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Exploring Our Backyard Waterways Series
Ocklawaha & Silver Rivers to Silver Springs Early European settlers hunted the Ocklawaha River's dense swamp forests, fished its pristine waters and used the waterway as a major thoroughfare into central Florida. The 1860s brought the tourism trade to the...
Get your Fish-On
Whether you call them specks, speckled perch, papermouths, bachelor perch, calico bass, black crappie or just crappies (Pomoxis nigromaculatus) they are plentiful here in our Central Florida lakes and rivers. Next to largemouth bass, crappie are Florida’s second most sought...
Exploring Our Backyard Waterways
Known to the early settlers of Florida as the Elfin River this one and a quarter mile stretch of waterway has earned the reputation of being one of the most beautiful in Florida. This jungle-like waterway is part of a...
Buying Your First Boat
Shopping for and then buying a boat can be a very confusing and challenging process. This is especially true if you’ve never done it before and this will be your first boat. What kind of boat, how big or small,...
Vacation on Demand
You don’t need to own a boat to experience what it’s like to have a vacation at your fingertips. DiscoverBoating.com has an interactive Go Boating Today tool that generates local options for boat rentals, classes, charters and more, by simply...
Harris Chain of Lakes
Set amongst the quaint towns of Mount Dora, Eustis, Tavares and Leesburg, is the Harris Chain of Lakes. This chain is a part of the Ocklawaha River Basin and includes Lakes Dora, Beauclair, Carlton, Eustis, Apopka, Harris, Little Harris, Griffin...