have some good memories fishing the rim canal on both ends of okeechobee.me and my brother got layed off in february.hitched up the boat and drove 18hrs straight.we went down for the bass caught some.a major front pushed thru and we were in crappie or should say specs heaven.even fished the river from shore a night.almost 30 years ago when you could just pack up and leave for a week.they still have crappiethon?