- The only known adult Orca in the world
- IGFA event April 14th and 15th.. Jose Wejebe event
- Fishing TV show Spanish Fly host Jose Wejebe Killed in a plane cash in Everglades City, Florida April 6th 2012
- Only in Florida
- CCA Florida – Tampa Chapter Announces Twenty-Seventh Banquet, April 22, 2012
- Fly like a bird
- Biscayne Bay Estuary deep dredge threat
- A fish named “Ball Cutters”, yes it is exactly what you think!
- Rod Naming contest, Win 1 piece 12 wt Fly rods or Spinning rods, Deadline March 26th 2012
- Ladies Only fishing tournament in Sunny Florida, March 23rd 2012, Chix n Stix
Bienville Plantation Bass Fishing
July 11th 2010
Today I tried to do some Bass fishing with fly with Trent and Brad from Flint Creek Outfitters. I have heard so much about this bass fishing place in north Florida called Bienville Plantation. The place is suppose to be legendary for trophy bass. I have to say I was highly disappointed. The place is run down and the lakes were overgrown with hydrilla plants. I mean we had to clear the motor and the trolling motor several time.
What once was a place of stories is now a shell of what it once was. I mean there use to be combination gates, and guards to keep people out of these famed lakes full of thriving big bass. There are no more gates, I did not see any guards or grounds keepers. The ramp was full of hydrilla and I say 50% of the place we went to was unnavigable. We caught one small bass and several blue gills in our almost 7hours of fishing. Hardly a place I will ever go back again not to mention it took us 3 hours to get there for Tampa.
White springs was the name of the small town. They only had one restaurant which was closed on Sundays. The place had a pretty cool history. It held a big spring that was suppose to have healing properties.
White Sulphur Springs was considered to be a sacred healing ground and warring tribes could come to bathe in and drink the mineral waters here while putting aside their disagreements.
Don’t get me wrong, we had a great time but the fishing was very lacking and well under anyone’s expectation. I think the only shot I got that was any good was of the Praying Mantis that got on the boat today.
Like I alway say… “There’s no guarantee in fishing… ”
He Jump on my lens, friendly fellow.
Pretty much what we had to deal with most of the day.
Jumping Mackerel, Skyway photos, underexposing the scene on purpose to get a better exposure on the important subject.
July 10th 2010
I got out for a couple hours Saturday morning and found some pods of Spanish mackerel and birds feeding on some glass minnows. Instead of fishing for them I decided to put the rod down in favor of the camera. 90% wasn’t worth a dam but here’s a couple that turned out ok.
Lighting was excellent this morning. I set up with the sun behind me and shot a at shutter priority set at 2000s/ iso 200 and added a negative compensation of -.7 as to not blown out(overexposed) the mackerel’s silvery body. This is usually the case when the majority of the photo is dark. The meter tends to blow out the lighter objects trying to compensate for the whole scene.
However since I really wanted the mackerel to exposed properly and could care less about the water I made it so it was under exposed therefor properly expose for the smaller mackerel. Hope this makes sense to you.
Even doing this there are still blown out areas on the fish. I guess I will have to try again.
