A unique website dedicated to fishing information from Florida's Northern Big Bend. This includes the area from the Econfina River west to the Apalachicola River
Use this area to post freshwater fishing reports from the area lakes and rivers. Please try to include relevant information such as:
Location, date, time, water conditions, weather conditions, baits, techniques, species caught, etc.
We put in at the ramp right there in B-bridge. It was cold and breezy. We fished around the ramp for a few minutes and out the channel. We were fishing in my friends new Z-21 with a 250 HPDI hangin on the back. Nice rig. As we idled out the channel we headed slightly North and the rear up the boat lurched up...WTF??? So we idled on over to the far side and tilted the motor up and sure enough, one of the prop blades was bent on the end alomst doubled over. So we head back to the dock and try to straighten it with some channel locks. Haha yeah right. Stainless sucks if you have to bend it. So we idled back out and fished were we could picking up only one small fish. We put the boat back on the trailer around 2:00. When I was back there hooking the straps I gave the prop a spin and sure enough the shaft was bent too. So this was a pretty expensive trip but I think he has insurance. I kept telling him we should have went to the Oklocknee river.
Sounds like you we at the boat basin if you were idling out of a channel. There's a large rock at the channel entrance, rather poorly marked, that has claimed many a lower unit. Always best to idle out into the river a-ways before turning north/south.
