A unique website dedicated to fishing information from Florida's Northern Big Bend. This includes the area from the Econfina River west to the Apalachicola River
Use this area to post freshwater fishing reports from the area lakes and rivers. Please try to include relevant information such as:
Location, date, time, water conditions, weather conditions, baits, techniques, species caught, etc.
I went out to my favorite fishing hole, Lake Monkey Business, for a few hours yesterday morning. The last time I fished there, two weeks ago, the water temperature was 82 degrees. Yesterday, it was 89. That's a big jump in a fortnight.
I caught six bass from just-barely-bigger-than-the-plug up to about four pounds. Schools of shad were roaming all over the section of the lake by the dam, but I never saw any bass hitting them.
I caught a couple of small fish on a spinner bait right after daylight in shallow water. Once the sun got up I cast a RatlTrap along the creek channel where it seemed that a lot of fish were suspended.
The four pound fish came on a Junebug Gitem Big Flapper. She came off a spot by the dam where the water goes from 2 feet to about 8 feet deep. This shallow water close to deep water location has been a big producer.
