Love it when these guys come down from Cleveland. There are always gonna be laughs, stories, piles of fish, and a the requisite trip to the bar the night before we go. But one thing always happens, more than anything else, the Boys from Cleveland catch fish! Dino, Dan and Jimmy put a modern day, double digit beatdown on the snook, mangrove snapper, over sized redfish, and big jack crevalle deep in the 10,000 Islands, before things turned into an Old Testament fist fight as we shifted from the low tide oyster bars, into the caves and deep root banks full of angry jewfish!

Jim dragged this big ol backcountry jewfish right behind Dan’s back! Not to be outdone, Dino, below hooked and muscled this big yellow goliath from the same spot!

Those big heavy fun sized brutes double down rods, and are a flat out fun fight to wrestle out of their structure laden hideouts. Once landed, I carefully lay the fish out so it can be measured and have a small clipping from its anal fin removed and put into a kit, where additional information such as location, time of day, and length are also recorded. When the dust settled, I had logged in over 10 more samples of fin clippings for the continuing Goliath Grouper study we are participating in.

The Cleveland 3 had some sore arms, and a bank full of ornery jewfish had some sore lips, as we cranked up some Jamey Johnson for the ride home through the sparkling backcountry maze to clean a cooler full of snapper! Yep, the Boys from Cleveland catch fish!

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