• Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).

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Was suppose to go w my best friend @White Eagle to fish the okchobee swamp for a week.
BC of shit at work i can only go 1 full day. So im gonna drive charleston to bum fuck Florida to slay fish. I have all brand new gear Salt and freshwater. But ive been on the coast so long my freshwater skills have lost some luster.
Anyone w good tips?
I have all style and size of beetle spins. Im thinking I need about 4 types of mepps spinners.
I have all the worms and frogs hoolapoppers etc.
I guess im looking for a secret like shutting in a sock to catch the big catfish.
Any help appreciated
 
Was suppose to go w my best friend @White Eagle to fish the okchobee swamp for a week.
BC of shit at work i can only go 1 full day. So im gonna drive charleston to bum fuck Florida to slay fish. I have all brand new gear Salt and freshwater. But ive been on the coast so long my freshwater skills have lost some luster.
Anyone w good tips?
I have all style and size of beetle spins. Im thinking I need about 4 types of mepps spinners.
I have all the worms and frogs hoolapoppers etc.
I guess im looking for a secret like shutting in a sock to catch the big catfish.
Any help appreciated

We used to go stay there in college on spring break and do nothing but fish/drink/smoke all week long. Back then we were broke of course. The few times we could afford to buy those big shiners was mind blowing. Most of the time I just fished pearl white fluke and did pretty well. You can pull out 5 pounders like you would half pounders on an unmaintained farm pond.

the outskirts of the lake around there is like a road system with dredged lanes through the sawgrass leading to these big holes that I assume were mined for something. We just rode around to different holes and casted around the edges.

like I say this was back before fancy fish finders and being able to research how to fish the lake on the internet. We were limited to info we picked up at the marina and gut feel.

It’s a beautiful place and some of my bet memories were from fishing there.
 

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