Yep Retirement is Tough

Had me a great time this past Monday. My wife and I took her brother grouper fishing in Homosassa, Florida for his birthday. We all caught our limit. When the charter captain started fileting the fish he handed me a bag of filets and gave me directions to a restaurant five minutes down the river that will cook your catch. It was fantastic sitting outside by the river with family, eating grouper cooked four different ways with made from scratch fettuccine alfredo and a nice cold draft beer in my hand.

One hour later Captain Zach and the mate motored up in his boat and loaded the rest of the filets into my car. They then joined us for dinner and a beer. It couldn't get much better.

Yep this retired life is rough!!!

I wish I could retire and eat grouper.

Nice.

Glad to see you getting out there and enjoying life.

Life is good!

Believe me I don't take it for granted. Many years ago my father instilled in me a real respect for the power of compounding interest . Because of that I started maxing out my personal retirement fund 30 years ago and yes I am one of those on the government tit with a state backed pension after 33 years of fire fighting.

I'm very jealous but more happy for you.Looks and sounds like an absolute blast, particularly the restaurant afterwards, there's is absolutely nothing in my mind that beats a day out fishing followed up with eating and drinking with family/friends. My dad and brothers along with some friends used to spend a weekend over on the Eastern shore(Ches. bay) that was devoted to nothing but. Good times, no, great times.

J

BTW Wife and I are going for a week in Pompano in a few months, I checked charter prices and they seemed pretty outrageous even getting on a cattle boat was close to hundred bucks. I did see we're not from from the peir so might go give that a whirl, haven't pier-fished in 30 yrs.

Please don't go on a party boat, they are a miserable experience. I spent $80.00 for a horrible boat ride on one back in June. We had 18 inches per person to fish and the tackle was brutal. We went out for eight hours and didn't catch one keeper fish.

If you can get together with three or more people and pay a charter captain or watch the tides and pier fish. Pier fishing done right is a good time. Inshore fishing for 8 hours should run you about $100.00 per person. Offshore is twice that. Marine fuel is running about $4.75 a gallon here in Florida and boats burn a lot of fuel.

We went offshore and yes it is expensive but this is something my wife and I absolutely love doing and quite frankly over the long haul it seems to be cheaper than gambling.

I started a website where you can buy discounts for grouper.



































It's called Grouper-on

Many years ago, DonDiego was dining with his first-wife and her family at a West Coast Florida seafood restaurant. When poor DonDiego ordered the grouper, he inadvertently pronounced it "groper"; everyone laughed at him.
Things went downhill after that.