I am gazing out the window at the Gulf of Mexico as I type this... we are at Perdido Key. It is NICE. The weather is cool today but not too windy, 69 degrees but into the 70s for the rest of the week. I have three metal detectors and three rod&reels with me. Fixin' to go to the Publix and get a bag of bag of frozen Lg shrimp and some bait shrimp too. The pompano are beginning to run. They come up the coast from down Texas way and they are close in (in the surf between the beach and sandbar) when they make the run... some are big.
A guy yesterday caught the biggest whiting I have ever seen, it was about 17" long. There are groups of HUGE stingrays swimming up and down, right in the edge of the surf. They are really dark colored and have a wingspan of about 4'. I thought they were a school of sharks when I first saw them with the tips of their wings sticking up out of the water. I've never seen stingrays this big. I thought they were young mantas but the guy at the tackle shop said that they are stingrays, he said they were bigger than he has ever seen too. So... no guitars this week. Going in the water looking for a double eagle and a pompano or three. There have been lots of double eagles found on Perdido. There are ruins of old CW era (and earlier) forts on both ends of the island. It is a cool place and the first time I have been here.
 
BTW, does anyone know how to handle a stingray in case I catch one? I suppose putting something over the tail would priority one, or flipping it onto it's back but I don't know. One fisherman said he hooked one but it bit the hook in two...
 
Hello from paradise...
 
J

I hope you have fun!

When I first read the title I thought "Hmm... What scale is the Perdido Key in?"

If I were in Mexico I'd be gazing out the window too. Doors bolted and me guns loaded.
Making plans on how to get even with whoever knocked me out and dropped me off there.

I've been there once and I'll never go back.

Mexico, stingrays and paradise...I'll take a 12" kiddy pool in the backyard with a bag of greasy fries first. No ****.

I'd say have a great time but from my experiences....get home safe is fitting.

craigb


When I first read the title I thought "Hmm... What scale is the Perdido Key in?"

I sing in that key. Ask Mooch. See?

You got a beach???

When I press the perdido key all I get is a blank screen.

It isn't in Mexico, the Gulf of Mexico is... well, nevermind. Perdido Key is a barrier island between Pensacola and Mobile.

It is nice. I am tired today, stayed up too late for no good reason.

J

Some of the nicest safe beaches on the planet. :-)

Except for the stingrays and the bull sharks.


I never caught a Stingray but I know a few guys who were caught by Stingrays.

It appears to be about the most painful thing you can survive. It's like 10x worse than a brown recluse spider bite.



BTW, with regards to unhooking a Stingray... let the tragedy of Steve Irwin's untimely death serve as a reminder that cutting the line and walking away is the only practical option.


best regards,
mike

jbow


It isn't in Mexico, the Gulf of Mexico is... well, nevermind. Perdido Key is a barrier island between Pensacola and Mobile.

It is nice. I am tired today, stayed up too late for no good reason.

J

 
Nevermind ? I know where the gulf  is and have tramped all around it. You didin't
give the location of Perdido Key and I made light of it.
 
Tramped around that area too...$350.00 a night flea bitten room in Pensacola and the
only thing I cared for was an aquarium they had made with a windshield from a fighter jet.
Don't like the ocean. Don't like the way they screw people out of money to just be around
the beaches.
 
I know, I should have just said, "that's great! Have a wonderful vacation J".
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

I hope you have fun!

 
Thanks Mike,
 
J