Everglades restoration area!

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Sunday 2/23/25

7:00-10:30 AM

sunny

water stained

wind 10-15 NE

 

Went to the Everglades Restoration Area along US 27 in Palm Beach County.  This is an area I had one of the best trips of my life,  with many big bass.  Then three other trips where I caught few fish at all.  It all depends on conditions and the pumping cycles   Big fish live here in good numbers,  but 90% are unreachable for a bank fisherman and no gas motors are allowed.

 

Upon arriving I noticed the water level was above the bank.  I would be standing in water the whole trip.  Second observation was on a Sunday not another person was fishing along the 7 miles south levee.  Very unusual for a Sunday.  I wasn’t expecting much!

 

I picked a spot 5 miles out and casted across the canal into the flat.  As soon as in landed I saw a bunch of big fish suddenly moving.  Second cast same thing.  Then a good size 23” bass hit.  Things were looking up.  5 casts into the flat and another 23” bass.  From that cast on I had constant action as my bait dropped from the flat into the perimeter canal.  A big weightless Senko did the trick.  No junk fish, all bass, but none as big as the first two caught.

 

The bite stopped as soon as the sun got up around 9:00.  The last hour nothing, not even a bite.  I did have a water snake cruising the bank, and since I was standing in 3 inches of water along the levee I kept my eye out for him.  I could not tell what kind it was.

 

A great time for an hour of crazy fishing.