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Diary of a Half-Back Lifestyle

A model Florida Crawfish aka, lobster.

Miss Kitty, my favorite farm member. Now gone!!

American Press Travel News—3/29/2021—Bob and Barb “On the Road Again”—-Why do we travel half way back to our old home, VT, to TN., from Southern Florida? Summers in Florida are humid. With my deviated septum (partially blocked nostril) I have a hard time breathing in heavy humidity. So, when the cooler  winter and spring breezes, with their lesser humidity devolve into more summer-like conditions, even starting from the first day of spring, we head for the hills of TN.. In Florida we eat seafood, in TN. its beef, chicken and garden vegetables. Fishing in Florida its sea fishes, in TN. its crappie and trout, and our favorite walleye pike. I can breathe in TN., and love the cool breezes throughout spring, summer and fall.

We live on a small farm at about 2000-feet above sea level. When the summer heats up all around our plateau, we are 8-10 degrees cooler than all the other areas, cities and towns, and just about every night is a no-AC needed event.

As an author, I find it easier to work at our farm in TN. than in Florida. Florida has too many things going on, and this causes me to divert, and avert my time from putting finger tips to keys.  However, the Keys is truly a paradise for a fisherman, like me. With boating, searching for marlin and dolphin fish, the schools of tuna, the occasional wahoo, I get lost in the Gulf Stream of life. My preference these days is to sight fish for permit, bonefish, seatrout, snook, and redfish inshore, in quiet waters.

My sons David and Brian were brought up in the Keys, and were my nearly constant companion on my favorite boat “The Shalom.” That is until their fancy turned to girls and cars. We gathered our own shrimp and saltwater crawfish called Florida Lobster ( I still prefer the real northern- waters kind, with succulent claws and tail).   Today, my sons have a fine boat that they own and enjoy, I have my farm and when I can visit the Keys to be with my boys and their life’s experiences!  STAY TUNED FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER!!!!!!

Blue Bank Resort On Lake Reelfoot

American Press Travel News July 7, Bob and Barb “On The Road Again”-  this time, “nesting” at Blue Bank Resort, at Lake Reelfoot in Horn Beak, TN.

Note* we will be posting all week. Now just testing to determine connectivity! Please stay tuned to some exciting stuff coming up!

 

For the Cold Country Outdoors Folk!
Monthly News & Updates
The ground hog has told us, six more weeks of winter. This means six more weeks of big panfish, pike, and drag pulling trout through the ice! Even with the warm winter we have had, many days have been spent on the ice targeting panfish, pike, and lake Michigan trout. Ice conditions are holding steady on most of our lakes and harbors in Wisconsin. There is still time to give us a call and get in on some of the action we have had all winter.
March 8th-12th Wolf Pack will have a booth at the sport show in Milwaukee. Keep an eye out for any show specials we might have. Captain Tyler Chisholm will be giving a seminar on Mississippi River duck hunting on the 8th at 4:30pm and another seminar about field duck and goose hunting on the 11th at 7:30pm. Come check it out, its going to be a good show.
Blackhawk Lake Kids Event
In recent weeks we helped host 27 kids on Blackhawk Lake near Highland, WI. Each kid was taken through our program including ice safety, species identification, tip-up fishing, panfishing, electronics, and shelters. At the end the event each kid was given a bag of product from our sponsors at Frabill, Custom Jigs and Spins, and Jiffy. Outdoor Wisconsin, Ultimate Outdoors Radio, and Outdoor Junkies where there as well covering the event for TV and radio.
If you have an event that you would consider us hosting, whether on the ice or on the water. Our team would love to help. Give us a call at (920)-207-1212 for more information.

Crappie Fishing Times 4 with Guide, Mark Travis

 

Guide Mark Travis
Guide Mark Travis has his own way of going after bush crappie.
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Note: Pole holders that hold 16-poles fore and aft of this 20-foot fishing platform, loaded with electronic bottom finding equipment.
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Guide Travis and the first crappie of our day!    
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Up and down with a weight, a bobber and a swimming minnow! Yep, crappie run out of their cover and bite!

AAPtravelnews-Gallatin, TN.-May 1st-Bob and Barb “On The Water Again.”  Fishing with writer buddies, just behind Johnny Cash’s burned down home.  Guide, Mark Travis fishes 4-crappie poles per angler and has some uniquely developed strategies to put crappie in his boat. GuideTravis says that the 1-ounce weight keep the line straight down, the bobber keeps the bait out of the brush-pile and crappie grab and run, so any movement on the bobber must be a quick response of lifting that rod straight up, most often with a hooked crappie in tow. 

Get in touch with Mark for a fishing good time at www.crappieguideservice.com   and call him at: 615-542-9888