Definitely butler chain. Big houses and nice lakes. Tiger woods and Shaq live there
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Definitely butler chain. Big houses and nice lakes. Tiger woods and Shaq live there
Gotta agree with Butler Chain. Beautiful homes surround the many lakes in the chain. Lots of homes with the square footage that you are looking for.Good fishing also!
Trust me I know. I graduated from highschool in 89 and have been fishing tx since grade school in the early 80's. I remember being on lake George when there were only a few boats fishing the whole damn lake. Now its a jacked up mess with more people from out of town then people that live here. What I don't get is half seem to be from KY. One guy , who was from KY last spring cranked up his motor and drove 3/4 mile down the bank and said I recognize your boat you fish a lot tx's here. Then he says man there are a lot of fish here. I haven't been this far down the bank and starts fishing right next to me. All I was just trying to do was mark fish for the next day. What a jack ass, then he says oh I stay down here during the spring every year, been doing it for the last 7 or 8 years. I was nice but wanted to say keep your ass away from me, act like you never saw me. Needless to say marking fish with him watching made it useless. Some bitches wont go into Rodman, afraid of getting a scratch on their boat.
My wife keeps trying to talk me into moving to Florida when we retire. She grew up in Gulf Breeze and would like to get back a little closer to home. I always spend a couple of weeks down there every year fishing around the middle part of the state but that's in the spring and not in July and August. I dont think I'm coming. It's too darn hot in the summer plus I like to see the seasons change. I think I'm going buy a cheap place up north for the summers and give the smallmouth hell for a few years.
The OP must be from the NC mountains if he's getting that much snow, LOL. We've got a place in Kissimmee that is about 10 minutes form the ramp on Big Toho and I'd recommend you go at least an hour south of there. My parents are some of the, apparently, hated Kentuckians that spend the winter in FL and they stay in the Sebring area. That was much nicer IMO. To be honest, I really dislike the area our place is in. Very crowded and Disney draws million of tourists. Getting around is a total pain. And my neighbors suck! My recommendation is to rent something for 6-12 months and explore the area. That way you don't get stuck in an area you don't like.
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Been in Florida since 1998. Moved from Ocala, to Crystal River, to New Smyrna Beach, to Clermont, to Dunnellon, to Weirsdale. I wish I never moved there. It is basically a place where people move to die. The weather is good from November to March. The rest sucks--TOO HOT!!!
Winter is good in Florida--Michigan is good in the Summer!
:thumb up2: graduated HS in 89 also, i remember we used to drag race on the sawgrass before it was completed. did 110 in a 71 lincoln mk 3. thing was a tank. so much open spaces back then. when i was in middle school was with the jr southern bass anglers. 10 ft jon with a 25 hp merc:laugh:
Good luck with the move.
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That's an ox-moron statement, I would if If could but they are like gnats or no-see-ums. Once they find you and see a "bent rod fishing pattern" its like on oncoming of the plague. Last year I was on a body of water looking for a tx and I was in an area just because I had cell phone service, so I stopped and talked to my wife. While there I just threw a worm for the hell of it. Three boats came by, one from KY, two from OH. Mind you I was there just to talk to my wife because its one of the few places I get service on the lake. So they preceded to ask, "Catch anything"? I say nay just a few, As I was curious to see what they would do. Damn if they didn't sit down 25 yards from me. I finally got off the phone and left knowing I didn't catch a thing there (primarily because I didn't even fish). Went on down the lake a few miles, marked some fish and headed back down the lake. I passed the area that I had talked to my wife earlier and gave her a quick call again. Well, low and behold an hour and half later I look up and see those same three boats still there. Asked if they caught anything and they said hadn't seen a strike much less a fish. I thought thank god I wasn't fishing here tomorrow or they would have beat it to death. I'm pretty sure they were just "riding" the lake looking for boats.
I have fished a lot of lake where Snowbirds won't go!!
I am not going to name them--But they are there--Too many Stumps,-Too Shallow--Etc...
Amen to that. I have been a hardcore Florida angler since 1970 when I was 15 years old growing up in Gainesville. A lot has changed most for the worse but some for the better. I catch a lot more fish these days but a lot of the big double digit fish have disappeared. The pressure on them in the spring is enormous.
I still enjoy Florida Fishing.