Seminole Ramlin's

March 27, 2005

I do declare, the Gov-mint was designed to serve the people, but now, the people must serve the Gov-mint. You take, for instance, the Bill that’s in the hopper to liscene divers to retrieve sunken cypress logs in the Flint River. D.N.R. says you got to be bonded for 50 thousand or so, just to qualify to bid on 1 or 2 miles of the river. Then, after you git the logs to the surface, they will then have to decide how much you must pay for the logs. My old grandpapa would say to a trade like that, “Like buying a pig in a poke (sack).”

I just think its great how Mrs. Kathy Cox can and does stand in with the students from around the state at the capital and blends in with them just like she is a student too.

Not until today did I know that the school in Attapulgus was established in 1833 with girls being allowed to enter in 1852. The state school system was established in the 1880’s. That’s where I graduated from some 64 years ago and was I glad to git out and conquer the world??? I was 2nd in my class of 9.

From my passed fishing experience for Hybreds and Stripers, the rocks and swift water is your ansure. The Reynolds Sand Bar area and the 4 Mile Creek, when its flooding as it is now, is a place where its most dangeros to put a Chrome Rattle Trap with a Blue Back in those 2 places. There is a lot of places similar to those that they hang around, 2 is at Faceville Landing and I mean gooduns.

The Bass has just been good to the fishermen this week. Good catches of Bass done come to the hill. Kurt and Bill Smeltzer of Green Cove Springs weighed in a 9 lb. Bass on their trip. General Jim Yarbrough on Saterday landed 11 up to 6 lbs., went back Sunday, not nary a fish. High winds blowed in Water Hycens and muddy water. But with the 70° water, they will no doubt keep beding.

The Perch took a turn for the best this whole week. Dale Warlick of Valdosta did a good number on the Perch. There was many catches of gooduns on Saterday.

But very few people left the dock on Sunday to try and fish. Down pours totaling 5 ½ inches sorta muddied the water.

There is Bream and Crackers trying to bed and by new moon in bout 15 days, there will be plenny of action for most folks.

Pam Martin-Wells went out on Saterday and said she caught so many she lost count, but the top 5 would have weighed in at over 25 lbs. She was lookin right sportin wearing her new sponsers visor that said Wave-Worm Tiki Sticks and she said that’s what she was using to catch all them fishes. She even caught a 2 in 1! When she went to take the hook out of one big Bass, there was a small Jack fish in it’s throat. What a day!

Pam-Martin-Wells of Bainbridge, with one of her many Bass catches on Saterday.

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Wingate’s Fishing Report

March 27, 2005

Lake Surface Temp: 70°

Lake Level: Full

Chattahoochee: Slite Color and Fast

Flint: Muddy in Channels

Spring Creek: Muddy upper end

Fish Pond Drain: Clear

Report provided by: Jack Wingate