On an unusually cool September day in Pensacola, I had the privilege of sitting down with a local legend, Captain Bubba Thorsen. For about an hour and a half, we sat in the wheelhouse of his boat, where he shared captivating stories about his life as a fisherman.
A Lifelong Passion for Fishing
Bubba has been fishing his entire life. As a child, he and his father would fish at the end of Little Sabine Bay, pulling his sister behind their boat on a makeshift raft to collect some of the prettiest bay scallops you could find. “My sister and I learned to drive a black Dodge pickup truck on Pensacola Beach,” Bubba recalled with a grin. “We mullet-fished all up and down the shore.”…