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How many rocks are around the Econfina / Aucilla area?

17 billion
18
64%
1 (it's just about 10 miles long)
2
7%
Rocks? What rocks?
8
29%
 
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A couple more and I'll have a collection... :smt011 :smt011
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Yup, I've seen that before. I know a guy that has at least one more like that I'm sure he would be willing to deal on.
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ugadawg wrote:A couple more and I'll have a collection... :smt011 :smt011
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Both of those got a couple more seasons on them! :o
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JR says that meteors fall there every night. There are new rocks there each day.
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JR's explanation sounds as good as any I've heard! lol
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If anyone knows, JR should be the one! X3
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I've got plenty of props that look just like that. That's why I like aluminum ones. I'm saving them for a recycling payday.
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IF you go to the Aucilla at night, you can use a spotlight and watch the rocks migrate and breed. baby rocks soon pop up during rock spawning season. they migrate into the river in the winter to spawn.

My current record:
Rocks 1, Mercury foot 0
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When the water is stained & dark, I go with at least 1.5'+ tides, stick to a few "RELATIVELY" safe routes and go with the, "Rocks? What rocks?" mindset.

Then when the waters clear the pucker factor goes way up as I hold my breath and motor over the 17 billion rocks while frantically trying to mark them all.

Then by the time the waters get stained again and I find the time to get back out on the water, I wonder what in the heck all the unnamed waypoints represent... fish or rocks?! :oops: :lol:
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I understand the pucker factor. When the water is clear I have to take my polarized glasses off when I am running out of the river. Even though I look at the tides and know I'll be safe, it is still too scary to me to see all the rocks under me as I go out. The creeks are something else. I know where at least two of the rocks in the creeks are by now as you can see above.

The good news is that I will always know where some of the shallow rocks that warm the water around them in the cooler months are.
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I like the rocks. Just think how many people it keeps out your fishing spots. I have fishing buddy's that will not go down there.
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I think most of them are encrusted crab traps. I have been out there in a negative low with the yak, and there are probably 10 traps to every big rock.
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