Friday - More laundry early followed by a walk down to the river. We decided we needed to check out a few areas to see if anyone was fishing and catching, so we drove to Ft. Hamer, Emerson Point, Terra Ceia Bay, and a bay in downtown Ruskin. The result was not encouraging. Looks like the water will need to warm up before there is any significant action. In between we had lunch.dinner at The Crab Shack on Terra Ceia Bay. We were disappointed in our meals, John expected a tuna fillet on a salad, but instead got tuna salad. Maybe he misread the menu.
Saturday - We went on a hike with Ranger Kim this afternoon. It was great and we got to see a pair of bald eagles soaring overhead as well as learning about sand pine communities. Afterwards, John fished by the old kayak launch and caught a nice sized bream on the Tenkara. It warmed up a lot today. Hopefully it will continue to warm up the bay and activate the fish.
Sunday - We went back to Sun City Center UMC and were blessed again. We feel right at home there. We had plans to have hamburger dinner with Skipand Shirl at our site, but were pleasantly surprised that our friends Dave and Pat and Bill and Joanna would be able to join us. After dinner we all headed over to S&S's for a nice fire.
Monday - We knew rain was going to rain around noon, but we hoped we could get some kayaking and fishing in before it came. We put in and began fishing around Hunters Pass and began catching trout right away. They were all around 13", which is a little short to keep. It was fun anyway to get into trout again. The rain came, but we were able to get kayaks put back up before it got too heavy. We had lunch in the shelter there then headed over to Goodson's Farm in Balm for strawberry shortcakes. Yummy! The rain pretty much washed out the rest of the day.
Tuesday - We bid farewell to our friends D&P and B&J this morning. It has been quite windy and cool today, but regardless we accompanied Skip over to Lake Manatee SP to see if we could catch some hybrid stripers from the dock. Joan landed one on her third cast, but after that it was all John with two stripers and a really nice crappie. Skip took on job to be the filleter and cooker.
Wednesday - The four of us went down to Ft. Hamer and put the kayaks in. We headed to our back bay and hole and quickly caught a couple small snook and ladyfish and Joan caught a larger ladyfish. We tries some other back areas, but nothing. We caught a couple more, but nothing to bring home. We went over to S&S's for venison stroganoff. Delicious!!!!
Thursday - We said goodbye to S&S, then headed back to E.G. Simmons Park. We caught some small trout and a few ladyfish, but no keepers. We saw a bald eagle soaring overhead. On the way home we had dinner at Beanies. It was excellent and filling too. In the evening we met up with our friends Mary and Dave and enjoyed a fire with them. Sadly, Dave has to get back to work, so they are returning to Canada tomorrow.
Friday - We went back to EG Simmons Park and saw folks (Rosie and Don) who we have met here, who also kayak. We fished from shore, but the cold front has shut them down. We found a protected spot and had a picnic lunch, then took a nice walk. It was a beautiful, but cool and windy day.
Saturday - Happy Valentines Day. We mostly stayed around camp today. We walked to the lake where John fished, but only caught one little bream. We enjoyed a fire and conversation with Rosie and Don.
Sunday - After another very nice worship service, we headed over to O'Brien's Farm for our usual BLT and strawberry shortcake. Yum! We returned to Lake Manatee State Park to see if the hybrid stripers would still be around dock, But sadly, they have found another place to be. We enjoyed visit while we were there with our friends Dave and Pat at their campsite. We hope to be able to visit them when we get back to Georgia since they live close by near Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
Monday - Windy, but warm today, so we checked out a boat ramp on the Little Manatee River near Sun City to see if that might be a good place to launch. Not so much! We also checked out Hideaway RV park to see if that might be a place we would like to stay for a while while we are here in the winter. It is one of the nicer parks we have been to, but I don't think we're quite ready for this yet. State Parks are just too nice. We went over to EG Simmons County Park one more time, had a picnic lunch and casted from shore. No fish this time.
Tuesday - It was very warm today, but a front and rain will take care of that. We got the rest of the outdoor stuff taken care of and plan to hunker down tomorrow.
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