. Thank you.
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Post by cadman on Apr 12, 2024 5:43:27 GMT -5
I would only go for the fishing. I can get robbed and laid all I want in Florida. LOL I will let you slide, as we're friends. Crime doesn't really exist here, unless you're in the gang wars on the south side of Belize City. I told you, I just give the girls money now, so they don't rob me. Biggest gangster/doper where I live, is basically my best friend. Took a while took get there, and I've said all this before. I feel very safe. Even on the mainland, or in the city, I feel very safe. Did they catch the guy that robbed you a few weeks ago?
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Post by whitebacon on Apr 12, 2024 5:45:54 GMT -5
I will let you slide, as we're friends. Crime doesn't really exist here, unless you're in the gang wars on the south side of Belize City. I told you, I just give the girls money now, so they don't rob me. Biggest gangster/doper where I live, is basically my best friend. Took a while took get there, and I've said all this before. I feel very safe. Even on the mainland, or in the city, I feel very safe. Did they catch the guy that robbed you a few weeks ago? No sir. Don't make me laugh or cry. But, no sir.
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Post by OhMy on Apr 12, 2024 14:26:13 GMT -5
I never thought I would hear of place better than Florida, which I love. Please keep your reports coming Mr. Whitebacon, between the fishing and extracurricular activies, its good stuff. Will do. Thanks for the kind words. Couldn't agree more with your first statement. I spent north of 30 years fishing Charlotte Harbor/Boca Grande, which I consider the finest fishing in the United States, both inshore and offshore. Hard for me to believe this place is better. Thx buddy. Boca Grande has the finest offshore fishing? That is news to me ! What do you consider offshore fishing?
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Post by whitebacon on Apr 12, 2024 16:07:25 GMT -5
Will do. Thanks for the kind words. Couldn't agree more with your first statement. I spent north of 30 years fishing Charlotte Harbor/Boca Grande, which I consider the finest fishing in the United States, both inshore and offshore. Hard for me to believe this place is better. Thx buddy. Boca Grande has the finest offshore fishing? That is news to me ! What do you consider offshore fishing? Go to '65 feet. 300lbs of gag grouper. 300 pounds of mangrove snapper. That's a bad day. Then run to 100' feet. Bigger grouper, 12 lb snapper. Then run, if you have the time , to 100 miles. You won't see a boat. Whites, blues, sailfish, swords, dolphins, wahoo, cudas, everything that swims. If you get bored, stop and bottom fish for cuberas, or copper bellies. I'm hoping you're not being sarcastic.
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Post by whitebacon on Apr 12, 2024 16:27:24 GMT -5
Will do. Thanks for the kind words. Couldn't agree more with your first statement. I spent north of 30 years fishing Charlotte Harbor/Boca Grande, which I consider the finest fishing in the United States, both inshore and offshore. Hard for me to believe this place is better. Thx buddy. Boca Grande has the finest offshore fishing? That is news to me ! What do you consider offshore fishing? Yes. I answered your question. And I will get scolded for it. I take fishing seriously. Not Mickey Mouse shit. I haven't done it here, but Jay and I routinely caught 15 tarpon on a hard outgoing tide in the pass, when we were 20. We put $800 grand in our employers pockets. Three out of four. I can run pretty much blindfolded out of BG pass to any wreck, and put you on permit, huge cudas, jacks, whatever. I don't live there anymore. I'm sorry you don't believe me.
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Post by OhMy on Apr 12, 2024 18:07:11 GMT -5
Boca Grande has the finest offshore fishing? That is news to me ! What do you consider offshore fishing? Yes. I answered your question. And I will get scolded for it. I take fishing seriously. Not Mickey Mouse shit. I haven't done it here, but Jay and I routinely caught 15 tarpon on a hard outgoing tide in the pass, when we were 20. We put $800 grand in our employers pockets. Three out of four. I can run pretty much blindfolded out of BG pass to any wreck, and put you on permit, huge cudas, jacks, whatever. I don't live there anymore. I'm sorry you don't believe me. It is not that I don't believe you do/did well fishing, I don't agree with you that Boca Grande has the best offshore fishing in the world.
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Post by whitebacon on Apr 12, 2024 19:24:25 GMT -5
It is not that I don't believe you do/did well fishing, I don't agree with you that Boca Grande has the best offshore fishing in the world. I didn't say that. I said the combination of inshore and offshore. Since you want to argue, tell us. I'm all ears.
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Post by whitebacon on Apr 12, 2024 19:44:18 GMT -5
It is not that I don't believe you do/did well fishing, I don't agree with you that Boca Grande has the best offshore fishing in the world. Then who do you trust to say the truth? Honestly ? I only lived there 30 years. You are insulting me. I never said the best offshore. I said it was a virgin environment that I stomped on. Ever been 100 miles offshore on the west coast of Florida? I'm not a liar. Definitely not a fool to lie about fishing . Remind me how many grouper you caught in '65 of water. Then remind me about how many billfish you have caught. I've fished the north drop, for months on end. I'm telling you there are pelagics in the Gulf of Mexico Take it to the bank
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