Fishing with a Mastersmith

[Jon Klein]

I have always had an open invitation to makers and collectors to come down to Florida and do some offshore fishing. Well this year John Horrigan took me up on my offer. We left Blade Sunday and drove on down. Monday off to Islamorada. I arranged some free diving on Monday for John and he had his first salt water spear fishing adventure. Plenty of Hog Snapper and a nice Red Grouper, not bad for his first time on the reef. Tuesday and Wednesday offshore we went. By the time the dust settled we had put almost 20 nice blackfin tuna to 32# in the boat, along with 6 dolphin (mahi-mahi), 1 triple tail, and John also caught his first sailfish. I will let him add to this thread when he sees this. If he had half as much fun as I did then it was a home run. I had a great time with John and look forward to fishing with him again next year. That said my offer remains open to you all. If you want to do some deep sea fishing and get out on the ocean give me a call. Here are a couple of pics from our trip.







Good time all around!

John, glad you where able to make it!!

Jon

[Allen Newberry]

Looks like some serious good times were had! I hope to get some fishing in next week in Mexico while celebrating 10 yrs with my lovely wife!

[Jon Brand]

Jon, your the man. Those are some nice fish. Glad you had a good time with John. I barely got to meet him, but MAN he makes sweet blades.

[Kevin Jones]

Looks like you guys had a great time and caught some nice fish as well.

Doesn't get much better than that.

Looks like a great time.

Roger

[Peter Elovich]

VERY cool Jon. John had mentioned he was going fishing when I spoke with him during Blade.

Looks like a great time was had by all! And successful fishing too.

I would be interested to see a picture of your boat I've not been on many.

Peter

[john horrigan]

I am finally back in the land of the heat and the sun (Texas). Blade was fantastic, it seems like I have been going a hundred and ten for the last four to five weeks. Doing the last minute stuff getting ready for the show, the show itself, kicking out on Sunday and driving 600 miles down to the keys. It seemed like we were two crazy kids on our first fishing trip that couldn't get enough. Jon surely knows who to go with, and who to hang with. It'll be in the memory books of the mind for a long time. Thanks Jon, I had a great time. Looking forward to next year.

John 15:13

[Eli Gautreaux]

That looks like a blast! Glad you guys had fun and nailed some fish.

[Bob Betzner]

Bet you guys had a ton of fun. Lovin' the thought of that sushi right now.

Bob

[Don Hanson]

Vey Nice, gents!