Interesting half

[Deep C]

Cleared the inlet and dropped the jigs. Instantlye picked off three runners and I thought it would be good. That was it though. Just three. Several more passes coughed up nothing and was pretty sloppy in there. A school of macks moved in and shaved our jigs off clean in a blink. Clock was ticking.
Then I saw a brown area just rais up. An acre of big jacks. I lopped off one of my live bait hooks and tied on a jig. The first cast was short but here came a lone cobia. It turned off. My angler cast again and one of the twelve cylinder crevalles piled on it. Long stubborn fight and it was released.
Offshore was sporty. Put out all three and fifteen minutes or so later they all strted getting nervous. A single ate the left rigger and it was game on. A bunch of floppin at first then some dogging. Probably about fifteen minutes till we released the frisky rat sail. A dolphin investigated for a minute or two but the bait was too big to tackle.
My passenger wanted to go back and look for the jacks. We did find some small ones but the big pack moved away. Then right at the inlet mouth we saw more fish. This time permit. Alas they wanted nothing to do with the bare jig. Perhaps if I had some shrimp it would have been a different ending, but still interesting.
Half days are just too short to get much done but it was a cool quick run. On the way up the intercoastal I saw a first at least for me in this area. In center channel there was a long green thing ahead. As I got closer I could see it was a full growed iguana. As I pulled up next to it, the thing rolled on its back like it wanted to fight. Broke out my camera and took a couple shots before it righted itself and swam off.
All in all a pretty interesting half day trip.

[Deep C]

Pics now added above...

[Ravens16]

Nice report Deep!
Great pic's, that sail doesn't look that small?
I think the Iguana wanted you rub his belly
My dog rolls over like that when I get home from work

Maybe I should put this on the recipe board??????

IGUANA EN PINOL

1 Iguana - female
3 sour oranges (acid)
1 garlic bulb
4 lg. onions
1 tsp. black pepper (grain)
12 c. water
1 lb. dry corn (powdered)
1 tsp. REO PEPPER
3/4 bottle of pork grease
Salt to taste

The first day:
After the Iguana has been killed, open the stomach and below, take out the eggs and intestines. Clean the eggs very well with the sour oranges. Put the eggs in the arms with the Iguana in all its skin.

Later in the day cook the eggs in salt water for 10 minutes, then let them sit in the water until they are cold. Store them in refrigerator.

Early the following day soak the Iguana in cold water. Skin it and wash it once more. Cut the Iguana into small pieces and cook it with 8 cups of water with salt, garlic, sliced onion, and black pepper. Grind it into a "Soft Mass" and mix it with the gravy.

Cook the corn in water until soft, then brown it (not too darkly) and grind to a lumpy mass. Take 4 cups of this corn, mix with the gravy and Iguana and cook, stirring constantly until it is well cooked.

In 2 1/2 cups of pork grease, fry 3 onions (chopped fine) until clear and light brown.

Set aside a few onions. With the rest, add the powdered pepper, Iguana mixture, more salt, sour oranges, and, if necessary, more pork grease. Do not let get too dry.

Form a large rounded shape in a serving dish and create an indentation in the center.

[Deep C]

Dave
The damn thing was uglier than a monkfish... after a swim in the swill we call the intracoastal, I'd have to say no to the marinated sea serpent. A few years ago they started to pop up well south. This is now the second one I have seen in my neck of the woods. First one I've seen on the water.The other one was only maybe 16 inches in a home depot parking lot, but this one was full growed.
We've got them infiltrating along and near the water. Don't know what they eat but I'd imagine they will give the geckos, curlytails and plain ol lizards a run for their money. Out west where I hunt they're starting to encounter those annaconda class buramese pythons like 12- 15 feet long . Worried about them doing a number on the pig and deer populations...

[capt. jakeg]

My uncle down south lives on the intracoastal in Ft Lauderdale and he has all sorts of iguanas around there his canal there. They are really pretty harmless but if you try to grab them they will bite the hell out of you. They are vegetarians and eat mostly fruit and fruit blossoms. He has a tree that grows plantains, which is like a little banana, in his back yard and sometimes there will be three or four of them in his back yard. I guess they eat the plantains. They get pretty big too. Seen them like three or four feet long before.

[Deep C]

When shopping for a boat before I found Deep C. I spent a lot of time in Lauderdae, Miami and Boca canals and there were oodles of them down there. Only in the last few months have they made it this far north.
I have gone around and around with one before. Damn thing ate a plug dangling off my rod tip in Quepos, Costa Rica, when I was trying to shoo it away from my samwich it was trying to steal. Made a good run but I stopped it before it made the rocks. Was careful not to get bit by pinning its head to the sand but those claws were something special too.

[Buddy H]

Did the permit look like this?? Caught this on our honeymoon. I 'll be down on 01/22/08, see you then.




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[Deep C]

Yup about a half acre of them and an acre of 12 cylinders...

[Buddy H]

These guys shared our wedding breakfast with us in Islamorada and stayed for the honeymoon! Next time I'll bring the receipe!

[Deep C]

You just go right ahead letting them green cold blooded rats eat your pancakes... I'm keeping fingers and toes inthe boat from now on...