Sunday 3/15/15, 7:00-1:00, Partly Cloudy, temp 85*, wind SE 5-10, water light stain, levels normal, W/T 78*.
Went out today with my buddy Steve. We ran from the ramps east to the bridge and started fishing east. We caught fish right away and most were quality fish in the 3 pound range. Most bites were back in the pads fields on the north side of the canal. There were some visible beds but no fish present at the time. We experimented with quite a few baits but stick-0's and centipedes were the only productive baits. We ended up 45 bass and three big mudfish. Almost all bass were keeper size in the 2 to 3 pound range. It was a battle getting those 3 pound bass through 10 yards of pads. If you waited to set the hook, you were rapped in the stems. Setting the hook quick was key to getting them to the boat.
We threw spinner baits, hollow body frogs, football jig, rattle trap, beaver, fluke, trick worm, u-tail worm, and only the the zoom centipede and the stick-o were consistently producing. There was only one other boat out there all day, and a bunch of friendly gators. Between the weather and the bass it doesn't get much better then that!!!!
