Bass Angler To The Max

Hello and welcome guys! I actually live in heron bay and are a daily angler in those waters. Ive lived in coral springs all my life born and raised and can honestly say best bass fishing in the area is in heron bay. So good in fact that I bought myself a 14ft Jon boat and slapped on a 40lb thrust minn Kota on it. We have. We have been pullin out 4,5,6 pounders. Attacking the weeds and fishing the shallows beds and structures all around the golf course. Big EZ has been the hot bait past few weeks. As far as the seasons go the best months in my experience have been during April and May. And starts to decrease as the year goes on. Fishing after cold fronts are sometime extremely productive and at times the afternoon bite is rather stronger than the morning or evening bites. Tight lines everybody!

Youre not alone. I live in parkland, about 20 minutes away from lox. Fishing everywhere from local canals to holiday park to lox, the bass are playin hide and seek. The surface temp of the water is just to hot. They dig down deep in the burrows in search for more cooler water. Fish outside edges or anywhere wheres theres running water. Be sure to use something that will get down deep where ever you are. Rapala deep divers are key for this time of year. Always the same story in South Florida - when it gets scorching temp's, fishing is dead. Just fish the ground with anything you've got. In about 45-60 days fishing should gradually pick up as the temp outside should lower. Best of luck and tight lines. PS… im always asking for spots to fish in Lox or holiday park. Anybody can suggest some new spots? Thanks.

So we decided to pack up and take the carolina skiff ( 22 footer center console with a 140 suzuki ) to holiday park this morning. We were on the water by 7:20 am. Equipped with live shiners, a dozen night crawlers, plastic worm rigs, rapalas, top water frogs, etc. As I was getting the shiners from the bait shop right near the dock, one of the guides told us not to waste any time around the docks and make way straight to the alley. So we did just that. We zoomed by every little jon boat and passed the sunpass toll on I-75 and were there in no time. We dropped the minn kota 66 lb thrust trolling motor in the water and began our descent down east. With all three of us attacking every kind of bait ( plastic worm, live shiner, and a rapala husky jerk ) I got a 8-9 inch bass the 3rd or 4th cast in using the husky. Thinking it was a hot spot we stayed in the area. Our assumption was wrong. All we heard were crickets. Completely dead. No bite. We decide to pull up and zoom a little further west past the sunpass toll. As we pass a dead carcass of an alligator, we decide to let the current take us down east again. Trolling with plastic worms, live shiners, the husky jerk, and a 2 piece rapala, we get nothing but vegetation until Mr. Gar decides to swallow the live shiner whole and take upon a fight. Estimated around 13-15 inches roughly two pounds. Not fund of seeing a gar instead of a nice bass, we let him go and hook another live shiner hoping to land a largemouth very soon. Captain peter tosses the shiner against the bank and sets the rod down. Meantime we switch to top water gear ( top water frog, top water rapala ) hoping to get action. Again - dead. No bite. The shiner rod again goes off and yet another gar is on. This one being a bit chunkier ( 16-18 inches, 4 pounds ) we are happy to be catching something. At the end of the day, we landed 3 gars, one bass. In one word - very slow production down in south florida. I for one, cant wait until the waters are going to cool down and pick back up again! Tight lines everybody. It's tough out there.

Any one else in south florida ( miami, ft. lauderale, parkland, coral springs, palm beach areas ) notice an immediate pause to the fishing in residential areas? Bass not biting. Is there a certain way to attack them this time of the year? Am I doing something wrong? Or is everyone experiencing this boring period?

Hello and welcome to my South Florida's Largemouth Bass fishing forum. As I stated in the title, I am currently 17 going on 18 years old. I have been fishing for over 4 years now and fell in love with the sport ever since I casted my first cast in Coral Springs, Florida. With over 4 years of experience for fishing for largemouth bass, I can honestly say that fishing here in the South Florida Everglades and canal systems has been as hot as it's ever been before! For anyone familiar to Parkland and Coral Springs area, just last Tuesday, the 3rd of May, my friend and I went out to Loxahatchee Road prior to stopping at a local bait shop ( 4 Points Market ) to pick up some live shiners, and we managed to pull out about 10 bass in between the two of us, and one was exceptionally beautiful, weighing in at close to 3 pounds. The sucker just swallowed the shiner whole and didn't even try to swim away UNTIL I finally decided to reel up and re-cast did he try to put up a fight. I will have a few pictures up of the bass very soon. I was also wondering what hooks are the best to use when using these live shiners ( circle hooks or not? ). I have done alot of fishing from an Oldtown two man canoe recently as well. And fishing has been very productive on the canoe in the canal systems down here. Using green plastic worms and a 2/0 worm hook, the bass just can not seem to resist the urge to bite at the swift movements of the bait. When it comes down to the best time of day to fish for the Largemouth Bass here in South Florida, it seems as if the evening hours, ranging from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m, are the best times to go out. Plastic worms seem to be the chosen bait for the bass. I wish to share many more stories and pictures with you guys as i progress threw this forum. Thanks for stopping by. Look at for new pictures !!