





I’m ready for spring and summer! I finished my upper Aucilla paddling trip last summer, then did pretty good with my mullet fishing towards the end. I’ve since been treated to a cold day trip to Lake Miccosukee, and I’ve been fishing a whopping 2 times off the bank.
The Wacissa is next. I’ve been up and down most of it already, but I’ve never been to Half Mile Rise from the Wacissa. I’ve also never been up Cow Creek as far as you can go. It’s big enough that it counts as having to cover to say you’ve been down the whole river IMO. There’s also the Western Sloughs/Hell’s Half Acre but I don’t think that counts as a mandatory paddle. There are enough places in it you can check out on land, and some of them are about as far apart as the places on the Aucilla in Middle Aucilla. And some of it is just plain swamp.
So...when you hang that right off of 98 to go to the easier spots there in the sloughs, you then hang a left. The right you can take is always open but it gets rough pretty soon after you turn. Has anybody ever been all the way down it to the river? If it’s not a terrible drive when it’s dry or not a terrible walk, I think I want to start there instead of Goose Pasture. Even if it was 100 years ago I want to hear about it. I have kayak now btw. If I can’t get my boat down there I can still carry the kayak. The kayak was an idea anyway because the trip to Half Mile rise could tear up an aluminum boat big time from what I’ve seen the 2 times I’ve creeped into that channel.