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Votes: 0 | | Posted on Saturday, February 15, 2003 - 11:13 am: | |
Subject: Stickmarsh Florida
Subject: Stick Marsh, Florida
Submitted by Bass Buster Guide Service (ip 205.188.208.7)
Date Fished: 2/15/03
Water Temperature: 62
Water Clarity: 1 foot
Water Temps 62 degree's and rising Water Clarity 1 foot plus calm to windy www.bassbusterfla.com
Hello Friends - The best way to describe the fishing is good to GREAT! Things have really picked up with the warmer temps. The artificial bite has stayed consistant with 15 to 30 bass per person for a full day. Big bass were available everyday with the wild shiners and man would we have liked to have landed every big fish we hooked latley. With artificials the plastic senkos and super flukes along with stickbaits were the first choice but rattlers , top waters and spinners are producing close to the grass. Yes, the south end of farm 13 is where most of the action is. Try at least three different area's along the south wall and you should find the big females that are willing to bite. The past four trips have all had their fair share of monsters to play with. Several 10lb and several 9lb bass were landed with lot's of 7,6,5,and 4 lb quality fish. All of these bass were fooled with live wild shiners because that's what we were fishing with. We did see plenty of action on the artificials so breaking the bank on shiners is not a requirement to catch bass. The wilds just help on the really big bass and that is what we were targeting. The weather plays a key role in how the fish bite. During high wind periods it was best to use a drift sock and slow your approach down in order to catch fish. At dead calm a twitch or slow troll worked better. When everything was perfect and the bait large enough staying anchored in one spot worked well. Experiment and you'll catch plenty of bass. Using a flourocarbon leader with either the shiners or artificials helped to catch more fish. The time spent fishing without a leader was not as productive as with a leader. Now we use a lot of braided line so the leader makes a big difference on certain days. How many monster bass or big bites did we actually get? Let's just say we had our chances at them and for reasons only known to fisherman we just didn't get all of them to the boat.( Logs, grass, ect..) That's why they call it fishing and That's why we will be back.....Enjoy and catch a BIG ONE!
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