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Potluck on The Panhandle
Post 04 May 2010, 08:43 • #1 
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We're on Eastern Lake at Seagrove Beach FL for the week, a ten-acre tidal blackwater an hour + east of the pass at Pensacola.

The lake's very narrow outflow to the Gulf is 90% sanded-out currently with big rains all weekend- so the lake is correspondingly 90% fresh.

Our hosts are dear friends JoDel and Dexter Hambaugh. Dex found his landscaping tools in his ride and cropped back the overgrown cane around the dock

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We were thinking flounder, but everything else is showing up.

Fat bream are plentiful and hungry. Dexter caught the first few- this was one of the smallest

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I'm fishing a Fenglass SF74 and Garcia 301 with light line

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Croaker dropped by

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A twenty-inch eel says Howdy ... and I say Good Riddance

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Our mascot Gramma Trout, put together by Dexter. Yes, cocktails were involved

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Our hosts drove to a Van Morrison concert overnight so we babysat their sweet junkyard dog Max (as Dexter calls him). Here Max takes Anne for a walk.

Good dog Max!

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Today we fished the lake's outflow.

Our first sight was a family capitalizing on +20" speckled trout trapped in a tiny pool just beside the small pass. The water was barely 18" deep and the family was using crab nets and sticks to chase the magnificent fish onto the sand where they lay dying

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If you freeze frame at the end of this short video you'll see the so-called "adults" driving the fish with their nets up the pool where the kids were whacking at them with their rods

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Their broken crab nets after the slugfest

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I told the Granddad, husband and wife that it was totally unsportsmanlike, as did Dexter. And probably illegal. They said they were going to eat the catch but that was hardly the point.

Later we saw them throwing some of the fish into the outlet. How depressing.

Onwards and upwards!

I picked up a juvie largemouth who kicked ass- lots of fun. Everything released

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More later, thanks


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Post 04 May 2010, 09:12 • #2 
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Location: 2 hrs from all good things Northern Californian
What a great time! Not knowing what's going to be at the end of the line is great fun. That Fenwick and Mitchell musta been super for handling the variety.

Never had an eel on, what kind of ride was that?


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Post 05 May 2010, 04:58 • #3 
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Had a friend years ago with a place on Western Lake (Grayton), but all we ever ended up with were bream, and some crabs we enticed off the dock.

Wonderful stretch of coast. Enjoy.


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Post 11 May 2010, 14:20 • #4 
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Location: Columbia, Mo. USA

Nice shots---looks like a great place to relax----I do have a question though---what is the cord for between the reel and rod?



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Post 12 May 2010, 00:55 • #5 
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Ha ha!

That's a hairband borrowed from my daughter, I use it to be extra sure the 301 doesn't ever loosen fron the Fen's rings on a mighty cast ...

it's happened before and I hated fishing the reel out of the salt ...


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Post 14 May 2010, 02:22 • #6 
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middlemac ... what a great trip! Sorry it has taken me so long to find and comment on this thread.


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