2019 11/7-11/10 Cayo Costa SW FLA Gathering

[Terry England]

Originally Posted by cdavisdb

What time Friday?

Friday Kmoose and Co. will be “bringing home the bacon”. 4:00 PM Friday - Casey’s at Cabbage Key bar - Fish stories and/or Boat stories. Saturday 10:00 AM, Inshore Tactics with Captain Ray Markham -meet and greet at Casa de la Costa (1 mile north of Captiva Pass. (See my personal page for waypoints, etc.) 4:00 fish fry - with DonV “on the basket fryer”.

[Vezo, Part II]

Lucie and I would like to attend. The ‘79 MA is not showroom but water ready. Some suggested I bring the for sale ‘77 Seafari. Not so interested unless specific parties. I would like to fish and relax. Waiting on a response from GFS for sleeping arrangements.

Vezo

[uncleboo]

Originally Posted by Vezo, Part II

...Waiting on a response from GFS for sleeping arrangements.

Vezo

Boy, are you brave!

[Snookerd]

Originally Posted by Vezo, Part II

The ‘79 MA is not showroom but water ready. Vezo

Forget showroom quality, my 23 is in need of a bunch of work, but she still will be gathering worthy/Bahamas bound anytime.

Originally Posted by rcnight

Fish fry and MOAG - v2 planning Saturday nite at T-3’s?

I'm in!

[kmoose]

Originally Posted by Terry England

Friday Kmoose and Co. will be “bringing home the bacon”. 4:00 PM Friday - Casey’s at Cabbage Key bar - Fish stories and/or Boat stories. Saturday 10:00 AM, Inshore Tactics with Captain Ray Markham -meet and greet at Casa de la Costa (1 mile north of Captiva Pass. (See my personal page for waypoints, etc.) 4:00 fish fry - with DonV “on the basket fryer”.

I'm hoping we will be able to bring the "bacon" but it is late in the year so it all comes down to weather. We may want to look into contingency plans for seafood if necessary like shrimp and or a box of snow crab to steam wouldn't be a bad substitute. Knowing where to get it down there would be a good thing to know before hand. That said, if we make a contingency plan for failure we should likely overcome it and beat them up good Friday.

[Terry England]

Originally Posted by kmoose

I'm hoping we will be able to bring the "bacon" but it is late in the year so it all comes down to weather. We may want to look into contingency plans for seafood if necessary like shrimp and or a box of snow crab to steam wouldn't be a bad substitute. Knowing where to get it down there would be a good thing to know before hand. That said, if we make a contingency plan for failure we should likely overcome it and beat them up good Friday.

Ken, 1) Sandy is bringing a smoked brisket, 2) shrimp and stone crabs readily available in Matalacha on SR 78. 3) Mullet is usually available at Jug Creek (Bokeelia) and 4) There’s a Publix just south of the 4 way stop on Pine island.

[DonV]

Maybe Spidey can join them!! What a threesome.....

[gofastsandman]

Originally Posted by DonV

Maybe Spidey can join them!! What a threesome.....

Yikes.

Light spin?

[gofastsandman]

Local stone crabs...yum a yum yum. So sweet and delicious.

[kmoose]

Well, I have been monitoring the red tide bloom and decided to pull the plug on our reservations. The fwc map this morning had made a huge jump to red and I decided to call our AirB&B host who lives on the water and she confirmed it is as bad or worst as last time.

The other major concern was that the samples offshore were just as bad as inshore so there was going to be no escape for us. That and Mel is an asthmatic and my granddaughter was coming so it just isn’t worth the risk. Hope to catch you guys next time.