Fishing
Report by Captain Tim Fey
Submitted 06/11/08
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.
Captain Tim Fey
BassFishingFl.com
321-303-9207
Your Florida Bass Fishing Connection
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