Lock 7 Fishing report 3-15-2011

Well I fished Lock 7 today with my friend Charles. I launched my Jon Boat at 7:30 am with a slightly clear sky and very soft breeze. I headed down government cut to get to our fishing pier. I started fishing across from the pier in some shallow water cuts with pencil grass, bull rush, eel grass and kissimmee grass along with dead tree bushs. This was the perfect spot to fish. It had every kind of cover you could think of. It was anywhere from 6" to 2' foot of water in that area. I spotted about 15 different beds in the area. Some of which were tilapia beds mixed with bass beds. I started throwing a spinnerbait with no luck so i began throwing my swimbait. I was using bitter's baits Naked Swimmer 4.5" swimbaits. I was using 4 different colors patterns ( Native Shiner, Mardi Gras, Bluegill Shad and Junebug ). I caught 7 bass in that area ranging from 10" to 16" . I was hooked up on 6 that got off before getting them into the boat.

   After a few hours I moved to an open water area with a large eel grass flat mixed with Hydrilla and bullrush. This is a well known bass bedding area. About 2 weeks back my wife caught some nice bass in this area which included a 6lbr and two 5lbrs. I switched over to a Junebug color Zoom Horny Toad. I was able to pull out a nice 3lbr about 5 feet from the boat. After a few there was a breeze starting to roll in from the SW. I switched over to my spinnerbait agian. I hooked into some nice ones but was unable to bring them in. It was not a bad day of fishing for my 4 hour trip. I am working on my video for youtube that shows todays fishing trip.

Weather Conditions 3-09-2011

Well the sun is shining and the Temp is around 80' but the wind is blowing hard at 15-25 mph with gusts reaching 30 mph from the ESE. we are in prefront conditions right now. Tomorrow a cool front is going to be pushing through with rain storms. the temp will drop a few degrees in the afternoon and be a little chilly around the mid 50' during the night. This wind is going to have the bass pushed up in the bull rush and other structure looking for the bait fish. good luck and tight lines.

Lock 7 Report 3-08-2011

Today was a really slow day on the water. I started the day about 6:30 am. There was a slight wind at about 5-10 mph. The water temp was at 71.3 and cloudy. At times it was overcast. They were biting on topwater frogs over the eelgrass and hydrila and i was throwing flourescent spinnerbaits with a trailor.