johnfl

Do you know much about the Tsala apopka chain? And do you have a boat?

My parents are renting on the Tsala apopka chain south. And I am trying to do research before my trip for turkey day. You been out fishin lately ?

Hello there everyone! Alright I have some questions on the Tsala apopka chain in Inverness Fl. My parents have a place on Tsala apopka south and we have our boat in the water waiting for me to come back up. I am wondering how these lakes fish? Is it similar to fishing in the Everglades? Same baits etc? What is the forage base? And any tips would be awesome. I’m heading up for turkey day and will be hittin the lake hard. Any info would be amazing thanks so much

I lived up north vilas and Oneida county for many years and have a family resort up north. It's gods country up there! I fell in love with fishing and hunting when I moved there when I was young. Caught tons of fish. Best place on earth. I currently live in south Florida and dream of moving back everyday

You probably could have dragged a football jig and got some big girls to bite. I'm from that area and free up fishing a bunch of vilas lakes. It's amazing up north. I currently love in fl and I dream of the day I could move back. Anyhow that seems like a great day on the water good job.

I've had great results using this bait. I live in south Florida and went out early Sunday and started throwing the shadow rap deep and every cast I had a fish, caught some biggins. Lots of schoolies had a double. Ended the day with 37 bass boated In 3 hrs. What a day fishing this bait for the first time. I highly recommend the deep version didn't tie the shallow on but I'm sure it will perform with the right conditions

I've had a really great experience with the splash it casts so well even In the wind with 17lb mono. I've caught quite a few biggins down here in Florida on the splash. In my opinion I think it's one of the best pop'r style top water out.

I've used braid for a bunch of different applications but t rigging isn't one of them I did however t rig with heavy weds up north with great success but I usually did a lot of work with weedless grass jigs and braid since I made my own jigs and used them up in Wisconsin in the sense coontail. What did you mean by by bars 4" apart from the worm meaning marking the line with a marker?

I've heard a lot about using it when punching because it sinks rather than floating. I've been using tuf line for a long time and have been super Impressed. Just haven't tried the hevi core.

I am considering changing out my worm rod from 14lb fluorocarbon to maybe 20lb tuf line hevi core line. I live down In south Florida and am stuck throwing the bank's i fish patched of hydrilla which is somewhat thick but then the water clarity is gin clear thinking I may need a leader of fluorocarbon. I like braid for other stuff but haven't used it for wormin. The question is should I go for it?

But you can use your braid with a mono leader of about 4' if the water is gin clear I may switch to mono like previously stated.

Are you talking about presqueisle Wisconsin? Pm me for more info if so.

I've always used a toothpick through the eye of the hook push in snug and clip the toothpick at both ends and solves the problem of sliding down the shank and tearing as much. Been using this since 1995 works great