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It was in a small town called Inglis. This was back in the late 60s. When you went under the Single bridge and upriver, there was nothing upriver except a few small homes. No businesses all the way up to the dam. The gunshop was on the East Side of the road about a 1/2 mile south of the bridge. For about six or to a year, we lived at the Withlacoohee Fish Camp, which unless I'm mistaken, is now the Big Oaks River Resort. When we first started going there, my stepfather was living in a cabin at the place running an IBEW crew building power towers in the area, Coming back to Tampa on the weekends. I loved the area and came up there to live in the Fish Camp. The Big Concrete Dock was under construction at the time and the bar was a shack on the other side of the ramp with a shaky wooden dock. Then "Big John" dropped a new double wide beside the new dock and was open for business, and the old bar was the bait shop. I had a boat to run the river, Boy Scouts to go with, and we could hang out and shoot pool in the bar during the day. We'd run down river to the ocean and fish, or upriver to the dam and float back down and fish all night. I wrote an humorous article for a local paper about that summer years later that was in my top five.