caloosa bug

Thanks bud. I'm ready when you are... My best fishing trips to the creek were always during low levels. I didn't bring a rod this time, but as much fun as we had, I see more trip's coming soon. Next time a streamer and a panfish fly will get drifted around for sure. Yes, that is the monument tree and we went east. My plan was to head west... as that is where I normally go. Also, I wanted to paddle back with the current. Then at the check in, they said there would be a good canoe drag before the first twisties, and there was more floatable water east to rock lake. So we just went east . Funny thing was that the wind played more of a factor than the current. We had a head wind going east and the open stretch under 27 seemed like it took forever to get back to where the creek narrowed. One we reached a point that we needed to head back, going against the gentle current, with a stiff wind behind us, we reach the bridge before we knew it. We saw maybe 6 gators and 5 were six to 8 footers. No dinosaurs were spotted on this trip

It's been 3 years since I've been to Fisheating creek, and it's only 15 minutes from the house. My oldest son was in the pictures that I started this thread with. He's now taller than me, and my second son has only been once. We've been talking about going for a while, and finally just went. Water levels are too low for a jon boat, so we paddled a canoe for most of the day. We had a blast just exploring this beautiful piece of God's creation.

My son got some slabs today jiggling a jig for the first time. 🙂

Finally had some calm winds and was able to get out on the Big O. I've been itching to go find some specks. Weather was beautiful and the company of my son and dad was even better. My son was kicking our but to start with. We brought home 23 that were over the 10in. minimum. Caught them on both jigs and minnows. It was a great half day.

Come up to the Caloosahatchee in Moore Haven. Lake hicpochee has been holding giant gills on the river points, culverts are flowing and snook and tarpon should be gathering in numbers. Schools of sunshine bass were smashing anything on top Sunday morning as I was waiting for an appropriate time to crank up the chainsaw. All within easy paddling distance. For lodging..not much around here.. you could camp at hickpochee, but 🦟 might carry you off. Fisheating creek campground has been way above flood stage, and I'm not sure if the campground is open yet or if there is any dry ground at all. Call me if you like.. or if I happen to see you, I'll politely wave and keep my distance.😁

I had a 12 Jon boat, upside down behind the pop up camper on the ground. Still haven't found it. Neighbors checked around and it's nowhere to be seen. Checked the pasture and train tracks that are behind the tall weeds too. 🤷‍♂️

Man what a catastrophe up and down the coast. I'm in glades county and about 60 Miles east of Ft. Myers beach inland. Fortunately for us the southern half of the storm had very little rain and we got maybe 60-70 mph winds. No big deal here. The kicker for us was that my parents house got hit by a tornado spun off from an initial band the night before the hurricane actually arrived. My middle son and dad were asleep. They woke up to some banging at 2 am and just went back to sleep. The next morning dad called and said, we have a problem. We grabbed what we could before the weather worsened ahead of the hurricane. Thankfully, the hurricane didn't add much to the damage. I sure hope Swamp Fly made it out ok. Babcock and the cape took a direct hit.🙏

Been looking for them all summer. Now it seems that anywhere I fish in the Caloosahatchee there are plenty of hungry slabs. Found another spot from the bank that has nothing but big gills.

Chose files from my iPhone XR gallery

I think I'll call it the Hicpochee Special.

Thanks guys. I started where I left off last weekend. 1 fly 2 1/2 hours. Tons of fun.

It was a pretty slow morning. Then just as I was about to head in, I stumbled onto a panfish condominium. It's pretty awesome when you only see the fish as they turn broadside when inhaling your fly.

That's really cool. I've seen Capt. Bouncer on many different fishing shows over the years.

Thank you sir! They are pretty. A little old martin, and a maxcatch extreme, 3wt. 8’4”, 4 pc.

https://youtu.be/SijwWTuJoBU Discovery Channel Something Bit Me.Season 1 E7. For full episode. This happened in my hometown in the same spot I learned to swim and ski. Situation and number of 🐊 was a lot different then. A boat running nearby as opposed to lone swimmers swimming across the river, sure ups the chances of getting bit too.

.https://youtu.be/0A1cI2kZkLQ

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My little girl was all about wanting to go fishing this past weekend. So we did some bank fishing under a shade tree with crickets Saturday. My middle son was more interested in what he could catch in the long handled shrimp net. We found a handful of handful sized gills and she wanted to come back with the boat. So Sunday we went back for a couple hours and caught several more good ones, along with all the hard pulling cichlids she could handle. We had a blast.

Yes sir it was. It was a bass in the center. He swallowed the fly and expired pretty quickly in the live well. I was just getting a couple meals for my parents and simply didn’t want to bother with filleting the oscars. I released them in the canal behind my house.

Some of this weekend’s bounty. I let the oscars go after some photos. Caught probably 50 Mayans to the 12 bluegill. The 3 wt. got a workout. Trying to upload some video. Maybe I’ll figure it out tomorrow.

Good stuff Swamp! Glad to see you’ve been enjoying yourself. I’m sure that canoe has opened up some great skinny water adventures. Fisheating creek is 10 miles from my house and a lot of fond memories have been made there also. Thanks for sharing