N Florida Mike

Got out for a few hours late this afternoon. It was good to have @BassinSoldier along and we got good cooperation from the fish. He was wearing out the fish to start with ,using a war eagle spinnerbait to catch the first 5 or so decent fish. I had caught a few on a super speed craw, and speed worm. @BassinSoldier caught several more on the spinnerbait until it broke, all healthy decent fish. I began catching a few on a june bug trick worm, and switched to a 5 inch pumkin ,chartruese tail yum dinger, and caught several more, including my biggest. In the meantime, he had switched to a rage tail swimbait and had caught several more on it. His big fish came the next cast after my biggest. We caught most of the fish around the eel grass edges again. Ended up with 18 or so. Got to enjoy a GATOR orange and blue sunset too !

If I read it right , Michael was the third most intense landfalling hurricane to hit the U.S in recorded history, based on the pressure of 919. Stronger than Andrew or Katrina. Hopefully, it will diminish rapidly before it gets to the Carolinas and virginia.

I saw the one where he found a boat last year. We had a child go missing a couple years ago and the police divers were searching all the ponds and found a car with a skeleton in it . Its right down the road from work and I just happenned to be going by as they pulled the car out of the pond.It was determined that it was a sailor that went missing around 10-15 years ago.

I also have a recurring dream about being back in college , which has vague similarities to the Jr. college I went to. In the dream I attend class, but most of the dream is about a class that I havent studied for but I signed up for it and I dont know how Im doing with the grade or when it ends. Kind of a college twilight zone.

As of 11 a.m the sustained winds were 150 mph, which is almost a cat. 5.

Well, lets think of the Florida gulf coast first. Last I checked at 8:30 , it had 145 mph winds, with gusts to 165. They predict some areas will get 14 ft storm surge. At St George island (where I have fished before) in that area some foolish folks have chosen to stay ( the island is only 10 feet above sea level ). The Weather channel says this is the worst hurricane to hit the florida gulf coast since recorded weather history started in 1851. Im in the jax. area and we are getting winds 20-30 now from it with higher gusts and the storm is around 200 miles to the center from here. These folks on the gulf need our prayers and support !!!

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The second biggest bass I ever caught was directly because of google map. I checked out the area on it while eating lunch and found a big pond behind a target store. 15 minutes later....

Had a nice afternoon with near perfect weather. Slightly cooler and less humid. I started out with the ruby sparkle baby brush hog and caught 5-6 , on the east side of our island. Got out past it and switched to the watermelon seed fluke, and caught 8-10 more around eel grass edges.. Caught several on a ribbon tail worm, especially reeling across the top of and around eel grass.And 1 on a zoom z-hog. They were biting real good. Ended up with 19. No big fish, but the avg size was 2 pounds, got several around 3. Caught 3 on consecutive casts. The bite today was fall-like, but the weather isnt quite there yet.

Went through that with my mom, although our trouble was with the bank, not her insurance. We called one day to let them know we needed some legal papers involving mom notarized.My wife and me already had p.o.a. for several years and had never had any trouble getting things done there before with p.o.a.. We were told all of a sudden that they had no record of us having power of attorney and we would have to bring mom in for her to sign as well. She had dementia pretty far along at that point and didnt remember what she said 5 minutes ago, and would say anything that came to her mind. We go in the bank and the new ( foriegn ) bank manager wants a private consultation with mom. ( who could tell her nothing , thats why we had gotten p.o.a !) When we protested about moms condition she grabbed my moms arm and began pulling her ( too fast for mom ) into her office. My wife lost it and told her off in front of everyone. She was then banned from that bank ! The managers smug response was that the old manager must have TAKEN the p.o.a. papers with him !!!. We switched banks ?

Lol !!!!!???

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There's bad and good ones. I live in the middle of 2 of them. The better one is a mile or two further away than the other one , and they have the best fishing section of any Ive ever been to. A friend runs the outdoor part of the store. He's a bass fisherman, so it's well stocked. The closer one is the worst one Ive ever been to. Lots of people not speaking english that dont understand whats going on, cashiers are slow, poor area so people think they have enough money and dont, which involves long dialogues with the slow cashiers, homeless people hitting you up as soon as you come out. My wife went there once and a homeless guy tried to get in her suv. She glared at him and said You best back off, and he did. Its a ZOO. One time I never moved in the line and after awhile went and put the items back and went home.

It's even hotter than normal this september.It still hasnt got under 70 for a LOW yet.

Anytime in nov. should be good.?

I chum for bream, and when they congregate the bass will show up. Then hook on a little bream or shiner and your in business. I enjoy fishing this way as much as using artificials, but I dont do it near as much.

I decided to fish off my dock this evening. I wanted to catch a small bream to live bait fish, and caught 10 or so with bread before getting the size I wanted. Hooked it on and threw it out. Kept seeing a decent bass blowing up on bream every few minutes. I kept fishing for bream too. Set the hook and caught this nice bass on bread and a tiny bream hook ! While I was getting the pic and letting it go, something was getting on my live bait rod. It ended up being this big soft shell turtle. Never a dull moment !