Wakulla River 2/11
Posted: February 11th, 2006, 7:35 pm
Took #1 (13 yr. old son) and put in at upper bridge at 11:15 in the rain. By 11:30 the jr. league bass pro had a keeper in the boat at the first hole we went to. Not five minutes later he pulled a fat three pounder out of the same hole. Both largemouths on a black/yellow Snagless Sally with yellow/white strip. We decided to head down to the next hole. It's raining harder.
We caught nothing out of the next hole. We pulled anchor and started drifting over the hole looking down at the bass looking up at us. That's something I've noticed about this river. Doesn't matter how quiet and sneaky you are, when you've seen the fish, they've seen you and get lock-jaw.
Started working our way down toward Cherry Island, mostly bird watching. Now that we're both wet, the rain has stopped, the mercury's dropping and the north wind is starting to pick up. We came to the unanimous conclusion that jeans are not proper canoeing attire. Particularly in the rain. Think this was one of those things I already knew, that had to be reinforced.
Got to Cherry Island and threw a few casts, but by now we're so cold we don't really care about fishing. Decided the best way to get warm in a canoe was to paddle. Got the boat turned around and durn near had'er planed off on the way back up.
Stopped in one of the sloughs below the first island below Upper Bridge, out of the wind, for a break. Then tried to sneak up on the bass we saw earlier. Caught one redeye on a Fat Free Guppy crankbait, lost another fish on the same lure and said to heck with it. We're still wet and now we're back out in the wind. We gave it up a little before four and headed for the hot showers.
Both agreed that it was an outstanding day.
We caught nothing out of the next hole. We pulled anchor and started drifting over the hole looking down at the bass looking up at us. That's something I've noticed about this river. Doesn't matter how quiet and sneaky you are, when you've seen the fish, they've seen you and get lock-jaw.
Started working our way down toward Cherry Island, mostly bird watching. Now that we're both wet, the rain has stopped, the mercury's dropping and the north wind is starting to pick up. We came to the unanimous conclusion that jeans are not proper canoeing attire. Particularly in the rain. Think this was one of those things I already knew, that had to be reinforced.
Got to Cherry Island and threw a few casts, but by now we're so cold we don't really care about fishing. Decided the best way to get warm in a canoe was to paddle. Got the boat turned around and durn near had'er planed off on the way back up.
Stopped in one of the sloughs below the first island below Upper Bridge, out of the wind, for a break. Then tried to sneak up on the bass we saw earlier. Caught one redeye on a Fat Free Guppy crankbait, lost another fish on the same lure and said to heck with it. We're still wet and now we're back out in the wind. We gave it up a little before four and headed for the hot showers.
Both agreed that it was an outstanding day.
"hey, it's better than no excuse" 
Sounds like y'all had a blast 