Well Where Next?

[Squirmin Wormin]

well it's worth asking, when you want that bass of your lifetime and or whatever species it maybe ,what state and what lake will it come from and actually do it also, I'm gonna go Florida,Lake okeechobee, large mouth

[OntarioFishingGuy]

I would love to go to lake St Clair in Michigan to fish for smallies and muskies.

[plumworm]

Well, I have already caught the biggest bass of my life. A 7-3 LM on Toho and a 6-9 SM on Green Bay. I guess I'll just keep on keeping on and see what happens.

[geo g]

I would make a few trips to the Stick Marsh, in Fl. Best shot at a really big fish.

[Catch and Grease]

Well my PB will probably come from banks lake because I fish there every day I can but if I was on a hawg hunt I would probably head to the Big-O! I've never fished it but always have wanted to.

[Wayne P.]

Lake Fork, Texas

[F14A-B]

St. John's from Greencove Springs to George's lake, 10 pd and over on large golden shiners...

Plenty of smaller fish on artificial. Also Rodman Is a pretty hot lake still, no surprise there, again golden shiners are the bait for the female hawgs 10 & over, always a chance with unreal bait, but not as likely....

[Weld's Largemouth]

well it's worth asking, when you want that bass of your lifetime and or whatever species it maybe ,what state and what lake will it come from and actually do it also, I'm gonna go Florida,Lake okeechobee, large mouth

Live lining big frogs on lake okeechobee just after sunset

[SirSnookalot]

Florida is seasonal, if it's bass go in the cooler months, hot weather trip I'd be targeting  peacocks, snook, redfish, tarpon and of course those 20#+ jacks.

[everythingthatswims]

I would want it to come from a lake that I fish regularly where a big fish is uncommon, because a 9 or 10 pound fish in Okeechobee wouldn't be the same as a 9 or 10 pound fish from a VA body of water that may only have one fish that size caught in a year. (I'm not saying I wouldn't want to go somewhere to catch big bass, it just wouldn't be as rewarding IMO).

[jacktgi@aol.com]

for big bass I like to fish in Florida with lake shiners in the month of March.  For years we fished Lake Jackson at Tallahasse (it produced huge amounts of bass over 10# every year) until it drained out thru a sink hole in 1999.  We now go to Lake Toho.  

 

For walleyes I think for a rule of thumb you should go to Minnesota or the Dakotas during the first two weeks of June to find really good fishing.

 

The key is always do your research and pick a lake that is currently hot for the fish you want, the right time of year and try to find out if there are presentations that are preferred.  For Lake Toho the March presentation for big bass would be shiners drifted over submerged vegetation of still fished at weed edges.

 

Jack

[roadwarrior]

Pickwick for smallmouth. 

[livetofish28]

Baccarac (I think that's how you spell it) on a crankbait

Tight lines

Andrew

[tatertester]

Chickamaugwa for largemouth, Pickwick for smallmouth.

[Bluebasser86]

If I ever beat my PB largemouth it will almost surely come from south of the boarder. I could easily beat my PB right here in KS, would be either at Melvern or Milford. 

[geo g]

for big bass I like to fish in Florida with lake shiners in the month of March.  For years we fished Lake Jackson at Tallahasse (it produced huge amounts of bass over 10# every year) until it drained out thru a sink hole in 1999.  We now go to Lake Toho.  

 

For walleyes I think for a rule of thumb you should go to Minnesota or the Dakotas during the first two weeks of June to find really good fishing.

 

The key is always do your research and pick a lake that is currently hot for the fish you want, the right time of year and try to find out if there are presentations that are preferred.  For Lake Toho the March presentation for big bass would be shiners drifted over submerged vegetation of still fished at weed edges.

 

Jack

for big bass I like to fish in Florida with lake shiners in the month of March.  For years we fished Lake Jackson at Tallahasse (it produced huge amounts of bass over 10# every year) until it drained out thru a sink hole in 1999.  We now go to Lake Toho.  

 

For walleyes I think for a rule of thumb you should go to Minnesota or the Dakotas during the first two weeks of June to find really good fishing.

 

The key is always do your research and pick a lake that is currently hot for the fish you want, the right time of year and try to find out if there are presentations that are preferred.  For Lake Toho the March presentation for big bass would be shiners drifted over submerged vegetation of still fished at weed edges.

 

Jack

for big bass I like to fish in Florida with lake shiners in the month of March.  For years we fished Lake Jackson at Tallahasse (it produced huge amounts of bass over 10# every year) until it drained out thru a sink hole in 1999.  We now go to Lake Toho.  

 

For walleyes I think for a rule of thumb you should go to Minnesota or the Dakotas during the first two weeks of June to find really good fishing.

 

The key is always do your research and pick a lake that is currently hot for the fish you want, the right time of year and try to find out if there are presentations that are preferred.  For Lake Toho the March presentation for big bass would be shiners drifted over submerged vegetation of still fished at weed edges.

 

Jack

Slow roll, has lake Jackson ever come back from the sink hole. I saw it just after the big drain and it was sad. All those bait shops with no water.

[jacktgi@aol.com]

geo g

 

Lake Jackson has never been the same since it drained in 1999.  That lake had a habit of draining out thru a sink hole every so many years but it usually filled up within a few months to a year.  This time it did not.  The sink hole,known as the Porter Hole, thrum  which it drained has never plugged up again  and even when heavy rainfalls put water back into the lake, it just drains out again.

 

The lake, of course, had a bottom that was not level as a pool table so water remained in the low spots.  You can still fish the lake but the last I checked there were no launch ramps and you had to launch from the sand off the highway end or the south end.  Brills Point has sand you can launch from.  4X4 trucks are almost a requirement t launch most of the time.

 

Jack