Sulfur Creek Connector Heads Up
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 2:29 pm
Since SMNWR is closed due to Hurricane Michael, I decided Sunday to revisit an old haunt Aucilla River: Sulfur Creek, west of the main river. Landed only catfish and gars in the slightly tainted water, and had a true whopper trout hookup/loss on topwater at the end of outgoing tide on one of the many three-way intersections. But that wasn't the highlight. This was...
I can't be the only one who employs the super skinny, shallow ditch across from & just north of the Aucilla boat ramp (you can just see it on satellite maps) as a shortcut to upper Sulfur Creek. For you others who use it: look out for LOTS of 3-4 foot alligators right now. They were crawling away from me in the inches-deep ditch, then giving up and hugging the bottom as I stepped over them & tried to keep my little canoe from bumping their heads while I drug it past. They seemed too embarrassed to be aggressive. At first it was unnerving, then just got funny.
As I later told a friend, it felt like an interspecies trust exercise.
I can't be the only one who employs the super skinny, shallow ditch across from & just north of the Aucilla boat ramp (you can just see it on satellite maps) as a shortcut to upper Sulfur Creek. For you others who use it: look out for LOTS of 3-4 foot alligators right now. They were crawling away from me in the inches-deep ditch, then giving up and hugging the bottom as I stepped over them & tried to keep my little canoe from bumping their heads while I drug it past. They seemed too embarrassed to be aggressive. At first it was unnerving, then just got funny.
As I later told a friend, it felt like an interspecies trust exercise.