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getting access to big fish too for the more experienced, depending of course on the areas of reef the
skipper chooses to fish.
We had literally dozens of species of smaller end hard fighting fish. But we also had some very good
bonito, hammerhead sharks, and reasonable sized barracuda. Good sized red snappers too, which was
the fish everyone on-board seemed to want.
Most of what I caught stayed on-board. But I was persuaded to take a couple of hogfish and have them
cooked at a restaurant, and they were beautiful.
I was also tempted to try one of the longer range seventy two hour head boat trips they do there for the
really heavy weight stuff way off around the Dry Tortugas, but had to back off that one due to the other
fishing commitments I'd already made.
FLORIDA - KISSIMMEE
One point worth mentioning here is the way many residential areas in Florida, and possibly other parts
of the country too, deal with their surface water run-off. The fact that this example was at Kissimmee
is irrelevant really. I've seen it at other locations too.
The Americans like to collect their surface water in ponds of varying sizes with high level overflows
going to who knows where.
The last pond I fished was surrounded by large houses available for holiday let. You just opened the
door on the mesh cage covering the swimming pool and walked across to it where other people were
fishing already.
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