Econ Fishing

I worked as much as I could today...decided to go kayak fishing with Jr on the Econ river. We left around 1:30pm from the SR419 launch site in Oviedo. The river was at a nice level as we only had one portage on the day. It was an exciting day for alligator viewing. Lots of big 'ol gators sunning themselves on small white sandy beaches along the river.

First stop was a geocache named 'Snake Alley'. We found it pretty quickly and were back on the river within 10 minutes. There are about 20 other geocaches hidden along the river.

As for fishing we lost a couple of lures, one Senko 4" and a $1.00 Walmart spinner, snagged on submerged dead wood. I still had the drag set from breaking the line from one of those lures when I got a BIG hit, fish starting heading towards us and when it saw the kayak, it took off breaking the line, as the drag was set toooo tight. Was exciting...but no fish in the boat. Next we came up to the 'Honey' hole. I'm caught nice bass here almost every outing. First there's a gator that hangs out here and is starting to become less and less afraid when we approach. May need to make buzzard bait of him one day. Anyway...dropped a Senko right next to some nice structure and let it sink....BAM big fish on. This bass jumped about three times splashing Jr and me...was very exciting. Finally got him in the boat, ~6-8lbs. Photo by Jr.