My name is John and I love to fish, mostly saltwater fishing but I am into everything. On any given day you can catch me swinging a fly rod around trying to get some trout, or maybe out on a little boat just trying to hook up with some bass. Whatever the situation is, I really just love to fish, and there is nothing in this world that I would rather be doing with my spare time.

Let me tell you a little about my self, first off I am 34 years old, I grew up in central Florida in the Fort Meyers area, and I started fishing when I was about 5 or 6 years old, I really can’t remember that far back, all I know is that my dad and my uncle (his brother) have been taking me out to go saltwater fishing forever. They are both a lot better than me, but on the other hand they are both some old salt dogs that have been fishing in florida for over 50 years, so they know what the hell they are doing and they do it good, probably better than the best fisherman that you know. I am currently living in the Keys down in marathon and I must say that it is great, I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else in the world. And believe me I know because I have lived in many states, and even a few countries on top of that.

The reason that I have lived in a few counties is because about 15 years ago I had joined the navy. And I was on a great warship called the USS Lasalle, and she was stationed over in Gaeta Italy, so I stayed over there for about 3 years. I made a lot of good friends while I was on my tour over their, mostly all of the sailors, or shipmates that I worked with, and of course I had made many other friends with the local Italians. They were nice, and you know that I got in some good fishing with them. Those stories of me fishing in Italy are yet to come, don’t worry, I will be making many posts on my fishing adventures so you can read and enjoy them, almost as much as I enjoyed catching them, well maybe not that much. LOL.

I have been married once, and that had lasted a whopping 2 years, this was back when I was 26 years old, a few years after I had gottin out of the united stated navy. Everyone had told me not to get married but of course I am not one to take advice, even though they were my friends just trying to warn me because they have been caught up in the same situation, and the same outcome has happened to them every single time. I myself had to learn the hard way, and thankfully, I have been single since. I do not have any kids, and I am getting pretty old to have kids so I dont think that will be in my future, that and I don’t really date that much, i am into fishing just a little to much.

What I do for a living is independant handyman work, meaning that I am my own contractor, I get paid by semi-big companies to do handyman work, its okay I guess. It more than pays the bills, and I get plenty of time off to go out to sea and catch some fish. If I ever save up enough money I want to get my own charter boat and be a captain, charging people a hundred or so a piece to take them out fishing in the keys, right off of marathon key. That will be my ideal dream, then I can make money off of doing what I love to do, which is fish full time, even though mostly I will be aiding the people on the boat catching some saltwater fish, but to me that is just as fun.