Holey Land Fishing

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Sunday 5/11/14, 7:00 - noon, water light stain, cloud cover all morning, wind out of the east 10-15.

 

I went to the Holey Land along US 27 and the Broward / Palm Beach Line, with an old friend Steve Johnson of Miami.  Once in the water we ran east almost back to the bridge and fished west with the wind to our back.  This really made fishing and boat control easy.  Steve caught one on the first cast, setting the tone for the day.  The entire canal bank was full of abandoned beds.  It was ridicules how many beds were visible.  We should have a strong numbers in the glades with all these breeding fish for years to come..  We ended up throwing stick baits, flukes, bush hogs,  centipedes, and cane toads.  At times the bite was really crazy good.  We saw big bass attacking baitfish at the waters edge, and a black bird attacking the bait fish as they tried to get away from the bass assault.  He followed those bass for about 40 yards looking for freebees.  One smart aggressive bird, and two creatures working together to feed themselves.  Nature at its best!

We caught 60 bass by noon.  With 4 in the 4 pound range.  The best part of the whole day was we had the entire place to ourselves.  I learn something every trip out.  Todays lesson, "If you want to fish without pressure, fish on Mother's Day!!!!!!!!!!"  It  ended up being a great day, Love You Mom!

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Holey Land, Sunday 5/18/14, 7:00 - noon, partly cloudy, wind ENE 10-15, water levels up a foot from last week.

Went back this week with a friend to the Holey Land and ran the east canal again. The bite was slow but constant all morning. The big difference this week, from last week, was the big bite. Anywhere there was some current we caught bigger fish. The current did not have to be strong just a settle flow. Bigger fish were there. Today reinforced the theory that bass position themselves for ambush anytime you have some flowing water. It puts them in a more aggressive mood. We caught about 70 bass with a 6+, 4.5, 4 and several 3's. It was another fun morning in the glades.

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Nice report. Thanks for sharing..

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Saturday, 5/24/14, Holey Land from 7:30 - 1:00, clear skies, water slight stain, wind SW 5-12.

Went to the Holey Land with Steve. We ran east again but the catching was slow but steady with lots of small fish. After a few hours we ran to the big lake and the catching improved. There were lots of fish along the west wall and in the west flat. Big old beds were visible all along the west flat.

We ended at day with between 60 to 70 caught the biggest about 3lbs. Most caught on flukes and plastic stick baits.