Orlando Area Fishing

[mharper04]

Taking the family down to Orlando to visit my wifes brother. I'm wanting to take our son (7 yrs old) out fishing while down there and was thinking about going to Turkey Lake for their $25 boat rental. Is this a good place to go, or do you guys suggest somewhere else? I would like to get into some nice bass, our son hasn't really fished for anything besides bluegill.

Thanks

[nickw234]

Turkey Lake is a good place. You have to call a couple weeks in advance usually to get a boat. I have been a couple times to Turkey and always catch a lot of fish but never and good ones. Most of them are 3 lbs and below and a 3 lber is rare, but for the price you can't beat it if you don't have a boat.

[mharper04]

Thanks Nick. Do you have any recomendations on lures for there? I figured I'd bring some soft plastics, Frogs, Spinnerbaits, Traps.

[nickw234]

for the first hour or so hollow body frogs like a spro work great. Later in the morning throw senko's and rattletraps. For colors i always thrown just a black with blue flake senko and the silver rattle trap with a blue or black back on it.

[mharper04]

Thanks for the tips. We went out Sunday, July 8th. Of the 4 boats that were rented, we were the only ones to catch any fish, they weren't bid by any means, but it was nice to catch fish when noone else did. I didn't get any action on the Top water frogs, or on rattle traps. The only thing I cought fish on was texas rigged Yum ribbon tails in red shad.

one thing about all the fish I caught, I didn't feel any of them hit the worm, it just felt heavy when I started moving the it.