This report is for the past two day's which were artificial trips. Most of the
fish have finished spawning here on the St Johns River in the Central Area.
I am still seeing a few fish on beds but the major spawn is over.Which means
that the big females are ready to eat.
I had a great time guiding one of my regular clients Tony J on Friday and
Tony and I did find a couple Females still on beds later in the morning.
Tony had never sight fished for spawning Bass so it was fun to teach
a fisherman a few new tricks.We found the first fish in about 2 ft of water
and she was as hot as a spawning fish gets.I anchored the boat 10 ft from
the bed and got Tony in position to see the fish and directed him on where
the little hot spot was at.It only took three cast to the hot spot and Tony
had her hooked up and over the side of the boat came a fat 5 pounder.
The second bed we found with a fish on it was as easy as it gets as Tony
put the tube on the hot spot and caught this fish on the second pitch
this was another fat 3 pounder.The first part of the morning was cloudy
which called for some long cast to scattered pads with a swim bait
and this pattern produced about 7 nice fish to 5 pounds.
Today I had a couple great guy's from Maryland and they were after the big fish
on artificial baits.We were greeted with lite rain and 30 MPH SW winds
along with heavy cloud cover.We started the morning off casting Buzz Baits
around larger pad fields and this produced three fish to 3 pounds.After a couple hrs fishing the buzz baits the guys switched it up and started throwing a swim bait
around the scattered pads and action was a little better with a few misses
and a few fish caught including a SKINNY 9 pounder caught by Mike.
This fish had a hard spawn as she was really beat up and thin.
The next few hrs was slow with a few fish caught on spinner baits
and Brian lost the fish of a lifetime that crushed his spinner bait on the edge of
the pads then jumped and came unbuttoned.
A total of ten fish to 9 pounds were caught which was not bad for the weather conditions we had to deal with all day.
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