Got my kids started early. Maxx with a Snake Bight seatrout.

Maxx running the Bang-O-Craft.

Alex in the mud at Lake Ingraham. Hey, he wanted out of the boat!

Me at Lostman’s Key. This photo ran in the very first magazine article I had published, around 1985.

Tarpon on fly, Coot Bay.

Maxx, Matt Van Pelt, and Alex, in Lake Ingraham. Matt was one of my students, back when I was a public school teacher.

Maxx, Pavilion Key.

Anhinga, on the Anhinga Trail.

Alex got this trout on the Middle Grounds, near east Cape Sable.

Don Causey paddles across Coot Bay.

Put-in at Hell’s Bay.

Maxx going mano-a-mano…

…with this guy, Mud Lake.

Alex, different day, same place.

Campsite on New Turkey Key.

The beach at Cape Sable.

Paddling on the Buttonwood Canal.

A dragonfly, a Halloween Pennant, sits on a mangrove leaf.

Waiting for the storm, Jewell Key.

Maxx, Jewell Key.

Alex, Bear Lake.

Nesting ospreys near Tiger Key.

Fish on, Garfield Bight. Courtesy Mike Conneen.

Rabbit Key.

This guy came up right next to the boat, checking us out long enough for me to get a shot.

Mike Conneen and River, somewhere near Everglades City.

American crocodiles, behind Cape Sable.

Campsite, Tiger Key.

Where are we??? Mike Conneen tries to see his phone screen.

Hand propelled craft only.

Mike Conneen and River, Jewell Key.

Along the Anhinga Trail.

In a tiny creek…

Where are we??? Behind Cape Sable. Courtesy Mike Conneen.

Mike Conneen and River, Jewell Key.

If memory serves, this is the south Joe River chickee.

One of the reasons I go!

Mike Conneen on the Shark Point Chickee.

Campfire on Cape Sable.

One of the reasons I go!

Campfire on Jewell Key.

Jack Radloff, Bear Lake.

This snook swam right past our boat.

Hooked up, Whitewater Bay. Photo courtesy Maxx Kumiski.

Got ’em! Maxx holds the beast.

Little blue heron, Anhinga Trail.