Whitetail Ridge COE (Oct 3-5)

Monday - This was the longest leg on our return to Florida, covering 230 miles. It was cloudy most of the way, but cleared up when we neared LaGrange. We got set up and had Joan's stuffed pepper soup for dinner. This is a beautiful spot on site #47, on the lake. We went down to the boat launch and fished for a few minutes, but John lost the only biter.

Tuesday - We woke up this morning to a beautiful sunrise. This is something we miss at Trackrock because of all the mountains around us. Not complaining, though. Later in the Morning we took our Tenkara rods back over to the boat launch area and caught a bunch of bream. Most were too small to keep, but there were a few nice ones. John had a very large bass on, but the 4 pound test tippet on the Tenkara was no match for this fish. In the evening we fished there again using the 6wt fly rods, but it was much slower.

Wednesday - In the morning we drove over to the Horace King Recreation Area nearby and fished from shore. The shoreline has more gravel here and is less muddy than by the campground. The bream are larger here, but since we were going to go grocery shopping afterwards, we couldn't keep any. This time it was Joan's turn to hook a large bass, but the result was the same with it breaking off. We had the most success on small yellow hoppers. After doing some needed cleaning of the motorhome and dinner, we took our cane poles and plastic worms over to the boat launch. Together we hooked and lost three nice bass. It was a beautiful, warm evening.

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