I live about 45 minutes to an hour away in Lake City. I'm new to fishing also, and have a 19-foot '94 nitro.
I also like fishing Rodman, but living over here in Lake City, we get to fish the Suwannee River a lot as well as Lake Seminole, Lake Rosseau and the St. Johns River. I agree with the guys on fishing out of some else's boat when it comes to those stumps in Rodman.