Fathers Day on the Kissimmee Chain

[FD.]

Josh came over for a Fathers day fish.  We started on running water in Hatch and boated a hand full of dinks in the first hour on top water and shad raps.  We then decided to go after some bigger fish before the storms got here.  Moved down lake to a pad field with scattered K grass in 4 FOW.  The next two hours consisted of hand to hand combat with 3+ pounders in the jungle.  Best 5 of the morning would have been around 17 pounds with two monsters left for next time, both over 7.

Josh's big one of the day.  5.25 lbs

[captdon]

Looks like a great Fathers Day

[Ski]

What is "K grass" Kissimmee grass?

[FD.]

1 hour ago, Ski said:

What is "K grass" Kissimmee grass?

Yes sir. 

 

We have two dominant emergent grass species in central Florida.  Kissimmee grass and Maidencane.  They look nearly identical  (yellow/brownish stalks with green leaves) so I just lump them into "K Grass" as a label.  

 

Sorry for not explaining myself better.

 

FD

[Mike L]

4 minutes ago, FD. said:

Yes sir. 

 

We have two dominant emergent grass species in central Florida.  Kissimmee grass and Maidencane.  They look nearly identical  (yellow/brownish stalks with green leaves) so I just lump them into "K Grass" as a label.  

 

Sorry for not explaining myself better.

 

FD

Fishing down here for over 40 yrs and never heard it called Maidencane. 
 

It’s a good day, I learned something!

 

 

 

 

 

Mike

[FD.]

2 minutes ago, Mike L said:

Fishing down here for over 40 yrs and never heard it called Maidencane. 
 

It’s a good day, I learned something!

 

 

 

 

 

Mike

Yea, I have been hanging out with the FWC's biologists too much...they are shoving stuff in my old brain that I really don't need to know. 

[Capt Steve]

7 hours ago, Mike L said:

Fishing down here for over 40 yrs and never heard it called Maidencane. 
 

It’s a good day, I learned something!

 

 

 

 

 

Mike

It’s funny how we all call things by different names. Ive heard it called Maiden cane since I was a kid. Just because that’s what my dad called it. I never heard Kissimmee grass until a few years ago. Then I started thinking I was calling it the wrong name. 

Im sure it probably also has a fancy Latin name that I can’t pronounce. 
I guess it just how you first hear it that sticks. 
 

 

[FD.]

35 minutes ago, Capt Steve said:

It’s funny how we all call things by different names. Ive heard it called Maiden cane since I was a kid. Just because that’s what my dad called it. I never heard Kissimmee grass until a few years ago. Then I started thinking I was calling it the wrong name. 

Im sure it probably also has a fancy Latin name that I can’t pronounce. 
I guess it just how you first hear it that sticks. 
 

 

Kissimmee Grass and Maidencane are different plants even though they look nearly identical (I can't tell them apart).  They have two fancy latin names that I can't pronounce either...

[Mike L]

24 minutes ago, Capt Steve said:

It’s funny how we all call things by different names. Ive heard it called Maiden cane since I was a kid. Just because that’s what my dad called it. I never heard Kissimmee grass until a few years ago. Then I started thinking I was calling it the wrong name. 

Im sure it probably also has a fancy Latin name that I can’t pronounce. 
I guess it just how you first hear it that sticks. 
 

 

Yep, a lot of things in fishing are that way. 
 

In Florida we call reeds, well……reeds

but in California they’re called Tules. 
Never heard that until I signed on here and haven’t heard it used since. 

 

To me and everyone I know a lipless hard bait is a trap, but some guy I met thought it was just what you get your foot caught in!
 

Lately I’ve noticed some on here call tournaments a Derby! 
I thought a Derby was just a hat or a horse race. 
 

 

 

 

 

Mike