The best time of the year is coming.

[Captain Phil]

I'm staying home today watching boats crisscross across Lake Eustis.  I know today and tomorrow will be crazy on the lakes, so I'm watching football on TV.   The day after Labor Day kicks off the best time of the year for bass fishing in Florida.   It's been crazy hot this summer and I've only been out a few times.   Somewhere in the next few weeks a tiny cold front will come through.  I will know it when I walk outside and feel the morning air.  The bass know this too.  All the vacationers will be gone and I will have the lakes to myself.  Can't wait!

[a1712]

I'm not doing anything the next few months........just saying. Brian.

[Captain Phil]

Bass fishing in the fall can be some of the best fishing of the year.  I like it because fishing pressure is light.  There are week days when I can fish all day without seeing more than 2-3 boats.  Fall is spinnerbait and Rattle Trap time in Florida.   The fish are feeding on shad and will be fattening up before the spawn.  After Thanksgiving, snow birds fill up the boat ramps.  This doesn't bother the fish as much as it bothers me.  I enjoy fishing when it's peaceful and quiet.  Nothing is a beautiful as a big bass on a cool Florida fall day. 

[Last_Cast]

The snow birds leave and go to Florida..nice and quiet fishing  for me ?

[Captain Phil]

3 hours ago, Last_Cast said:

The snow birds leave and go to Florida..nice and quiet fishing  for me ?

 

Bumper sticker I once saw on the back of a Florida pickup truck.

 

"Send more snow birds, they were delicious!"

[Chris Catignani]

4 hours ago, Captain Phil said:

I know today and tomorrow will be crazy on the lakes, ...  All the vacationers will be gone and I will have the lakes to myself.  Can't wait!

I feel the same way...I always look forward to the day after Labor Day. School starts back...football season starts....hunting season starts. It all adds up to less lake traffic.

[Tatsu Dave]

Good Fishing and enjoy the cooler weather, up these parts everyone where I fish has to stop on Sept. 30, that's it till next April 1st (except ice fishing). Things are winding down fast.....soon be time to clean up the boat. I fell off an icy trailer last Sept 24 and took a brisk dip.......... 

[T-Billy]

I love that period in the late fall as the water falls through the 50's then the 40's. Most have hung up their rods for the year and those others that are on the water are mostly fishing for saugeye or crappie. Meanwhile I'm enjoying some of the best bass fishing of the year for both numbers and size. On those days I can pry myself from the deer blind that is. Decisions, decisions...

[GaryH]

6 minutes ago, T-Billy said:

I love that period in the late fall as the water falls through the 50's then the 40's. Most have hung up their rods for the year and those others that are on the water are mostly fishing for saugeye or crappie. Meanwhile I'm enjoying some of the best bass fishing of the year for both numbers and size. On those days I can pry myself from the deer blind that is. Decisions, decisions...

I hear ya. 

[T-Billy]

25 minutes ago, Tatsu Dave said:

. I fell off an icy trailer last Sept 24 and took a brisk dip.......... 

 

[TnRiver46]

6 hours ago, Tatsu Dave said:

Good Fishing and enjoy the cooler weather, up these parts everyone where I fish has to stop on Sept. 30, that's it till next April 1st (except ice fishing). Things are winding down fast.....soon be time to clean up the boat. I fell off an icy trailer last Sept 24 and took a brisk dip.......... 

I went to a football game here in 2016 in late September and the field temp was 106 degrees