N Florida Mike

Yamamoto senkos,Zoom super flukes,zoom trick worms.All t- rigged in watermelon colors,and june bug for low light fishing. Close runner up 3 are pit bosses,zoom baby brush hogs,and super speed craws.I have at least 10 more baits I carry with a variety of colors. I also have a hard bait box .I fool around with them and occasionally catch a few.

I have the 9.5 bass hunter and a 12 foot jon boat.And love both.T o me,the hunter is more comfortable.I have the factory chairs but they support me well ( at 260 pounds )It is also cooler because youre up a little higher and it allows better air flow under the seat.Ive learned to just swivel around if you need something behind you.You can even fish facing sideways and still reach the trolling motor which I have on front.The hunter s very stable for being so small. The jon boat would be better for bigger water and you could put a bigger motor on it.It has more room but not much more.You could customize it to allow more room.I have fished many times in my jon with one other person and its fine.3 would be cramped on either boat,but a small child would work for a while with 2 adults .Esp. on the jon.I f possible,try sitting in both before you buy to see how much room youd have. I also have a 2 seater kayak that Im not overly crazy about.

I was bream fishing with my friends teenage son at a dock down the lake in my jon boat.We had caught and kept a few.The owner of the property came out and asked me in a direct way to leave because his grandaughters fished there.I was conflicted.I had fished the lake for 40 years,and live on it.If anyone had the right to fish there I did.I had told my friends son we would only keep 10 and then leave so to not overfish it.I had not come in contact with his dock.S o I was completely within the law to fish there. If I had been by myself there would have been at least a serious discussion.But with David in the boat I felt that to do as asked would be the better example.I was angry to the point that I knew if I said a word it would not be in a friendly tone.I did not say a word,pulled up anchor and began leaving.He was trying to get a response by continuing to explain why I should leave.I thought to my self if he wanted to fish at my dock It wouldnt bother me even though I had grandkids that fish there.W hat Im sure he didnt realize was that the lake was full of nice bream and keeping a few wouldnt slightly put a dent in the population. I dont have any use for people like that.But Holding a grudge doesntt help so I let it go. Saw him while voting and made eye contact.I gave him a nod but he ignored it and walked on. So if you can ,let stuff go.At least youll be at peace with it.By the way,my response this time wouldnt have been my response 25 years ago!!?

I chewed redman,levi,and beechnut from 18-25. About a pouch per day.Didnt care for " the pinch between cheek and gum" Tried white mule and it kicked my butt.Went fishing with a friend and my spit cup bottom fell out in my lap.Looked like Id had a accidental bowel movement all day. I eventually quit cold turkey and had one last chew a few months later and that was it. You can quit anytime you want if you make up your mind to. As for preaching,if you care about someone youll preach to them ! Maybe we should start an overeating thread .Then someone could preach to me about that!!?

I cook if I get hungry enough. I catch ,grow ,or shoot it ,then clean it.I let someone else cook it and I eat it.I figure 3 out of 4 aint bad.!

There was one pond I used to fish where they were fairly easy to catch with bread balls.I would chum them with bread for awhile and they'd come around.T hey would not bite it with a big hook, so I'd only use a small,but strong one.Biggest I caught there was around 32 inches. We stocked them a few years ago in my lake.For some reason,these carp dont seem to have any interest in bread.So I snagged one with a treble hook,weighed and released it. 23 pounds.

mine is actually 9.5 feet long. Great little boat for small water bodies

It may be lower than the raider but I have no problem with it. It is very buoyant even with all the weight in the front.It sits higher than my jon boat! It isnt best for a big water body though,although I was going directly into 15-20 mph winds with no problem.It handles waves better than you would think

This^^ Just got a lump in my throat thinking about him.H ere he is with my brother.

I have an 8 foot hunter and love it.Not sure what you mean by shallower but very little water comes into mine.Its perfect when Im by myself or with my 11 year old G- daughter.I suspect it would be small for 2 men my size ,although its rated for 470 pounds.Its very stable and goes suprisingly fast with my 40 pt trolling motor. Got the motor on the front and my hunter has the wiring for it so Im fixing to get some terminals for the front so I can have the battry in back to displace the weight.

Share your best from 2016-17. We did this last year.Tell us where you were. Heres mine. This is my home lake n the jax. Fl area.taken a couple weeks ago at sunrise.

let me know how you do.Id love to fish them again someday.

Do you have a boat? If not you will be very limited in what you can do. Wuaberg is easier for bank fishing.There is a park off 441 after micanopy ( coming from Orange lake) that did have some good bank access.If you continue on 441 you will come to the college( UF ) side of the lake where there is also bank access and boats and kayaks to rent.I dont know how the access for non college folks are though.I mainly fished wauberg with manns jelly worms.There were some giant bass that would bed on the college side in the spring.The speck fishing was excellent there in the pads.I havent fished there now for years so it may have changed. As for orange, we fished big black worms.Producto tournament worms and Manns.Rattletraps work well too,and most of the big bass were caught with shiners.Find a bait store and hang out.Someone at cross creek would know Im sure!

There is one lake I fish in the O . Nat. Forest ( the old timers call it the Scrub ) that is very clear and I fish it with 10 pound mono,flukes,and culprit worms.Watermelon colors with the fluke and red shad,motor oil ,or tequila sunrise on the culprits.The fish there are not hard to catch.Of course,the less hardware the better.The flukes are heavy enough to allow no weight and I only use a small split shot or bullet weight with the culprit. That lake is also full of butter cats. I run a trot line and its all you can eat !!

No,although Ive fished Orange. Orange has dark water. I guess you could say somewhat muddy.It used to be a great lake.It got real fished out in the 80s but I heard its making a comeback.I finished 2nd in a tournament fishing Lochloosa.Back then, it was fairly clear of weeds compared to Orange,which was almost completely covered with hydrilla.In its hey day,Id give the edge to Orange but Lochloosa was so picturesque with all those cypress trees. The green lakes I was referring to are Newnans and Wauberg. I actually did better fishing Wauberg especially for specks and its not nearly as big or well known as Newnans .Both have some HUGE gators.

Thats great ! I caught one there that was 2 or so.Felt like a 4 pounder in that current.I love Sante fe LAKE too.Orange/ lochloosa,little orange,wauberg, hampton,Alto,Newnans,all are good .But Sante fe is my favorite!

welcome to the forums.Ive fished many of the lakes in your area.My brother lives there so I go there a lot.Sante fe river is cool ( literally ) You can catch suwanee bass there.

I catch a lot of bream with bread.And sme on worms.In florida we call em wigglers. Anyway, with bread you can do it several ways.To start with the bread must be fresh to work the best on the hook. I like merita bread best if you can get it.Use staler bread to bait em up.If you have a spot you like,throw bread or fish pellets out daily to keep them there.I use a #6 bronze eagle claw hook for bigger bream,and smaller for catching bait bream.I do not use a cork or weight.I will use a bb shot weight if fishing deep water.I also use 4-6 pound test line. When I start,I throw out some old bread to get them started.When I start seeing them feeding,I bait the hook .There are several methods for this.You can stick the hook in a piece of crust and gently throw it out for topwater action.I also mash a piece of the white part flat on the hook,which will cause it to sink more slowly as it flutters to the bottom.If you arent catching big ones these ways,try a small balled up piece .It wll sink faster and get to the bottom where the bigger ones often hang out.Dont be suprised if you catch catfish and shiners this way too.To hook the bream just wait until the line starts moving steadily in one direction.When the line is almost tight,pop em ! ? I fish worms( usually 1/2 of the worm )with a small cork if Im fishing emergent brush or trees.When setting the hook with a cork,use a staight up hookset or youll miss the fish usually. In water with a relatively clean bottom,I like fishing them on the bottom with one small split shot sinker. Mike

I havent tried his bbq yet.I bet its excellent.I cant get off his hamburgers! Yeah the next full moon ought to be prime time here unless it gets cold.?

There are some like that here.I can think of 2 natural lakes that I used to fish that were greenish.Both were absolutely full of fish.Never knew why they were that way.As far as I know,there werent any big farms or mining cos.in the areas.Mostly just swamp around them.Both were relatively close to Gainesville Fl. As for the wind stirring up the muck,Ive never thought much about that,or noticed it.And I like fishing the bank or weedbed that wind is going into because it seems to push small baitfish up against the cover and the bass will be waiting. Not saying its not true I just havent noticed that I reckon.

Water or sweet tea for me on my common 2-3 hr trips.I usually dont bring snacks when its just me. When my son goes,its always most of the day,so he makes some kind of sandwiches for us,soft drinks,water,and we make the obligitory stop at the last store before the ramp,and load up on chips, esp honey bbq lays for me.pb crackers.,and snicker bars.?

Dont know Alabama but Rodman reservoir in N central Fl. is great.Book a trip with Sean Rush.Hes one of the best guides in the area.He regularly puts his clients on 10 + bass.

Many of the ponds and lakes in Ocala national forest are clear, also the keystone heights area lakes.The rest are Tannic stained but not what I would call muddy.The southern end of the Ocklawaha river,now thats muddy.

^^ What I use

Ive caught the majority of mine on various worms, creature baits,lizards. I dont have too much strategy for fishing beds but I like the full moon phase in spring.I find the beds and fish them late in the day.I cast past the bed and pull the bait onto it,or skip the bait onto the bed.Then you fish them til they bite. More often than not,it wont be long!