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AND THERE ARE RIVER FISHERMEN
AND THERE ARE RIVER FISHERMEN
River-Caught
River-Caught
STRIPED BASS, WHITE BASS, & Their HYBRIDS
STRIPED BASS, WHITE BASS, & Their HYBRIDS
Florida
Florida
An Information, Opinion, & Photo Gallery Webpage Report
Compiled by Ocklawahaman Paul Nosca
Created: 28 January 2016
Last Revised: 30 September 2020
Ocklawahaman Doesn't Always Have a Camera Available -- But Sometimes...
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Ochlockonee River and Little (Ochlockonee) River, Florida
Striped bass
Striped bass
Striped bass
Striped bass
Striped bass
Striped bass
Striped bass
Striped bass
Striped bass
Striped bass
White bass
White bass
Visit: "Striped Bass of the Ocklawaha River, Florida"
Striped bass seeking the thermal refuge of Silver Glen Springs (flows into Lake George/St. Johns River) during the hot Florida summer. Rodman Dam blocks these stocked stripers from upstream access to their historic spawning waters of the Ocklawaha River and Silver River.
Striped bass seeking the thermal refuge of Silver Glen Springs (flows into Lake George/St. Johns River) during the hot Florida summer. Rodman Dam blocks these stocked stripers from upstream access to their historic spawning waters of the Ocklawaha River and Silver River.
Ocklawahaman Paul Nosca's Bass Angling Began in Florida Some 55 Years Ago (1965)!
Fishing Man-Made Ponds & Lakes -- Later I Discovered the Aesthetic Beauty of By-God Flowing Rivers & Streams
Ocklawahaman Paul Nosca is an accomplished stream angler who has caught nine different varieties of bass plus three different species of cold-water trout along with many other fishes from the flowing freshwaters of several Southern states. Although he has fished many of the still-water canals, lakes, & ponds plus salty tidewaters that almost all other Florida fishermen are accustomed-to & greatly prefer; river bass angling in current is undeniably Paul's preferred pursuit. Paddling a canoe (or bank-walking & wading when advantageous), Ocklawahaman skillfully uses buzz-bait & spinner-bait lures almost exclusively while bass fishing moving freshwater. Motorized watercraft for "run & gun" fishing or other aquatic tomfoolery & plastic worms or live shiners for bait are not part of his personal angling ethic. Ocklawahaman practices a style of bass fishing on natural segments of streams that is ideally an aesthetically pleasing & "un-crowded" solemn quest for some of Nature's most game fishes; the great majority of bass caught to be released unharmed for future benefit. North-central Florida's swift-flowing Ocklawaha River is the home water of Ocklawahaman; it is where Paul Nosca first learned freshwater stream angling techniques & where he continues to employ them as often as possible -- from his man-powered canoe.
"There are lake fishermen, and there are river fishermen, and seldom do the twain agree!"
- Original author unknown.
https://sites.google.com/site/andthereareriverfishermen/striped-bass
19 February 2011
Samuel Proctor Oral History Program (University of Florida) video by Diana Dombrowski interviewing
Ocklawahaman Paul Nosca about the Ocklawaha River and STRIPED BASS
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