Fishing the Santa Fe River in North Florida with Creek Fishing Adventures and my724outdoors.com!
Went down to Florida and the first stop was fishing the Sate Fe river and the several natural springs that flow into the river. @Aaron’s Outdoor and I fished a couple days here but this video is just from the first half of that day. **AFFILIATE ASSOCIATES LINKS and DISCOUNT CODES BELOW!!! Rebel / Bobby Garland / Yum / Booyah and more!!! USE MY CODE ”DALTON15” for 15% off at https://www.lurenet.com/ Crickhopper http://bit.ly/2Mbfy6b Craw http://bit.ly/3cbXMu4
The Santa Fe River begins its journey at lakes Santa Fe and Alto and their associated swamps northeast of Gainesville in North Florida. The river flows west 44 miles, with tributaries to this section coming from New River and Olustee Creek. A half-mile downstream from the main parking area at O’Leno State Park, the Santa Fe disappears for a little over 3 miles before resurfacing at River Rise Preserve State Park.
The river isn’t actually disappearing, though. It is flowing into a sink in the karst limestone formation known as the Cody Scarp that underlies the area. The River Sink/River Rise system in O’Leno is the largest swallet-to-resurgence system in Florida. With the river submerging and then reemerging, it creates a natural bridge that humans have been using to cross the river for over 14,000 years, including native peoples, early Europeans and Florida pioneers.
A severe drought from 2000 to early 2004 diminished the amount of tannins in the river, increasing underwater visibility. This allowed a team of permitted divers to research and survey the underground system for the first time. They found that the conduits in which the river travels average a depth of about 140 feet below the surface, with some areas reaching 180 feet.
The passageways are an average 40 to 60 feet in height and 60 to 80 feet wide, some of the largest in the area. Divers surveyed and mapped just over 50,000 feet of underground passageways within and just outside of the park, naming it the Bellamy Cave system.
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