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"I can't believe I actually did that" is the thought that usually crosses my mind after I've gone and jumped a few football-sized tarpon in a golf course pond. Sebastian O'Kelly and Christopher Arelt, on the other hand, suffer no compunctions when it comes to finding fish in places that most of us wouldn't dream of fishing. (Hint: It's a different kind of "ragged edge" than the one Flip Pallot is fond of referring to.) After engaging in questionable fishing endeavors for 20 years, they decided to put the highlights in a book, The Offbeat Angler, which was published by Flat Hammock Press in January.
You can read one of their "so real it's absurd" tales — recalling an adventure in fishing south Florida canals — in "Tamiami Vices."
