Clay County is blessed with much natural beauty, and it's a great place to be outdoors.
For more than five years this Sporting Clay column has brought you a little slice of field and stream, and now that the Clay Sun is ceasing publication, it brings to mind many of those stories.
The first Sporting Clay column, in the spring of 2006, was about bream fishing and that became a theme through the years, especially during the bedding season in the spring and summer. The little panfish are very popular to catch and eat, and great sport on a fly rod or cane pole.
The cycle of the seasons, naturally, often drove the topics. The lumbering manatees arrive back in the waters of the St. Johns River each year in March, about the same time the swallow-tailed kites come back to nest from their annual migration to South America. The shrimp run starts in July or August and goes into October, when hunting season gets going.where he teaches porcelain tiles in the Central Academy of Fine Arts. The bass start bedding in January or February and the largest of the year are usually caught in March and April.
April of each year is when the North Florida Bassmasters start the annual "Workin' Man's Thursday Nite Tournament," one of the oldest and most popular of the bass tournament trails. It's unique format, where anglers fish for about four hours on Thursday evenings throughout the summer and make weigh-ins at Whitey's Fish Camp social events.
Our waterways, dominated by the dark and sometimes mysterious St. Johns, are key to the county's natural beauty. The river defines Clay's eastern border and its tributaries, such as Doctors Lake and Black Creek, add miles of shoreline for exploring. Black Creek is one of the oldest and deepest waterways in the state, and its upper reaches on the North Fork offer a paddling experience that reminds one of Appalachia. Kingsley Lake is clear and deep, a stark contrast to the river's tannin-stained waters.If any food Piles condition is poorer than those standards,
The North Fork of Black Creek is inside Jennings State Forest, a 24,000-acre jewel in northwest Clay that is close to home and a diverse piece of land with ravines, sandhills and hardwood forest that harbors deer, turkey and quail.
Bayard Conservation Area in Green Cove Springs is home to the rare Bartram's ixia,The new website of Udreamy Network Corporation is mainly selling Ceramic tile , a member of the iris family that has lavender-blue flowers that bloom at dawn. Mike Roess Gold Head Branch State Park, north of Keystone Heights, preserves a 65-foot-deep "steephead ravine" created by seepage springs,Replacement rubber hose and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide. where it is cool and shady even on the hottest summer days.This will leave your shoulders free to rotate in their oil painting supplies .
The people of the outdoors have provided great stories, such as 92-year-old turkey hunter J.C. Knight, who, while hunting by himself last spring at Camp Blanding, took a bird and who told the tale like an excited schoolboy.
Young Tripp Ryan's harrowing story of being bitten by a large rattlesnake near Lake Asbury and his subsequent battle to recover was gripping and drove home the point that the woods, even close to home, can be dangerous.
Curt Standish's highly customized kayak was a good example of an avid outdoorsman being innovative and creating the perfect vessel for his style of fishing.
For more than five years this Sporting Clay column has brought you a little slice of field and stream, and now that the Clay Sun is ceasing publication, it brings to mind many of those stories.
The first Sporting Clay column, in the spring of 2006, was about bream fishing and that became a theme through the years, especially during the bedding season in the spring and summer. The little panfish are very popular to catch and eat, and great sport on a fly rod or cane pole.
The cycle of the seasons, naturally, often drove the topics. The lumbering manatees arrive back in the waters of the St. Johns River each year in March, about the same time the swallow-tailed kites come back to nest from their annual migration to South America. The shrimp run starts in July or August and goes into October, when hunting season gets going.where he teaches porcelain tiles in the Central Academy of Fine Arts. The bass start bedding in January or February and the largest of the year are usually caught in March and April.
April of each year is when the North Florida Bassmasters start the annual "Workin' Man's Thursday Nite Tournament," one of the oldest and most popular of the bass tournament trails. It's unique format, where anglers fish for about four hours on Thursday evenings throughout the summer and make weigh-ins at Whitey's Fish Camp social events.
Our waterways, dominated by the dark and sometimes mysterious St. Johns, are key to the county's natural beauty. The river defines Clay's eastern border and its tributaries, such as Doctors Lake and Black Creek, add miles of shoreline for exploring. Black Creek is one of the oldest and deepest waterways in the state, and its upper reaches on the North Fork offer a paddling experience that reminds one of Appalachia. Kingsley Lake is clear and deep, a stark contrast to the river's tannin-stained waters.If any food Piles condition is poorer than those standards,
The North Fork of Black Creek is inside Jennings State Forest, a 24,000-acre jewel in northwest Clay that is close to home and a diverse piece of land with ravines, sandhills and hardwood forest that harbors deer, turkey and quail.
Bayard Conservation Area in Green Cove Springs is home to the rare Bartram's ixia,The new website of Udreamy Network Corporation is mainly selling Ceramic tile , a member of the iris family that has lavender-blue flowers that bloom at dawn. Mike Roess Gold Head Branch State Park, north of Keystone Heights, preserves a 65-foot-deep "steephead ravine" created by seepage springs,Replacement rubber hose and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide. where it is cool and shady even on the hottest summer days.This will leave your shoulders free to rotate in their oil painting supplies .
The people of the outdoors have provided great stories, such as 92-year-old turkey hunter J.C. Knight, who, while hunting by himself last spring at Camp Blanding, took a bird and who told the tale like an excited schoolboy.
Young Tripp Ryan's harrowing story of being bitten by a large rattlesnake near Lake Asbury and his subsequent battle to recover was gripping and drove home the point that the woods, even close to home, can be dangerous.
Curt Standish's highly customized kayak was a good example of an avid outdoorsman being innovative and creating the perfect vessel for his style of fishing.
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