Lesson Learned: Get off the water before dark (Unless you're night fishing)

[Rodman_Rob]

I went out to rodman yesterday. Ran into a few fish, nothing big enough to really brag about, maybe for you northern guys, but then again this is Rodman........3 fish, all 18-22"

I intended to stay until sundown. However the weeds have really filled in from the previous time I had been out there late at night. I ended up farther from the boat ramp and by the time the sun had gone down, I was still a good ways away from the O.S. canal entrance and managed to find myself lost in the maze of weed beds. I knew WHERE the ramp was the hole time, I just couldn't find a path unless I wanted to cut through the weeds. Considering the nusciance gators are all released in rodman, I chose not to cut through the weeds as nusciance gators tend to be more "social". After paddling around for awhile I finally made it back to shore, but every single water hyacinth looked just like a gator head staring me down.