Thursday, February 25, 2010

Fishing on Okeechobee






Well, the weather finally warmed up enough to warm the waters so the blue gills would start biting. These Florida fish act like the people down here; if the weather gets below 70 degrees they hibernate. The last few days we have been able to get into some nice blue gills.

I went out one day and wasted a lot of gas looking for them, I put in at the launch in our park and went right across from the launch and caught dinner for me, Denise, Mom, Dad, Denny and Vicci. Now, that was a long trip to find them. About 50ft. Might have to go to town and refill the boat after that trip. LOL. Mom cooked them up for us; boy were they good, fresh from the lake into the skillet.

Dad, Denny and I went out yesterday and caught 30 nice gills. Then something told us it was time to go in. I think it might have been the rain that we didn't notice coming at us. Well we noticed it when it was hitting us on the head. We looked up and saw a wall of rain heading our way. Of course we had to go in the direction that it was coming from to get back to the truck. Yep we got wet but, we didn't have to deice our poles or line at any time like I do up there in them northern rivers this time of the year.

I included a couple of pics so maybe you can enjoy like we did.

1 comment:

  1. wow... impressive, I bet that was some good eating!

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