Florida Bass Fishing

[Brett's_daddy]

Okay, you all in Florida may have some monster bass that we Northerner's don't have but we also don't have to put up with this either...https://www.foxnews.com/great-outdoors/florida-fisherman-chased-11-foot-alligator-everglades. I'm satisfied with our 4 - 8lbers where the most we get chased by are mosquitos and black flies .

[Captain Phil]

That's why I fish out of a boat....

[roadwarrior]

Gators gotta eat, too!

 

[Dwight Hottle]

I would rather deal with the gators than the black flies. 

[HaydenS]

Why was he following it?!?!  That thing was trying to get him, and he just followed it back.   He wanted to get eaten.

[geo g]

It's not the one you see you have to worry about, it's the one you don't see!

[soflabasser]

I rather live in a place with alligators, crocodiles, sharks, and hurricanes than live in an area that snows half the year with frozen water. All the snowbirds that flock every Winter here seem to agree as well.

[Mike L]

Put up with what!

He went in an over grown pathway leading to the waters edge.

Then After he put some space between them he turns around and starts walking toward it and calling after him!!

 

 

 

Mike

[N Florida Mike]

Gators are part of life in florida. You have a lot higher chance of being struck by lightning, getting run over by a crazy driver, or being murdered than getting kilt by a gator.

[Catt]

Sounds like operator error to me!

 

 

[N Florida Mike]

Yeah, you pretty much have to really provoke a gator to get him ticked off enough to chase you...
Could have been a female with young nearby though.

[.ghoti.]

12 hours ago, N Florida Mike said:

Gators are part of life in florida. You have a lot higher chance of being struck by lightning, getting run over by a crazy driver, or being murdered than getting kilt by a gator.

Never seen a gator in a kilt. Where would he wear his sporran?

[CrankFate]

I’d much rather be remembered for getting chased by an eleven foot alligator than an eleven pound rat....

[soflabasser]

23 hours ago, N Florida Mike said:

Gators are part of life in florida. You have a lot higher chance of being struck by lightning, getting run over by a crazy driver, or being murdered than getting kilt by a gator.

I have been fishing around alligators for over 2 decades and only 1 alligator chased me when I was a kid. She was protecting her nest and even then she ran a short distance. Since then I always look around constantly when I am fishing in waters with alligators. Most alligators will leave you alone if you leave them alone.

[BBuck]

My experience is that if you leave them alone, they will leave you alone. The only time I got close to a brown out was when one about 10 ft long was chasing my bass I just hooked and was lifting up on the bank. Luckily, I got him unhooked and threw him back in the water as I swiftly ran the other way. lol. 

[N Florida Mike]

Dont think I’m a bad parent, but when my kids were young we would all go wade fishing and swimming in the St Johns around the picolata area. There was a 5 foot gator that grew to around 8 feet in the years we fished there. He / she would always come out into the river from the cat tails when we were there. It would come out, watch us for a little while, then slowly go on out further into the river. He would do the exact same thing nearly every time .

One day it was just me and 2 of the kids. The gator came out as usual, and did his usual pause. I was bream fishing under shrimp docks, and the kids were splashing around nearby. When I looked for the gator, he was gone, or so I thought. Then I saw him coming toward us and already  halfway there. I made the kids get up on a dock, and I hung at the bottom of the ladder. As soon as they quit splashing, he quit coming, turning back out into the river, and went his way. It was the only time that one did that. Im sure the splashing made him curious.

 

[Catt]

2 hours ago, N Florida Mike said:

Dont think I’m a bad parent, but when my kids were young we would all go wade fishing and swimming in the St Johns around the picolata area.

 

That's part of life ?

 

I grew up in the coastal marshes/swamps of Southwest Louisiana hunting, fishing, trapping, & yes swimming.

 

Two of my sons & a nephew learned bass fishing waddling with me in the marshes. And now a grandson is enjoying the same outdoors with Pawpaw.

 

 

[Ski]

Just part of the Fl. wildlife that a person needs to relize that they live there and you are tresspassing. This little fella ate a floating repala I pitched near a laydown and got hooked. After I was able to get the bait off of him he tail slapped the heck out of me and I dropped him in the boat wher he proceeded to go into my open rod locker and through a rod hole into the hull. It took 3 days to get him out and two bites on the hand (with welders glove)

 

[Catt]

My son's swimming pool

 

 

[Herbert Lorenzo]

On 5/13/2021 at 3:22 PM, Dwight Hottle said:

I would rather deal with the gators than the black flies. 

They are wicked for sure . I was up in my tree stand once when they located me ... none stop attack and my buddy had walked off with my repellant earlier...one hunt I'll never forget.

[WRB]

The gator will catch up when the Anaconda grabs him.

Bugs, Minnesota got nothin on Florida for bugs.

Out west no bugs, no gators, no Anaconda, we have rattlesnakes, but most are in politics.

Tom

 

 

 

[Chris at Tech]

Have you seen this one?

 

 

[soflabasser]

@Chris at Tech That is a saltwater crocodile from Australia and surrounding areas in the video you showed. They are far more aggressive than the American alligator or American crocodile.

[MN Fisher]

6 minutes ago, soflabasser said:

That is a saltwater crocodile from Australia and surrounding areas in the video you showed. They are far more aggressive than the American alligator or American crocodile.

Ya - the Australian Salt and the Nile are the two most vicious reptilians. Compared to those two, the American Alligator or Crocodile are almost tame puddy-tats.

[soflabasser]

4 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

Ya - the Australian Salt and the Nile are the two most vicious reptilians. Compared to those two, the American Alligator or Crocodile are almost tame puddy-tats.

The Saltwater crocodile gets much larger as well. It is rare to see a 12 foot American alligator or 15 foot American crocodile in the wild but it is common for saltwater crocodiles to grow +15 feet in Australia.