North Florida hides a lake where trophy bass swim above a drowned forest, buried springs, and sixteen lost miles of river.
The water appears calm beneath the Ocala sky, but its history is anything but peaceful. A dam raised in the late 1960s transformed the Ocklawaha River, swallowing trees, wetlands, and natural springs beneath a reservoir that was never part of the landscape.
Is this an angler’s paradise or an environmental mistake waiting to be corrected?…