Re: Wrightsville Bch Fishin this weekend

[phester]

thats a nice invite W.D., could you hang a BIG left turn and come up to Long Island and get me?

[Stinky_Hooker]

Wish I was closer!!!

[Franco]

HEY DAVE, COME ON DOWN TO SUNNY FLORIDA THIS WINTER AND WE'LL DO SOME SAILFISHIN' OUTTA FT PIERCE INLET!!! Y'ALL CAN STAY AT MY HOUSE!!!

Hey Franco,

Just got back from Venice/Punta Gorda Fla. about a month and a half ago.. Spent 3 weeks down there. If it werent for the tropical storm :'(, we'd a had alot better fishin. Oh, and the red tide was pretty bad up in the bays and around the inlets from Blackburn point down to Lemon Bay. I think Nokomis was the worst... Large bloated goliath groupers and dead snook everywhere... was sad to see. :-/

Left from there and towed up to Apalachacola to fish out of Bay City fish camp with my bud's from Alabama in Apalachacola bay. We do an annual get together over in the panhandle. My bud Rick has a Wellcraft 330 Coastal and offers up tuna and marlin trips every time we go that way.... my friends Doc and Tum's just purchased a new Polar 2700cc and now have plenty of room for us to fish with them now so we dont have to tow the Wellcraft down there again. ;D

Give ya an idea,, we had over 500 lb.s of fish on the hook in two days and brought home just a nick over 200 lb's of fillets (receipt was $84 for fish cleanin) from the last 3 day trip (total) this last June. :o

Bay City Fish lodge in Apalachacola is a awsome place. They provide ramp, fuel dock, docks, mulit room cabins with shower/bath/kitchen etc.. they also have a restruant on site (that will cook your catch) and provide fish cleaning for a fee. At the end of the day, we just pull up in the boat, unload the fish into laundry baskets and put them in the ice house with a tag on them, get cleaned up and go to dinner and the fillet's are ready the next morning.... it's a excellent deal. 8)

A 4 bed (two room), one bath cabin with kitchen, living room is $70-75 a night and that includes leavin the boat in the water, ramp, fresh water for cleaning... not bad when the cost is split between 4 guys. This last trip, we stayed in a 15 bed 5 bath house with laundry and double carport deal for less than $56 a night per person!! of course the more folks, the cheaper it gets!!

So maybe I can try to put together a spring get together if anyones interested. Between the Polar and Rick's boat, I think we'd have enough room for 4-5 extra folks if they didnt want to tow a boat down. Plus I could always tow mine down too if we get enough folks together as I can fish 6 off mine.

And Franco, I just may take ya up on that sometime.. would love to get out in the stream down Fla way, or maybe even fish the outskirts of the Bahama's... Though that might have to happen next year. I got a little one due on the way here this Sept... so my fishin this season is quickly coming to a grinding halt until after December I'm sure.... :-/

Welp, if any of ya NC guys want to run out with us weekend after this one, we'd be happy to have ya come along... talk'd to boss man today and he's a "go", so we'll have room for 3... let me know if interested.


p.s. Phester, you pay for my fuel costs and I'll run up and getchya! ;)

[phester]

W.D., apprieciate that offer but it may be less expensive if I fly down via private jet...thank you all the same

[Franco]

Hey Dave, congrats on the pending crew member. I hope I speak for many of the other guys on here. Glad to have you on board. I'm cool for fishing next year, My boat could float tomorrow if I wasn't so intent on restoring/modifying it. I want to catch a sailfish out of my V20. It's a near shore trip out of fort pierce, maybe 12 to 15 miles out and then kite fishing while drifting. I was gonna sell mine and buy a buddies V20 center console, but after weighing it all out, I'm gonna keep mine, and when it's time to repower I'll pull the I/O, fill the hole and hang and outboard on a bracket.

[reelapeelin]

FRANCO!!!gonna KEEP the CUDDY afterall!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D...allright, that's the best news I've heard in a while of Sundays... 8) 8) 8)...those Ft Pierce sails don't stand a CHANCE!!! ;) ;D...

[Franco]

Hey Rap, I painted the doggone deck last weekend - looking too good and I got too many goodies to cut her loose. Dern thing is probably gonna get the topside painted the same offwhite and the hull is gonna be either fighting lady yellow or that florida torquoise

[reelapeelin]

Gawlee...Man that looks GREAT!!...That and everything else you've done to her...no doubt she's a KEEPER!!... ;D 8)...

[Stinky_Hooker]

Lookin SWEEEET Franco!! ;D