World Class Florida Bass Fishing!
Great finish to the day, on Lake Toho in Central Florida bass fishing! I really enjoyed having Mr. Gary Greenwood, and his nephew, Austin on the boat for a great day of Catching!
Till next time tight lines and good fishing…
From Staff Writer… Capt Tony Summers
1. Around Lakeland, Alex Hall of Lakeland released an 11-pound, 2-ounce bass at Saddle Creek Park Monday casting a white Spro frog along cattails mid-afternoon before showers and storms moved in, reports Stacy Roberts at Phillips Bait and Tackle. Bass mostly 5-7 pounds at Saddle Creek, best early and late on crankbaits around open-water sand bars, mussel bars and rock piles. Bass are “on fire” at Lake Gibson flipping docks and heavy cover with black/blue Bug Tussles, reports Bob Woodard at Big Fish Bait and Tackle. Gene Hodgekiss of Lakeland released 18 bass up to 7 pounds, 2 ounces at Gibson casting a Charlie’s Worm (JW black grape) off grass edges, Roberts said. Woodard said there’s also schooling-size bass 1-3 pounds at Gibson early and late casting dark-colored plastic worms and topwater plugs. Bass up to 6-7 pounds very active at Tenoroc, with overall 0.84 fish-per-hour average and lakes B, G, Shop and 3 best, reports David Frazier. Bream in very good numbers at Tenoroc with limits at 5, B and Horseshoe by boat and from the bank at Cemetery, Derby and Picnic. Bluegill limits outside entrance to Lake Crago on crickets, Roberts said, and cattails on Parker good as well but size not as good. Colt Creek, Tenoroc and Mud Lake hot spots for bluegill and shellcracker, Woodard said. Small to medium bluegill at Bonny on grass shrimp. Catfish good everywhere, Roberts said, including Parker, Hunter and Gibson. Fewer specks at Tenoroc, but 4, 5 and B tops. Fisherman at Saddle Creek brought in eight specks over 10 inches Monday morning trolling minnows on tandem rigs (Blakemore, Slab Daddy).
2. At Auburndale, bass active early and before and after showers, with bass up to 7 pounds on Rochelle, Haines and Alfred, reports Ron Schelfo at Ron’s Tackle Box in Lake Alfred. Doug Yutzy and Sean Phelps weighed in a 28-pound, 10-ounce stringer on north chain (Rochelle and Haines) April 13 in Polk County Bass Anglers tournament, including 6-pound, 10-ouncer for Yutzy. Schelfo said there was a 7-pounder Saturday on Lake Alfred with an 8-inch red shad ZetaBait Gillraker worm. Lot of shellcracker and bluegill at Rochelle and Haines on crickets and red worms, Schelfo said. Catfish good at Simmers-Young Park, reports Stacy Roberts. There’s a free kids fishing derby there Saturday morning.
3. At Winter Haven, Tom Linson produced a 10-pound, 1-ounce bass on Lake Summit last Thursday evening in Ron’s tournament on south chain. Schelfo said the bite was on with quite a few bass 4-5 pounds and red shad stick-baits and Flukes producing. Jacob Rogers caught a 5-pounder Saturday and teamed with Gabe Gelb to win with 17 1/2 pounds in BHS Fishing Team tournament out of Cannon — Tammie Ferguson reports the 14 teams headed to Spring Lake for the most bass 3-5 pounds in team history that had “camera phones blazing.”
4. At Lake Hamilton, bass 3-5 pounds are feeding actively around the grass lines on a variety of lures and wild shiners. Bluegill are improving.
5. At Lake Marion near Haines City, bream slowed down after the full moon. Two boats out Tuesday caught a total of six, reports Eileen O’Leary at Bannon’s Fish Camp. O’Leary said shoreline vegetation withering after being sprayed last week.
6. At Lake Pierce, bluegill anglers catching enough for a mess, with a few shellcracker mixed in, reports Jennings Resort. Bass 2-3 pounds fair.
7. At Lake Hatchineha, Lake Cypress remains hot spot for bigger bass around open-water hydrilla on soft plastics, lipless crankbaits, swimbaits and spinnerbaits, with boats lining up from center marker to “Hole in the Wall” on south shore, said Leo Cosce. Shellcracker bedding in lily pads to the left of Cypress Canal entrance, just beyond No. 10 Marker, and around Catfish Creek, said Cosce. Still some specks along deeper hydrilla edges in Cypress.
8. At Lake Toho, team of Woods and McDuffie won Crackerboys tournament out of Southport Park Saturday with 9.84-pounder and 26.08 pounds, but no word of which lake they were on, and 19 bass 5-8 pounds. Cody Detweiler at Big Toho Marina said the artificial bite is coming around on Flukes, Senkos and 10-inch worms around open-water hydrilla, with a lot of shad moving around but no schooling activity noticed yet. Guides averaging 20 bass per trip up to 7-8 pounds on wild shiners. Ton of bluegill and shellcracker in grass/lily pads. Specks slowing down.
9. At Lake Kissimmee, Wayne Yohn and Kenny Vann busted out a 44.69-pound stringer of six bass Sunday in Camp Mack Team Tournament. Ryan and Mike Hoover had biggest bass at 10.26 pounds. J.W. Watkins won Toho Marine Elite One-Man event Saturday out of Camp Mack with 30.54 pounds, and there were eight bass 7-9 pounds. Matt Faneuf boated 8.44-pounder in Outcasts tournament Saturday and combined with Scott Finnell for 27 1/2 pounds. Bigger bass moving to open-water brush piles and mussel bars, while there’s mostly keepers inside grass line edges and around lily pads, reports Leo Cosce at Camp Lester. Good numbers of bass 6-7 pounds on wild shiners, reports Grape Hammock. Shellcracker took three-day break from bedding in lily pads late last week, but came back in force on Saturday, Cosce said. Grape Hammock reports plenty of limits of shellcracker mixed with bluegill on beds around Brahma Island on red worms and crickets. Cosce said there’s also beds at Philadelphia Point, Lemon Point and Bird Island, with anglers filling coolers with limits. Early morning specks on outside edge grass lines and open-water brush piles, with a limit for Larry West Tuesday.
10. At Lake Walk-in-the-Water, bluegill really good most days when it’s warm, dry and calm, said Stacy Roberts, but not 100 percent consistent.
11. At Crooked Lake at Babson Park, big bedding bluegill are giving small bass a run for their money. Nine-year-old Jessy Smith of Valrico caught six 10-inch bluegill on red worms, and together with four adults they iced down a total of 26 in grass and lily pads, reports Cindy Ritchison at Bob’s Landing. Bass up to 4 pounds in Sunday Open tournament, but only 7 pounds to win, on 7-inch worms and deep-diving crankbaits. Speck boats getting 18-20 per trip averaging 12 inches at night on minnows.
12. At Frostproof, good numbers of bass 3-7 pounds on Reedy and Arbuckle in weekend tournaments. Don Smith and Ricky Timmerman had almost 4-pound average on Reedy in Lake Wales Po’ Boys event, and Mark Browning and Johnnie Renner netted 17.65 pounds on six bass at Arbuckle in the Mosaic tournament.
13. In the phosphate pits south of Mulberry and Bartow, bass 5-7 pounds active in mornings with frogs, swim-baits or plastic worms and Senkos.
Credit to Polk Outdoors.com “Inside Central Florida Outdoors”
Kissimmee Chain of Lakes bass fishing has been doing very good for us. We have been focusing on mainly Lake Jackson as it has been producing not only some great numbers of bass, but some good size as well. We did a quick scouting trip out here to check out a few other spots. These spots in the past have produced some great trophy bass for us and have typically reloaded after a few months.
We hit the nail on the head this day. One of my favorite spots was holding a bunch of great bass and the action was pretty steady for us. We did start the morning our using live wild shiners, and as we moved to different areas we cracked out the artificial baits.
Zoom flukes in June Bug seemed to be the hot ticket with the artificial baits. Bass were relating tight to cover and seemed to prefer a mix of coverage. Lily pads with Kissimmee grass close by seemed to be the hot spots. Water temperatures started the day out at 52.7 degrees, yes folks we are in Florida, this has pushed the bass tighter to cover where we have been fishing and has made it much easier to target the bass. Once again we have seem bass with the tell tale sores on the tails from fanning beds and we have started to spot scattered beds around the lake.
Bass Fishing in Florida is still a hook setting bonanza. Sid returned once again for some great bass fishing action out on Lake Jackson here in Central Florida. We started the day out hitting the ramp very early so we were on our first spot just before 7am. Cooler temperatures than the day before and a fog that did not let go of us until just after 10am, looked like it was going to be a tougher day than we had been used to.
We started out on that first spot, which had been great at producing not only some good numbers of bass, but also some pretty good sized bass as well. Today was a day of all wild shiners and the bass did not let us down. Tossing free lined shiners to the edges of the lily pads was the way to go, one thing we did notice was the placement of the shiners today was the big key to catching the bass. Placing the bait a couple feet from the pad yielded little to no action at all, but if they were placed within inches of the pads, the bass played very good for us.
With the wind constantly changing directions on us, the Dig In Anchor system was awesome at holding us in place and allowed us to pin point our casts to the edges with no problem. This was a great bass fishing day for Sid, as he boated not only 21 bass in four hours, but also landed three catfish a pickerel and a big bowfin. Lot of action for Sid today and I got a pretty good work out myself zipping around the boat netting all of his fish today.
I still have a few open dates for December and January while February is booking up fast. We are expecting yet another very busy spawn season as we did this previous season, so book your bass fishing trips soon.
November Bass Fishing, Folks this is the time of year we really start to get excited. Cooler weather has finally grabbed a hold of us which makes things very nice when you’re out on the waters of Central Florida chasing after those trophy bass we have down here. Live wild shiners become one of the main baits of choice for many anglers, as they start that search for the big ten pound plus trophy largemouth bass.
Central Florida has the lakes that can and will produce trophy bass every year. Lake Toho being one of the main targets of many anglers, and this great body of water will yield more than its fair share of the lunker bass. Lake Kissimmee will also produce so big monster bass as well. With the main targets being grass beds and skinny waters closer to shore, as the bass are getting closer to spawn time.
Years past we have come across bass beds by the first week of December, but a lot of this will be hinged on how the weather treats us as well. With a steady weather pattern it is very possible to start catching bass from beds by the end of the month, although the spawn generally will not hit full swing until January or February.
Butler Chain and Conway Chain will also be some great bass fishing action. Bother these bodies of water have some of the cleanest waters around, and both are well known for bass schooling action. Both these areas not only hold some of the deeper water action, but they also have a ton of docks that can be fished, and these docks will hold some great bass. We round out Central Florida Bass fishing with Johns Lake. Johns Lake is known for some great bass schooling action and when the spawn hits, this place can compete with Lake Toho when it comes to trophy bass fishing. Don’t forget, we also have some pretty darn good crappie fishing here in Central Florida as well.
Orlando Bass Fishing Special
The Orlando area is well known for having some of the best Florida trophy bass fishing action in the state. There is a variety of fishing lakes to choose from to include Lake Kissimmee, the Butler Chain, Johns Lake, East lake Toho, Lake Rosalie, Clermont Chain, Walk in Water, Lake Okeechobee, Lake Rousseau, Lake Istokpoga, Harris Chain of Lakes and the World Famous Lake Toho. With over 20 years of experience on these, and several other lakes in the area, we feel we can offer you the best options, and the best chances possible of getting that 10 pound bass, and make your dreams come true.
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