Florida Vacation Part 2

Highlights from 3 of the best days of bass fishing I’ve ever had

The first of these 3 days, stick worms, curly tail worms, swimjigs, and top water was the ticket. The next 2 days, flipping a heavy weight in the cattail jungle accounted for most of our bites, but the swimjigs and worms still got some good bites.

The weekend brought a 200-boat tournament to Roland Martin’s Marina, and while the fishing was still good, we got tired of fishing around those guys; so after putting together about a 19-pound 5-fish limit by noon, which would have put us in about 15th place, we anchored up and watched bobbers, some channel cats, bluegills and cichlids went for our worms.

After the tournament guys went in, we started to fish for bass again, but a storm came up so we went in before we got soaked.

We ended the day fishing at a canal, and while I was petting a friendly cat that decided to join us as I was taking pictures, Andy caught the biggest bass of the trip.

Florida Bass Fishing Vacation at Lake Okeechobee, Part 1

Setting Trail Cameras and Dodging Thunder Storms

I set this camera in the woods off of Uncle Joe’s Cut. It received a lot of hits from raccoons, plus Opossums, and an armadillo

This camera didn’t capture much except this heron.

The iguana was the most interesting thing this camera took a picture of.

A Vulture and a crow were the most frequent visitors here, but also a lot of hits from raccoons, rabbits, and Opossums.

This was my best camera during our stay, along with the alligator I caught some wild pigs, raccoons, Opossums and a variety of birds.

I will be posting the highlights from those cameras later. I set one more camera on the bank of the Rim Canal that I set for videos and captured some swamp people collecting bait. Though they didn’t seem to appreciate being filmed they were decent enough not to steal my camera.
The next day the weather was forecast to be real stormy so instead of taking out the rental boat we spent the day trying different spots from shore. We had pretty good luck and found a great spot thanks to a tip from a local that produced a lot of nice fish throughout our stay including Andy’s (my brother) largest of the trip. a 7.5 pounder.

Coast Guard Beach Trail

This trail starts at Point Higgins School and leads to a beach at the junction of Tongass Narrows, Behm Canal and Clarence Strait.
The first place to access the beach takes you to an area of rocky shoreline. and offers a good view of the Guard Island Lighthouse and Clarence Strait; the entrance to Tongass Narrows is on the left, and Behm Canal is to the right.
The trail continues for about 1/4 mile to a nice sandy beach (by Ketchikan standards)

Checking 5 Cameras

Hiking April 4, 2021

This is an ancient buck; he reached his peak a few years ago, and is now regressing. Below is a picture from the first year I saw him on a trailcam.

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This camera overlooks a main trail; I believe the branch at the top of the picture is a licking branch, but I haven’t caught a buck using it yet.

This camera monitors a main trail and a bed.

This was my first check of this spot; the camera captures an intersection of two main trails.