Port Carla

[Terry England]

Originally Posted by CaptLloyd

Terry, It's funny, talking to you in person, I understand everything you say

Lloyd

I'll take that as a complement.

But I got to lay this down so you'd better pick it up - if you git my drift, me Amigos e Amigas -
1) We better put Kmoose in charge of the weather next time. If he was at the Craps Table, I'd have my chips right behind his.
2) It was worth the whole dang trip just to sign Carl's Birthday card. I told Sandy I think God sent him here to design boats for his "children" that were his most careless navigators and wayward mariners. We'd all be in Davie Jones Locker by now if Carl's boats hadn't brought us home every time.
3) Conner once told me he thought "Good boats attract Good people". After meeting the everyone at Long Point, I concur. Conner has always been real smart 'bout stuff like that. He's a "technical philosopher". He's like Socrates and Michael Angelo all rolled into one.
4) Now the main Brontosaurs Hip "bone of contention" I got to pick is about Kmoose postin' all these glamor shots of fish he horns-waggled after every body left. Sure, you see nice calm blue seas in the background and fish just jump'in in the boat, but I invite you to look a little closer, like some snoopy NSA agent would and see what a professional semi-undercover (I got one leg out) agent like me sees -
a) That poor grouper would have been parked in a Handy Cap spot, if he had a drivers license. Some dang Jewfish (Giant Sea Bass / Goliath Grouper) or Nurse Shark had about chewed his tail off while he was hunkered down in a cave under a ledge or under a plate on a wreck all night. I've seen a few like that over the years. You just kick their crutches out from under 'em and shoot them while their crawlin' away. Ain't too hard.
b) Then he catches a Dolphin what has Hyper Tension and is on blood thinners because his doctor told him he had to go to Walgreens and buy every month, no matter how much they cost. I know this because that is about how much I bleed when I have a hang nail - well maybe a little more. The poor thing had one pectoral fin in the grave anyway. I don't see no pictures of Mel down on her hands and knees scrubbin' the blood off floor like Snow White though.
The only thing I can say about this whole Kmoose "after the gathering report" is that if Ken needs someone to repack his wheel bearings, detail the boat, load his tanks and gear, pull the anchor all day and then clean the fish while he drinks Mojitos when we get in, I'm his swabbie.
So Lloyd, I hope this dissertation puts the Ying and Yang of the Universe back in the right order. I don't want to leave things out of balance - but sometimes you just don't have enough "tab" to straighten stuff out.

[DonV]

Damn! It would have taken me a month to come up with all that Terry and two weeks to type it!!!! I'm impressed! But ya gotta admit that Moose can catch feeesh!!

[kmoose]

Originally Posted by Terry England

I don't see no pictures of Mel down on her hands and knees scrubbin' the blood off floor like Snow White though.

You don't think that deck scrubbed itself do you???? Mel already got an auto pilot for her birthday this year. If she wants a wash down pump for Christmas she will just have to maintain her "good girl" status by keeping that brush and bucket working....

I sure wished we could have made it back before everyone trailered up but I'm glad we left the boat at the hotel. We almost bagged the whole thing having to run back home but Mel really wanted to fight a dolphin so we left everything there and kept our fingers crossed. All in all we had a very good time together with just the two of us and caught allot of fish. Here is a pic of Mel fighting her first Mahi. Check out that high tech redneck fighting chair.

And don't worry Terry, we have enough locals between Gainesville and Tampa Bay to have a mini gathering as soon as gags open up. I have a secret ledge full of physically challenged fish for you to kick the crutch out from under.

[Islandtrader]

"And don't worry Terry, we have enough locals between Gainesville and Tampa Bay to have a mini gathering as soon as gags open up. I have a secret ledge full of physically challenged fish for you to kick the crutch out from under."

IslandTrader (Terry 1) here, I certainly be open to do something like that...Let me know when you are going out!

[kmoose]

No problem Terry. You are on the list! Maybe we should narrow this down to a small scale weekend tourney event. Fish on Saturday and weigh in Sunday with gathering in between. Either way it time to blood up our sleads considering red snapper season is right around the corner as well as gags.

[Terry England]

Originally Posted by Islandtrader

"And don't worry Terry, I have a secret ledge full of physically challenged fish for you to kick the crutch out from under."
- Ken, You don't need to take me to your "Grouper ALF" spot, I ain't that decrepit. I don't want to stalk "groupers wearing depends, drooling on their walkers". I got arthritis in some of my fingers and a screwed up rotator cuff, but I shoot trap all winter so I can nail those 2# mangos "on the fly". Of course if you had a spot called the "Grouper Villages" it would be "game on"! It would be more like "groupers in Golf carts". I love "hunting on life support - 0 by-catch!"

IslandTrader (Terry 1) here, I would certainly be open to do something like that...Let me know when you are going out!

- T-1, don't be crowding in on on T-3's (me) area codes of 941, 727 and 352 without authorization from Snookerd. Ken is talking about a non-sanctioned, un-authorized, gathering here and it will probably be in the 352 area code since Ken (No Bones - 442) and Patty, Eric (Natural High) and Cindy are already thinking about making a couple of Scallop runs to Crystal River or Homosassa after July 1st. Dave (Blue Heron) ain't too far away and Don (Don V) is just itching to get back up there to Bayport, where you troll up 15# groupers in 25' of water. Plus they got the "Freezer" and "Neon Leon's" right there in Homosassa and "Peck's" in Ozello!

Remember T-1, the Intracoastal Waterway only runs to Anclote Key and you never want to take a 50 year old boat like your's out of the Intracoastal. I gets choppy out in the Gulf sometimes with afternoon thunderstorms and a boat that old probably has "fiberglass fatigue" anyway. It's liable to break in half. You'd probably get salt spray on the windshield and fish blood all over your teak before 9:00 AM. Plus it has one of those antique propulsion systems that uses an old cast iron Chevrolet (what got some of my stimulus money) car engine with two 90 degree turns on the drive shaft - that will never work! T-1, just be warned.

[Islandtrader]

WOW...

"Remember T-1, the Intracoastal Waterway only runs to Anclote Key and you never want to take a 50 year old boat like your's out of the Intracoastal. I gets choppy out in the Gulf sometimes with afternoon thunderstorms and a boat that old probably has "fiberglass fatigue" anyway. It's liable to break in half. You'd probably get salt spray on the windshield and fish blood all over your teak before 9:00 AM. Plus it has one of those antique propulsion systems that uses an old cast iron Chevrolet (what got some of my stimulus money) car engine with two 90 degree turns on the drive shaft - that will never work! T-1, just be warned."
__________________

I guess I never realized that...now you got me worried...I think I will have to put the boat up for sale...

Anybody out there want a 50 year old boat cheap...I guess its not worth much.

Send me your best offer, and if its not good enough I will just take it off shore and pull the plug....

[gofastsandman]

Originally Posted by Blue_Heron

It was nice to see the regulars, and nice to meet those we hadn't met before; CaptLloyd, Flexpat, Doodlebug, Denny's friend Terry, and Terry England. The weather was but a distraction.

Terry, you're not nearly as weird in person as your posts imply. Alas we cannot say the same of the quicksand man, he of the rabbit hole, the hatter of madness, our very own beamish boy. I shall have to read Brautigan for insight.

I wish we hadn't missed the brief Moose sighting. We enjoyed the company of Mr.and Mrs. Moose at the Fall gathering.

The nonsensical poet Ogden Nash was also a friend and neighbor. I asked him what he thought of the aisles of critiques of his work. My English teacher did not like our conversations. He didn`t teach Nash the following year. His wife did and she was my English
teacher that year. She also liked C.S.Lewis. Thanks Weezie.

Vonnegutt was also on my paper route. Great sense of humor in his thoughts. His wife Jane, not so much. Welcome To The Monkey House was written about Barnstable, Ma. Pretty funny reading about people you knew growing up. Kurt had the most wonderful glint in his eye.

Cheers,
The Kool Aid Wino.

[Terry England]

Originally Posted by Islandtrader

................... I will just take it off shore and pull the plug....

T-1,
Don't scuttle her now man, she just got a brand new 69 MPH rated parasol on her lift!
Cheer up - Stone Crab Season starts October 15. We can bolt a hauler and arm on her this summer. I know where there's one that's slingin a little oil out of the seal, but you can usually get it fired up in 15 or 20 minutes of yank'in on it - if ya' got ether. Let me see if I can find those galvanized bolts I pulled off of that old dock that got crunched up real bad in Charlie. Where's my white boots?
T-3

[NoBones]

Screw the Ovaltine decoder ring.........

Beam me up Scotty!

THT here I come........ Ohhhh Noooooo....


Duck Dynasty is making sense now..