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    Islamorada Florida

    in Salt Water and Over Seas

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    Jwheeler,

    Cool report! I make it down there a couple times a year. Heading back in a few weeks for some Dolphin, grouper & swordfish. Love me some Lazy Dayz!

    We will be returning to Islamorada another time, we really enjoyed our time there. Wahoos shrimp po boy was pretty darn good.mmhog Heaven was interesting and Lorelei's had a great sunset and cheap drinks. Took a snorkeling tour also, saw a lot of sea life, including a lot of barracuda on one of the reefs. :thumb:

    Islamorada Florida

    in Salt Water and Over Seas

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    Wow...what a fantastic little holiday with my wife. Enjoying fantastic weather, delicious food, and fun activities for the few days we're down here on holiday. We decided to book a headboat/partyboat fishing trip for Friday. It was us and 12 other on the boat, which I'm thinking is light on the numbers for what the captain wants, but to our advantage with a low total number of people. Not sure exactly what we caught, but, we caught a bunch of fish in the 3 different spots that we anchored at.

    We booked out of a spot called Robbie's. This little village was interesting to say the least. Fishing was decent for my wife and I. The real treat for us wasn't in the catch, but after fishing we were in need of lunch. Mate on the boat suggested a place to go to cook our catch, and he suggested his favorite way they prepare it. So we tried his suggestion, and it was fantastic!!!!!

    There were a good number of Tarpon around the docks before launching

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    Here is our catch

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    Oh and this was the delicious "appetizer" of the fish we caught prepared at LazyDayz Restaurant......IT WAS SOOOOO GOOD!

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    They claim that this area is the fishing capital of the world, and from what I can see they claim that for good reason. Boats everywhere. :thumb: I believe we will be looking to book another trip to this area in the future.

    What a relief

    in General Discussion

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    For the last few seasons a section of my floor toward the dog house continued to become "springy". Well, I didn't know what in the heck to expect, but knew it MUST be replaced. So I opened up the can o' worms and found some good and a little bad. The good, my stringers and everything else below the floor are in great condition. The bad, I tore up a 3x6 section of floor and replaced it. What i noticed upon my initial inspection was a rotten support under the floor which is over the gas tank. So I cut it out and inspected everything. There was one support ( a 2x4 from front to back, running parallel with the stringers, roughly 6' long that just wasn't stout enough for the work load. So, I made a few modifications to beef up the floor, and it turned out great. I put a small sub frame to beef up the support for the floor between the stringers. Everything fits pretty good with minor gaps. Where my access panel is for the fuel pump I used some butyl caulk(it's like a rubber) in an effort to divert water elsewhere. This is where the problem actually stemmed from. The water was seeping into that panel and down that support, which was only getting more rotten with time. So the new plywood is in. I've sealed it, and have used that rubber caulk in the seams to make it water tight. Hoping this little fix will give me several more years out of this old fishin tub.

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