Private
Lake, Johns Lake and the Butler Chain of Lakes
Fishing
Report by Captain Tim Fey
October
2009 Report - November Outlook
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
Owner/Guide
321-303-9207
http://www.bassfishingfl.com
Pro Staff Member
http://www.deepsouthfishingrods.com
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