amazed! Each fish fights differently and is attracted
to different bait.” She also feels very fortunate
that her grandmother and mother also love to fish.
That’s where she says she learned the important
foundation of “don’t be a sissy about handling bait
and fish!”
She recalled her first time taking a friend out solo
as a “quasi-captain” and that she had a blast! Her
friend, Lisa, whom she met through tennis, lives
in Florida half of the year and keeps asking about
going fishing. She turned out to be an awesome
angler and a fast learner. They had a perfect day on
the water and brought home some great keeper
gags and porgy. Lisa learned to clean a fish filet, and
they met a group of kids while doing it. They both
had great time teaching the kids about the fish. She
loved it and after just one day out became another
woman angler and fisher, for life.
New Pass Marina has a nice cleaning station with
fresh water. Ferris says it’s fun feeding the birds
scraps, and showing tourists the fish and telling them
how great it is on the water and how lucky she is to
live here. Oftentimes the manatees will come up
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