Lake Toho Bass Fishing
Lake Toho bass fishing has been doing very good despite the much warmer weather we have finally been enjoying.
Several trips with live wild shiners has produced some good catches in Gobblets Cove as well as Friars Cove. The other day we had several big bass crush the baits only to come unbuttoned close to the boat, one did a last ditch effort dive under the boat to set herself free, and she was an easy 5 pounder. Pete as you can see on the newest video on my site listed in Bass Fishing Videos, was not going to be denied his big bass, as this gal just creamed his wild shiner.
Crankbaits have also been doing very good for us. Strike King Red Eye Shads have been catching some quality bass as well as some good numbers. Cotton Cordells have been very good all the way up in Gobblets Cove, especially around hydrilla. North end of the lake, all the way up by Neptune road saw some mid day schooling action, but of course they were just out of reach for us, and disappeared just as fast as they showed up.
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Mid March has seen some great bass fishing action. This stretch has been split up between Lake Toho and Butler Chain.
One very often overlooked tactic by many is as you slow troll some live bait off the back of the boat, you can also flip one into pot holes in the grasses or tight up against lily pads or reeds. All too often, this over looked option can keep the bass catching action going steady during the day.
With the weather calming down, cold fronts, or even cool fronts now a thing of the past, our water temperatures are now starting to warm up steadily. Early morning schooling action will be very common on Lakes Toho, Butler Chain and Johns Lake. Prop baits, torpedoes, buzz baits and toads will be very good early morning producers for some quality bass.
Grass beds and hydrilla will be very good areas to target using worms, senko type baits, spinner baits and shallow running crank baits. Depending on the body of water, docks will be holding bass as usual and typically some good quality largemouth bass.
November bass fishing has been good. I spent the day out on Starke Lake with my tournament partner for what was some great bass fishing action. The 26th we got an early start, hitting the waters at 6:30am, still dark and tried some top water action, and we got none. With the sunrise, came rain and higher winds, so what should have been a bad day on the water saw us catching 16 bass on wacky rigged Gitem K.O’s and white spinner baits. All but 3 of the bass came from the main lake working tight to shoreline and scattered off shore grass beds. The 29th we headed out early once again, with live shiners and crank baits. To our surprise we boated no bass on the live bait, but the crank baits, a Big O in fire tiger pattern, and an Ugly Duckling in shiner pattern boated the bass, to the tune of another 10 bass. Crank bait bass came on the main lake and in Deep Lake. We keyed in on docks and submerged grass beds and found the bites to be very aggressive. We had seen some very good schooling action the first day, but avoided throwing to them and opted to keep searching the deeper water patterns. Storm WildEye Curl Tail swim baits once again picked up some good solid bass in the middle of Starke Lake itself as well as at the mouth of the canal on the Deep Lake side. With the water temperatures starting a nice cool down, I have noticed bait fish pods growing in size which will have the bass schooling up and feeding good to get ready for the spawn.
