N Florida Mike

I have trouble keeping the hook in it which is important for the weedy lakes I fish

Man that ending was great but stunk at the same time.Go heels!!

Got to hear him in concert in the 80s in Gainesville Fl. I liked a lot of his songs but probably my 2 favorites were Walking on the fighting side of me and mama tried.

My uncle has a place on it but he mostly fishes stripers.Don't know if they count in the tourn. Or not.

What's a good hook size for them? The ones I have are 2 inch.Can't ever seem to find the right size.

Hey.I grew up in jax.and still live on the south side.I've fished a lot of small lakes and ponds here, esp.on the s.side, mandarin, and northern st Johns county.A great place to bank fish is Julington Creek plantation.Its a large housing development in northern st Johns.You can fish any of the lakes as long as you don't go in people's yards.Theres plenty of ponds with a lot of walking areas.They are nearly all stocked.Try the ones closer to Hwy 13 off Davis pond blvd and dewberry Dr.but I've caught fish in many of the other ponds as well.My go to bait there was a zoom salty super fluke in watermelon seed.Texas rigged.There are also some good lakes about 1-1.5 hours south and west.If you really like to fish remote lakes try the ocala nat. Forest , about 1.5 hours to the south.Its full of lakes and ponds.If you send me a pm I can tell you some more specificinfo.welcome to the area and thanks for your service.

I started playing baseball when I was 8.I was terrible.We kept score and we sometimes got hit with the ball and we sometimes skinned our knees ,_got lectured by the coach and lost games.Guess what? I was motivated to learn the game and did.I ended up playing 10 years in association ball then high school , then college.Then16 years of church league softball.I did it because I loved the game.I know a lot of guys who took similar routes and none of them ever complain about the hard things in sports.Kids are pampered too much nowadays.We weren't and we still loved it.

I went to my gdaughters t- ball game and got there late for the first game.First thing I asked is What's the score.? The person I asked looked ate funny and said They don't keep score.I looked at her funny and said What's the point of playing the game then?.And she said The kids are just having fun.I thought dang, I had fun when we kept score when I was a kid.No wonder most of the kids look bored.One kid struck out and they gave him a fourth strike and he struck out again.Moral of the story is that most growth in life takes place from hardships and dissapointments.

Watch "Two Brothers" on YouTubeTwo Brothers by Chris Stapleton.

This is N Fl.One year around 5 years ago we got Over 30 freezes.The bass really shut down when its like that.Good time to get some squirrels and such.

Its Always bass season where I live.But when its real cold( which isn't too often here).,I hunt.Or do winter yard /house chores.

I've done A LOT of saltwater.All kinds except not much offshore .I have done some bottom fishing out there.Mostly I do inshore with my son.We mainly fish for Reds, flounder, and sheepshead.I also do some surf fishing mostly in the fall.If I had to pick one kind of fishing and give up the rest I would keep bass fishing.I can't really explain why.Just love catching em.

My philosophy is any time.Fish have to eat to survive no matter what time of year it is.

I've used both with great results.At my home lake that I fish most of the time I believe that they bite anything better if its not the same thing all the time.

I've had several and have been one a few times.My first friend that taught me about bass fishing invited me to go with him and his dad to their once a year bream trip in the St Johns river.Before we ever launched the boat I knocked the crickets over .Most of them escaped and went all over in the boat.During the day we would have them crawling up our legs etc.Sometimes we would step on them.It got to where we would try to catch them in the boat when we ran out in the can,or listen to them chirping and try to find them.Never got invited again for some reason.The worst"that guy"I ever took was my buddy from school "hoot owl". He begged me to take him so I did.We went speck fishing in a lake near Gainesville fl.After 5 minutes I got the strong impression he had never fished in his life.He could not bait his hook without losing the minnow.I baited the hook and he would throw it off because he couldn't coordinate how to throw a zebco 33.In fact, he's the only person I've ever fished with(including small children) that got a birds nest with one.And then held it up and said " Somethings wrong with my reel."He begged me for a hat to wear.I let him borrow one of my favorite Florida Gator hats with the condition that he not get it wet.In a little while I saw it floating by.I finally just made him drop his line over the side of the boat and an apparently very low IQ speck actually got on his line.

Lol!! Been there!

If I moved to a new lake, the first thing I would do is go get a big bag of fish feed from the local hardware or feed store.Throw out several handfuls to where you plan to fish every day.This will attract all the fish in the area and produce some great fishing opportunities.

I've got many but this one is one of the strangest.I was coming home one night around 10 or so.No traffic.I'm in a mellow mood, had been to church.I get to the last light before my house.One car in front of me.Nobody else around.The light turns green.Car doesn't move.I wait.Seconds go by.Car doesn't move.I don't honk.Finally,he starts going very slowly across the intersection. We barely make it through the light.I'm finally getting fed up, so I accelerate and try to pass on the right.He immediately blocks me on the right.I try to pass on the left- he blocks me on the left.I'm getting ticked off.He cuts suddenly back right so I see my chance and floor it.Then he cuts hard left so he's completely sideways and Im about to slam into his door.I lock them up and lay on the horn.I see him sitting there staring straight ahead My headlights were right on his face.Then he slowly turns full left and goes past me in the other direction.Never makes eye contact or said a word.I'm kind of shocked by the whole thing and couldn't speak.Then I decide to follow him,and maybe get his license number but he simply vanished in the few seconds it took me to turn around.Never have been able to figure it out.Drugs or alcohol related I reckon.

I do a lot of driving with my job in N.E Florida.I have had some of the most bizarre incidents while driving you can imagine.What's some of yours?

I fished it over 2 years ago with a member and it was terrible.We only caught 3 Dink's all day.He has another friend who caught more Dink's the same day.They both have gotten out of it now.According to them,the prices have gone up and the fishing has gone down.It was still a good experience. It looks so fishy .I tried nearly everything in my box with almost no fish or bites.There was almost nobody else fishing but us.One speck fisherman from Georgia had done well.They apparently are trying to figure out why the fishing has gone down so much.The water was probably the murkiest,silty water I've ever fished.And we got lost a few times in there(With an experienced member present)

Sorry,I keep remembering more stuff.One day When I was a teen,I caught around 20 bream and had them on a stringer in the water tied to a oar hole in the boat.As I was rowing off I saw the stringer come untied and all the fish sinking out of sight.I jumped in and walked around for awhile and couldn't find them.The water being only chest deep.So about a year or so later I snagged the stringer with 20 or so fish heads on it...My favorite one though I told on a different thread a couple months ago. My wife asked me what I wanted for fathers day one year and I told her a new baitcaster combo.She unexpectedly took the kids fishing one day and she hooked a baitcaster combo and gave it to me for father's day .True story.

Yeah its perfectly straight.I tried repositioning several times .It also keeps riding high on the surface.The fish that hit it were all just under the surface.It does seem like you have to go slower on the retrieve.

Probably 10-15 years for me.I still have a full box from the 80s!

It just seems like a small bait for a bigger hook.Also,I can't keep it from spinning .When it runs straight they kill it.But when it spins they don't touch it.

That's no worse than when we were trying to get back across lake George (2nd biggest lake in fl) with 3-5 foot seas.Had a big crack in the side of the boat after that one.