Ninering62
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My friend has a 16' canoe with a 34lb thrust trolling motor on it that he calls the " SS Fukabout ". We were supposed to go fishing Friday but family stuff intervened , so it got pushed to this morn.
Waiting all wk to go fishing & it getting canceled the night before SUCKS but nuthin is screwin us up this mornin.
We're OFF!
Shell Mound here we come!
From Lake City it's a hellova haul down to Shell Mound or Cedar Key, but in the last 3yrs of my friend taking me, I've yet to regret making the trip even once.
We have to lol at ourselves bc we've joked about it bein a good thing we ain't takin any women with us bc they tend to want to bring half the house with them, but we certainly do a damn fine job of filling the car to the point where there ain't a square inch of free space in it & the canoe always ends up so full of crap that the canoe looks like a refugee raft on an Atlantic crossing.
We use cast nets & hip waders to catch our own bait & we go after trout, redfish, black drum, and sharks. But we are expanding on the fish species we are targeting. We've both been fishing since we were babies g enough to hold a fishing pole & these trips are better than birthday presents to us.
But we've both reached the age where we need at least a day of recovery after a fishing trip.
The last 2 trips we've found ourselves surrounded by schools of porpoises mating & feeding in the shallows.
Ahhhh whatta life huh!
The last trip to Ceday Key we watched a water spout form & do its thing for a good while. Pretty friggin scary - from a canoe lol, but hey, the fish were biting, so we weren't leaving.
Waiting all wk to go fishing & it getting canceled the night before SUCKS but nuthin is screwin us up this mornin.
We're OFF!
Shell Mound here we come!
From Lake City it's a hellova haul down to Shell Mound or Cedar Key, but in the last 3yrs of my friend taking me, I've yet to regret making the trip even once.
We have to lol at ourselves bc we've joked about it bein a good thing we ain't takin any women with us bc they tend to want to bring half the house with them, but we certainly do a damn fine job of filling the car to the point where there ain't a square inch of free space in it & the canoe always ends up so full of crap that the canoe looks like a refugee raft on an Atlantic crossing.
We use cast nets & hip waders to catch our own bait & we go after trout, redfish, black drum, and sharks. But we are expanding on the fish species we are targeting. We've both been fishing since we were babies g enough to hold a fishing pole & these trips are better than birthday presents to us.
But we've both reached the age where we need at least a day of recovery after a fishing trip.
The last 2 trips we've found ourselves surrounded by schools of porpoises mating & feeding in the shallows.
Ahhhh whatta life huh!
The last trip to Ceday Key we watched a water spout form & do its thing for a good while. Pretty friggin scary - from a canoe lol, but hey, the fish were biting, so we weren't leaving.
