Official Thread 11/7/2014 Cayo Costa

[DonV]

Not an issue Dave!!!! One of us in our, inferior to your Seavette, old clunker SeaCrafts with Terry's navigation prowess will pick you up!! I'm coming down Friday morning to Elrod's in Placida, we can work something out from there.

[Terry England]

Originally Posted by DonV

I'm coming down Friday morning to Elrod's in Placida, we can work something out from there.

Donny, It aint "Elrod's" - it's "Eldred's". The are an old Commercial Fishing family from Placida and they don't cotton to no dag gone Costa del Mar, mauve colored Colombia, Sperry Topsider wear'in pseudo-fisherman. They know real fisherman wear shreadded ball caps, white boots and tee shirts what got some 5200 finger prints and bottom paint splattered on 'em.
So ease in there and sprinkle a dollop of "yes sirs" and "thank you ma'am's" around and you'll get more milage than act'in like you are from New Jersey!
(Just kidd'in Pelican)
You'll do fine - just tell 'em yur from that little fishing village, up the road a bit, that's sam-witched between Cockroach Bay and Bull Frog Creek!
If you need to, follow Conner's lead. He told 'em his mother's maiden name was Eldred and he was their long lost cousin from LA (Lower Alabama). That guy is smooth.

[DonV]

Hey!!!....I knew it started with an "E"!! They are NOT the friendliest folks in the world, however at "$6 per calendar day" you can't beat it to launch/park your boat, truck and trailer. Bad but true story, me and my buddy launched out of there many, many years ago and we were about an hour into fishing and I don't know why but I asked him if he remembered to put the ramp fee receipt on the dash. He said "hell no I did not even pay the fee", long story short I had to loan him $200 to get his truck and trailer back from impound!!! Dumb ass! Eldred's had the thing towed, they do not mess around!!

[kmoose]

Originally Posted by Terry England

Donny, It aint "Elrod's" - it's "Eldred's". The are an old Commercial Fishing family from Placida and they don't cotton to no dag gone Costa del Mar, mauve colored Colombia, Sperry Topsider wear'in pseudo-fisherman. They know real fisherman wear shreadded ball caps, white boots and tee shirts what got some 5200 finger prints and bottom paint splattered on 'em.
So ease in there and sprinkle a dollop of "yes sirs" and "thank you ma'am's" around and you'll get more milage than act'in like you are from New Jersey!
(Just kidd'in Pelican)
You'll do fine - just tell 'em yur from that little fishing village, up the road a bit, that's sam-witched between Cockroach Bay and Bull Frog Creek!
If you need to, follow Conner's lead. He told 'em his mother's maiden name was Eldred and he was their long lost cousin from LA (Lower Alabama). That guy is smooth.

I'm pretty sure when they see the utilitarian gun ship roll in with her 4 coats of roller applied gelcoat we'll be welcomed with open arms.

Is there a fish house around to fill kill boxes with ice? I'm going to need 3-400 lbs of chips to cover me for the week and I really hate to drag that extra weight weight on the trip down.

[Terry England]

Originally Posted by kmoose

Is there a fish house around to fill kill boxes with ice? I'm going to need 3-400 lbs of chips to cover me for the week and I really hate to drag that extra weight weight on the trip down.

Kenny, duck under the bridge to Boca Grande and ease south in the ICW. When you get to the Pass, turn southeast toward the fishing village of Bokeelia and run to about 26-42-13 / 82-08-47 which is near the east end of the structures and the mouth of Shell Cut. Shoot down that channel to about 26-42-09 / 82-08-56 and throttle down. Come around the the Fish house at 26-42-03 / 82-08-57 and ease up under the monorail crane and you can buy ice by the basket. Be careful using it for Mel's cocktails though - instead of an olive it might have a mullet eye ball lookin back at her.

When you get topped off go back out through Shell Cut and head back NW to 26-42-52 / 82-10-57 and pick up the green markers on the ICW "Cut Off" Channel. Point toward 26-42-45 / 82-11-58 which is just east of Mondongo Island. Stay tight to the green marker next to the island or you'll find the bottom. Run down to 26-39-14 / 82-12-44 and tuck around the south end of Useppa Island and you'll punch out in the Cabbage Key anchorage. Idle over to 26-39-22 / 82-13-07 which is the mouth of the channel into Casa Del KMoose, for the weekend. Your place is just north of the covered dock.