One of Joe s friends did. We motored out of the marina to Lake Woodruff to catch threadfin shad for bait. Rick had to scare a few gators out of the way so he could cast his net for the shad. Cathy and I have been traveling a lot in Florida in recent months and have seen a lot of alligators, but no where were they as thick as in Lake Woodruff. Fishing the Big Bend on Florida's Nature Coast Steinhatchee is a beautiful spot along the Gulf coast in Florida s Big Bend area, also known as The Nature Coast.
Fishing is something else here.
The long flats with sea grass hold many species anglers love to fight. Captain Brian Smith guides out of Steinhatchee and he took me out for a morning last winter to catch redfish and speckle trout. There are many more species hitting now that it s spring. April, May, and June offer some fantastic fishing for trout, redfish, bluefish, Spanish mackerel, ladyfish, and Jack crevalle. These are caught inshore, in the brackish river, and farther out.