1999 March - Lake Okeechobee

We decided to go to Lake Okeechobee to fish.  We had to get up really early and we saw a beautiful sunrise.

Okeechobee Sunrise

 I was still asleep but managed to catch a largemouth bass.

But mine was nothing compared to what Frank pulled in - a 9 lb largemouth!  Even the guide was excited, he said you don't see them that large very often anymore.

Frank and his 9 lb. Largemouth

The guide was so impressed, he used the picture on his website as an advertisement.  Well it looks like Frank has the record now for the largest Largemouth bass :-(

1997 July - Maine

Frank and a largemouth bass

Another weekend in Maine and Frank catches a nice bass on our favorite lake.

1996 March - Cape Coral, Florida

Frank catching a Florida bass

No matter where we go, Frank is ready to cast a line.  Here we took a drive to Cape Coral to see the land that my family owned.  The town has a network of canals through it, but in this section the land is overgrown with reeds and the water does not go out to the ocean.  It didn't stop Frank from catching a fish!

1995 May - Grand Lake Stream, Maine

Frank the fly fisherman

Esther with her new fly fishing gear

You can't go to Grand Lake Stream and not fly fish!  Seeing I was successful on our first trip, I decided to go all out and get the gear for this trip. Now I have waders and a vest - but I still have my lucky inexpensive rod and reel from K-Mart.  We looked good, but we didn't catch anything.

1995 May - St. Croix River, Maine

Hubert our Guide and Esther

Hubert prepared our catch

We enjoyed our previous experience hiring a guide in Maine, so we decided to do it again.  Our guide this time was Hubert and he was getting along in years but he still got us into a great fishing spot towards the end of the day.  It was a dragon fly hatch and the fish were biting with every cast.

1995 March - Englewood, Fla

Esther with a 5-1/2 lb Largemouth

I remember I had a cold and didn't really feel like doing anything, but I went with Frank to fish the small pond right down the street from his mother's condo in Fla. When I hooked into this bass, I forgot all about how I was feeling.  This was my biggest largemouth bass ever!

1994 Sept - Assateague Island, Maryland



Frank strikes again!

 We went on vacation to Ocean City Maryland and tried surfcast fishing again. 

Our fishing was interrupted when a herd of wild ponies came strolling down the beach!

Assateague ponies

There are several local legends about the origins of the ponies on Assateague. The most popular is that the ponies swam ashore from a Spanish ship that had run aground, while another story has it that they came from a wrecked ship that had been on its way to the English colonies. A third claims that pirates brought the ponies to the island.
In any event, the ponies have been on Assateague for about 300 years. While the early ponies had solid coloring, a good number now have brown and white patches due to interbreeding with new ponies brought to the island in the last hundred years.