Hey Twistie
 

On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 18:00:17 GMT, Lancer wrote in
429df747.661171@2355323778:

My wife and I are thinking about taking a trip to Fla. And maybe
doing some fishing. Any suggestions?


I have a suggestion: Forget the swamps. Tramp your way around the
Pacific NW instead. Start in Coeur D'Alene and take a riverboat ride
up the St. Joe and play a couple rounds of golf on the floating green.
If you leave early then you can get to Spokane in time for Hoopfest
(http://www.hoopfest.org/). Then head West and catch a concert at the
Gorge Amphitheatre. Move on to Puget Sound for some awesome fishing,
spend the next day on a drive up the Olympic Mountains (something you
can never imagine until you see them firsthand), head back for a day
browsing on the piers including the Old Curiosity Shop where they have
a couple mummies and lots of other oddities. Eat at the rotating
restaurant on the Space Needle and see a great view of the most
dangerous volcano in the US (Mt. Rainier), visit a couple excellent
breweries, etc. When you get bored with the big city just head South
on I-5 for some small-town life in the Willamette Valley, like the
Timber Carnival (lumberjack stuff like tree-topping, log-throwing,
etc), and chill at the evening concerts in Monteith Park in Albany
where you can hear some big names in Jazz.

Of course if you like hot swamps and alligators that's fine, too.






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Frank Gilliland wrote:
On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 18:00:17 GMT, Lancer wrote in
429df747.661171@2355323778:

My wife and I are thinking about taking a trip to Fla. And maybe
doing some fishing. Any suggestions?


I have a suggestion: Forget the swamps. Tramp your way around the
Pacific NW instead. Start in Coeur D'Alene and take a riverboat ride
up the St. Joe and play a couple rounds of golf on the floating green.
If you leave early then you can get to Spokane in time for Hoopfest
(http://www.hoopfest.org/). Then head West and catch a concert at the
Gorge Amphitheatre. Move on to Puget Sound for some awesome fishing,
spend the next day on a drive up the Olympic Mountains (something you
can never imagine until you see them firsthand), head back for a day
browsing on the piers including the Old Curiosity Shop where they have
a couple mummies and lots of other oddities. Eat at the rotating
restaurant on the Space Needle and see a great view of the most
dangerous volcano in the US (Mt. Rainier), visit a couple excellent
breweries, etc. When you get bored with the big city just head South
on I-5 for some small-town life in the Willamette Valley, like the
Timber Carnival (lumberjack stuff like tree-topping, log-throwing,
etc), and chill at the evening concerts in Monteith Park in Albany
where you can hear some big names in Jazz.

Of course if you like hot swamps and alligators that's fine, too.

twitlips will need a list of truckstops in the Pac NW if he is going
there. like mopathetic, he has to make gas money.

From: (Lancer)
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0My wife and I are thinking about taking a trip to Fla.
And maybe doing some fishing. Any suggestions?
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Anywhere in the pile in particular? What time of year you coming?
Freshwater or sal****er? Offshore or inshore? Deep sea, sport, food or
gamefishing? Plan it right and you can fill your belly, mount on your
wall and get pictures for bragging.

Frank Gilliland wrote:
Of course if you like hot swamps and alligators that's fine, too.

You bet, and bugs the size of my hands and malaria too. :)

Lancer wrote:
On 01 Jun 2005 22:36:45 GMT, Steveo wrote:

Frank Gilliland wrote:
Of course if you like hot swamps and alligators that's fine, too.

You bet, and bugs the size of my hands and malaria too. :)

We have some of those damn bugs here also, plus fire ants.. ;-)

You warm weather doods have to take the bad with the good, Lance. A snow
plow cutting blade would last you damn near a lifetime. :)

From: (Steveo)
Frank Gilliland wrote:
Of course if you like hot swamps and alligators that's fine, too.

You bet, and bugs the size of my hands and

malaria too. :)

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Some of the largest bass come from the swamps. Gators won't bother ya'
and the bugs are only out in the summer. Biggest problem here is also
the largest draw,,,the heat. But check it out in the fall, winter and
spring..there aren't many finer places to live.

From: (Steveo)
(I AmnotGeorgeBush) wrote:
From: (Lancer)
My wife and I are thinking about taking a trip to Fla. And maybe doing
some fishing. Any suggestions?
-
Anywhere in the pile in particular? What time of year you coming?
Freshwater or sal****er? Offshore or inshore? Deep sea, sport, food or
gamefishing? Plan it right and you can fill your belly, mount on your
wall and get pictures for bragging.

that sounds like a Florida

commercial..good job. :)
_
I'll tell ya' what really sends the yankees back with a great taste of
Florida...it's the swamp trips, not the open water. It's not all dismal
swamps,,,,it's freshwater springs with water more pure than what you get
out of your tap and underwater caverns and labrynths to explore, (see
Devil's Den) it's the all-you-can-carry fossils one finds floating down
the Peace River, it's the secret swimming holes (newly found or little
known springs) in the middle of a swamp or edge of a river, the
largemouth bass that are mostly upward of 5 pounds, it's swimming in the
springs or a river when the baby manatee comes up to play with you or
swim with you, and momma (sometimes larger than a volkswagon) decides to
brush against you and make sure you're friendly,,,,,,,,and you can't
forget your first "bump" by an alligator in a tight area. Oh yea,,and
the sunsets...Florida just found they have 4 out of 10 of the best rated
beaches in the world..and two of those are within thirty minutes of me.