This picture is from our first time out in my boat - Iām not the guy in the picture.
Spoonbill are a blast - get on those fish boys..
We had our second trip this week and nailed a couple more 40lbers
Guy in the pic looks sorta familiar ... š
Yep.. We all live in Kansas City, meaning there was man on the boat of the same caliber, both are really great guys. This specific fish is a good 25lbs smaller than the one he caught on our last trip, but it was banded - he put the band pictures on facebook.
I have at least one more spooner trip before I convert over for catfish & walleye for the year.
we regularly fish in 4-5ft sea's but it takes getting used to, they don't call them sea legs for nothing.
And I'd like to fish like you fish. But probably not in water like that.
Too old and creaky...
yeah sometimes get pretty sore, hurt my back last yr when we hit a big wave unexpectedly, couldn't fish for a few weeks till it got better.
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And I know nothing of that part of Florida. Looking at a map, and being a small boat owner, I can see wanting to change that. Guessing a guy could get seriously turned around in some of those waters? Guessing most of them must be marked?
It's very shallow water outside of the channels, gotta know your way around.
Bonnie has had that bait shop out there for about 25 years, she's 83 years old and out there every day.
In 2019 she sunk in a big storm, she treaded water for 2 1/2 hours before she was rescued. The community banned together and got her boat back up and running.
we regularly fish in 4-5ft sea's but it takes getting used to, they don't call them sea legs for nothing.
When you have sea legs they also work good as ski legs. We went snow skiing for the first time with a few other couples. They said that my legs would give out and be really sore from skiing. I had some issues learning how to snow ski but sore legs weren't one of them.
Always have an extra plug or two wired inside the boat somewhere.
When I was a kid on my dad's boat he had the plug fall out why we were out using it. He ran the boat around to drain the water, pulled up to the dock and had me jump out and run up to the boat shop to buy a plug while he kept driving the boat around to keep the water drained. Fun Times!
Plug just fell out huh?
lol your Dad is a sly one!
hahaha
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"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto
There sure are a lot of America haters that want to live here...
I've wanted to be able to test it in a few spots outta curiosity but never have.
I'd suppose close to the 1st, 2and and 3rd magnitude springs it's inevitable for there to be brackish waters to some degree but outside of the direct areas around them, not so much, it dilutes quickly.
The 'flats' areas and all up in around the barrier islands are very effected by the daily tides. None of those areas seem to support freshwater fishes like the Everglades do. The gators are even rare visitors.
A lot of springs people think are fresh water are actually salt water. Just yesterday when the current storm front we're having was moving in we had a lot of associated wind, it coincided with a incoming high tide.
The tide pool behind my house looked like it had a fountain in the middle of it. There are natural crevices and possibly a small vent in the bottom of the pool. The tide was coming in quickly being pushed by the winds. This forced the incoming saltwater to come ripping out of those crevices making it appear like a first magnitude spring. I suppose it does qualify as being a spring of sorts, just not a freshwater one.
If you're looking at the map, I'm in the Ozello Keys in between Homosassa River and Crystal River.
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