*** STANDARD WEEKLY FISHING REPORT DISCLAIMER: These reports are meant to inform on a regular basis (i.e. when the outboard’s not in the shop) those who had the misfortune of not being in, on, or close to the water this weekend (and mainly rub it in). The events that follow may or may not resemble the actual truth - Like all good fishing tales, some details may have been left out, embellished, or obscured in order to increase the teller’s own sense of fishing prowess among his fellow man. No animals were hurt during the taking place of these events - unless, of course, by animal you mean fish, shrimp, lobster, wife, or South Florida fishermen - in which case, one or the other most likely died…
Having scuba-dived quite a bit now in the bridge channels around the Keys, Ive started to adhere to this theory lately V the harder you swim against the tide, the more ****ed you are going to be. Sometimes it pays to just ride along the karmic current, and take what the Keys gives you ( whether that be weather, wealth, whiskey, or women ). And when youre on an adventure with the Crack onoon Fishing and Disaster Dive Team - fighting karma is just a plain bad idea, cause it normally leaves you treading water in a 4 knot current somewhere with a shark gnawing on your ass
Headed to the Keys last weekend for a bit of fishing with Rusty Pooper from NC and Capt.John and Canadian Mike from Fort Myers. Since weather in the Keys for Thanksgiving was FRICKIN FREEZIN (64 degree water temp), I wasnt holding out much hope the conditions would be more favorable, and of course at a week out, the weather sites were predicting blustery days more conducive to catching a buzz than a fish. But as the weekend crept closer, the forecast slowly started to turn from dreary to dreamy (80 degrees and sunny) with balmy 5-10 breezes. Those changes in weather ironically seemed to coincide with the decision of Tim (LunchBox), Andrew (TrimTab 1), and Jake (TrimTab 2) all backing out of the trip, so obviously we know who has been pissing off the