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TotalBoat Work Skiff Completed - Last Episode
On 4/27/2017 8:05 PM, Alex wrote:
Mr. Luddite wrote: On 4/27/2017 4:30 PM, Keyser Soze wrote: On 4/27/17 3:41 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: Keyser Soze Wrote in message: On 4/27/17 11:25 AM, justan wrote: On 4/27/17 10:28 AM, justan wrote: On 4/27/17 12:31 AM, wrote: On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 20:21:54 -0400, Alex wrote: The Everglades is full of wide open trails. If you travel off of them you don't want to be going 20mph! In the park itself there are not many places you can use an airboat if any. The intent is to eliminate it altogether. Air boat tour operators who used have an exemption are losing them. Most of this is done on private property. Is that because airboats are considered a nuisance or destructive? What would be your boat of choice for navigating the Everglades? Salt water kayak or flats boat. Go for it, dummy. Lots of people do. How many return? I presume most of them. I still get a Florida fishing magazine, and there are plenty of articles about fishing the everglades off a kayak or flats boat. It was an attempt at humor Harry. Down the street from the house we had in Florida there was a small business that rented canoes. It was located on a small river, actually more like a large brook, that wound it's way for over a mile through heavy natural growth, trees with limbs that overhung the water and loaded with wild life. The wild life included alligators that stared at you as you floated by and snakes that were hanging in the tree branches. They had never had any attacks but you had to sign a hold harmless statement before renting the canoe. We also had a man-made small lake directly behind one of the houses we owned. The water line was about 20 yards from the deck on the back of the house. The lake had a resident alligator who we saw everyday as it made it's slow patrol around the lake. I had one of those 10 foot plastic Jon boats with an electric motor on it and I often went fishing on the little lake. Saw the alligator a few times eyeing me but he .. it was actually a "she" .. never bothered me. I've previously described the events that happened one day when another alligator tried to move in with her. The intruder didn't last long and it happened right before our eyes. They will run after your bait or lures. This one was crafty. After three years it had become large ... about 8 feet and the Florida Fish and Wildlife department set traps to catch it. The traps were hooks hanging on lines from low branches on which a rotting chicken carcass was placed. I watched several times as the alligator approached the chicken, stopped about 10 feet away from it and just laid there in the water eyeing it. Then, after about 15-20 minutes it would submerge and I thought for sure it was closing in for an attack. Instead, it would just swim away, ignoring it. This went on for a month or so. The chicken was replaced every few days. They finally got it however but not by using a trap. |
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