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I recently went through this with a coworker who was killed in a motorcycle accident. I work in the mobility space and his family reached out to me as his personal iPad was locked and they had pictures on there which were not backed up to his computer... Previously there were still a few security holes on iOS that you could exploit and get the data pulled off of there, but unfortunately he was on the latest iOS which to my knowledge has not been cracked. Apple really needs to allow folks to designate a next of kin option or someone who can legally take ownership to where they can have a secondary unlock code for them. Its a shame that we have all this technology but not a method in place to recover irreplaceable pictures and videos from a deceased family members device.

Nice smallie and glad you can make it back on the water. Hope your wife has a speedy recovery, and glad that you guys are on the end of a nasty curveball that life threw you there.

Thank you all for the replies. I'll grab some gotchas as I've thrown those before. I'll call around for a charter too, its been 8 years or so since I did my last charter so was thinking maybe get out a bit further. I have a small cast net, and I always send out my minions to gather sand fleas and put my oldest on the sabiki rod to catch me some live ones! Never fished clearwater before, but sounds very similar to my experiences down in Destin. Thanks again fellas! I'll be sure to post up some pics and a full TR.

I have a 9ft surf rod with 250 or 300 yards on there. I've fished Destin and pcb area and agree it's great fishing. I'll have to research the spoons and grab some of those too. I also will bottom rig if i can get the sabiki rigs working on some decent bait. I looked at charters, but man they aren't cheap. I was used to $250 to $300 for a half day, but most I found were $500. Thanks guys for the feedback. Keep it coming

Ugh... Man work stinks LOL. Final tally from this weekend. What a great multi-species trip. 11 different species in one location is pretty awesome. Night bite was on, not quite on fire, but at times you were getting bumped just about every cast. I crimp all my trebles on my sticks and I lost prolly 3-4 fish per night who popped off before I could tell what they were. Most nights we fished from about 9-10pm till 2-4am. We threw floating 2 hook rapallas in various colors, and also some of the bigger 2 hook x raps in various colors. I also caught a few on a trout pattern rooster tail. I jigged a bit too and used 1/8 sculpin, white, yellow / red, and white / grey maribou. Used 10lb braid on sticks and rolled the dice with 4lb maxima for jigging. Rainbows - I personally Caught 21 Bows, biggest being a fat little 16incher. My BIL and John both had a few nice Bows as well. One night we didn't catch a single trout though LOL. Most of the bows had full tails and looked like they had been there a while. Only 1 or 2 little dink stockers Brown Trout - BIL caught 2 brown trout. A small 13-14 incher and then a nice 16incher who had just some amazing spot patterns on him. White Bass - White Bass galore... Honestly not sure how many we caught but it was a bunch. I probably caught over a dozen easy with the biggest going about 3lbs with a huge broad back on him. BIL and John both caught them too. They are a solid fish and man do they put up a great fight. Small Mouth - John had the one and only smallie. Large Mouth - I caught just one and he was a little guy Kentucky - Same thing just one little guy who was pretty beat up from taking the plunge I guess Crappie - Had 2 smaller crappie, with one barely longer than my x rap Green Sunfish - I saw a guy on Thursday catching these and John was able to land one. Drum - Not sure how I hooked this guy on a rooster tail but somehow he was mouth hooked White Sucker - Johns big sucker was a drag peeler and I was hoping he had a big Brown on... Walleyes - Walleye stole the show. Some big mean ones too with 3 being right at and just above 23 inches. Smallest was maybe 18- 19 incher. They fought harder than some of the other walters I've caught down there before. I think the final tally for all of us was 15 or 16 of them. There's 4 less in there now as we had an awesome fish fry saturday. Good times indeed. Until next time!

So my Summer vacations are spinning up here in 2 weeks. First excursion involves a few days in clearwater before we head to disney. Plan on at least pier fishing a bit from the big pier there, but any advice on some decent half day charters? A month from now we will be in Panama City Beach Florida and I have already booked a from the shore night time sharking trip, but again looking for any decent charters, or any areas I must fish. Thanks guys!

Haha, we were waiting for the infamous 1:00am bite. For some reason the fish turn on at 1. You can really lose all sense of time out there at night. Many times I'll fish right up to dawn not even realizing it... John we'll have to plan a marathon weekend with just the boys. Get some day fishing in too, and see the lake from a boat. Hopefully less flow and we can get the fly rods wet. I'm back home now... Back to the grind... I already miss it as this was an excellent trip despite only being able to fish at night. John's day sounded like mine. Lots of family stuff, but I'm thankful for it and I then have evening fishing to look forward to, I know one thing, I'll sleep good tonight.

Man these last 2 whites just crushed my stick. They are great fighters too.

Back at it one more night. Starting off good so far. Still trying for a brown....

Haha, sleep is overrated when it's fishing time! I crashed pretty good last night after 3 days... Felt pretty good that the fish cooperated and made me look like I knew what I was doing, but really it was all dumb luck That was a nice Walter you stuck.

Sounds like an awesome time! Made me hungry reading it lol. I also got to see a swap meet goodie tonight that I'm sure John will put to use!

Man that is crazy and horrible... Hope the family can find peace.

If you make it up by the dam I'd say focus towards the banks, the walleye are def up in the banks and slower moving water busting the shad. Fish the seams where the main channel hits the slower moving water and you'll find them. White bass were hitting hard tonight too, and putting up a great fight. Good luck out there.

Just finished up another awesome night on the water. Johnsfolly and I have been trying to sync up and fish for a while now, and we finally made it happen. It was a pleasure buddy and looking forward to when we can do it again! I think the multi species effect decided to really fire up for John as we caught all kinds of fish tonight. White bass, smallmouth, walleye, sunfish, a big sucker, and rainbows all decided to come out and play. We fished the same spots up by the cable and back down past outlet one, and we were catching pretty consistently until it trailed off towards the end of our time. Sadly the brownies escaped us this time, but we're going to get one eventually. Not sure how long the TR invaders will stick around, but man it is fun not knowing what's on the end of your line. The white bass were fighting and hitting hard tonight, and I had a real nice one about swallow my stick. Jigged a bit more tonight and picked up some nice solid 15in bows too. Overall just a great night on the water, and big thanks to @Phil Lilley for without this forum, John and I would likely never have met!

Hit a trout pattern rooster tail. Not much room to wade at all, but you can get out far enough from the banks to make clean casts and that's it.

Went back to it tonight, 1 trout, 1 drum, 1 bass, another crappie, but 9 walleye including 2 right at 23 inches and fat chunky suckers. Bite was a bit slower this evening, but the walleye made up for it. Fished bigger x raps tonight and caught the bigger guy's on those. Caught almost all of them up by the cable, with a few coming below outlet 1

Sweet! So 1 million back as that was my likely odds with my bad luck lol. Thanks again buddy! I'll let ya know how they do

BH if the water stays off then I think I'm going to throw the fry tonight in some of the backflow and break that sucker in. What's the warranty like when a big walleye chews on it lol.

Yeah, waters alive for sure. Fish were busting shad everywhere on the surface last night. Love the variety, but stinks it takes flooding to put all foreigners in there. Can't wait to see what we get tonight!

Shutting down for the night. Caught a first at Taney crappie, some solid bows, and my BIL stuck 2 Brown's, a bunch of white bass for the both of us and a chunky walleye. Great night tonight. Fish we're hitting hard. Most came on sticks with a few on the jig. Stick bite stayed hot from 1 to 3. We fished at the cable and worked our way down past the first outlet. Gates are still closed but they are running 4 units again I think. It's flowing pretty good.

Multi species night... Switched over to a 1/8 grey and white jig. No trout but the bass sure do like it.

2nd bow about this size. Good fighters, but not the beast in looking for.

Decent Walter for first fish of the night

Finally back to my favorite water. Heading out now to see what we can catch. I'll try to keep this update this time.

Just got down, looks like they just closed the gates. Not sure why or for how long, but it's still flowing real good... Size of the fish at the kiddie pool is promising... There's some bruisers swimming around in there.