World Class Florida Bass Fishing!
Hey everyone, Captain Kip Grunloh here with the May 4th, 2015 fishing report.
I had an awesome couple from Brazil today, we fished Lake Toho – Orlando for six hours and caught some nice fish. The wind really picked up this afternoon so fishing got a little tough…we still caught some nice fish though. Diana and Ronaldo really had a great time, she caught the most and he caught the biggest. Can’t wait to see them again.
Until next time, tight lines!
Yeah. Hi, this is Captain John Leech,
Went out fishing today with my buddy Jim Sweatman and his friend Ray Peters out this morning.
We had a great morning landing (91) ninety-one bass. Caught then all on different things, it was just one of those days. The best lure at the end of the day had to be the Texas rig worm. The fish seem to be holding on the outside of the submerge grass line, which ended up being the main pattern all day.
With the cold front coming to today the fish bit really good early and then started to tighten up as the sun got higher and higher. Look for the next couple of days after this cold front to be a little tougher fishing. But then the first of the week the weather comes back to normal and look for these fish to start to chew really well…so let’s go fishing!
That’s it for now, tight lines Capt John Leech
Hi this is Captain John Leech with another Lake Toho fishing report,
Today I took Mike Roderick and his three teenagers out on Lake Toho for an afternoon trip. Were they ever so happy they took the one girl along with them, what a bounce it ended up being. Look at the picture you will see why, she had the touch today, it was “simply her day” as we say in the fishing world!
Everyone caught fish today, but she caught the most and the biggest. As a bounce Mike at the beginning of the trip offer a $100 price to the angler catching the single biggest fish…guess who won, girl power!
That’s it for now, this has been Captain John Leech…have a great day!
Lake Toho Bass Fishing and Kissimmee Chain Bass Fishing
The bass fishing on Lake Toho and the Kissimmee Chain has been great for us. Live wild shiners of course have always been a good bet to catching some good numbers as well as size, but I gotta tell you folks, we have been slamming some good numbers as well as size with artificial baits.
Our main baits as of late have been a good mix with senko type baits, speed craws, spinner baits, stike king red eye shads, and the one that woke up the sleeping giant the first day of October was the Azuma Shaker Z.
One main area we have been working has a good spam of lily pads with a bunch of scattered grasses and hydrilla and it has been holding a ton of bass. Working the Azuma Shaker Z around the grasses and just above the hydrilla produced some good numbers, as well as this toad of a bass. We had spotted a few other huge blowups in the water but they were just out of casting distance, but I tell ya, they were bass just as big as this trophy bass.
Soft plastics had produced several smaller bass as well as two bass that were four pounds plus, and they fought like champs. The air temperature as well as the water temperatures are finally cooling down and it has been triggering a pretty good feed from the bass. The day started out with the water surface temp right at 76 degrees and made for some good bass fishing. This coming week is looking like much cooler temps over night as well as during the day, and this will only benefit the bass fishing action in a positive way.
Several more runs out on the Kissimmee Chain coming up so check back often for new reposrts and updates.
Lake Toho Bass Fishing
The last several days have seen some pretty good bass fishing on Lake Toho. Our main target had been East Lake Toho, which has not been letting us down. Action has been remaining pretty steady out here using artificial baits and it does seem that the artificial bait bite has been out producing the live bait.
Main lake has been yielding some good numbers as well as size, Lake Ajay has also been kicking out some good numbers as well on the chain. Senko type baits, flukes and redeye shads have been getting more than their fair share of bass out here. Most of the bass being caught have been coming from along the grass lines in about 4 to 6 foot of water with some flow. Junebug silver fleck and red shad have been the HOT colors to use out here for us.
Mike and Klye had a great time out on East Lake Toho catching bass pretty consistently all day long, with an hour break for lunch at East Lake Fish Camp. Most of their day had been spent working the various canals out here, and the bass played very well for them. Higher winds had forced us into the canals, put with the winds pushing the waters into them, the bass were stacking up in there and we had no problem catching them, boating roughly 20 bass on the day made for a very good trip.
Altho it has been hot out, my new “break for lunch” trips have been a great success with clients. That brief hour long break in the middle of the day has been all we needed to fish a full eight hour trip without getting over heated and still catch bass.
Be sure to also check out my split day trips, fish four hours in the morning, and then finishing off with four hours in the afternoon, yet another great way to beat the heat.
Lake Toho Bass Fishing- Orlando Bass Fishing
The end of March had seen some very good bass fishing action.
With several days of higher winds, we opted to hit Butler Chain, which gave us 12 lakes to pick from, with plenty of cover from the winds. Most trips out there had been all artificial bait trips, with spinner baits, buzz baits and senko type baits being the best producing lures.
We had a lot of very good action on Lake Sheen, grass beds had been good producers, but for those who wanted some steady action, secondary grass beds were the big key to catching bass. Slow rolled spinner baits thru these areas were very good with some solid and aggressive strikes. Lake Pocket was also holding some good bass, mostly around the docks, where we would skip a wacky rig all the way under them.
The mouth of the canal to Lake Blanche had a few bass beds right along the shoreline, with a few scattered bass on them, and after tossing everything but the kitchen sink at them, including a wild shiner, these bass wanted nothing to do with our offerings, so we moved into the main lake, where once again it was the secondary grass beds, with a good mixture of hydrilla where the bass were holding tight to.
A couple trips to Lake Toho also produced some good action. Most of our time on Lake Toho has been spent in Gobblets Cove and in Friars Cove. Beds were scattered all over the place, with nothing on them, but the females were cruising the areas and very finicky with the bite. Trick worms and blade baits were great for some very good catching, and keeping the bite steady during the day. Running spinner baits thru the thinner areas of lily pads also produced some quality bass. Waters are warming up very nicely now, and we are seeing a lot of bait fish bunching up, which has been giving way to some very good schooling activity. Its top water time folks!!
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