Flats Dude's July 17 Article

Gary,

  An ending worth waiting for. I?ve had a very limited number of those 30 fish days. My best day was several years ago in Mosquito Lagoon as a hurricane was passing from south to north up our coast. Every cast caught a fish and I was lucky enough to have my youngest son with me. One of my best memories. 
    I didn?t get out this week. I work at the power plant by the I-4 bridge over Lake Monroe and we are having major problems with three units now so it?s all hands on deck. Hope to get out next week. Catch a lot of fish and keep those articles coming.

GOD BLESS AMERICA
USMC - VIETNAM VET

Great story Gary. I was reading and thinking “why does this sound familiar to me” when I realized that you told me this story on our drive down to the fish-in in Venice.

Still a great story today.


Ed Mercado
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There’s those kinds of days you can’t find a fish for friends to catch & then there’s those kinds of days when there’s so many fish to catch your friends think that they should have quit casting & catching hours ago, long before the sunburn got too red & the water supplies started to dwindle…ex-cept it’s nirvana ! Great story FD !

Thanks guys, that was a fun trip. Mohawk, I didn’t realize you were so close. We need to get together and do a little fishing with the three east coast guys, Ed, you and me. Would be fun!

You got it Gary. Just tell me when and I’m in.


Ed Mercado
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Sounds good to me,Gary, although you guys are probably out of my league. I’ll let you know when we get off this overtime.


GOD BLESS AMERICA
USMC - VIETNAM VET

Okay, Ed’s in and now Mohawk…
Let us know when the overtime thing stops and we’ll exchange phone nubers and set up a trip. Sound okay guys?

You bet. Now, I know you would never ask Gary, but I’m bringing it up.

What should my “donation” be? I don’t know how much it costs you to make one of these trips happen so I’ll go by what you say.

If you want to answer me off board you know how.

Thanks Gary.


Ed Mercado
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[This message has been edited by FloridaFlyer (edited 20 July 2006).]

Heck, I’ll be going anyway, we’ll figure it out when we get there. I fish with my regular buddies and we just hand the other one a 10 dollar bill. Then we tuck it in our wallet and the next time we fish with someone else, they get their ten bucks back. Always comes out even.

Hey, I can come up $10, can I come? Oh, wait I forgot, I can’t come up with the $1200 to get me and the family to Florida.

Never mind.

swen- the other day angler

Ed,

I bet if you leave it up to Dude he’d probably wind up paying you. I suggest that you send me the money and I’ll hold it for him.

On another note, I am hoping to get my derriere down again around October and maybe we can redo our last outing, only this time with more that 1 fish among us.

Dude and Ed, remember that September is still warm around here and the Stripers are in a constant feeding frenzy then. Which one (or both) of you are planning to come up and see what Striper fishing is about?

jed

If had the time and money for that type of trip I would definitely take you up on it Jed.

Unfortunately there are too many things that require my attention before I can splurge on a fishing trip out of state.

Hope to see you again in October.

Ed