Upper Aucilla adventures
Posted: June 3rd, 2020, 10:29 pm
The Sunday before last I went to a place many people don't know about on the upper Aucilla with the boat. I go there often to relax or fish off the bank by myself but rarely with the boat, but not becuase it's not good fishing. It's just quite possibly the roughest place to get anywhere in a boat, which is saying alot considering how rough the upper Aucilla can be. I drug and drug and fought and finally got to the best spot at which point I was ate up with yellowflies and had already clashed with poison ivy which messes me all up. The 3 huge bream on the lure, who didn't seem to mind the noise I was making smashing into logs, kept me motivated. Anyway once I got there I grabbed the plastic worm and got a bass that was a few pounds. I just knew I was about wear them out. It was bass heaven. Hiacynths, logs, and the water was still but not low, and it still had it's trademark black color.
Got the bass back safely and looked up to see 2 gators that weren't giants but definitely big enough to mess me up. It took forever for them to go under as the yellowflies tore me up.Then another gator appeared and that bad boy was a dinosaur. I almost turned around but he went back under and I fished probably 2/3 of the stretch of wide water that I paddled to. I went back to bream fishing just to get enough to eat and get out of there for safety reasons between the gators, yellowflies, poison ivy and paddle back up over logs. I'm glad I didn't turn around. I probably could have wore the bass out like I first thought. I do know I could have caught 100 plate sized bream on the lure, let alone live bait. They were biting so good that I wouldn't doubt that you could have narrowed it down to the species. Crickets on the sides for Redbreasts and worms in the deep water for Bluebream. And either one for Stumpknockers up in the cypress knees.
I went back to another place on the upper Aucilla today and saw that the water had dropped all the way into the banks, and probably 6 whole feet in the wide parts! Log after log, more poison ivy and the worst yellowflies I had ever seen! I had long pants on knowing that they would be at their peak but I didn't know the water level had dropped like it did. Having to drag so much I fooled around and got my fanny with the long pants wet. That plus yellowflies...pfffft...fished as long as I could with the plastic worm which wasn't long, switched to the lure and caught 2 bream to eat and got the you know what out of there lol! It looked even more bassy today with the water clearing up, and these other neat little flowers on the top of the still water, logs, etc.
If I make it back again I'm ditching the long pants for the bathing suit. That way I can get wet and not feel like I sat in sulfuric acid lol! Then rubber boots for the flies on my legs. I had shorts on the time before with no shoes and got out of the flies in the sun. Today was cloudy so they followed me everywhere! But fun times either way. I still plan on a paddle trip and shuttling the whole upper Aucilla this summer.
Got the bass back safely and looked up to see 2 gators that weren't giants but definitely big enough to mess me up. It took forever for them to go under as the yellowflies tore me up.Then another gator appeared and that bad boy was a dinosaur. I almost turned around but he went back under and I fished probably 2/3 of the stretch of wide water that I paddled to. I went back to bream fishing just to get enough to eat and get out of there for safety reasons between the gators, yellowflies, poison ivy and paddle back up over logs. I'm glad I didn't turn around. I probably could have wore the bass out like I first thought. I do know I could have caught 100 plate sized bream on the lure, let alone live bait. They were biting so good that I wouldn't doubt that you could have narrowed it down to the species. Crickets on the sides for Redbreasts and worms in the deep water for Bluebream. And either one for Stumpknockers up in the cypress knees.
I went back to another place on the upper Aucilla today and saw that the water had dropped all the way into the banks, and probably 6 whole feet in the wide parts! Log after log, more poison ivy and the worst yellowflies I had ever seen! I had long pants on knowing that they would be at their peak but I didn't know the water level had dropped like it did. Having to drag so much I fooled around and got my fanny with the long pants wet. That plus yellowflies...pfffft...fished as long as I could with the plastic worm which wasn't long, switched to the lure and caught 2 bream to eat and got the you know what out of there lol! It looked even more bassy today with the water clearing up, and these other neat little flowers on the top of the still water, logs, etc.
If I make it back again I'm ditching the long pants for the bathing suit. That way I can get wet and not feel like I sat in sulfuric acid lol! Then rubber boots for the flies on my legs. I had shorts on the time before with no shoes and got out of the flies in the sun. Today was cloudy so they followed me everywhere! But fun times either way. I still plan on a paddle trip and shuttling the whole upper Aucilla this summer.