There are only a couple ways to get really fresh seafood. One is the way we do it, by going out and catching it. Another is going to the seafood market and buying it. A older way but less known is to go right to the docks. Weather its crab ,Shrimp or fish this is the freshest way to get your hands on fresh seafood. We will discuss all three ways for you.

The first way is more fun for all, you load up your boat with your fly fishing gear your heavy rods and your spin casters and all your boating supplies . Then you lug all your boating safety gear on board to keep you with in Florida boating laws of coarse. You check your salt water fishing reports and the marine forcasted weather and set out for your trip. You head out looking for your magic numbers that you got as a salt water fishing tip. You come home from boating after an all day adventure and set out to fellet your bounty.

The second way is to go to you local fresh seafood monger and or your fresh seafood market and take a look at what they have to offer. Look for fellets to be natural color and not dried out. Whole fish look for the eyes to be clear and not cloudy looking. Feel free to ask to smell the fish as well, any good merchant will let you take a sniff.

The docks are a more intersting approach to the situation. Captains will not sell you anything unless he knows you. You have to spend some time to establish a repore with him. Ask questions and look interested in what he is doing. More or less if you are a fisherman this will come easy. This will take months to work up any type of trust between youself and the captain. Eventually you will more or less be able to purchase right from the boat itself. This is not a legal way to do things but after a while its just a friend helping another friend under the table. This mainly works for crabbers especially during StoneCrab season.

All in all we have done all three . The last is only do to the time we have spent on the docks and already have a friendship with our crabber buddies.

This article from bay news 9

More boat ramp spaces to be available in Pinellas
Pinellas County commissioners approved the purchase of Palm Harbor Resort on Thursday to provide additional boat ramp spaces for the public.

The property, located at 2119 U.S. 19 North, has 16 boat slips, a boat ramp and six cottages on approximately five acres. The purchase price was $3.81 million.

On Tuesday, commissioners approved the purchase of the Belle Harbour Marina in Tarpon Springs for $3.6 million. It has 18 wet slips and 110 storage units.

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County votes to buy resort for $3.8M

The Palm Harbor Resort deal is not final. An offer was also made to buy the Bell Harbour Marina.

By WILL VAN SANT, Times Staff Writer
Published June 23, 2006

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Eager to preserve coastal land from development and ensure continued boater access to the water, the Pinellas County Commission voted on Thursday to buy the Palm Harbor Resort for $3.8-million.

The 5-acre parcel on Alt. 19 has a pool, six rental cottages, a bait shop and an RV park. But the county wants the resort for its boat ramp and access to St. Joseph Sound.

The deal is not final. The sale agreement gives the county 45 days to inspect the property further before any money is committed.

Plans call for getting rid of the RV park, now home to 28 vehicles, to expand parking and upgrade the site’s vessel-launching capacity.

Owner Roy Wilson, 68, said some of his RV tenants had lived at the resort for 20 years, and he knows it may be tough for them to find housing they can afford.

But unlike a private buyer, who would simply tell tenants to get out at the end of the month, the county has programs to help displaced people find new dwellings, he said.

Wilson bought the resort in 1979 and spent years providing inexpensive, Florida-style recreation. The resort’s Web site sports the slogan ”Livn’ Large on a Small Bayou.”

But as he has gotten older, Wilson said the job of managing the property has gotten harder. The fact that he’s Canadian and spends much of each year in his home country makes it even trickier, he said.

Private developers looking to build upscale waterfront condominiums had made several offers well above the county’s purchase price, Wilson said, but he dislikes that prospect.

“We are pretty sentimental about that whole piece of property,” he said. “We wanted to see whether we could keep it sort of like it was.”

County leaders are particularly attracted to the deal because there is so little coastal land left in North Pinellas where boaters can launch their vessels.

The commission’s decision to pursue the purchase of the resort is the second if its kind this week. Tuesday, the board voted to spend $3.6-million for Bell Harbour Marina in Tarpon Springs.

That deal too is not yet final.

For those who trailor there boats we have listed the area boat ramps . All of the ramps fill up every weekend so you have to get there early. Purchase your ice and drinks at the local grocery stores the prices at many of these ramps are staggering. Only had a few phone numbers for our local ones. We are docked at Palm Harbor Resort . Its a Mom and Pop operation really quite quaint.

Pat’s Landing Marina
297 Bayshore Dr, Palm Harbor, FL 34683
Phone: (727) 784-0143

Speckled Trout Marina
369 Bayshore Dr, Palm Harbor, FL (Ozona)
Phone: (727) 786-9566

Palm Harbor Resort
2119 Alt 19, Palm Harbor, FL 34683
Phone: (727) 785-3402

Anclote River Park

Anclote Rd. Tarpon Springs

Seminole Boat Ramp

Seminole St. Clearwater

Bellaire Boat Ramp

3900 W. Bay Dr. Bellaire Bluffs

Indian Rocks Boat Ramp

15th Ave. & Bayshore Blvd. Indian Rocks Bch.

Indian Rocks Boat Ramp

3rd Ave. & 1st St. Indian Rocks Bch.

Madeira Bch. Municipal Marina

503 150th Ave. Madeira Beach

Fort DeSoto Park

3500 Pinellas Bayway S Tierra Verde

St. Petersburg Beach Boat Ramp

East 33rd Ave. St. Petersburg Bch.

Maximo Park

34th St. S & Pinellas Pt. Dr. St. Petersburg

This is another recipe submitted via E-mail

• 2 pounds (1 kg) grouper fillets
• 1/2 cup (115 g) margarine or butter
• 1/2 cup (125 Ml) vegetable oil
• 2 tablespoons (30 Ml) soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon (15 Ml) Worcestershire sauce
• 1 1/2 tablespoons (22.5 Ml) lemon or lime juice
• Pepper, to taste

How to cook:

• Cut fish into 4 serving-size pieces.
• Into a 4-cup (1-L) bowl, combine all other ingredients.
• Arrange fish pieces into a well-greased hinged wire grill, about 4 inches (10 cm) from hot coals.
• If you do not have a hinged grill, cover grill with aluminum foil and pierce liberally with a fork.
• Cook fish pieces for approximately 7 minutes per side, basting frequently with sauce.
• Remove to a warm dish when fish flakes easily when tested with a fork.

Note: Preparation + cooking time: 30 minutes

This recipe for Barbecued Grouper serves/makes: 4

Main Ingredient: Grouper

Preparation Method: Grill

Spicy Snapper

2 lbs Snapper fillets

1 Large Tomato, Peeled and Chopped

2 Scallions, Chopped (including the tender green tops)

1 Garlic Clove, Finely Chopped

2 Teaspoons of Louisiana Hot Sauce

1 Sprig Fresh Thyme or 1/2 Teaspoon of Dried Thyme Leaves

1/2 Teaspoon of Salt

1/3 Cup of Olive Oil

1/4 Cup (1/2 stick) of Butter

1 Lemon, Cut in Half

Directions:

In a small bowl, stir together the tomato, scallions, garlic, hot sauce, thyme, and salt.

In a large skillet, heat the olive oil and butter over medium heat until the butter melts.

Place the fish in the skillet. Squeeze the lemon over the fillets in the pan. Spoon the tomato mixture evenly over the fish, cover the skillet tightly, and cook for 10 minutes. While cooking, check with a spatula to make sure that the fish is not sticking to the bottom of the skillet. Reduce the heat and simmer for about 10 minutes longer, or just until the fish is cooked through. Use a fork to test whether the fish is cooked through and tender.

A week after the our first Tropical storm and the water is calm again. Taking the weekend to clean up some gear and work on another project. It is time again to be on the water. Your regular Trout holes should have already started to produce some nice keepers and the Redfish are not as spooky as after the storm. The deeper ledges out there will have some activety as well. If fishing inshore get some ladyfish north of Honeymoon island and chunk them in 2 to 3 inch chunks and baloon float them for sharks with a large rod. The whiting and blues have been just off the beaches of Honeymoon and Calidisi islands. Look for Cobia on the top.

Have fun and keep fishing.

Many people ask is fishing good after a large storm. The truth of it is not really the water is all chrned up and cloudy the rain run off turns the water a tea color and there is to much debri floating around out there at the moment. Your regular fishing holes will produce some fish but only 1/10th of what they normally produce. The only good thing of being on the water after a storm is maybe finding something cool that might have washed up on shore or still floating around. We will take this Weekend to do added maintence on the boat and cleaning and oiling the reels. We hope everyone like the new format of LuckyAngler .

Have fun and be safe.

Storm surge is simply water that is pushed toward the shore by the force of the winds swirling around the storm. This advancing surge combines with the normal tides to create the hurricane storm tide, which can increase the mean water level 15 feet or more. In addition, wind driven waves are superimposed on the storm tide. This rise in water level can cause severe flooding in coastal areas, particularly when the storm tide coincides with the normal high tides. Because much of the United States’ densely populated Atlantic and Gulf Coast coastlines lie less than 10 feet above mean sea level, the danger from storm tides is tremendous.

The level of surge in a particular area is also determined by the slope of the continental shelf. A shallow slope off the coast will allow a greater surge to inundate coastal communities. Communities with a steeper continental shelf will not see as much surge inundation, although large breaking waves can still present major problems. Storm tides, waves, and currents in confined harbors severely damage ships, marinas, and pleasure boats.

As seen here this is a miner storm surge taken just before high tide the tide in these pics still has another 2 feet to rise before total effect. Location is Palm Harbor resort and Pop Stancels Park located just off of US Alt 19 Pinellas County Florida. You can see the road and parking lot submerged below.

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Had a chance to hang out this week with my best friends. We wound up fishing a pier in Michigan to be exact Muskegon MI. Didn’t try very hard but had some great times. a funny thing their happens all the time when you are trying to fish, a massive ship comes by and you get so mesmerized that nothing matters from that point. take a look at these pics and you can see what I meanWeb Directories.lucky angler