Florida is a fisherman’s paradise: no
question. There’s something here for everyone – flyfishers can take on
tarpon, jacks and even bonefish; baitfishers can have all of these plus redfish,
snook and a mass of other species and offshore the gamefisher has sailfish,
kingfish, barracuda and even marlin down in the keys.
And don’t forget all the myriad of bottom dwellers and reef fishes.
If there was someplace that I had
to live other than Scotland, I think it would have to be Florida.
Like all Americans though, Floridians don't realise that they have it so good. If they go fishing and only get a dozen or so fish, it's a disaster and anything less than six will result in questions being asked in the House of Representatives.
This makes the catching bit of fishing much more important than than the fishing bit. For someone like me who can actually have blank years when salmon fishing, it is an alien state. To see grown men whinging over what would be a massive bag of fine fish is almost, but not quite, comic.
But I confess I'd probably be the same if I was a resident; it's a condition that you could see yourself getting used to.