Who Is Ready for Some Bank Fishing???

[Sam]

 

 

[Bassun]

I think that's a glitch in Frogger...

[BareHook]

Krikey! and that bed with a 10# is just past the first two.

[BCline]

Great photo!!  The canal next to FL700 looks very similar to that this time of year.

[Koz]

While we don't have them in "packs" like the photo above, with thousands of lagoons in our SC area we have thousands of gators. That's why when I bank fish I always fish in a clearing with good lines of site and not some tiny opening in the woods. I want to make sure I have a quick egress at all times.

 

Just yesterday I was fishing and there was a gator 120 yards away on the opposite bank. I had been fishing there for 10 minutes - even caught a 2 pounder (big enough to make enough nose and get his attention) - and the gator minded his own business. I turned around and went part way up the bank to change lures and when I turned back the gator was moving full speed through the water - on a bee line towards me.

 

Normally a gator will come towards where I am fishing and stay 20 or 30 feet off shore, either waiting for me to catch a fish or just asserting that I am in his territory. Not this one. He kept coming, right onto shore. But by then I had grabbed my tackle back and headed to the top of the embankment. Needless to say I went and fished somewhere else!

[Sam]

2 hours ago, Koz said:

While we don't have them in "packs" like the photo above, with thousands of lagoons in our SC area we have thousands of gators. That's why when I bank fish I always fish in a clearing with good lines of site and not some tiny opening in the woods. I want to make sure I have a quick egress at all times.

 

Just yesterday I was fishing and there was a gator 120 yards away on the opposite bank. I had been fishing there for 10 minutes - even caught a 2 pounder (big enough to make enough nose and get his attention) - and the gator minded his own business. I turned around and went part way up the bank to change lures and when I turned back the gator was moving full speed through the water - on a bee line towards me.

 

Normally a gator will come towards where I am fishing and stay 20 or 30 feet off shore, either waiting for me to catch a fish or just asserting that I am in his territory. Not this one. He kept coming, right onto shore. But by then I had grabbed my tackle back and headed to the top of the embankment. Needless to say I went and fished somewhere else!

You look like a good meal!!!!

[All about da bass]

That's when you know there is fish there. Best time to bank fish.

[soflabasser]

Fishing next to alligators is definitely not for the faint of heart but there can be some very good fishing in a area with lots of alligators.