N Florida Mike

Just found out the ramp on the north side of the lake is still open. Planning a spring trip soon.

I went with a friend Saturday morning I hadn’t fished with in a few years. Kept waking up every 1-2 hours , looking at the clock, and trying to figure out what time it really was ( Alarm clock is stuck on 40 minutes faster than it really is ) ? Also tried to subtract 30 minutes from when I was actually leaving so I’d have time to get ready. Bottom line: woke up right on time . Haven’t used the actual alarm in many years now.

Wow, sounds like a great dad. Thankful I had one like that too.

^^^ This.

Just another night for me. Went to bed at 10:30. Woke up from a dead sleep at 330 from a late fireworks barrage. Rolled over and went right back to sleep. Next morning I awoke, noticed a bunch of notifications from the “ next door “ forum. Seems the local suburbians are disgruntled about all the fireworks. It’s still going on today. They are fixing to start a anti fireworks resolution which will include new laws that somehow will work better than the existing laws that make it illegal already, and they want a new governor that will support the new laws. I’m not making this up folks. Apparently people’s pets are having seizures or otherwise freaking out , and latest studies have shown thousands of birds dying from fireworks each year. I have never seen a dead bird anywhere after fireworks , but we usually have a couple people killed from revelers shooting their guns off into the sky. What goes up must come down you know, and after all , it is Florida ?. You know , the latest “ sky is falling “ paranoia. I think I would almost rather have the fireworks than “ next door “ , but what do I know??‍♂️ . Happy new year!!!?

Well, Florida won as predicted. Virginia played well though I thought.

It shouldn’t take long! I’m the exact opposite- I need to use a spinner bait until I catch some!!

Another glorious sunrise this morning! Good dog!!!

In some scientists opinion. Not buying the relation to monkeys thing.

I’d be interested in hearing how you remove them. Send me a pm when you have time.? Thanks!

There’s always the St Johns river system in the Jacksonville area. The most expensive homes are right on the river, but there are homes on creeks off the river in all directions. You would definitely also have the population your wife wants and no ice ( well once in my lifetime) There are other options also.. One of my old friends lives app. 12 miles south of downtown in a one street community that has a community dock and everyone has their own boat slip. My friend lives 1 house off the river and has his bass boat in the slip. The river has great fishing and I don’t think people fish it as much as they used to. I think it’s because salt water fishing is so close too and seems to be more popular now.

7.6 caught on a Golden bream super fluke.

I agree.

Party boat fishing? Bottom fishing? I love doing that. Have fun!

My biggest this year was 7.6. Caught on a golden bream Zoom super fluke.I caught a few over 5 in the spring but don’t keep records of fish under 6 . They were all caught on soft plastics I’m sure.

Mine too, and he became a deacon at the church we grew up in. He kept running crab traps for a living.

Sunset a couple weeks ago. Strangely enough, I had a childhood friend that got shot 5 times too by drug dealers and lived. He lived at the end of a dirt road backing up to a creek, swamp all around him. They went down his road in the middle of the night broke in , beat him with a bb bat, shot him 5 times, and left him for dead. I visited him at the hospital and prayed with him. He was out in a week, completely stopped using drugs and started taking mission trips to Cuba.

Not much work yet today so guess what I did? Caught it on a 6 inch senko.

Sorry for your loss but it was a win because of time spent with your son. Thats such a beautiful area. Always feel drawn to upstate SC .

It really doesn’t matter but I’m curious why this was moved to fishing reports.? I thought fishing reports were current, not stuff that happened way in the past.

One of my neighbors shot another neighbors dog 6 times and it lived too. Strangely enough, the poor thing died from cancer a year or so later. Yeah we got to see bears in the smokies before on several occasions. Biggest one was up near the top of Clingmans dome. Glad the G-kids were along to see him.

Dang , what was he using? A BB gun?

I went this morning and used the jerkbait mostly for the first 2 hours. Didn’t get 1 fish on it, did have one follow it to the boat.

Haha the other N ames- you remember. Yeah I know about the liquor stores back then- my friend ran into the big oak at parental home Rd and Bowden.! After drinking too much wild turkey on a hot Saturday working at a farm.I came out with a broke thumb was all. Still hurts when I use a bait caster!! Haven’t been drunk in over 37 years now though... The road to nowhere? Maybe you mean the Dames pt bridge over the St Johns river.? Yeah I don’t think there’s any drive ins left anymore. How long since you were here last? I was class of ‘78 from Wolfson HS . Went to Fjc and Florida after that. Good talking with you too. Your name sounds familiar but I didn’t know too many people that went to sandlewood back then.

I’ll try that fix for the hunter. I had several other suggestions that I haven’t gotten around to trying yet either though. my friend didn’t say where he got it- I think he bought it used also... I’ll check to see if there’s any ID on it and let you know. Yeah I remember that big gator in the FJC pond. My Jboat turned over in there once when I had a large friend with me one day. Didn’t see the gator but the security guard showed up pretty quick as we tried to make it to shore... That lake at the 17 tower went by a different name back then that I can’t repeat on here... The peanut butter hole that I knew about was a popular hole that we’d go Muddin’ in . But the one we went to was at the sand mines near Southside and butler. There were some big bass in those lakes too! I grew up on the Julington creek side of the river and used to fish it a lot. Back when Mandarin was still country. I don’t know about Pelhams-I don’t get over there much anymore.