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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Saturday, August 5, 2023. Fort McMurray, Alberta to Cree Lake Lodge, Saskatchewan. We were up early and at the Fort McMurray Aviation hangar by 7:30 a.m. as instructed. Nobody else was there, though, so we hung out and took photos. Shortly after 7:30, a guy named Wade appeared and asked us to bring our luggage
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There were basically two ways for us to get from the Lansing area in Michigan to Fort McMurray, Alberta in August 2023: drive to Detroit and fly to Fort McMurray, or drive from the Lansing area to Fort McMurray. Mark and I did a quick comparison of costs and determined that with four people in
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After two days of driving, we returned home to get our pups, Snickers and Winston, from their favorite play place–Nana ‘N Paws in Grand Ledge. On the drive home from Nana ‘N Paws, the pups sang a swan song we’d never heard before. Listen to this video and you’ll hear what I mean. We were
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January 26 and 27, 2023. If you’ve never gone to Florida, you may think the weather in Florida is always warm because it’s in like, in “the south.” Guess–or dress–again. Because while it got to 85 the day before we started fishing, by the second to last day of our trip, it was 56 degrees
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January 25, 2023. We met Captain Mike Arnoldy at 5:30 at the bait shop in Fellsmere, which is a hub for anglers fishing Fellsmere Reservoir and Stick Marsh, amongst other waterbodies. Many anglers go to this shop to get live shiners in the morning, and some anglers gather in the late afternoon to share their
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