Outdoors

It’s Sunday night, supposed to be in the mid-40s tomorrow and I don’t know what that will do to the fishing for a few days, especially on the flats.

I will tell you it has been the best fall fishing I have seen in a long time. There are lot of reds on the oyster bars, plenty of speckled trout on the flats and some of the biggest silver/white/gray trout, whatever you want to call them, that I have ever caught.

Normally, one could say “here in our Big Bend April and October are our driest months, and also the best temperatures – very pleasant! Plus the bugs generally are on their best behavior.
 In the fall it is almost desert-like, as we are experiencing now. March is usually our wettest month, so it was with pleasure that Patti and I escaped this predicted rain by going to Arizona last March, to the same cool dry weather we’re now experiencing.

Dive Education

Now that the summer is over, the weather is cooling down and the number of requests for basic diver training at Wakulla Diving Center has gone up. Folks are preparing for the adventures of next spring now that school is back in session and the family shifts into a different routine. I have been training people to breath compressed gases underwater for 45 years. The answer to a request for diver training is seldom the same.

By A.B. SIDIBE
Citrus County Chronicle

CEDAR KEY — It is written large on the faces of the hard-scrabble oystermen and women.
Their skins deeply browned and creased from years, days and hours of exposure to the unrelenting and lingering Florida sun.
The people, the multi-generational tradition of extracting a gnarly, irregular-shaped mollusk — oysters — from the sounds and bays that dot the state’s Big Bend area.