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Great story!! Your son will be telling his grand kids this story and telling them how nuts there great granddad is

I'm thinking maybe some sort of floating cooler might be a good idea!

Great Story...and I can relate.

very cool story.

Attaboy! RA

Been there, done that.....a few times. At least you didn't have to deal with the gator down there too

What an awesome read. Great story, there are a lot of big bulls in alligator harbor. Just look under the cleaning station at the marine with a nighttime hi tide. I'm amazed here hasn't been an attack on a person with all of the tubing, swimming and wadefishing that goes on there.

I'll second that. We used to spend a lot of time at the Condo's at the AP Marina back when I chased Tarpon all the time. I walked out to the seawall close to the cleaning station one night and was shocked at the sight of 3 LARGE bull sharks fighting over the grouper remains.

It made me pretty skittish about wading around in the low viz AP water from then on.

Salty Gator wrote:What an awesome read. Great story, there are a lot of big bulls in alligator harbor. Just look under the cleaning station at the marine with a nighttime hi tide. I'm amazed here hasn't been an attack on a person with all of the tubing, swimming and wadefishing that goes on there.

I completely agree. Before I owned a boat, I used to drive my truck down to the Marina and paddle out shark bait on my canoe. I'd go out to the channel and drop my bait (grouper carcus). Then go back and sit on the tailgate of my truck with my shark rod. Caught plenty of bulls to 7ft, but lost even more. Been spooled, had hooks bend and plenty of break offs. There are some big boys in there for sure.

Great story Reel Addiction! Not many get to experience that.

Kept stealing reds, so we put down the red fish rig and put a hook in his lip. Chased him around the St marks for a while.