{"id":1277,"date":"2012-08-06T20:52:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T01:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2012-08-06T20:54:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T01:54:52","slug":"florida-discoveries-31-steves-farm-in-walnut-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2012\/08\/florida-discoveries-31-steves-farm-in-walnut-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Discoveries 31: Steve&#8217;s Farm in Walnut Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1280\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1280\" style=\"width: 334px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1280  \" title=\"StevesFarmSign\" src=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/StevesFarmSign.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/StevesFarmSign.jpeg 717w, http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/StevesFarmSign-224x300.jpeg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1280\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve&#8217;s Farm is in Walnut Hill, Florida, just below Atmore, Alabama (home of Wind Creek Casino).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This past Saturday the family headed to the northwest corner of Florida for some catfish fishing. \u00a0I know that sounds strange, hauling so far up north when we have amazing fishing all around us, right?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re first heard about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevesfarm.net\/\">Steve&#8217;s Farm<\/a> through our Cub Scout pack, they had an outing up to the farm earlier this spring. \u00a0We had other plans on that day, but we had promised the kids a trip up to the farm. \u00a0Especially since Timmy had won a brand new Shakespeare fishing rod and reel as a door prize from the May Cub Scout meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The farm is about an 90 minute drive from our house in Navarre. \u00a0It&#8217;s run by a Mennonite family and everyone who helped us out was so incredibly nice.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->You pay a $3 per person admission if you intend to keep what you catch (which you also pay for). \u00a0Then you&#8217;re allowed to drive to a spot along one of the numerous catfish ponds on the property.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=30.86847,-87.469862&amp;spn=0.009172,0.01929&amp;t=h&amp;z=16&amp;output=embed\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<small><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-align: left;\" href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=30.86847,-87.469862&amp;spn=0.009172,0.01929&amp;t=h&amp;z=16&amp;source=embed\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re glad we headed up as early as we did, because thunderstorms drove us out by 4pm, but it was very hot when we first arrived and we were working up sweats not necessarily catching the fish, but fighting the fishing line, hooks, bobbers, bait and fire ants. It took us a while to get situated &#8212; and that included changing locations altogether. We walked from one pond to another.<\/p>\n<p>The kids had a pretty hard time with the heat. \u00a0Our fishing rods weren&#8217;t quite prepared for the wild fights that catfish give us, and we broke our lines several times. \u00a0Only one of our rods was rigged with 20 lb. fishing line, the others were outfitted with 8 lb. \u00a0Perfect for all the fishing we did at the <a href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/103925217663556280353\/20100719FishingAtBaseLake#\">Offutt AFB Base Lake<\/a>, but what a fail here! \u00a0We&#8217;ll have to re-thread with some 20-30 lb. line if we do this again.<\/p>\n<p>Someone came around a couple times and tossed catfish feed out, which brought the catfish to the surface and made it pretty easy to catch. We caught five fish in a relatively short time (one of them was too small and Dave had to toss it back).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1287\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1287\" style=\"width: 566px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CatfishFeeder.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1287 \" title=\"CatfishFeeder\" src=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CatfishFeeder.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CatfishFeeder.jpeg 960w, http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CatfishFeeder-300x224.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">You can see the feed flying out of the hopper from right to left in front of the clouds. We are impressed with how well this picture came out, it was Dave&#8217;s iPhone.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1285\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1285\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/PatriciaCatfish.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1285 \" title=\"PatriciaCatfish\" src=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/PatriciaCatfish.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/PatriciaCatfish.jpeg 717w, http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/PatriciaCatfish-224x300.jpeg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1285\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I caught the first fish!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1284\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1284\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DaveCatfish1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1284 \" title=\"DaveCatfish1\" src=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DaveCatfish1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DaveCatfish1.jpeg 717w, http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DaveCatfish1-224x300.jpeg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All of the pictures of Dave on this day were of him smiling like this. He is so genuinely happy whenever he catches a fish!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1283\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1283\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DaveCatfish2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1283 \" title=\"DaveCatfish2\" src=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DaveCatfish2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DaveCatfish2.jpeg 717w, http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DaveCatfish2-224x300.jpeg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This was the biggest catfish of the day, eight pounds, maybe? \u00a0Timmy took this picture.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1282\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1282\" style=\"width: 566px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CatfishFarmThunderstorm.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1282 \" title=\"CatfishFarmThunderstorm\" src=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CatfishFarmThunderstorm.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CatfishFarmThunderstorm.jpeg 960w, http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CatfishFarmThunderstorm-300x224.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This thunderstorm chased us out at about 4 pm. We had spent about 4 hours fishing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1281\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1281\" style=\"width: 566px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CatfishWeigh.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1281 \" title=\"CatfishWeigh\" src=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CatfishWeigh.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CatfishWeigh.jpeg 960w, http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CatfishWeigh-300x224.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1281\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our four fish at weighing time. In addition to the $3 per person admission to the farm, we paid about $2 per pound for the fish itself. They cleaned and gutted the fish for us, but I fileted them myself.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I honestly don&#8217;t know how else to cook catfish &#8212; I dredged it in my yummy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house-autry.com\/retail-products\/seafood\/seasoned-fish-fry\">House-Autry Fish Fry seasoning<\/a> and fried it up in a cast iron skillet with some canola oil.<\/p>\n<p>I made some <a href=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2012\/08\/shameless-pitch-immaculate-baking-co.html\">Immaculate Baking Co. flaky biscuits<\/a> to serve on the side and steamed some green beans. \u00a0Please understand that we do NOT eat like this often, and the following night was a dinner of scrambled eggs and salad \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1278\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1278\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DinnertimeCatfishBiscuitsBeans.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1278 \" title=\"DinnertimeCatfishBiscuitsBeans\" src=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DinnertimeCatfishBiscuitsBeans.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DinnertimeCatfishBiscuitsBeans.jpeg 717w, http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DinnertimeCatfishBiscuitsBeans-224x300.jpeg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dinnertime!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Saturday the family headed to the northwest corner of Florida for some catfish fishing. \u00a0I know that sounds strange, hauling so far up north when we have amazing fishing all around us, right? 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