Aptravelnews-January 7th, Indianapolis, Indiana–Its 20-below wind chill factor and Barb and I are getting ready to set up a Click-It Hot Use It Cold booth at the Convention Center. Its so cold that the pipes froze at our rental house our team is holed up at . But, we have a great fireplace, electric is still on and we had a hardy breakfast. 6-inches of snow outdoors and we have thought back to our recent trip to Punta Gorda, FL and our fishing day with Kingfisher Fleet. Oh, how we wish we could head back to 80 degrees again!
Looks a bit rough, but it wasn’t this time! Just nature turbo-charged at its best!One more of our over 40 grouper we released. Barbs wrist held out against the pull of these big mouthed, beautiful rock and reef holding fish.
Barb offshore with Kingfisher Fleet and mate, Matt holds one of the 15-grouper caught and released by Barb!
APtravelnews-Dec. 20th, Punta Gorda, FL.-Offshore in the Gulf of Mexico–It was a laid back day and the seas were laid down too! Mostly calm with a 3-foot following sea as we headed out from Port Charlotte towards where concentrations of ground fish held among rocks and bottom cover. Our quest: catch em up and release the ones out of season (grouper) but take some porgies and Key West large grunt and a snapper or two for dinner for our group. Successful by end of day, yes and yes! The Captain and Mate performed their jobs perfectly! The Captain found the fish, the mate assisted us all in uhooking, baiting the hook with shrimp and cut fish, we Barb, yours truly and Bob Nesoff, writer from New Jersey pulled on some fiesty fins that of course in no way wanted to visit with us, topside. We got a workout, pulling and reeling them in. Yes, it was great fun for us all! None of the fish that shouldn’t have been kept were and they all scampered back to their bottom homes with only a tiny hole in their lips, much less damage than a gal or guy with a piercing in their tongue, lip or elsewhere, unmentionable! Take a fishing trip or excursion with the King Fisher Fleet. For info.: www.kingfisherfleet.com located at the Marina at Fishermen’s Village on Punta Gorda. Stay tuned-next up will be our fabulous adventure at the 90-thousand acre, Babcock Wilderness!
A Remora fish. It has a suction-cup head and it sticks by “vacuum” to larger fish and travel with their hosts picking off the crumbs of the larger fishes (sharks, marlin, etc.) meals. A very interesting specialized fish!Looks a bit rough, but it wasn’t this time! Just nature turbo-charged at its best!
