A trip 25 years in the making

Michelle and I are in Ormond Beach, Florida. We spent Thanksgiving weekend with our daughter in Lexington and decided to continue to head south to celebrate our 25th anniversary. Yep, shes put up with me that long! The intention was for Michelle to get a little heat/sun while I got to do a little fishing. I am getting to fish, but it was only 5 degrees warmer here this morning then home. It did get up to 57 today. Suppose to get back closer to highs of 70 in the next couple days. Stopped by Wilbur's Florida cousin's home, Wilbur by the sea. Unfortunately his cousin wasn't home....We are spending most of our fishing time on Flagler beach pier. We caught 3 small bonnet head sharks, a couple whiting, a blue and a sting ray. Still beats snow....Attachment 361128Attachment 361129Attachment 361130Attachment 361131Attachment 361132Attachment 361133Attachment 361134Attachment 361135Attachment 361136Attachment 361137

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Great pics. You're only an hour and 45 minutes away. Any other plans. PM me if you're passing near Fruitland Park FL. You can stop by and we can check out my new Livescope I just installed today!

Enjoy your trip. We can handle things here in Michigan while you're gone. Maybe PM Steve and see if he can keep an eye on Joyce. She scares me :yikes

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Originally Posted by spartannation

Maybe PM Steve and see if he can keep an eye on Joyce. She scares me :yikes

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WTH did I do to you? [emoji38]

I got my own Joyce, goes by the name Lisa.....not Possums soon to be ex....

Enjoy your trip Jeff and Michelle, get ahold of me when you get back.



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That looks like a fun trip.
You should go on down and give Slab a hard time!

Invite to schmooze with the big guy AND play with his new electronics. Heck yeah.

Jeff ,since no else said it congratulations on you 25th. God bless you Michelle. If you go see Slab, tell him he is a Guber.

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Originally Posted by "D"

Jeff ,since no else said it congratulations on you 25th.

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Well.....I did tell him just before he left.[emoji1]





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Happy anniversary. I’d have to take slab up on the offer.


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Happy anniversary!!!


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happy anniversary!!!!!!!!!!!!:cheers2

Caught some nice crappie with vbottom and his wifey. Yay

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Livescoping’em. Pretty cool to see them hit.


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Glad you got some. Looks like Jeff had fun, too.

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Originally Posted by spartannation

Glad you got some. Looks like Jeff had fun, too.

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Yep, we caught some quality fish too. We longlined like I usually do where we fished, and caught squat. We spent most of our time longlining. So once we changed it up and targeted structure with the livescope, we finally caught some. We only caught 5 crappie, one bass and one brim, but they were nice ones. Correct me if I'm wrong Jeff, but one was 13 inches. And the other four I believe were, 12.75. 12.50, 12.50 and one 11 incher. And this time of the year, they fight real good. Was fun Jeff, have to do it again.

I had a blast playing with that livescope! Was cool being there and seeing him catch his first livescope fish. I saw the first fish Slab caught come up and take the bait. He said he didn't feel it just lifted and was there. The two I caught later came streaking out of the submerged trees we were fishing and smacked it. Kinda like playing a video game. Could be addicting...lol..those sizes were accurate and I think the cooler water put a little fight in them. I didn't get a pic of the brim he caught, but it was a nice one. Michelle and I had a great time and appreciate you taking us out Ed. Looking forward to seeing you again at the Michigan camp up at Houghton.Attachment 361299Attachment 361300Attachment 361301Attachment 361302

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How can you beat that! You guys fishing with the Boss himself!.....and getting to play with new electronics.

Glad to hear he’s coming to Houghton, we will have to break out the fine China..... I mean paper plates!


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Funny how Jeff quickly had the front of the boat and the trolling motor remote!

Save your Cabelas points and you can have one of those fancy fish finders, too.

Can't wait to hear the live version of the play by play. Have a safe trip home.

Jeff,

Just think, your going to want all those toys, now that you have played with them........

We are going to have a surprise "Coming out of retirement" Party, and your going to have to give all your loot back...........:Rofl

Electronics are neat, BUT, some days the best GPS, Chart Plotter, Sonar, Navionic's, Lake Master, etc, can't beat a day with Grand Dad, sitting on a bank, catching nothing.

OE

glad to see you and Michelle are having a good time !
weather looks good too.
that livescope sure sounds like fun.

Very good, congrats!

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Originally Posted by OneidaEagle

Jeff,

Just think, your going to want all those toys, now that you have played with them........

We are going to have a surprise "Coming out of retirement" Party, and your going to have to give all your loot back...........:Rofl

Electronics are neat, BUT, some days the best GPS, Chart Plotter, Sonar, Navionic's, Lake Master, etc, can't beat a day with Grand Dad, sitting on a bank, catching nothing.

OE

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OE, your spot on. I found myself staring into the electronics focusing and not paying attention to those in the boat or seeing the beauty of the lake. Rich, Slab was catching all the fish and was letting me catch up a little by running the front...rotfl...I really was able to do better being able to run the motor and focus in the electronics. It was kinda like using a vexlar ice fishing and took a little practice.

Congrats!!! Enjoy!!!!


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