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robert4570

robert4570

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Duece ,
The Cypress aint what it used to be .
I haven't renewed my cypress airboat sticker since designated trails where established back in 2000 and haven't been back to that area( zone 4 )since.
I was in stairteps last weekend, ( zone 1 ) and it was dry everywhere even in the strands.



Here's link hope it helps.

NPS ORV Information
http://home.nps.gov/applications/parks/ ... CF66B3.htm

Robert
 
Duece,

Hunted Bear Island/Turner River units for 8-9 years. Had my boat built at 14 foot to hunt the Stairsteps unit. Pretty piss-poor for airboaters to get only about 2,000 acres in the Stairsteps unit to hunt out of 387,000 acres in Big Cypress.

I'm like Robert :cry: I stopped hunting there when they implemented the "driver license" you speak of getting. Stopped a lot of tradition when they did that, (no one 16 or younger able to drive, designated trails, etc). Just the annual vehicle inspection was already a pain :cry:

Good luck cause I know there's still game there.

Basketcase
 
when the water is low(in the trails) plenty of cap rock is visible.Enough to have made me turn around in a polymer boat! You'll see SS wrapped hulls down there for a reason.
 
I haven't been out since the first weekend in January and it had dried up enough where it was hard for me to get to the Pines so its probably gotton a drier. Not much area to run since the ORV plan. I talked to another friend of mine and he was out the 2nd wekend and said it was worse not worth driving far to go for thirty minutes of trails. I have been waiting for the NPS to release the additional secondary airboat trails and for a couple of trails in the Bird Cage or Sparrow zone that we had met and asked for. Hopefuly now that USFWS did not include the areas inside Zone 4 as part of their Critical Habitat Designations we will be allowed to run there some. I met with USFWS two years ago and they were willing to work with the NPS to open up some of this area during non-nesting season. There will be a few more trails this season. Not nearly enough to make up he loss but folks still need to push for access.
Eric
 
Deuce RBCZAK or something like that posts the water level situation down there on this site. I bet there is still plenty of water. Last month is was near level with loop road at the launch sites.
 
I use this map for water level sites: http://sofia.usgs.gov/eden/stationlist-area.php

then I use this page to get the levels: http://www.sofia.usgs.gov/eden/eve/index.php

- Shawn
 
If always wanted to hunt down there off the airboats but never have got my boat checked out. While hunting you can't get off the trail to go and find deer right? U have to stop you boat and shot then go and walk and get your deer and bring it back to your boat correct? I know there some monsters in stair steps. But if it's like I think it is I'll keep my boat parked In the back yard
 
Yea I heard the same but it was for unit 3&4 or something like that. That's what happens when you have more panthers then an area can handle. And still cry endangered
 
In my opinion, PYTHONs are the problem! Gators in the area have become extremely fierce due to diminishing food supply. I wish I knew of a solution......?
 
you should have seen a few gators in that pond on the left about 1/2 way to coconuts theres usually a couple in thr especially if the water is down. if you made it to the mangroves you must have gone just outside the parkline don't get caught Harley got banned for a year he parked a hundred feet off the designated trail and technically he could have pushed it that far but the ranger stick ticketed him and he was banned for a year. I quit going only been once and that was to help my sons girlfriend do a film project i just get sick not being to go to the heads i like to visit to me its still the best place i eer airboated but i neer really airboated much anywhere else and really only know a little of south of the loop
 
I thought that you were banned from that area if you couldn't produce an airboat registration dating back to 1988.. I used like to ride out of Mitchell' launch and ride to coconuts and lost pines.
 
It only helps if you had owned and registered an airboat in 1988 to continue riding in east everglade the area ENP took over in 1988. In the big cypress that does not apply
 
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