Your story as a kid at that campground is similar to mine at the same place. We would camp near the ramp for entertainment purposes when we were in for lunch or at the end of the day. 😂 I can’t pull into that place without getting choked up anymore. Such good times.
That's how it started for me too. We would camp between the big rubber tree and the cut into boyscout. It was like 17bucks a night. We would rent one of the old blue boats and run all over the place in that thing. Hit the rusty anchor for entertainment too 😅. Those weekends created some fishing fools.
Had a rough day in a tournament yesterday on Okeechobee. We fished and threw everything from 6:15 until 12:15 and not even a bite. We then went to the rim canal near the boat ramp and I caught one keeper and my partner filled his 5 bag limit in 30 minutes just in time to make it back for the weigh-in. The water on the lake was very dirty but the rim canal was clear and the fish were only biting there. No giants but at least we did not get skunked.
Its frustrating on a day like that losing fish. I had a day flipping on the harris chain i think i caught 1/10, nothing different about the day, same as always on the chain i was ready to give away my gear and sell my boat after that!
Have had a couple of those days myself where everything begins to spiral and it seems like I find a fun new way to lose each fish. Today was kind of like that, even though I only lost a few the one that felt like the biggest bite of the day was 100% on me behaving like an imbecile after being frustrated losing the prior bite. Good times haha
