Thursday, May 6, 2010

Destination: South

Last month, we headed down to Florida. It was our first stay in Destin, Florida, which is about forty miles south of Pensecola. Destin is a resort town, known for good fishing.

My wife LYnn and I are on a quest to catch a fish in every stte. We had already caught fish in Florida, but we decided to use Destin as our home base, and then fish in Alambama, Mississippi and Lousiana. While we were in Destin, we met a mutual friend of Russ Chatham, and he invided us out on his boat for Cobia.

We had a great time out with flat, calm seas off the shores of Destin. We hooked and landed 9 out of 10 cobia. The largest was almost fifty five pounds.
Carlo and a 54 Pound Cobia

The next day, we headed to Alabama, in a locationi called Josephine. We caught sea trout, croakers, pinfish and saltwater catfish. (Sorry - no photos)

The following day, we went back to Florida, to the Apalachacola National Forest to engage in some field herping (ed. note - for those of you who only chase fish, we're talking herpetology - with an emphasis on snakes.) - looking for Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnakes.

(ed. note - ok - this is where I get to say "Folks, don't try this at home! Carlo has chased snakes for most of his life, and knows what he's doing.")

We did find a beautiful cornsnake and a great looking Florida Cottonmouth. However, the Diamondback eluded us. But, I will be back for my Diamondback!
Cornsnake

Florida Cottonmouth

Later in the week, we headed for New Orleans, Louisiana to fish for Redfish. A strong storm blew us off the water, although we did manage to land a few redfish and a nice black drum. Sadly, this whole area is affected by the huge offshore oil spill. Our plan was to fish Mississippi on the last day, but he storm created very dangerous tornadoes and we ended up driving back to Florida.

Nonetheless - a great trip with 7 different species of fish caught, and two more states knocked off the list!

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