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Capt Tim Fey (Florida_bassin)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, November 01, 2009 - 12:53 pm: | |
October Bass Fishing Report
The month of October has seen some very good bass fishing action here in Orlando.
Johns Lake has seen some good schooling action in the early morning hours with us catching them on steel shad, gitem shad and curly 7’s. Most schooling action has been in the Deer Island Cut, with some action coming mid lake. Waters are up and bass have new feeding areas due to this, so some of the more common haunts have not produced as well as in the past. Making adjustments to your normal fishing patterns will make a big difference in what you catch, and how much you catch.
Grass beds and offshore submerged hydrilla have been a huge key to success in keeping the action going steady during the day. Top water action is here! Gitem toads and torpedoes getting some good action.
Butler Chain has been pretty typical with the action coming mostly on wacky rigs skipped under docks. We have gotten on a good spinner bait bite as well along with rattle traps and c-rigged gitem warlocks. Lakes Butler and Down have been very good to us especially in deeper waters, working drop offs has seemed to be the spot as well as areas with sunken trees, as the bait fish have been stacking up in these areas pretty good as of late.
Lake Toho has been doing good, with a few runs out there lately steel shad have done very good in open waters, as well as working along hydrilla beds and grass edges. Toads and 10 inch worms have been great coming across topped out hydrilla as well as thru scattered grasses.
November is shaping up to be a great month for bass fishing. Temperatures, water and air are cooling down, making it much nicer to fish than the hot summer months, and with the cooler waters, bass are getting much more active. Live bait bite should be good as usual, and we should have some good top water action as well. Schooling action is typically good in November and we fully expect it to carry on right thru the end of the year. Just take a look at the pictures from previous Novembers and this is what you can expect to happen on any give cast. This is also the time to really start considering that Crappie trip, slabs will be plenty and makes for a very exciting time on the water as well as bass fishing.
Capt Tim Fey
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Capt Kevin Przybyl (Kpsfishing)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, August 07, 2009 - 11:25 am: | |
I can’t believe it is already August. The long wait for my son to be born finally came to a end two weeks ago. He is very healthy and already starting to grow up on me. With the birth of my son, I had to take a few weeks off, but this week I returned to taking people out fishing. Being away inside the house for the last two weeks, my body forgot how really hot it is out on the water, so I am getting used to that again. Even with the sun blazing down on you, me and my guests quickly stop paying attention to it because the fishing has been amazing. I took out Pat and his son Kieran from the UK on Monday, it was there first time fishing for bass and Kieran landed 10 bass, and Pat landed 4, but lost 2 five pound bass right at the boat, both in a row. I had them fishing in a 13ft deep hole with watermelon seed sinkos with ¼ once weight, texas rigged. Not bad for first time anglers. Wednesday I fished with my friend Scott, and we both put on a show, landing over 25 fish in four hours. 6 of which were at least 4 lbs and range 17-19 inches long. Bass were feeding and busting out of the water all morning long. Out of the 20 bass we caught only 2 or 3 were less than 2 lbs, they were all fat and happy. Scott’s several 4 lbs bass were caught with a sexy shad crank bait. When we ran into bait fish, we would both throw watermelon seed flukes and were pretty much guaranteed a fish. Even this being the hottest time of the year, we are still catching trophy bass on almost every trip. If you’re a youtube fan check out my videos of my guests catching fish at http://www.youtube.com/user/OrlandoTrophyBass and my partners awesome videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/16ftsprint ,and subscribe today to my channel to get new videos as they are posted.
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Steve Boyd (Orlando_bass_guide)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 26, 2009 - 12:42 pm: | |
Florida Bass Fishing on Lake Toho:
We are in the heat of Summer now on Lake Toho but you could not tell by looking at your temperature readings on the depthfinder. Early morning water temps are still running 83 degrees which is amazing for Florida this time of year.
The bass fishing is excellent on most Florida lakes but Lake Toho is especially doing well with clients catching bass up to 9lbs. Live bait is accounting for the big bass during guide trips while flipping has been the go to technique to win tournaments on Lake Toho.
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Capt Tim Fey (Florida_bassin)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 01, 2009 - 2:19 pm: | |
The month of June has seen some good bass fishing action on both Butler Chain and Johns Lake.
Johns Lake has been good in the early morning with some good schooling action in the cut, as well as some in mid lake areas where hydrilla is present. Water levels are great out here with all the rains we have been getting, which in turn has made one of my favorite patterns very successful, and the is dock fishing! Skipping Gitem K.O’s under docks, as well as Bitsy Jigs have produced some good action as well as some good bass. As the heat of the day comes down on us, 10 inch worms worked in deeper waters, where grass and or hydrilla are present have kept the action steady.
Butler Chain has held pretty steady for us for the month of June. Again dock fishing has been a strong pattern for us, with a few days where the bass have seemed to disappear on us, we have found them deep in the slop. Under docks has been the Gitem K.O’s and Warlocks, when the bass have moved off the docks on us, we have tossed the Gitem Shad or Curly 7’s to the back of the grass or lily pads, and slowly swam it back out to get some good blow-ups and some solid hook ups.
We have had some days with a very light bite, you had to really keep an eye on your line and watch it, as some bass were just picking up our baits and slowly swimming them right back to us, we have made a slight adjustment to this, we added JJs Dippin Dye to our boat, and let me tell you, we had a day where the bite was soft, and we dipped the baits and got slammed!! This stuff really worked great for us, you can find a link for them on my home page in the Bass Fishing News box.
July we are expecting more of the same, early morning bite should still be productive with live bait or artificial bait. Even though we are in full swing of summer, with it getting pretty hot, the bass have still been playing pretty good for us, and once again as in years past, it seems the bigger bass have still wanted to show their faces in the heat of the day, all this requires is placing the bait in the right spot, which is generally tight to the cover, under the docks, or in the slop!
Capt Tim Fey
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Capt Kevin Przybyl (Kpsfishing)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 3:55 pm: | |
I have been out on toho this week, and like everyone else, I have been fishing in the canals since the water management gates are still open moving water through the lakes. Crank baits are working the best in the canals. I also have been fishing open water in the middle of the lake, finding sweet spots all over the lake that have deeper hydrilla and plenty of bait fish on them. Sinkos have been working the best, whether they are weightless or with a ¼ once weight texas rigged, we have been catching decent fish.
On the private lake I fish on, the bite is almost back to normal, catching fish in open water with flukes and weightless sinkos. Since the water levels are still above normal, I am also fishing the flooded cypress trees catching fish with top water frogs and flukes. My guests are catching around 15-20 fish in 4 hours on this lake, still a little below what we have been catching, but we have been catching better sized fish then in the past.
Don’t let that summer heat prevent you from coming out with a florida guide. Great fishing and trophy sized bass are being caught thoughout Florida during the summer months so book a trip today.
Capt Kevin Przybyl
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Capt Tim Fey (Florida_bassin)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 - 12:11 pm: | |
The month of May has seen some very good bass fishing action. Butler Chain has been producing some quality bass with a good majority of them coming from either under docks or the outside edges of the docks. Whacky rigged Gitem KO’s have been the best way to catch them under the docks, the slower fall of this bait helps keep it in the strike zone just long enough for the bass to hit it.
Working grass beds with the Gitem Curly 7’s and Curly 10’s has produced some more good bass for us, with the main lakes that have produced for us having been Lakes Tibet, Chase, Blanche and Sheen.
Johns Lake is still fishing the same and still one of my favorite lakes to fish. Some early morning top water action can be worked as long as you arrive early enough. Generally as the sun starts coming down the cut, the activity starts to pick up, first half of the month the top water bite was a quick bite in this area, usually lasting about a half an hour. From there we have generally worked the main body of water out in the middle working the Steel Shad and picking off some good bass.
This month has brought us a ton of rain, which was badly needed, water levels have been coming up very nicely on both Johns Lake and Butler Chain, this will change patterns some as the bass now have new areas to roam for food with some fresh vegetation now in the waters, we have been picking more bass off in much shallower waters due to this. Any shade of a watermelon color has been the main producing color as well as the Gitem Red Bass, if you have these colors on your boat, your sure to catch some bass.
We added a new twist to the fishing arsenal the last few days by getting back into saltwater fishing again. For years I did a lot of saltwater fishing but strayed away with my main focus staying on bass fishing, with the summer months now upon us, the saltwater fishing has been picking up very nicely and we have been catching a lot of good fish.
We just got back from 4 days down in Miami doing a combination of things, part one of our trip was to target some peacock bass, although they did not play very well for us, due mainly to constant rain, we did manage to catch some good one. Best part was when I had my best friend Erik out on the boat and in the same body of water, he not only caught his first ever Peacock Bass, but he also boated his first ever Jack, and the kicker fish was his first ever Tarpon! I think this will be a trip Erik will talk about for years. This was all done on canals around the Miami Airport.
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From there we headed to Biscayne Bay and what a blast we had, catching a bunch of Jacks, snappers and I landed a nice red grouper. We spent a lot of time fishing bridges and grass flats, as the weather did not allow us to venture thru the cuts or around the cuts to the Atlantic Ocean as storms offshore kept the waters churned up just a little too much.
The next few months as summer heats up for us, we still fully expect a good bass fishing season and will be mixing in some saltwater runs for some more bull reds like Charles caught while we filmed a show for Reel Fishing, Charles managed to catch two bull reds, one on his first cast, again, it was another first, as Charles had never caught a redfish before, and he ended up catching two, one just over 40 inches and the other was I believe 35 inches.
I want to thank two of my main sponsors, Gitem Bait and Deep South Fishing Rods, the combination of these two companies have made my job a lot easier supplying me with quality baits and rods, please check them out, you will be very impressed with the quality and pricing.
Capt Tim Fey
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frederic r robert (Fishingguycom)
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yes is the time to thing about it the season begin ,we caught some all the last week,and some nice big redfish to, take some time for to have fun with this big fish make scream the reel
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Capt Kevin Przybyl (Kpsfishing)
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May is my favorite month of the year, great bass fishing, and it’s Cystic Fibrosis awareness month. Before I get to my report, I wanted to thank everyone who has come out and fished this year so far. As of May 16th during the Cystic Fibrosis Great Strides Walks in Orlando and Tampa, we raised over $1100 for Cystic Fibrosis research and closer to my $3000 goal for the year.
The Month of May has been another spot on month for catching bass. Watermelon red and green pumpkin seed flukes have been working the best for me. This month most of my clients have been catching 25 + fish in 4 hours off these two colors. The hours between 7 and 9 am have been the times most of the numbers are coming. However, later in the mornings have been when the bigger bass 4+ pounders have been caught, still using the flukes. If the bite really slows down I have them switch to a weightless black/blue sinko. We have not had much luck with shinners, a few here and there, despite having caught several fish that spit up the shinners they have been feeding on. Same goes for top water lures; they have been throwing poppers and horny toads with a few here and there, but when we switch to the fluke the action of that bait sinking in the water like a dead bait fish, just drives the bass nuts. The large majority of the fish are being caught in 7-9 ft of water, in clear water, over hydrilla. The water temperature has been holding steady around 80-82 degress. I expect nothing but great fishing during the month of June.
Capt Kevin Przybyl
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Steve Boyd (Florida_bass_adventures)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, May 17, 2009 - 3:28 pm: | |
Florida Bass Fishing: The bass fishing on Lake Toho is absolutely off the hook. Today Brian Grady and his Father Dan caught 14 bass on a 4 hour trip including two 5's a 7 and the largest coming in at 7 1/2 pounds. One would expect the bass fishing to slow down as water temperatures are peaking at 85 degrees but that has not been the case. All bass were caught using live bait up to 8 inches in length.
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Capt Tim Fey (Florida_bassin)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, April 27, 2009 - 7:35 am: | |
The first half of April has seen some good bass fishing action. Most of our trips have been done on Butler Chain and Johns Lake. Although we have seen some rather strange weather for this time of year for us, with a cold front coming thru, the action has remained steady for the most part, with us having to work harder for our bass on the day the cold front slammed us.
Most of our action on Butler Chain has come from docks, wacky rigged Gitem KO’s and weightless Warlocks in Green Pumpkin have done a great job catching bass up to 5 pounds. When docks have slowed in producing bass, we have moved to the cypress trees, tossing baits at the trees and letting it fall straight down to the base of the tree, this has triggered some very good action for us.
Johns Lake has seen scattered schooling action fist thing in the mornings, usually just as the sun makes it half way thru the Deer Island cut. Docks have been excellent producers as well as my drift pattern thru the middle of the main lake, tossing Steel Shads, these baits have caught us a ton of bass out there, as well as a few 1 ½ pound crappie. Offshore scattered grass beds have been holding some bass with the Gitem Twin Liz rigged with 1/8th ounce weight catching them all. We have caught a few bass on 1 ounce spinner baits, but that bite has not been consistent enough to keep us using them.
We have filmed a few more fishing shows which will be airing soon on our other site Thefishingtube.com along with another Skill Zone episode showing how to tie a few more fishing knots. Be sure to check it out as we continue to add more content and videos weekly.
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Capt Tim Fey (Florida_bassin)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, April 11, 2009 - 12:48 pm: | |
The month of February has seen some very good bass fishing action here in Orlando. We have had most of our focus on Butler Chain and one of the private lakes that I fish. Butler Chain we have had some good bass come off beds, despite high winds that had consistently pounded us along with what seemed like an endless run on cold fronts.
Most of our trips this month were with artificial baits, with steel shad and a wide range of Gitem Baits catching most of the bass. Steel Shad have been doing a great job in deeper waters when fronts have hit us, working them mostly in 10 to 16 feet of water, almost slow rolling them, with the very tight wobble and close resemblance of bait fish, these baits have been awesome.
Gitem Baits have been plugging the bass for us in and around scattered grass beds, offshore hydrilla beds and docks. The Twin Liz and the Curly 7 have been doing great tossing them under docks texas rigged with a 1/16th ounce screw in weight. The Gitem Curly 10 has been great pulling it thru heavy eel grass to catch some nice quality bass, one day numbers will be up, and size down, but only to be followed up with some very solid bass being caught the next day.
We have found when the fronts have rolled thru, the bass were pushed away from the beds, but still in the area, so setting up 30 feet off the bedding areas had been the key to catching the quality bass, with some good schooling action towards the end of the month. Shiner fishing has been doing good, slow trolling the shiners with no float around deep drop offs on Lake Butler itself has produced some quality bass. Lakes Chase and Blanche have also held some good action, Chase has been good in areas where the lay downs are as well as Blanche. Blanche has been very good around the docks as well as just offshore from the docks, finding the offshore hydrilla has produced some very good quality bass.
The month of March has carried over pretty much from the same action we have seen in February, although the majority of the bass had already spawned, we still were catching some bass off beds, or cruising around the beds. Butler Chain we have been catching most bass just off the grass beds and under docks, wacky rigged Gitem KO’s have been doing great under docks as well as the curly 7’s.
Johns Lake has started showing some limited schooling action in the Dear Island cut, steel shad and High Roller Rip Rollers have got some good action. A few docks have produced on Johns Lake for us the past month, but one of the biggest patterns seems to have been isolated grass patches worked with either the KO’s or the curly 7’s in Florida Grass color. A few bass have been caught on smaller crank baits in 2 to 4 foot of water as well.
Both Butler and Johns Lake the Crappie bite has been limited and very scattered, some being caught early morning in deep water, while majority have been caught around the grass beds, size of crappie has been down the last 2 weeks.
Private waters have been producing some very good numbers, along with some size, all bass have been caught on artificial baits with bass coming from docks and grass beds. Wacky rigged KO’s and Shad have been the way to catch them.
My reports have been slow coming the past 2 months but I should be back on schedule with them now, we have launched a new web site Thefishingtube.com which has taken up most of my free time. This web site is totally free so we want everyone to come join us, create yourself a member user name and set up your profile, you can upload pictures and videos. We currently have a teaser show filmed and uploaded with Pro Golfer JB Holmes and on our Skill Zone I am Hosting How to Videos. I would also like to welcome Deep South Fishing Rods to our family, as a sponsor on both our Fishing Show and my Guide Service. These rods are awesome, so please check them out.
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Capt Kevin Przybyl (Kpsfishing)
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Lake Conway and Lake Toho have been my focus most of the month of February. My game plan most of my trips were to site fish, I admit I had both good and bad days. When a cold front was passing through or right over us, like bass are supposed to, they pulled off the beds, making it difficult to get numbers off the beds. I did make adjustments to fish in deeper water out in the middle of the lakes and looked for steep ledges, which Conway has plenty, and managed to get a few. These cold fronts really screwed things up, not just for me, but many anglers I know. One week the water temp was 65 and then a cold front would pass through and drop the water temps down almost 8-9 degrees. Like I said, Mother Nature was not very friendly to me this month, but I still managed to get some 7 lbs and several in the 3-4 lbs range. I will be honest, this was not my best month, but the temperatures will be back to normal this weekend, in the upper 70’s and low 80’s, and the bite will improve. As this years spawn winds down, my focus will be fishing deeper water for post-spawn bass, and getting ready for the summer bite.
Capt Kevin Przybyl
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Capt Tim Fey (Florida_bassin)
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January bass fishing has been off the hook! The month started out with a big bang, as Ari came to fish, saying he never caught anything over I believe 5 pounds, well Butler Chain did not let him down. Ari caught two beauties, one coming in just over 7 pounds, and the other coming in just over 6 pounds! Both bass were caught on Butler using live bait, although the bite that day was rather slow, the size more than made up for everything this day.
Early part of the month I showed a tournament angler around the chain, giving up a few of my good spots, word back from him was as a co-angler, he ended up in second place, while his boater walked away with first place, all the bass coming from the areas I had taken him to, shameless little plug for myself there, but always a pleasure to hear back from guys on how they did in their tournaments, very happy things went great for these guys.
Johns Lake is still producing some good quality bass. Most of our catch has been coming from around docks and deeper water grass beds. Gitem Warlocks and Gitem Sugars have been the main producers for us, along with of course the trusty steel shad.
We had a few runs out to Conway Chain of lakes and did very good using the Storm curl tail swim bait, steel shad and Carolina rigged gitem warlocks, all bass were coming from deeper waters, with most of our focus coming from fishing in the middle of the lake.
Private water we have been fishing is still producing not only some good bass, but also some very good crappie. Bass have been coming from mid lake areas using mostly steel shads and one ounce spinner baits, shallow waters have been producing with Gitem Warlocks, Gitem KO’s and the Gitem Curly 7’s.
Paul Fisler and his nephew HM1 Shane R Gilley came for 3 days of some very entertaining fishing. Paul had been trying to get Shane to join us, and Shane finally got some time off to enjoy the great Florida waters and did an outstanding job catching some bass and crappie. I personally want to thank Shane, as well as all the service men and woman who proudly serve our great nations armed forces, because if it was not for them, I would not be able to make a living the way I do, God Bless all of you.
Capt Tim Fey
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Capt Kevin Przybyl (Kpsfishing)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, February 13, 2009 - 3:25 pm: | |
The beginning of the month was a very difficult month of fishing for me. The cold weather in the beginning of the month dropped the water temp into the low 50’s making the fish very lethargic. Fish were still being caught but not at the rate they were normally being caught. It finally started warming up a week ago and the water temp has quickly warmed up too. The second week of the month showed improvement with more fish starting to move up on beds. Today, Friday 13th proved to be a very lucky day for my guest Roger. Roger and I spent the day on Lake Conway, site fishing and catching fish all day using shaky heads with junebug finesse worms, Roger ended the day catching a 9 lbs bass off a bed with that shaky head. The temps are supposed to remain in the 70’s and 80’s over the next week, so the site fishing will only be getting better as more and more fish spawn. |
Capt Kevin Przybyl (Kpsfishing)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 10, 2009 - 4:00 am: | |
Well, 2009 has quickly arrived and to be honest I am pretty excited about the New Year. On a personal note, I am hoping this is the year my wife and I finally start the family we have been trying for over the last few years. I am also hoping for another healthy year for me and all those effected with cystic fibrosis. I would also like to take the time to wish all my clients, friends, and future clients a Happy New Year.
I have been fishing everyday over the last three weeks thanks to some great unusually warm weather, preparing for trips and tournaments. John’s Lake has been slow for me the last few weeks. The usually morning schooling fish are still productive but once they slow down I have had some difficulty locating fish. I have been waiting for some pre-spawn and spawning spots to turn on. The water temperature on John’s Lake as of last Friday was 63 degrees, still a little too cool for bedding fish to begin.
Lake Toho on the other hand, has been on fire for me. Now, they are spraying hydrilla with helicopters which usually shuts down the bite in certain areas while the hydrilla dies off. Thankfully there areas that I have been fishing have not been sprayed. All my fish are being caught in clear water, using a dark colored worm. Haven’t seen any bedding fish yet but I am seeing the males scouting the shallows.
Capt Kevin Przybyl
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Capt Tim Fey (Florida_bassin)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 08, 2009 - 12:38 pm: | |
December has seen some great bass fishing action on Johns Lake, Butler Chain and the private waters we have been fishing.
Private waters have mainly been for crappie fishing the past month, and it has been producing some very nice slabs. Bait we have been using have been the SteelShad and jigs tipped with crappie nibbles.
Most trips have been 4 hour trips with us boating between 20 and 30 per trip and they have been running from 1 ½ pounds to 2 pound slabs!
Johns Lake we have spotted bass beds all over the place! Its that time of year for the big gals to show their faces and make clients very happy, as was the case with a father and son trip of Bruce and young Dave. Bruce had been tossing Gitem Warlocks and getting bass here and there, very scattered around the lake and towards the end of the trip, young Dave working a wild shiner got the wake up call of a lifetime! A beautiful and very solid 10.14 pound largemouth bass, let me tell you, this youngster handled this hawg of a bass like a pro! Our main areas of concentration on Johns Lake has been scattered and isolated grass patches, docks and a few areas of open water holding some good hydrilla.
Butler Chain has also had some good action going on, Bass beds have been spotted all over the chain. Altho the beds we have spotted have been for the most part empty right now, we have caught some very good bass in the general areas that the beds are. Areas we have concentrated on have been grass beds very close to drop offs, as the bass have been staging to hit the beds. Butler itself has been the main producer for numbers and size with several 6 pounders being caught on anything from steelshad, gitem warlocks and spinner baits.
Please remember to catch and release, and this time of year, be especially gentle with the big gals, afterall they are what make fishing in florida awesome!
Capt Tim Fey
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Capt Tim Fey (Florida_bassin)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, November 28, 2008 - 6:59 am: | |
This report covers the last 30 days. Week ending November 15th. Things have been very crazy to say the least. We have had several trips to Johns Lake, Butler Chain, Conway Chain and a private lake.
Johns Lake has seen some good action, with early morning action coming from the Deer Island cut area working SteelShads and trick worms. Once the action slows in this area, we have been going into the marsh area working trick worms and brush hogs, all junebug colors, which have been producing some quality bass. Most of the action has been coming in open waters, with the baits being crawled slowly across bottom around grass beds and hydrilla. Main lake areas that have been producing for us have been the scattered isolated grass beds, once again, a single blade of grass produces a good catch. Jigs and whacky rigged senko type baits also have been producing around docks and submerged structure.
Butler Chain has also been pretty steady for us. Drop offs have been a major focus for us, tossing trick worms, craws and brush hogs into 16 plus foot of water, and slowly crawling the baits up into the shallower waters has been the ticket, most bass we have seen and caught have been suspended in 12 foot of water on the drop offs. Lake Butler and Little Lake Down have been the best producers for us, with Lake Tibet and Lake Louise also producing some good numbers.
Conway Chain faired pretty well, with once again deep waters being the big key to catching bass. Offshore weed beds were holding bass with rattle traps, steel shads and 7 inch worms catching the bulk of the bass. Several docks held some quality bass, with a whacky rig doing all the catching, as the bass would hit on the fall. Bite was light, so watching the line was big key to getting them out from under the docks.
The private lake we have been fishing on occasion has been producing very well. This body of water has seen some limited shallow water action, sitting in the middle of the lakes has been really producing some good numbers of not only bass but some 2 pound crappie. Steel shads have been the main bait for catching bass out there, and if worked like slow rolling a spinner bait, the crappie will slam this bait. Best crappie fishing action has been from 6:30am up to about 8am, then they just seem to shut down only getting a few here and there, very scattered, but you can usually get the limit by 8am. Best fishing waters have been in 12 to 18 foot of water, with bass mostly suspended in 8 to 10 foot of water, go deeper and you can catch some very big catch fish here also.
When we have gotten a good shallow water bite going, it has been mostly on brush hogs and trick worms crawled very slowly on the bottom. Water temperatures have been holding pretty steady in the low to mid 60’s with schooling action going on most of the day as the bass are really starting to feed up good for the spawn. We have been seeing some scattered beds on Johns Lake, Butler Chain and the private waters so get ready for yet another great spawning season.
Capt Tim Fey
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Capt Kevin Przybyl (Kpsfishing)
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Fishing continues to be hot despite the much cooler weather in the last two weeks. Most of the fish I have been catching are in shallow water. I have been fishing on a private lake most of the month, and would catch 15+ fish in just a few hours. All of them were in 3-5 ft clear water, around fallen trees and scattered grass. They were caught with a tequila sunrise 6 inch worm, ½ oz blue/black jig, and spinner baits. The few times I was on John’s Lake, schooling fish gave for some good action during the early morning hours, with much success with silver rattle trap. Once that bite slowed down, we would fish the rest of the time with topwater frogs on the matted and scattered grass near the banks catching several 3-4 lbs bass.
Capt Kevin Przybyl
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Capt Tim Fey (Florida_bassin)
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The first half of October has already seen some very good bass fishing action with some good catches. Most of our time has been spent on Butler Chain this month along with some scouting of other local lakes. For the most part bass have been tighter to cover on Butler Chain. We have caught a lot of bass working grass beds and docks with some bass coming from submerged structure in deeper waters.
One bait that has once again become hot for us has been the Steel Shad. This bait has once again become a bass catching machine. This bait we have been working more around waters with deep drop offs and we have been catching the bass that are cruising back and forth from deep holes to shallow waters chasing bait fish. The Steel Shad has been a perfect match when it comes to the bait fish in size and color, with the silver one really catching some good numbers.
There has been scattered schooling action out on several lakes on Butler Chain, with Lake Tibet and Lake Sheen being the top producers for us, with Steel Shads and 1 ounce spinner baits catching quality and numbers from these schools.
Spent a few day out on a private body of water with Franky V and Eric, the guys fished half a day in the morning and we broke for lunch and returned to fish until 7pm. Open water areas had seen schooling action pretty much all day long with steel shad catching some good numbers. Franky was slow rolling a spinner bait over a brush pile and managed a few good keepers off of it. Shoreline and dock areas had seen some slower action, but a few good bass fell to the old trick worm. Water temperatures and air temperatures have finally come down to very comfortable levels, and this has triggered some very good bass fishing action and finally some good top water action. Average catches have been running between 20 and 30 bass a day now, with artificial baits doing most of the catching.
In my spare time after trips, I have started pouring my own soft plastics, and they have been producing not only good numbers, but some size as well, so look for my new store front on the web site, should be launched by January 1st.
Capt Tim Fey
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Capt Kevin Przybyl (Kpsfishing)
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If you are coming to Florida, now is a great time to hire a guide and go bass fishing. Whether you like bass fishing or saltwater fishing these next few weeks are prime fishing weeks. Bass are feeding this time of the year in preparation for the winter, now is a great opportunity to catch a big hungry bass. Fishing this month has been very consistent, early morning, between 7 and 9 am, I have been spending my time catching schooling fish with shad colored flukes, spinner baits (various colors), and the occasional top water plug or frog (black). Once the schooling action slows down I change gears and fish very slow, flipping black and blue colored jigs into thick grass and brush piles. It is a lot of work and takes a great deal of patients but the rewards are worth it. My bigger fish this month have been caught flipping jigs.
Weather is now begining to play a factor on how I fish. Fish are most active before and during an approaching front, the bite is rather good during the time. It’s after a front passes that tests any angler. When I fish the days after a front passes you usually get some wind and bright blue skies, so fishing docks, thick grass and brush work the best for me. If it’s windy I tend to fish the windward side and flip into areas where the wind is not directly blowing into, you will usually find fish held up there waiting to ambush passing by bait.
Capt. Kevin Przybyl
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Capt Kevin Przybyl (Kpsfishing)
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Prior to this past week, I was struggling on the water. It seemed no matter what I did, or where I went I wasn’t getting a lot of bites or decent fish. I went deep, I went shallow, fished top to bottom and only could manage a few short fish. This week I approached the lake with a more positive attitude. Last Sunday was the most exciting day I have had on that lake since spring. Mike and I went out Sunday with the attitude that we were going to crush them, and we did. Big bites were had with Mike’s spinner bait first thing in the morning, and smaller bass (around 12 inches) caught with a weightless sinko. As the earlier morning bite diminished and the schoolies slowed down, we decided to pull out the Jigs and start fishing the deep heavy cover we could find in the areas of John’s Lake that are still high from all the rain. A few hours passed, but we stuck with the jigs because we were getting bites from them, just not landing the fish. Around 11 am it happened, Mike hooked on to what we thought a decent 3-4 lbs bass. The bass quickly dove to the bottom, under the thick grass, and the only chance we had was to just scoop the net and pray I could get him. Thankfully we did, and to our surprise the fish wasn’t a 3lbs bass, it was much bigger than that; it weighed 10 lbs, 8 oz. It didn’t catch much after that, we couldn’t calm ourselves down enough to really focus on where we needed to be, regardless it was a great day and the beginning of a great week on the water.
Rod: E21 7’2” Carrot stix heavy action
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Steve Boyd (Florida_bass_adventures)
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Orlando Bass Fishing Report for the week of September 29th.
The bass fishing in Orlando for the month of September has been well above average for a time of year when we usually see 90+ degree days. The hurricanes that came through were exactly what we need for our Summer bass fishing to heat up as they brought much needed water to many lakes including lake Okeechobee and cooler water to lakes that have feeder creeks.
October is just around the corner and the bass fishing in Orlando is already on fire. My clients are enjoying 20+ bass days on live bait and artificial lures. Todays trip on 9/30 on with James and John from Minnesota was off the hook as they caught 18 by themselves. My biggest 5 weighed 20lbs with only limited fishing on my part. Generally I do no fish with clients unless they encourage me to which is what happened today.
There is a great deal you can learn by seeing a Professional Bass Fisherman in action and today the guys took full advantage of it.
Until my next report take care,
Steve Boyd
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Capt Kevin Przybyl (Kpsfishing)
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Bass fishing in the during the Fall months is as exciting for me as that of the spring months . In the Spring the bass become aggressive when protecting there spawing grounds, and in the Fall they become aggressive as they feed on shad . During the fall months the shad move up into shallower water, where eventually they begin to die off and the winter months arrive and the water gets cold. Granted the lakes don’t freeze or really drop below 50 degrees in the winter months, but that doesn’t stop the shad from moving into shallow water. As they move up in large groups, they bass can usually be found right behind them, waiting and watching for the weakest ones to fall away from the group. When that happens, that water just explodes both below and above the surface as the bass feed. This is the best time of the year for top water action. During the morning hours I will throw top water poppers, or under water baits like rattletraps. The rattletraps I use look similar to that of the bait they are feeding on, but you must also keep in mind water clarity and sunlight, because too much flash from a bait may turn fish away.
This past week was a great example of the importance to paying attention to your surrounding and reading what the fish want. Saturday I was out with a friend, fishing a pond in his back yard. We had shiners and casting them out about 15-20 yards out. Thirty or so minutes passed without a bite but I had noticed schools of shad right up against the shore line. My next cast was thrown about 5 feet from that bank. As soon as the bait touched the water I had a fish, and now a pattern. I continued making casts 5-8 feet off the shore line and pulling a fish in on every cast. In a matter of a few hours we had 20 fish landed and about 15 missed hits. I followed this pattern on Sunday on John’s Lake and discovered pretty much the same pattern, bass feeding in shallow water. At one point on Sunday the shallow fishing stopped, so we moved into a deep channel throwing a Carolina rig and managed to land a few more fish before we called it quits.
Saturday’s Equipment: 6’7” Berkley Lightning Rod with Cardinal 302 reel w/ 8 lbs Stren Fluorocarbon line
Live Shinners as Bait
Sunday’s Equipment: Rod: Bass Pro Shops 7’2” Extra heavy action Rod
Reel: Daiwa 100tsh 7 bearing w/ 14lbs Stren fluorocarbon line
Bait: Carolina Rig w/ a Black Zoom Finesse worm.
Capt. Kevin Przybyl
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Capt Tim Fey (Florida_bassin)
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The first week of September has seen some good bass fishing action, as well as some tough action. For the most part, the action has been pretty steady. Shiner bite has actually been very slow, but the artificial bite has been good. Johns Lake has been a good early morning bite using spinner baits and trick worms. Deer Island cut has produced some descent numbers, but the size has not been to my liking.
We did make a venture out to Lake Rosalie, one to check water levels after the tropical storm, and to alo see how the bite was doing out there. We started the day out with Rich tossing some shiners around, and not surprised, there was no action on the in the first hour, so we switched Rich to some trick worms.
There was scattered success working grass lines catching one here one there kinda deal as we kept moving around. Working cuts where we spotted flowing water was the big key here, getting into the creek was a huge key. Bass were holding tight on the backside of the flow and hammering the trick worms, and brush hogs. Two areas in the creek there were trees blocking us, but with a little maneuvering, we made it over them and kept on catching bass. Lake did ok for us, catching 4 bass, but the creek was the place, as we boated 10 more bass there.
Butler Chain water levels are great, and the bass fishing has been holding steady. With all the new waters from the tropical storm, bass have a lot more new areas to roam and feed. Several good bass were caught on grass edges in 12 feet of water, with once again trick worms, and wacky rigged senkos getting the bulk of the action. Some bass have been coming from docks and flooded timber as well.
It is still very hot out on the waters, so please be sure to drink a lot of water, and use a lot of sun screen
Capt Tim Fey
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Capt Kevin Przybyl (Kpsfishing)
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Tropical Storm Fay caused destruction all over Florida, and my heart goes out to those whose lives have been lost and changed forever because of the storm. It almost seem impossible that something good came from this storm, but as an angler the storm has significantly helped. John's Lake is the lake I fish the most and this past Sunday was the first time since the storm, that I was out fishing. The water level was almost back to its normal level, and fished like a brand new lake. Fish were shallow and I could reach areas again that I haven't been able to in almost two years. Water run offs into the lake caused the lake to have current, something I haven't seen in years. That current attracted fish all week long and with continued afternoon thunderstorms that current will continue for days to come. Shallow crank baits seem to be producing the most bites, followed by dark colored jigs. Jigs have been very successful around the docks. With the water levels being up and the fall quickly approaching, I see the bite only getting better, so now would be a great time to book a trip with any guide in Florida.
Capt Kevin Przybyl
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Capt Tim Fey (Florida_bassin)
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June and July have seen some good bass fishing action. Most of our time had been spent on Johns Lake, with a few scattered trips out on Butler Chain. This time of year is typically hot and usually with very little breeze to help keep things comfortable, so we have been doing a lot of 4 and 6 hour trips to beat the heat.
Johns Lake has been pretty good on schooling bass first thing in the morning at Deer Island Cut. Spinner baits, rattle traps and a select few crank baits have done pretty good. Smaller swim baits like the curl tail minnow have been productive, as well as a 7 inch junebug worm crawled slowly across the bottom.
Once the schooling action stops, we have been hitting isolated grass beds as well as offshore hydrilla beds just below the surface. Seven inch junebug worms with a small bullet weight worked slowly has been the main producer once the air temperatures start cooking. We did have some limited success with drop shot in 12 to 16 foot water.
Senko type baits, as well as trick worms have been catching some bass off of docks, as well as the drop shot worked along the docks and worked slowly thru the passes in the docks.
Water levels on Johns Lake have come up slowly with the rains we have been having, markers are out there still, marking the sand bars to make sure people and boats stay safe.
Butler Chain water levels are still great, lots of areas with some good productive flooded wood and some very healthy hydrilla make for some good action. Early morning top water action has been ok, with some scattered schooling around the chain. Most of our bass have been coming close to deeper water drop offs, but we have still been catching bass in less than 2 feet of water in lakes Chase and Blanche.
One ounce spinner baits worked thru grasses and hydrilla have produced some serious strikes, as well as working the steel shad, typically the gold one seems to have worked best for us. Several bass have been caught working docks, big key here was to really work the dock hard, and very slowly. Drop offs have been holding some quality bass, especially around submerged brush piles.
Orlando Fishing Forecast:
September is now just around the corner and one last month of heat. 4 and 6 hour trips are still the way to go to still catch some good quality bass, early morning hours are the best bet with some good schooling action still expected.
Water levels on our lakes have come up very nicely with our afternoon rains and the tropicl storm that passed thru and dumped rain on us for 4 days.
Things are really starting to pick up, so start booking your trips for what will be yet another good spawning season.
Capt Tim Fey
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Capt Kevin Przybyl (Kpsfishing)
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Summer is deffiently upon us, everyday around 2 pm the thunderstorms are booming. This has been ongoing everyday for over a month, and I love it. Finally you can tell the water levels are rising. Instead of the usual 4 foot drop from the dock at the boat ramp, its now a two foot easy step. As for the fishing, this past week was a tough one. Bass were caught but the numbers were a little normal than they have been, and I have had to work for those bites. I have been fishing in 8 to 10 ft with plenty of grass and hydrilla in those areas. Like I said its been work, but the fish we are catching a decent fish in the 2.5-3 lbs range. I have noticed there has been less schooling in the morning, they are just not feeding as much, and can you blame them, just yesterday the water temp on lake conway was 88 degress. Those that aren't familiar with Conway, that lake gets pretty deep, many spots over 20ft deep, but again keep in mind its the middle of summer, and in a few short weeks, things will begin to change and the fish will start getting into a fall pattern. Even though its hard work, we are still having plenty of fun, so give me a call and book a trip.
Capt. Kevin Przybyl
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Capt Kevin Przybyl (Kpsfishing)
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I had several trips over the past week with some great guests and great fishing. The early morning bite has proven to be the most successful time of the day. All week I came up on a large school of bass, over 100 fish easily. They were caught with rattle traps, weightless sinkos and flukes. These schooling fish were chasing shade so lighter colors worked the best to catch them. These fish schooled each day for a little over an hour long. After that we started working docks with black/blue ¼-1/2 oz jigs. Jig fishing produced the bigger fish with several fish being over 6 Lbs. With the expected weather for the next week, I expect the fishing will not change very much, so book a trip with me today !!
Capt Kevin Przybyl
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Capt Kevin Przybyl (Kpsfishing)
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The summer fishing is in full swing here in Orlando . Early morning I have been fishing shallower water with weightless sinkos, and spinning baits. Once the sun comes up, I start my way into deeper water, fishing patches of grass and hydrilla. As the day progresses and the sun is beating down on us, I move into deeper water throwing deep water crank baits or a Carolina rig. In the deeper water I have been looking for deep brush piles or hydrilla. Despite the fact that the fish slim down during the summer months, fishing deep hydrilla is still producing fish in the 5 plus pound range. Occasionally I’ll run into a school of fish feeding on shad, and will throw a slightly weighted or weightless fluke. Depending on the afternoon cloud cover, I’ll switch gears and start throwing topwater baits around scattered grass, which is producing catches. Evening fishing has been non-existent most of the month of June because of strong thunderstorms. I love to fish in the evening hours so the past month has been killing me, but the rain is helping with the low water levels we have been facing the past year. If you can handle the heat and humidity, great summer fishing is a reality here in Florida . |
Capt Tim Fey (Florida_bassin)
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The month of May has seen some very good bass fishing action in Orlando. For the most part Johns Lake has been the place to be. Even though we have seen very limited schooling action in the mornings, we have caught some good schooling bass in the cuts, mainly Deer Island cut. Bass have been hitting on Gitem Warlocks around isolated grass patches, rigged with a very small bullet weight and worked very slowly.
Several areas in mid lake with hydrilla have been producing some quality bass using 1 ounce Sugoi spinner baits, Steel Shads and 10 inch worms. Several days of higher winds than normal had us working docks that were wind blown, which had been holding bass, some docks producing as many as 3 bass, which makes for a very good day.
Live bait has been producing ok, but we have been out catching live bait with artificial baits sometimes 3 to 1, clients really love this, as it is just that much more fun to catch bass using plastics.
Butler Chain has been fishing pretty good. Lakes we have worked have been Butler, Chase and Blanche. Butler has been a great lake to start the day out early on in the mornings, from there moving over to Lake Chase has been the ticket. Numbers and bigger bass have come later in the day on Lake Blanche, working the docks and the deeper drop offs very slow worming. Altho the bite has been what we call a “small tick” instead of the aggressive hits, quality bass have been caught.
For the most part, water levels on Johns Lake and Butler Chain are not too bad, Johns Lake, we do have a few sand bars to watch out for, one right at the ramp area, one coming off the point going into the main lake area, and one going into the Horse shoe area. Butler Chain the canals could use some water, but the levels are still safe to pass thru, and with the rains the last few days, should help out with those levels.
My tournament partner and I did venture out to Harris Chain mid month to fish a Fishers Of Men Tournament, with no free time to practice out there, we went according to old notes from years past and they paid off pretty good. With some tough fishing, we did get into some schooling bass, but we could only get them to hit very small floating Ugly Duckling crank baits, once we had our limit, we switched up to one ounce spinner baits and covered a lot of water to cull some smaller bass, with a nice 5 and change bass slamming a spinner bait, landing us in 11th place, just 2 spots from the money, which equaled out to a pound, also missing second big bass by a matter of ounces.
Waters at the ramp on Harris were very low, with only one of the ramps open, and apparently a boulder sitting at the end of the ramp making launching and pulling out entertaining to say the least. Next months tournament is State Championships on Lake Rousseau and from there we go to Southeast Regional’s the end of October, site still to be determined.
Capt Tim Fey
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Capt Tim Fey (Florida_bassin)
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Week ending April 30th
The last two weeks of April saw some good bass fishing on Johns Lake and Butler Chain. Schooling action on Johns had been very limited for us in the mornings, but always got the day off to a good start. For the most part on Johns Lake, our bass have been coming off some of our typical deeper water areas. Steel Shads and spinner baits being the best at catching the bass, a few have been caught on smaller series Ugly Duckling crank baits.
Butler Chain we had spent most of our time on Lake Chase and Tibet-Butler. Lake Chase has been good working Gitem Warlocks and heavy one ounce Sugoi spinner baits in and around thinned out grasses and lily pads. Tibet-Butler we did have some schooling action, and the heavier spinner baits tossed into the schools picked off the better quality bass. Docks have produced some good bass with the steady action coming mainly around grass beds and areas with hydrilla mixed with the grass. A few of the deeper water areas have held some good bass, working the Steel Shad like a spoon has been a very good way to pick up some from the deep drop offs.
Capt Tim Fey
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Capt Kevin Przybyl (Kpsfishing)
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Its been another few weeks of "Casting Towards a Cure for Cystic fibrosis" with the summer temperatures starting, upper 80's and low 90's temperatures over the past week. These hot temperatures are not effecting the bass fishing yet with the water temps being in the low 80's. My focus has been on John's Lake over the past month, in the morning and evening hours. Smaller fish are still being caught in shallow water around scarred grass with spinner baits and weightless sinkos. This week I began fishing in deper water 8 ft+ and its been paying off. With my new Hummingbird 797 with side imaging, I have been the bait fish. Once I locate them I begin throwing the strike king red eye shad right through the bait fish. Within seconds, the bait scatters and the bass strike. When they hit the shad I'll throw the strike king and if they don't hit or miss the it, I quickly follow with a weightless amber w/red flake sinko. |
Capt Tim Fey (Florida_bassin)
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Week Ending April 13th
Sorry for the delay in my fishing reports, things have been very crazy around here. First half of the month has seen some pretty good bass fishing. Most of my trips have been done on Johns Lake with a few stops at Butler Chain. For the most part most of my trips have been artificial baits. Using a lot of Gitem Warlocks, spinner baits and of course the Steel Shads.
Johns Lake for the most part, the early morning schooling has slowed to a crawl, with a few bass being caught in the Deer Island cut in the morning. We have caught some good bass in wide open waters on the main lake, as well as quality bass around isolated grass patches. This seems to be a pattern that has held up for well over a month now. Several bass in the 5 pound class had made it to the boat in this time frame on Johns Lake.
Butler Chain was a little tougher fishing. Most casts were pin point under docks, and to grass patches with submerged wood close by. Lakes that produced for us were Tibet, Chase and Blanche. Memorable trip out there was with Chris G. We had been plugging away for some quality bass and Chris had told me his life long dream was to catch a 5 pounder. His previous big fish I believe he said was 3 pounds and it was not even a bass, so mid way thru the day, I told him lets head to what I call “ junk lake” Lake Blanche, with all the docks and submerged wood, there had to be a big bass waiting for him. We got on a good stretch of water using the Warlocks, when Chris got hit and the bass didn’t stand a chance, and yes, his dream came true with a solid bass coming in right at 5 pounds on the gripper. Great job Chris, and when your back next year, we have to catch one bigger.
Capt Tim Fey
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Capt Kevin Przybyl (Kpsfishing)
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Another couple of weeks where plenty of bass were caught, despite some strong winds. The beginning of the month ended with Shiv and his brother-in-law from New Jersey. They were new to the sport of fishing. After a quick lesson on casting with a spinning reel and some practice casts, they managed to reel in a few 2-3 lbs. bass on shiners. Unfortunately a front came through and slowed down the bite. Towards the end of the morning Shiv lost a 7+ lbs bass. The fish was up next to an isolated patch of grass, when it hit the shinner. As Shiv was reeling in the fish, it jumped out of the water at spit out the hook, just feet away from the net. However, a few minutes later they landed a nice 4 lbs bass in the same area.
This past week was spent throwing artificial baits under docks. Weightless sinko, and ¼ oz- ½ oz black jigs also added to the success of our catching. On windier days, we worked docks that the wind was blowing against, fishing painfully slow. Being slow produced some big fish over the course of the week, not to mention dozens of 2 pounders. |
Capt Tim Fey (Florida_bassin)
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The past two weeks has seen some great bass fishing action, as well as some tough action as the cold front came thru. This front grabbed a hold of us for a good two days, and after some very good bass fishing action, it really put a clamp on the action. Bass were still caught, but we did have to work harder for our catch. We had a few days of combo trips, working live and artificial baits, for the most part, the artificial baits we used were Gitem Warlocks and 7 inch ribbon tail worms, both worked with a 1/16th ounce bullet weight in and around grass beds.
Tom and Robert had a day of high winds which limited us to certain areas on the lake, the bite was very scattered and very light, as the bass would just pick up the baits and swim some with it, heart breaking moment came with Tom getting a light tick and the bass swimming under the boat, only to turn and come back out and jump right next to the boat, this beauty was an easy 7 pounder, as she spit the worm and swam away.
Doug and Todd had two days with us on Johns Lake, the first day was once again very light hits on the baits, with winds still up and weather very cool to start the day, bass were scattered as we hit several areas to get our catch. Day two we had much better action with calmer winds and warmer weather. Big bass for them coming in at 5.13 pounds.
Brian and John had some good action as well on live baits, bass were schooling some in the cut but were very scattered, as most bass caught came closer to docks, with one dock yielding two bass within minutes of each other. For the most part, the live bait action has remained pretty steady on Johns Lake, schooling action has seemed to slow down some but the quality bass have picked up considerably as Doug and Todd saw on day two, catching only one dink, with the rest coming in between 2 and 4 pounds and very scrappy.
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Capt Kevin Przybyl (Kpsfishing)
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Over the past few weeks the fishing has been great. The majority of the fish being caught have been in 4-8ft of water on both John’s Lake, and Lake Conway. The bigger fish have been caught with medium sized shiners thrown to nearby grass patches. All the 2-3 lbs fish caught these past few weeks have been on a wide variety of artificial baits like top water horny toads, spinners, plastic zoon u-tale worms, and the occasional rattle trap. Many of my fish have been clumped in large groups along scattered grass patches. To sum it all up, these fish are feeding, and if its near them, they are hitting it.
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Capt Kevin Przybyl (Kpsfishing)
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The fishing continues to be enjoyable. Most of the fish I have been catching have been in 4 foot of water or less around scattered grass. These fish have been caught with live shinners and 6 inch finese worms, texas rigged, junebug or black in color. When I have been fishing in deeper waters, its been around brush piles with rattle traps, carolina rig, or deep crank baits, all in which have been producing fish. In the areas I have been catching fish on both Lake Conway and Johns Lake, the fish would either hit the shinners or artificial, but one of them more then the other. Florida has also had several windy days, which was helping produce a great jig bite under docks that the wind and waves were crashing into. This past week I fished a late trip with Mark from seatlle, although it rained the entire trip, the shinner bite was incredible right before dark, Mark landed close to a dozen fish, and lost a large bass within the last 45 mins before dark. Mark also had a few fish strike a top water horny toad. Despite the rain it was a great trip. |
Capt Tim Fey (Florida_bassin)
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Week ending March 16th
The past two weeks has seen some great trips out on Johns Lake. For the most part, schooling activity has been great up until the 13th when they just seemed to disappear. We are still having great success using Steel Shads in gold or silver color to catch not only schooling bass, but also bass in deeper waters in the middle of the main lake. One ounce Sugoi spinner baits have worked great around scattered grass patches and around areas with hydrilla and lily pads. When the bass have been schooling, these heavier spinner baits have been great at getting below the smaller schoolers where the quality bass lay.
Once the schooling action ends, junebug trick worms with red, green, or blue fleck with a small bullet weight worked around isolated grass patches have been key to catching the bass. Work the patches very good, to the point if you see one blade of grass, throw to it, as they have been holding bass. For the most part, the bite has been good, but the strikes have not been aggressive ones, you really have to watch your line, as several bass we had to let them swim with the trick worms a few seconds before being able to get a solid hooked.
We have not had too much success with bass around docks, but several of the areas with brush have produced as of late, fire tiger Fat A’s worked around these trees have caught several good solid bass, and made for a fun fight trying to keep them out of the wood after hook up. Deer Island cut has been a good area to work a split shot rig with a trick worm. Main focus has been in waters 4 to 8 feet of water and key in on bird activity, circling or diving birds will guide you to some good fishing action.
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Capt Kevin Przybyl (Kpsfishing)
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03/08/08
This has been a very special week for me. Besides incredible fishing this week, it has been one year now since I stopped fishing for Disney and started my guide service; Orlando Trophy Bass. This past year has been wonderful for me despite some major health problems. I have had the opportunity to fish with some great people and learned many new things especially with my fishing. The most important thing I have learned this year was to keep good records. Last year I started keeping records of the fish I caught, weather, depth and bait. This week showed how important that was. I had several days where I lost count of the number of fish we caught. All because of my previous records, I did not necessarily go back to the exact spots I caught fish, but rather similar areas working similar baits, and again it paid off. To the newer anglers’ record keeping is a must, and in time will help you catch more fish and become a better angler. |
Capt Tim Fey (Florida_bassin)
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The past two weeks has seen a lot of bass fishing action on both Johns Lake and Butler Chain. Johns Lake schooling action has been fairly consistent and bass have been caught with shiners in the cuts with relative ease. There have been a few days, doing combo trips, where the artificial bite has out produced the live bait, as Eric and Eddie saw, with 3 bass being caught in live bait, and another 11 bass coming on trick worms weighted and worked in and around scattered and isolated grass. Doug and the crew, fresh off the Daytona 500 had some good action catching some quality bass, with one of them coming from one of the coves, this bass not only took a shot a missed one shiner, but made a bulrush for a second one as we watched her dart along a grass bed after the bait, after landing her, she weighed in at a solid 4.9 pounds and was released to fight another day. Steel shad have also been producing some very good catches in open waters. Charlie fishing for some crappie, has caught some good crappie, but the memorable hook up, which turned into a serious battle on light action rod with only 6 pound mono and a road runner, landed a hefty catfish that wanted nothing to do with giving up, weighing in at 14 pounds. For the most part, the crappie bite has been very scattered on Johns Lake, but the ones caught have been of good quality.
Butler Chain is still producing some quality bass and some descent numbers as well. Eric and Eddie, fishing day two opted for all artificial bait, and the bass, although scattered played pretty good, as we hit lakes Pocket, Chase, and Louise to catch our bass. Once again trick worms, black with blue fleck, black with red fleck, and black Christmas catching 16 bass, with Eric catching the big gal from a school on a FinS to end the day. All trick worms as of late have been worked with a small bullet weight and crawled very slow, as the bass would just pick up the baits and slowly swim off, so watching your line was a big key. Most all bass were caught in waters between 4 to 16 feet with grass, lily pads or hydrilla very close by. Remember, Pic, Catch and release.
Capt Tim Fey
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Capt Kevin Przybyl (Kpsfishing)
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This was another crazy weather week again. The beginning of the week the weather was perfect and so was the fishing. I started off looking for bedding fish, but didn't have much luck. So I changed up and put on a carolina rig with a watermelon w/ red flake worm on and began fishing deeper water. That change paid off, we caught several three pound fish in less than an hour. I stuck with this most of the beginning of the week and continued to catch fish. Then the cold front came in, strong winds, and rain killed off my fishing for a few days. Friday it warmed up a little but did change the water temp to much. The fishing improved but not where it was at the beginning of the week. The weather is supposed to be great for the next week so my bet is the fishing will be too. If your interested in coming out to fish, check out my website at www.orlandotrophybass.com. |
Capt Tim Fey (Florida_bassin)
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Week ending Feb. 10th
The past week has seen a lot of trips out on Johns Lake. Stan and Carol came for some artificial action and caught some good bass working Steel Shads and Gitem Warlocks. Bite was slow and bass were very scattered on this day. The following day saw us back out on Johns Lake with Grant from Canada, working some live bait and artificial baits, Granted boated 5 bass on live bait, and 27 more bass were caught working Steel Shads, these bass were just hammering the Steel Shads with TWO bass slamming the bait at the same time. Schooling action remained steady pretty much the entire day to keep the action going.
Grant fishing day 2 of three days, we headed to Butler Chain, we find the bite to be very slow out here, picking up a bass here and there, with a nice 3 pounder as the big bass for the day. We experienced a complete change in weather, going from 80 degrees to a rather chilly morning and higher winds.
Grant on day 3, we headed to Alligator Chain, again with some serious fog, and higher winds, we worked for our catch, hitting a small cove, where in order to get in there, I had to trim the motor up, and push the boat in by hand, was the ticket, as several bass were caught in here, and a monster slamming the bait, ripping drag and snapping the line in a matter of seconds.
Overall a very good week of bass fishing, tons of bass beds were spotted on Johns Lake, Butler Chain and Alligator Chain, but all were vacant. Several bass were spotted cruising near beds on Butler Chain, but with only one bass making a play for our baits, but not committing to them. All bass were caught in 5 foot or less of water, with several being caught in less than 2 foot of water. The next 2 weeks will see us on the water with clients every day, so please be patient as I try to keep up with the reports.
Tight lines and be safe
Capt Tim Fey
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Capt Tim Fey (Florida_bassin)
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Today was supposed to be a 6 hour combo trip, shiners and artificial, but after waiting at Johns Lake for the bait store to open and 15 minutes late, we decided we didn’t need the live bait to catch the bass. Hitting our first spot for the day, and throwing a gold Steel Shad, the bass played as we expected. There was a definite difference in air temperature, much cooler than the day before, and winds blowing 15mph out of the north made for a very chilly morning, bass had pushed out to deeper waters but could not resist these steel shad. John came for some action and had a great time, catching several good slot sized bass. During the action, John managed to snag into a brush pile twice, working the lure free, he kept at it, and I hear “ I got it again” John said he was reeling in and it just stopped, thinking he had the pile once again, until the pile started pulling back, after a few minutes, the battle was over as a nice solid 5 pounder found her way into the net for some pictures and a very gentle release, as we could see she was loaded up with eggs.
We had fished four different areas on Johns Lake today, with three of them producing bass, all coming on the steel shads in gold and silver colors, with the silver steel shad also producing a nice 1 pound crappie. Water temperatures only fluctuated 2 degrees, starting the day at 61 and ending at 63.1. More bass beds were spotted with several bucks cruising around but staying a fair distance off the beds. Numbers and size have been steadily increasing out here, and we only expect it to get even better as the bass hit the beds.
Till my next report, tight lines and great fishing
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Today I had the great pleasure of having Bill, Dave and Mike out on Johns Lake for a 4 hour shiner trip. Water temperatures started out at 61 degrees and ended the day at 63.2 degrees. With a perfect overcast sky and a slight breeze on the water, this should have the bass feeding, and the bass did not let us down. First bass was over the side of the boat within 20 minutes, and the action stayed pretty steady the whole 4 hours. Several bass in the 1 ½ to 2 pound class along with a couple 3 pounders and a nice solid 5 pounder, that Bill caught early on in the day. Schooling action was pretty steady until the last 30 minutes. With Bill really doing some serious catching, he decided to sit and watch Dave and Mike finish off the last hour, with the guys bringing 25 bass over the side of the boat for the day. Most of the bass were caught out in open waters that held some type of structure, submerged grass, or around humps, slow trolling the shiners.
Till my next report, tight lines and great fishing!
Capt Tim Fey
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Capt Tim Fey (Florida_bassin)
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The last two weeks has seen a mix of trips, some bass fishing and a few crappie fishing trips. With all trips being done on Johns Lakes, with one day on Clermont Chain. Johns Lake had been a mixed bag of tricks, one day you were just slamming bass, and the next you had to work for them. Limited top water action and a lot of slow worming and flipping on the slower bite days. We did spot a bunch of beds scattered around on Johns Lake so it won’t be very long now before the big gals are caught, and released of course. Early morning action has come from Horseshoe cut and Deer Island cut, with some good schooling action going on. Once the schooling action stops, we spent a lot of time flipping grass beds with craws and Gitem K.O’s. The crappie bite has been doing good, with several crappie coming in at a pound and a half, and with a very brief cold front coming in this weekend the 19th and 20th, we fully expect the crappie bite to be good.
Clermont Chain we found water levels very low, especially in the canals, with our bass coming out of Emeralds Lakes Estate and Lake Susan, all flipping a Possum Craw made by Riverbottom Lures. Again we saw plenty of bass beds, but not even a buck in sight, with some stable temperatures next week we fully expect to see the action to really pick up out there. Water temperatures at Johns Lake and Clermont were both in the mid 60’s to start the day, with temperatures warming to near 70 by days end. In previous years I was not doing the crappie trips, but have decided to do trips this year, it was normally something I did on my own as a day of rest, but I am sure plenty of people will have a blast catching these slabs like we have the past 2 weeks. Till my next report, tight lines and great fishing!
Capt Tim Fey
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