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Orlando, FL - Lake Toho, Clermont Chain & The Kissimmee Chain
Capt. Tim Fey
May 8, 2006
Orlando - Freshwater Fishing Report
John's Lake
May 3rd
Today we did some more scouting on Johns Lake for future trips we have coming up that will be done out there. One of the greatest parts of our job is to have the ability to be able to scout and fish several lakes. This lake is unlike most Florida lakes as this lake has some very clean waters, great shad population, and some very hard fighting bass. The cleaner waters combined with the great shad population, excellent grass beds and scattered timber make for some great bass fishing action.
Lures of choice today consisted of a wide variety of lures, Rattle Traps, Spooks, rattling spinnerbaits, Gitem KO’s, Gitem Toads, and Gitem Shads.
Morning bite started out with what was some excellent schooling activity in the cut on Johns Lake and once that slowed to a crawl, we had moved into Clear Lake. Working the undeveloped side of Clear Lake, we saw a ton of bait fish and had some good action with the bucks coming out to play. As the sun got up and really started to cook, the bite slowed and the pattern of choice was positioning the boat in the middle of long scattered grass beds and slow trolling thru, tossing Gitem Shads with a small screw in bullet weight, and tossing it to the edges and into potholes in the beds. Several good solid bass fell to this pattern and made for a very successful scouting trip.
Tomorrow we are back it at one last day before hitting the trips again, so we will be targeting the Horseshoe area as well as the Black Lake area of Johns Lake.
May 4th
Today as planned we started the day out in the main cut working swim baits from storm, 3 inch curltail in Pearl color and worked the deeper waters around the cut. Catching a few good school sized bass we moved on over to the Horse Shoe area and worked the mouth in the same manner, tossing around swim baits, which was the definite bait of choice. Moving along the shoreline we were working Gitem Shad and Warlocks and managed a few more good school sized bass. From there we headed to the extreme west side of John’s Lake known as Clear Lake. This area has some of the best looking waters out there and tossing around white spinner baits was the definite way to go here.
May 5th
Back out on John’s Lake yet again, the bite had dramatically slowed down as the normal schooling bass did not make their appearance in the morning as they have been, We made the move over to the horse shoe area once again picking up one good bass off a spinner baits before making the move to the west side of the main lake. Here we were tossing chatter baits in Chartreuse color picking up a few more slot sized bass. Weather played a big factor as a front was starting to move in on us, giving us calm breeze one minute and a good stiff wind the next. Bait of choice was definitely chatter baits and small spinner baits.
Till my next report, tight lines and great fishing!!!
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