GOOD NEWS FOR THE FLORIDAN & SURFICIAL AQUIFERS! Much of the State of Florida is having abundant RAINFALL this May of 2018 and more is in the forecast! AGAIN -- IN MY OPINION -- KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE "PRIZE" LADIES & GENTLEMEN! Great amounts of rainfall provided by Mother Nature -- usually by hurricanes; other tropical systems (depressions, storms, and waves); stalled cold fronts; or Florida's annual June-September rainy season -- can fix (for at least a while -- even several years) many of our aquifer, MFL's, and spring-flow problems. An official of the St. Johns River Water Management District (SJRWMD) once told me that, "All we need is lots of rain!" He was probably right. This has happened in Florida many times since "Ocklawahaman" first arrived here in 1961. Lest we forget recent years like 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2017, and now maybe 2018! But Mother Nature in 49 years plus has NOT been able to breach Rodman Dam! That is the "PRIZE" -- mankind (men and women) need to focus on breaching Rodman Dam which would be the MOST SERIOUS STEP EVER that needs to be implemented to improve the ecology and VALUE of the St. Johns River, Ocklawaha River, Silver River and SILVER SPRINGS. "Ocklawahaman" has consistently worried since 2004 that others are diluting their sincere efforts to restore the free-flowing Ocklawaha River (by the breaching of Rodman dam) -- for whatever reasons -- by involving themselves in too many other issues that to me, "Just ain't worth a spit in the river!" Job #1 is breaching Rodman Dam -- that is the "PRIZE!" I am sure that you have your own honest opinion about this. You have just read mine again! PRAY FOR LOTS OF RAIN & SIGN FOR-FREE-$$$ THE "FREE THE OCKLAWAHA RIVER BY THE BREACHING OF RODMAN DAM" online petition! https://www.change.org/p/st-johns-river-water-management-district-free-the-ocklawaha-river-by-the-breaching-of-rodman-dam Will "THEY" get it done? "Yeah, right!" SIGN-FOR-FREE-$$$! What have you got to lose? Sincerely, "Ocklawahaman" Paul Nosca "Ocklawahaman" Paul Nosca's bass angling began in Florida some 53 years ago (1965) -- fishing man-made ponds and lakes -- later I discovered the aesthetic beauty of By-God flowing rivers and 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, and ponds plus salty tidewaters that almost all other Florida fishermen are accustomed-to and greatly prefer; river bass angling in current is undeniably Paul's preferred pursuit. Paddling a canoe (or bank-walking and wading when advantageous), "Ocklawahaman" skillfully uses buzzbait and spinnerbait lures almost exclusively while bass fishing moving freshwater. Motorized watercraft for "run and gun" fishing or other aquatic tomfoolery and 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 and "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 and 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. Join the "FREE THE OCKLAWAHA RIVER BY THE BREACHING OF RODMAN DAM" Facebook Public Group page at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1937718656450177/ THE PHOTO "Last View of the Old Channel" just before Rodman Dam was closed across the Ocklawaha River on Monday September 30, 1968. AND NOW THE REST OF THE STORY: During the period that photograph was taken, a young 16-year old Paul Nosca was a volunteer worker for the "Nixon For President 1968" campaign, Republican Party of Pinellas County, Florida. And if Richard Nixon (R) had not been certified as the winner of that 1968 U.S. presidential election -- the Ocklawaha River would have been totally destroyed as part of the ongoing Cross Florida Barge Canal project supported by the Kennedy (D)-Johnson (D)-Humphrey (D) administrations! Do I trust that "THEY" will get it (FREE THE OCKLAWAHA RIVER BY THE BREACHING OF RODMAN DAM) done? "Yeah, right!"