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[Ham]

Great Job Andy!

[Johnsfolly]

Sounds like a great time. Good looking fish. Have you caught a Suwannee yet? I still have them on my to do list for bass fishing. A couple of summers ago I fished Georgia and Florida trying to catch as many different bass species as possible. I lost two Suwannees right at the boat and never hooked up with another. I found red eye bass in up state Georgia in the Amicalola (sp.) river. They are a lot like shoal bass in their preference for fast moving water and shoals.

[Plastic_worm]

Beautiful fish. My wife and in-laws always want to vacation in FL. Next time I might not fight back so hard. Sounds like a great trip!

[David Unnerstall]

That looks like quite the experience but the fist thing I thought of, when seeing the first picture, was ALLIGATORS.

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[Ham]

I put the Tarpon 100 in a lake near Minden, La when I lived there. I had a few hours that I could fish and it was a lot easier than putting the big boat in. I had seen gators there before. the biggest one I had seen was about an 8 footer. There are almost always gattors there even if you never see them.

The fishing was decent and I of course ended up staying longer than anticipated and darkness caught me before I got back to the ramp. it was pretty darn dark. No moon and no lights.No big deal right, gators really arent very aggressive towards ppl.

Right before I made the last little turn to the take out an unseen beaver did a massive tail slap about 5 foot off the port of the bow. I had a split second of serious anxiety before I reasoned out what had just happened. darn beavers.

[BFTMASTER]

Darn beavers!! Oh well nothing Tide and Oxyclean can't fix. LOL

[Johnsfolly]

I used to fish a lot of the sloughs around Jupiter Farms, Florida when I lived there in the 90's. I nearly stepped on a gator one evening after work when I was going down the bank to fish. It ended up chewing on my Sluggo. When it opened its mouth I tried to flip the bait out but ended up setting the hook into its tongue. The gator was about 4' in length. It came in to the bank like pulling in a beach towel. Once I got it near shore, I reeled down so the rod tip was as close to its mouth as possible and then snapped the rod up to break the line. I still cringe thinking about how much that might have hurt. The worse gators were those that would go after every fish that you caught. Once that started happening you just have to move on to a new location. There was a guy fishing that was cited for feeding the alligators every time he released a fish adn they would eat it once it hit the water. I guess they flet he didn't do enough to scare off the gators beofre releasing the fish.