Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday were slow, to say the least. Besides Jamie catching a 2’ gator on a swimbait and me hitting a 9’-10’ gator with my boat, there really wasn’t much to talk about. Little tip: if you ever bring your boat down to FL to go fishing, gators like to use the boat trails through the cattails on Lake Okeechobee… Don’t run through these areas fast if you don’t want to hit one).
Thursday… Despite being humbled for three days straight Jamie and I took a crack at Lake Huntly. I’ve tried to fish this lake before and I got lost trying to find the boat ramp, but we were able to find it this time. Huntly is a clear lake with a max depth around 15’ and has a pile of hydrilla that grows all over the lake. We started the day by fishing the shallow weeds and docks but didn’t have a whole lot of success, so we backed out to about 10’. The hydrilla was still really thick in the deeper water, but it only grew up 6’ off the bottom. A lot of the time when you find areas like this bass will position themselves in underwater pockets near the tops of the weeds and watch for prey to go by above them. Actually, I’ve found that bass do this a lot in Minnesota and Wisconsin in lakes that have a lot of milfoil. We did really well throwing crankbaits, jerkbaits, swimbaits, and wacky worms over top of the weeds (also, topwater lures are a great thing to throw in these situations, but we didn’t throw any because it was a little windy). This is a good way to trigger bites without having to break out the heavy line and get right down in the nasty stuff. Another reason why I like fishing this way, is that it allows you to fish a little faster and cover more water while still fishing effectively. We were fishing with a lot of exposed hooks so we would try to run our baits as close to the weed tops as possible without getting caught up in them. We did pretty decent on numbers and the quality of fish we caught were a lot better then the previous days.
After a few hours we loaded up the boat and headed over to Lake June to close out the day. Jamie ended up whacking a 4lber under a dock on a senko the first 30min we were there. It was pretty cool because we could actually see the bass sitting under a dock. Jamie made a great skip-cast under the dock and the fish nailed it. A little while later I caught a 7.6lber on a swimbait in the kissimmee grass. Lake June is Awesome! I’m pretty sure most of my time left here in FL will be spent on June. It’s kind of silly to think about going somewhere else when (in one month) I’ve caught the two biggest fish of my life on that lake.
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