Local Pits ON FIRE!!

[FL Knifemaker]

Finally!! A few days in the low 80's is all it took.  Everthing was bashing and crashing around, bass, tilapia, gars.  It was crazy.  I actually had a BIG tilapa jump and SLAM into the side of the boat! 

Fishing was like............look for the commotion on on the water and pitch a smoke colored craw in the middle of it      and BAM!!!    I caught about 20 fish, nothing big, the best being just under 3 lbs.   After the cold winter and being skunked on several early outings, it was a good start.

[gar-tracker]

Mama said there would be day like this.

[Bassin_Fin@tic]

Good to hear buddy. I too have noticed things are starting to move FINALLY. I got skunked last Wed at a pit that I fish, now you got me curious.

[FL Knifemaker]

Good to hear buddy. I too have noticed things are starting to move FINALLY. I got skunked last Wed at a pit that I fish, now you got me curious.

Everything was raisin HELL!  When the tilapia and gars are jumping, it's ON!!  I'm going to try and hit the pit again tomorrow, then Camp Mack or Walk in Water later in the week.

[SoFlaBassAddict]

I got my butt handed to me by my daughters today on my pit lake.  They were using bubblegum trick worms on like 1/8 weights.  Just tossing them into the grass on the drop offs.  I think they pulled in about 10 fish each in an hour and some change.  Gotta love the warmer temps being back.  I managed a dink on my junebug finesse worm drop shotted in the deeper water....

Teach me to laugh at pink worms....

[DINK WHISPERER]

Man i just fished one at work and got 1 dink in 4 hours! Might be worth another look now.............

[RoLo]

We were out Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and pretty much as you described

there was a marked improvement in surface activity (except most of our tilapia were winter-killed).

Although we boated a gang of bass, I wasn't at all pleased.

I lived in Florida for nearly 12 years, and these were the smallest Florida bass I've ever seen,

every one looked like a buck bass from Jersey > ;D

Roger

[GatorNation]

haha...all my "go-to" spots are dead, and the places i usually never catch fish are producing for me...

[FL Knifemaker]

I got my butt handed to me by my daughters today on my pit lake. They were using bubblegum trick worms on like 1/8 weights. Just tossing them into the grass on the drop offs. I think they pulled in about 10 fish each in an hour and some change. Gotta love the warmer temps being back. I managed a dink on my junebug finesse worm drop shotted in the deeper water....

Teach me to laugh at pink worms....

My son swears by the bright trick worms, pink, yellow and white. He claims he can fish them better because he can see them better. I use the more natural colors, usually with some blue or red specs in it. We both fish them with no weight or sometimes a flippin hook if it's windy. He usually out fishes me with the bright colored ones   I'm pretty sure he caught the fish in my avitar on a bright trickworm.

[FL Knifemaker]

We were out Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and pretty much as you described

there was a marked improvement in surface activity (except most of our tilapia were winter-killed).

Although we boated a gang of bass, I wasn't at all pleased.

I lived in Florida for nearly 12 years, and these were the smallest Florida bass I've ever seen,

every one looked like a buck bass from Jersey > ;D

Roger

Ya.......while they were active, I didn't see the  first big female bedding or swimming around.  Maybe another week of 80's temps will bring the gals out.