Everglades Holiday Park with Steve Waters Sun Sentinel Writer

  I Couldn't ask for more of a  perfect day as far as the weather and the company goes. What a treat it was to meet Steve. I've been meaning to ask him to fish with me for quite some time. Finally, I asked him and to my surprise he accepted the invite.
   Boy does he have stories to tell! I was entertained the whole time. It's no wonder he's such a good writer. He remembers everything. We were talking a little too much at times, and because of lack of focus I missed the first two quality big fish bites. One of them was a giant. I was flipping a Black Venom grub along the south end of L67, and when I looked over at Steve I lifted the grub out of the water and onto the top of a pad. I noticed something felt funny, so I looked  back at the grub quickly and saw this huge swirl under a pad that the grub was sitting on top of. I had just lifted the bait right out of the fishes mouth. The funny thing was it didn't  bother me that much. It felt good to be out there fun fishing without the stress of a tournament situation.

The water has risen a lot, and the bite has slowed down out there but at the end of the day we had a flurry of bass catching activity. We started burning Venom Salty Sling Worms across the surface, and that did the trick! We caught about 1o bass in a very short amount of time one was about 3.5 pounds and the biggest was around 5 pounds! Steve was even able to catch a couple of the bites on video which was very cool!

Please keep an eye out for his article on our trip. It should be in the next issue or the one after.
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