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.
Snuck off work a little early (gotta love it when the bossman is out of town) and went out to one of the lakes in Summerbrooke. I know someone who lives on the lake and so I borrowed their John boat. I started out throwing a T-rigged plastic lizard and a Zoom fluke working the shoreline, but didn't have any luck. Moved off the shoreline about 30 yards and worked a deeper patch of water with an Orange Senko and immediatly caught one that went 5.2 lbs on the scale. I then moved into a small cove where the water was a little shallower (and warmer) and caught five more using the senko with the biggest of those weighing a little over 2 lbs. The bass weren't on the beds yet, but a few of the smaller bass (I'm assuming they were males) showed signs that they'd been fanning the beds as they had a few red sores on their tails.
As always, I forgot my camera, but I swear within the next few weeks I'll learn how to A) remember a camera and B) post pics.
All but one of the Bass I caught today where males The one female was about to bust a gut with eggs kept three for supper and picked up a Red also "several miles up the river" they are going on bed right now and the fishing should be killer for the next couple weeks