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NJ Saltwater Fishing Reports and Information => Traveling Angler- Out of State Reports => Topic started by: harbison on July 10, 2021, 04:03:54 PM
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Showcasing Our Florida
As a Florida native who has been fishing and hunting in the Sunshine State for seventy years I have built memories to last until the end of time. Sharing these memories is payback for living a life time in Paradise.
Please join me in...
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Let's take a look at Florida fishing from fresh water to deep sea:
No place better 'showcases' the real Florida better than Perry Florida's Woods'nWater Magazine.
Like to fish lakes & rivers?
Check out these ear-to-ear smiles as seen in the July issue of W'nW Magazine:
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Like to fish near shore?
Let's take a look at the BIG three:
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Like to catch BIG, really BIG fish?
Florida deep sea is the place to be:
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The prized Scamp Group:
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Even the Mangrove Snapper are a 'little bigger' out here:
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Like to catch Mutton Snapper? Take a look at this beauty:
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Huge Mangrove and Mutton Snapper... And that's just the beginning. One of the most sought after fish in the entire universe, the American Red Snapper:
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What do we do with all that fish?
Baked Florida in-the-water yesterday, in the oven today fish is hard to beat. Topped with the Sunshine State's Blue Crabs and we have much more than a meal; we have 'memories to last until the end of time.'
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Absolutely fantastic fishing is not all our Paradise on Earth has to offer:
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Let's take a look at Florida wild boar hunting.
Cedar Key's Tiger Island Outfitters 'showcases' a Florida long gone. Before closing in on Cedar Key it's Otter Creek. Like most of Florida Otter Creek is in the process of witnessing a huge population explosion. In 2010 Otter Creek had 134 resident; in 2020 the population exploded to 140. 140 'crackers', a small post office & Hershel's family owned 'quick-stop' is Otter Creek.
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On our way to Tiger Island my daughter, Dee, and I decided to have lunch at Hershel's.
This is different, really different:
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Next up...
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Now this is sharing:
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What do we do with all that nothing artificial in the field
yesterday, on the grill today Florida wild boar?
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We have a feast you will not believe. I know first-hand, 'how good it is;' I took the pictures &... Well let's just say I was too busy stuffing myself to talk about it.
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'Sharing these memories is payback for living a life time in Paradise.'
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credits:
Getty Images
Captain Dylan Hubbard
Wikipedia