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Once again, Florida makes the news.

#9
ArmyJerry said:
Filthy goddam commie fucktard Yankees cause this stuff. Fla gotta get a handle on the illegals from the north,,,,the white walkers gotta go.
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Lolol! I had to laugh at this awesome troll for Florida from a non-Floridian. Kudos AJ!

Btw, I am 1st gen northern born Florida alien, so both understand and almost am what you paint, with the exception of the “commie fucktard” part.
 
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"Vibrio bacteria also cause an estimated 80,000 infections and 100 deaths each year in the United States, according to the CDC. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood or exposing a wound to seawater or brackish water is the cause of these infections, though not all would lead to necrotizing fasciitis."

Fuck me, talk about your basic panic piece.
Undercooked seafood? Shit.
You can't hardly find anyone who isn't scared to eat a fish THEY, catch themselves.

Living is dangerous. Beats hell out of safe misery.
 
#12
Just in the final stages of some sort of "rash" I picked up down there when on vacation(Keys, Miami, Naples) .

Three of us picked it up. Like red petechiae on arms and legs.

Certainly not flesh eating.

I was thinking a reaction to all the zinc and titanium we were applying, too much sun too fast for our Northern hides or possibly the water at our Keys resort.

They had their swim lagoon walled off with a curtain to keep seagrass out. Thinking maybe the iquanas shit in there also and maybe we had a reaction to iquana quano.

The tropics - Itll kill ya
 
#13
Snipe260 said:
Mike, is it the red tide that causes this?
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Not that I'm aware of.
The first story mentions it happened at Weedon Island just west of Tampa.
This area has been hit with pollutants from a shit processing plant in the past. The basins have overflowed due to heavy rains and the shit dumps into upper Tampa bay.
Could be related.

However,
I fish salt and some brackish water. Whenever I get stuck with a hook or a fish cuts me, I've always just washed up in the water the boat is sitting in. I've been doing it that way since I was a little kid.
Rebecca always wants me to put some chemical on it to clean the wound. I just do the "Arnold" thing and let it bleed.

There's bacteria everywhere and I've gotten my share of it on me.
Maybe I've developed an immunity to some strains. :)
 
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pmclaine said:
Just in the final stages of some sort of "rash" I picked up down there when on vacation(Keys, Miami, Naples) .

Three of us picked it up. Like red petechiae on arms and legs.

Certainly not flesh eating.

I was thinking a reaction to all the zinc and titanium we were applying, too much sun too fast for our Northern hides or possibly the water at our Keys resort.

They had their swim lagoon walled off with a curtain to keep seagrass out. Thinking maybe the iquanas shit in there also and maybe we had a reaction to iquana quano.

The tropics - Itll kill ya
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Did you have any respiratory distress while there?
Red tide (Karenia Brevis) can cause skin rash and respiratory issues.
Most people don't get the rash, but those that do say it's painful.
 
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Our bodies are incredibly resilient to attack, unbelievably so, amazingly so.

Usually some sort of underlying health issue that has weakened us is the reason we succumb to invaders.

but.......

Im not sure kids and newer generations have that same defense system.

Its the rare person I talk to that doesnt seem to have some immunity issue with their children.

Either pathogens have evolved, or as I suspect, something in our environment has weakened us.

I acknowledge some to be the overuse of antibacterials/penicillins and I think the rest of it is what we add to food making it not food.
 
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Mike Casselton said:
Did you have any respiratory distress while there?
Red tide (Karenia Brevis) can cause skin rash and respiratory issues.
Most people don't get the rash, but those that do say it's painful.
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Nah no respiratory issues.

I just got a plethora of itchy tiny red spots, especially on forearms and back of calfs. Wife had similar. Son got a rash on his chest that he fixated on and scratched into a still healing mess. Daughter made no complaints.

We were heavy on the sunscreens and though I never felt like I burned I did peel some. Never had a sunburn that looked like spots though.

That aside it was a great time down there.
 
#17
Hard to think there is much red tide left the Snook bite is on fire here in the bay. More bait than I've seen in years a guy on vacation from Minnetonka can go buy a cast net and fish all day off the beach. I believe if this was anything widespread it would be news by now one of the biggest triathlons in North America was last weekend in St. Pete...over 4k people in the water. Although I do keep my eyes on the tracking for the couple of Great White's we have patrolling the Gulf waters for our open water swims in Fort Desoto....keeps ya frosty! Miss Costa, Yeti and Hilton are some big ol sea beasties.
 
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Mike Casselton said:
Not that I'm aware of.
The first story mentions it happened at Weedon Island just west of Tampa.
This area has been hit with pollutants from a shit processing plant in the past. The basins have overflowed due to heavy rains and the shit dumps into upper Tampa bay.
Could be related.

However,
I fish salt and some brackish water. Whenever I get stuck with a hook or a fish cuts me, I've always just washed up in the water the boat is sitting in. I've been doing it that way since I was a little kid.
Rebecca always wants me to put some chemical on it to clean the wound. I just do the "Arnold" thing and let it bleed.

There's bacteria everywhere and I've gotten my share of it on me.
Maybe I've developed an immunity to some strains. :)
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Bingo.

Where is our vaccination gurus?

Can't build immunity if we live in a bubble.
 
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8pointer said:
Hard to think there is much red tide left the Snook bite is on fire here in the bay. More bait than I've seen in years a guy on vacation from Minnetonka can go buy a cast net and fish all day off the beach. I believe if this was anything widespread it would be news by now one of the biggest triathlons in North America was last weekend in St. Pete...over 4k people in the water. Although I do keep my eyes on the tracking for the couple of Great White's we have patrolling the Gulf waters for our open water swims in Fort Desoto....keeps ya frosty! Miss Costa, Yeti and Hilton are some big ol sea beasties.
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The snook bite has been so good.
Multiple 100-150 fish days and you don't have to hunt for them.
Chum the waters with greenies or even those damn net clogging sardines and wham!! You have a fish on.
The tarpon bite at the Skyway was awesome last month.
A fuggin guy we took out lost a 150lb fish because he kept pointing the rod straight at the fish. Pulled the hook straight.
We said fuck it and headed to Cockroach Bay to drown our sorrows on snook.

Both thumbs looked like this.

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8pointer said:
Hard to think there is much red tide left the Snook bite is on fire here in the bay. More bait than I've seen in years a guy on vacation from Minnetonka can go buy a cast net and fish all day off the beach. I believe if this was anything widespread it would be news by now one of the biggest triathlons in North America was last weekend in St. Pete...over 4k people in the water. Although I do keep my eyes on the tracking for the couple of Great White's we have patrolling the Gulf waters for our open water swims in Fort Desoto....keeps ya frosty! Miss Costa, Yeti and Hilton are some big ol sea beasties.
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How long have the great whites been there?
 
#23
Mike Casselton said:
The snook bite has been so good.
Multiple 100-150 fish days and you don't have to hunt for them.
Chum the waters with greenies or even those damn net clogging sardines and wham!! You have a fish on.
The tarpon bite at the Skyway was awesome last month.
A fuggin guy we took out lost a 150lb fish because he kept pointing the rod straight at the fish. Pulled the hook straight.
We said fuck it and headed to Cockroach Bay to drown our sorrows on snook.

Both thumbs looked like this.

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Snook thumb. I'm sure your thumbnail is all filed down too....that's a sign of a great day.
 
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Snipe260 said:
How long have the great whites been there?
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We are expecting problems on Cape Cod this summer.

I go down there every August. My mindset in the water has been altered.

Thinking pretty soon swimming on the National seashore will be contained to those areas walled with net.

That or we start feeding the homeless gray seals.
 
#26
Mike Casselton said:
I was planning on fishing this weekend.
I think that's off my list of things to do right now.
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Mike guess you wont have to worry about eating much fish since FWC just shut down the season from Snook, Redfish, and Sea Trout effective 11 May until further notice. Catch and Release only. I'll be hitting the Bay in my kayak this weekend if the weather holds.
 
#27
504ranger said:
Mike guess you wont have to worry about eating much fish since FWC just shut down the season from Snook, Redfish, and Sea Trout effective 11 May until further notice. Catch and Release only. I'll be hitting the Bay in my kayak this weekend if the weather holds.
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I saw that on ch-13 news the other day.
The trout bite has been okay, and it does appear the numbers are way down. Reds, as usual, they are so darn spooky.
Played a round of golf with Sheriff Rick Wells and his brother Logan. (The tournament raises funds for the Sheriff's youth ranch)

As usual with us the talk turned to fishing.
Logan has been killing it with the snook in Manatee county too.
We both think the closures will just make the fishing better over the next few years.

For eating fish, I'll just turn towards triple tail, snappers and some cooperative cobia.
If we end up outside the bay, we'll get some grouper and amberjack.

What area do you normally fish?
 
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Mike Casselton said:
Did you have any respiratory distress while there?
Red tide (Karenia Brevis) can cause skin rash and respiratory issues.
Most people don't get the rash, but those that do say it's painful.
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Last fall my brother in law (lives in Naples) was working for a number of days on the beach (East Side somewhere) and got hit with the Red
Tide real bad. First it hit his lungs, then he started getting rashes too. That took him down for quite a few weeks. But at the same time, he had to keep working, cause it was his company. Even last week, he still isn't completely over it yet.

Careful out there.
 
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Went out a couple of weeks ago off jax beach chasing manta rays for cobia, probably saw 100 or so. Only a couple holding fish. Damn looked like a parking lot off the beach on a monday none the less. For you folks that havent seen manta rays they are huge. No red tide up here but there have been reports over the past couple of years of the bacteria, some from fresh water and some from salt water. Drink beer or liquor till it oozes out of your pores and the bacteria cant survive i think i am good to go
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John,
We've found over here in the bay, a lot of cobia swim under the manatees. Of course we couldn't see them.

We tried like everyone else to spot and cast with minor success.

When we changed tactics and cast in front of the manatee to get the bait under them, our success ratio went way up.

It's worth a try on the manta rays too.
 
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Thats what we normally do. The surface temps came up really fast up here ans scattered the cobia out quite a bit. Used to watch the rays direction and get ahead of them and get in with a mask and snorkle and spear gun. Shot quite a few that way
 
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Mike Casselton said:
I saw that on ch-13 news the other day.
The trout bite has been okay, and it does appear the numbers are way down. Reds, as usual, they are so darn spooky.
Played a round of golf with Sheriff Rick Wells and his brother Logan. (The tournament raises funds for the Sheriff's youth ranch)

As usual with us the talk turned to fishing.
Logan has been killing it with the snook in Manatee county too.
We both think the closures will just make the fishing better over the next few years.

For eating fish, I'll just turn towards triple tail, snappers and some cooperative cobia.
If we end up outside the bay, we'll get some grouper and amberjack.

What area do you normally fish?
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Very cool Mike.

I live over in Lithia and generally put in (kayak) at Bullfrog Creek or Cockroach Bay however I hit the Courtney Campbell and Picnic Island from time to time. Sounds like you have a much better setup! This is all fairly new to me however in the past 2 years I've lived here I've learned quite a bit.
 
#33
504ranger said:
Very cool Mike.

I live over in Lithia and generally put in (kayak) at Bullfrog Creek or Cockroach Bay however I hit the Courtney Campbell and Picnic Island from time to time. Sounds like you have a much better setup! This is all fairly new to me however in the past 2 years I've lived here I've learned quite a bit.
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Are you in Fishawk?

I use Bullfrog a lot too. The creek is sometimes a bit dirty at the ramp, but it's a short ride to some decent fishing.
Cockroach is awesome, but pretty crowded.
I need to spend more time in upper bay areas, but rarely do.
I grew up on Rocky Creek.
 
#38
Following an education from army jerry.
All of you all please heed all of these warnings , call your parents , your brothers( not your sisters) and tell them them all to move back home to the wonderful world of snow , sub zero temps, and democrats. New york is a beautiful city. We got this down here and dont need any of the fucked up help.
 
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