February 27, 2024. Last night, I was sitting outside the Hontoon Resort and Marina when a man–perhaps 65–walked up with a drink in his hand. He said hello, introduced himself by telling me his name and that he was is from Dexter, Michigan, a small town in southeast Michigan. We chatted for a bit and […]
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February 26, 2024. Captain Jim Pruitt gave us the option of fishing at Lake Yale, another lake, or returning to the St. John’s River again. Since we’d started getting into bass yesterday at Lake Yale–and St. John’s hadn’t produced many fish–we opted for a third day at Lake Yale. It was quite chilly again this
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February 25, 2024. We met Captain Jim Pruitt at Marsh Park to fish Lake Yale again. The moon was hanging around, and I shot this with my cell phone. It looks a lot better on my cell phone. The day started out very promising, because by 7:36 I’d nabbed my first bass (to the left).
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February 24, 2024. While we hadn’t had much luck fishing the St. John’s River with Captain Jim Pruitt, on our one day off from guided fishing Mark and I rented a boat and, yes, went fishing on the St. John’s River. The boat came with the most quiet of motors ever–a little Honda that purred
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February 23, 2024. High winds were forecasted for the day, so Captain Jim Pruitt suggested we fish another stretch of the St. John’s River, which would offer more protection than an inland lake. We met Captain Jim at Lemon Bluff Park. There are two parking areas here, one affording perhaps a dozen parking spots, and
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February 22, 2023. We met Captain Jim Pruitt at the Marsh Park Boat Ramp on an inland lake we’d never heard of called Lake Yale. It was a 45-minute drive from the Hontoon Resort on Florida back roads and mostly in the dark. I was excited to fish a new lake. The lake was foggy.
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February 21, 2024. One of the things I love about bass fishing is getting up early to see the sun rise, and one of the things I love about Florida is how many awesome sun rises one gets to see when one does get up early. The photos above are of our first sunrise in
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February 18, 2024. Since Mark and I had both taken I75 to get from Michigan to Florida many times over the years, in 2024 we instead hopped on 96 towards Ann Arbor, M23 towards I75 to 280 in Toledo, 80/90 across northern Ohio to Cleveland, and onto highway 77 which took us through Akron, Ohio
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Day after day I’m on conference calls, and most are via Teams, and some are about as boring, as boring as can be. I hung up on one the other day after watching flapping jaws, and everything that I had heard was like, “Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.” My boss called up and asked of
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Thursday, August 10, 2023. Being biologists, Mark and I are always curious about the wildlife where we travel. Art told us there are no turtles, snakes, or frogs this far north. The wife of one of the owners said that there are bats in the roofs of some of the cabins. We’d seen a porcupine,
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