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While I have not personally fished in it, we have been at the Big Roc Tournament every year. NC has amazing offshore fishing, but lets not go crazy. You are never going to get everyone to agree on which spot is better, but the Islamorada Hump is going to be hard to beat for most big game fisherman. The Keys have it all. Every single species you can catch pretty much is right around the corner and in amazing numbers. I'd argue that the Hannibal Bank off Panama, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, and maybe Costa Rica for billfish would be better than the Keys offshore.

Very hard page to read with that background. Like I said agree to disagree.

Keep your stats.... I have lived here for 30 years..... it is not bad.... you have visited and that is it....

Again as a resident it is not a high crime rate place.

Yeah, Marlin are pretty rare catches down in the Keys. They have caught some monster swords down here recently. One was over 500 and another was close to 700. But they used electric reels, so they werent state records. I think thats cheating anyway

Fort Morgan >>>> all

I don't care what stats say, what the media says. I have experience it myself by living it. It isn't nearly as bad as depicted.

Rich white guy that stays away from the bad neighborhoods IMO.

I kid, but you can't really argue with the stats. If 10 dudes get shot in one city and 2 dudes get shot in another then you tell me which is more dangerous?

AlwaysMore was essentially spot on about my city except for the beach part. Dauphin Island,Gulf Shores and Orange Beach are 45+ minutes away. They are very nice beaches. Some of the nicest in the country.

I chuckled at your and Gib's description of Mobile. Spot freakin' on.

Rains a ish ton. Hot as balls in the summer with 100% humidity every day. Not big,not small. Everyone is essentially lower middle class that lives in rural south and northwest mobile or suburban west mobile; dirt poor and most likely black in Prichard and Toulminville; or rich and snooty and lives in Springhill.

Very Southern-esque in its qualities.

45 minutes to hunt,45 to the beach.

Put aside the high murder rate,inept local government,miserable weather,multitudes of crazy conservatives and bible thumpers and you have a pretty ok place to live.

Just waiting for the right person on TBB to invite me

Faulty logic. The 10 dudes couldve been shot in a gang fight in the ghetto while the 2 couldve been shot in cold blood in a home invasion in suburbia.

Its irrelevant. Common sense says all metro areas are dangerous, and Mobile was lucky enough to be ghetto refugee central from Katrina. IMO Montgomery and Birmingham are more dangerous, but what do I know...Cant argue with stats, right?

It is nothing more than a misinterpreted reading.... maybe it is me but I would have said Spain's beaches are the best. Spanish has many connections... based solely on the word, not the culture....

I went to a Spanish beach can be taken differently from people

Not sure why Mobile was brought up when talking about Alabama beaches. Nobody goes to Mobile for beaches.....that is Orange Beach, Gulf Shores, etc.

That's a lot of typing to say Gulf beaches > Cali beaches. Anyone who has been to multiple beaches on each of those coasts knows this.