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I was surprised that when the Florida Sportsmen Forum shut down, this one didn't really take off.
Many of the contributors over there also posted and viewed here.

I have heard that lots of local sportsmen have formed Facebook groups and post there.

Its all very sad.

Its a great shame this Forum appears to be dying.
I have some good memories of the area and the people I met through this Forum.

What a great report, thanks for posting.
I have read it a few times and am still jealous.

Its sad to read of the passing of RHTFISH, I enjoyed his contributions here, over the years.

That is a very impressive tribute video , well done and thank you Big Bend Gyrene.

A great man, I was proud to meet and correspond with him.

We could have a thread just about gundogs. :D

My experience of using pointers, has been spoilt by dogs ranging far ahead, not being too steady on the point and prematurely flushing the bird.
The other gripe, is nice steady dogs, guns approach to within 5 yards, bird flushed and shot at 10 yards ...

Another good batch of pics, you have some lovely country there.
I have never worked springer spaniels, further than 30 yards, when flushing birds. At that distance they are trained to turn and sit at flush.
Not much experience with pointers, most of my game shooting has either been driven birds, or ...

Thanks Danibeth, very nice pictures.
That is some great, dense bird holding cover in the woodland picture, hard work for a lot of dogs.
Is that the reason for the collar fitted locator aerial ?

I hope you all stay safe, this looks terrible.

The old bickering and craziness was cleaned out of FS Forum some years ago.
I think they all moved to Faceache, or somewhere similar.

Before the funny comments start,I have to confess that the title for this thread should read "Florida Sportsmen Forums closing down ".
I blame prescriptive text on my old office software.

As from 6th July Florida Sportsmen is closing down all of its Forums.
Hopefully, members from the NWFlorida region will migrate here.
Many of them (like me) have had an interest in both Forums and are nice people.

It was hard luck to lose a good fish, especially to a broken hook.
Friends laughed at me for replacing all my lure hooks, especially the single ones and replacing the "popular" flies in my box, every year.
Very funny, but I never lost a fish due to faulty hooks.

We have caught a few on the buoy line out of Apalachicola.

I hope everyone is safe and not had too many problems with this storm.