Chris Lockwood

Find a good spot for catching bait, buy a cast net, not to big because its imposible to learn on. So get a 3-4 foot radius cast net at walmart for between 20-30 bucks. I am sure you can find a site that teaches you.

I have never bass fished any where other then Florida. I grew up here, and have been fishing it for 15 out of 19 years of my life. I still have plenty of sucess though, but this might be because I am used to fishing here. St. George and the St. Johns is a tough place. You could go weeks with out catching fish if you haven't fished there before. Many of the people who do have a huge success there have been fishing it for decades. All good bass fisherman should understand that sometimes it takes patience. Dream Florida trips shouldn't always be on the big waterways though, I find the smaller lakes the best place to catch a nice lunker, and there are plenty of them in each lake. Basically every pond/lake in florida that hasn't dried up in the past decade holds a 10 plus bass. This past summer I fished a small pond on a golf course, which has plenty of those trophy fish. I pulled 5 or 6 ten pounders out of this pond.

A true fisherman strives from stories of fishing, not by eating or making a prize of a fish.

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When will you be in Orlando, cause I am also a college student and I just got a 10 foot jon boat for christmas. I know of a few some lakes that I have fished in the winter with my boat, but cant wait for the spring.