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ABOUT THE CAPTAIN
I grew up on the coast of Mississippi, living one block from the Gulf of
Mexico, until I graduated from high school in 1962. My early years were spent
swimming, sailing, water skiing and fishing. With my Dad, I spent
countless days fishing for both fresh and saltwater species in the Gulf and in
the lakes, ponds, rivers and bayous in the local area. Saltwater fishing was
mostly for speckled trout and Spanish mackerel. Some of my most memorable
experiences were multi-day trips to the Chandeleur Islands, trolling for
mackerel along the way and then drifting the grass flats for trout. I was a
capable fly caster by the age of twelve and, at the age of fifteen, won several
trophies and an outboard motor in the annual Mississippi Deep Sea Fishing
Rodeo. After graduation from the University of Georgia in 1968, I relocated
to Tallahassee, in part due to the availability of fishing in the area. My
early coastal fishing was done in the areas of St. Marks/Live Oak Island, Mexico
Beach/Port St. Joe and in and around St. George Island. For several years
beginning in the mid-seventies, I turned my attention to competitive bass
fishing. By the early eighties, it was back to the saltwater environment, and
for nearly fifteen years I concentrated on offshore fishing and spearfishing
out of Carrabelle, FL. As king mackerel stocks began to increase, my interests
gradually shifted to light tackle fishing for king & Spanish mackerel. Over the
years I have won or been “in the money” in the king & Spanish divisions of
several local tournaments. For several years I held the Big Bend OAR tournament
record for largest Spanish mackerel. I won the king mackerel division of the
Marzuq Shrine tournament in three separate years and won both king & Spanish
mackerel divisions in one of those years. During this same period I began doing an extensive amount of inshore fishing for speckled trout,
redfish & pompano, and in 1999 began fishing almost exclusively out of Lanark
Village. In the early spring of 2000, I sold both my flats boat and my offshore boat (23’ Mako) and purchased the 21’ Sea Pro bay boat
I currently own. The Sea Pro’s bay boat design allows me the versatility of going offshore
in pursuit of kingfish & grouper several times a year yet is still the ideal
boat for fishing the bay and on the grass flats, which is where I now do the
majority of my fishing.
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