What do you gift yourself on your birthday? You go fishing is my answer. So I called up my buddy Capt Erik Tilson to go shiner fishing on lake Kissimmee yesterday. We put in at the ramp at Camp Mack my first time staying there. We found a floating island & set up there. The fishing was fast & furious with over 50 fish caught before we ran out of bait. We spent the rest of the day fishing artificials which resulted in only one fish caught on a swim jig. The best two went 7-12 and 9-10. An epic birthday for sure. 

 

Now that is an awesome birthday. 

Happy Birthday brother!

 

Congrats on the incredible day on the water as well.   One of these days I'll come down for one of those epic Shiner trips.  I hope Florida continues to realize the importance of Bass fishing to the economy and protects places like the SJR and the big O.    No telling what Shiner guided fishing brings in annually for the state.  

Happy birthday, Dwight! What a birthday!!! 

 

 

Happy Birthday!

No better way to celebrate 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mike

Live bait is the best bait! Happy birthday Dwight! 

Happy Birthday Sir ! Those are some fat ladies. 

Best. Birthday. Ever.

Awesome! Happy Birthday sir.

Now THAT'S a birthday present!  Happy birthday!

Congrats, and happy birthday!

21 hours ago, Dwight Hottle said:

We found a floating island & set up there.

 

We have floating islands in Maine too. You can walk on them, but it's like walking on a waterbed. 

@Swamp Girl We caught all our fish off that island except for the big girl. We heard a splash further away on the other side of the island at a mile marker post with some vegetation around it. So we went over to investigate & the first cast at the edge of the weeds she bit. We both patted each other on the back  for pulling up to check it out. We didn’t get any further bites there so we set back up where we were at the island before. My first cast there resulted in the second biggest fish of the day. 

29 minutes ago, Dwight Hottle said:

We heard a splash further away on the other side of the island at a mile marker post with some vegetation around it. So we went over to investigate & the first cast at the edge of the weeds she bit.

 

Hey, we fish the same way! I would have also investigated that splash.

It's nice that you got yourself such a BIG gift! Those are tanks!

Well done and happy birthday!

Awesome day!!! Congrats, and Happy Birthday!!!

Happy Birthday 😉

Fantastic birthday presents 😀

Tom

Holy moly!  Happy birthday, indeed! 👍🏻😎👍🏻

Birthday hawgs!  Happy Birthday!