gillsnatch88

i caught a bowfin the other day actually but they dont seem to be as bad as before. But its not rare to catch one or a catfish .

Yes the lake is a lot different then 5 or 6 years ago. The water use to wash up to my yard and now its 50 yards from it . I have heard their is a guy in the little trailer park allowing people to put in , in his personal ramp but i also heard hes charging 10 bucks a pop. haha I cant say its worth it anymore. Now i have seen quite a few spec fisherman and i know theirs big specs but i dont know how they all have done either.. I have caught bass in this lake on just about everything but i can never keep a pattern on them . My personal best from this lake was 9 1/2 pounds and i caught her on a zara spook. My partner just 2 weeks ago caught a 9 pounder on a red eyed shad rattle trap. I mainly was just trying to figure out if theirs any holes that im missing or brush piles that anyone may know of. I'm still collecting and going to make my own brush piles and rock piles.

But that's the thing I have done quite a bit of searching for a stump in deep water or a pile or a good hump of a shell bed. But unless I have overlooked one or 2 I just can't find anything. I guess I need to really spend a day of just searching a trying instead of getting fed up and running to places that I know I can nickel and dime them. I have a spot picked out for the trees I just need to get out there and sink them. Ill keep y'all posted but deffinitely keep the advice comin. I hear arrietta is very clear but a great lake to fish. I jist don't think mattie is the same since the water got so low. Just my opinion.

Haha I actually have 3 big christmas trees laying by the barn that I collected for that reason. But thank you for the advice I will be sinking those as soon as I find a good spot for them.

New to the site so please bare with me . I live on lake mattie in aubrundale florida and i fish the lake quite a bit. at one time the lake was almost 1100 acres of water but being the drouts and stuff its alot lower then it use to be. I am asking for adivce on this lake if anyone has fished it with great success or could just give general advice. This lake is almost completely surrounded by cattails . probably 80 percent of the edge is cattails. no lilypads no hydrilla hardly any grass and some hisens in areas. the lake is sand bottom and i have yet to find any great drop offs or reasonable structure. there is 3 grave yards of stumps that are unforgiving 1 nice size stump side just outside the cattails on the southeast side of the lake and 2 seperate stump patches on the west side of the lake . but the stumps are all in the range of a foot to 4 ft of water if the lake has had rain . The water is dark you lose site of your bait no matter the color anywhere from 8 inches to a foot under the surface. i have caught good fish in this lake alot on top water and wormin and catch fish anytime i go but theres the days where you just cant figure them out. I know thats a problem anywhere you go you will have these days but being that its my home lake that i live on i want to try to figure these fish out better and am asking for advice or pointers tips etc... deepest spot i have found in the lake is around 10 ft and it very gradually slopes off to the 10 ft mark from the bank. I have never done good around the stumps and when i say unforgiven on them i mean if you throw 10 casts your hung 9 of them . haha.. I hope im not wasting anyones time i know its hard to point a direction like this but if you have any questions i would love to answer them to give a better idea. thank you guys for reading and i hope you can help me out. thanks again and good luck fishing!