Florida Vacation 2024 #1

Lake Okeechobee, January 23 – February 3

We booked early and ended up on the lake during the busiest time of the year starting with a big MLF tournament at the beginning of our trip and then B.A.S.S. showed up to start practicing before MLF finished for an even bigger tournament at the end of our stay. In spite of the crowds we still caught a lot of fish inluding some pretty big ones.

I brought 8 trailcams and set them up on the banks of the canals around the lake, I expect to see a lot of raccoons and possums and I’ve also captured alligators, iguanas, marsh rabbits, bobcats, deer, coyotes and black bear, plus a lot of birds when I pick them up in March.

Highlights from a few Hikes December 2-17

I spent the first half of December checking on and bringing most of my trailcams home, I only left 7 out and except a few favorite spots I plan to use again, I will find new homes for the other 30+ cameras.

I’m guessing a wolf got this fawn and it’s not as broken up as a usual wolf kill because it didn’t share it with the rest of the pack.

Deer season is still open so while hitting all my cameras I did make a little effort to get another deer but didn’t see many and none were bucks.

Highlights from 3 Cameras

This first camera has been a good spot in the past, I’ve had a camera here for around 10 years, but the wolves in the area are starting to take a serious toll on the deer population.
This spot was pretty good during the rut except picture quality sucked so I took it down and will set one in the same area next year.
I set this Camera to watch bears when the creek was full of pink salmon, I took it down when I checked it this time