sltHunting and fishing a lifetime in Paradise
What an honor being a Florida native, a Florida sportsman.
As a life-long Florida sportsman nothing pleases me more than to reflect on memories of days, years, decades, long gone. To share these memories with fellow sportsmen-women all over this great country of ours is to me a dream come true. Come along with me. Join in and share your memories as we take a look at, 'Hunting and fishing a lifetime in Paradise'.
I was born the day after...
the attack on Pearl Harbor.
By the late middle fifties I was fishing the Florida 'Middle Grounds' just South of Gandy Bridge. The trout fishing was outstanding.
Rabbit & deer hunting with hounds on the thousands of acres of open area sand hills around Weeki Wachee Springs was outstanding. (LtoR - brother, me, mother)
During the summer bass fishing in the many small lakes was very good.
In the late fifties we decided to take our hunting to the next level, we joined a club near Floral City, Florida:
The snipe, duck, turkey, squirrel hunting was superb:
It was a family affair:
During the sixties the fishing was outstanding:
We sold grouper for 25 cents a pound:
We took our tarpon fishing seriously. We won many awards in in the Tarpon Fishing Tournament:
By brother and high school friends were very involved:
Often we would invite the local media. Mr. Archie Blount, Tampa Times:
In 1970 I married Thelma, the girl of my dreams. Thelma was born on a mountain in Tennessee. She loved to fish & hunt. We bought three acres and a pond loaded with bass:
We loved to fish along the grass flats just before Honeymoon Island:
Our three daughters often joined us at camp:
Next up, our hunting camp for the next twenty years, Madison County's Buck & Boar:
The hunting was outstanding:
The camp cook-outs were enjoyed by one & all:
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And for good reason! Ever try wild boar on the grill? You will never forget it:
Thelma & I celebrated out 39'th wedding anniversary while hunting at B&B. No place better than Madison County's best, O'neal's Country Kitchen:
Little did we know this would be our last. Cancer took her, and our daughter, Betty, shortly thereafter:
To say the losses was devastating would be an understatement. Life, as well as hunting & fishing, as I knew it was over. Eventually I was able to make the best out of the situation. Enter Two Guys & A Hog Outfitters. Less demanding, but still the excitement of the hunt:
Exciting to the max!
