N Florida Mike

Julington creek plantation has dozens of stocked ponds.Its in NW St John's CT.About 1/2 hour from St Augustine. Although it's semi- private, there are plenty of common areas you can bank fish.Ive fished it for years and never had anyone say anything.Just use some common sense- don't go in people's yards.

My daughter and boyfriend are losing their house in a month....I won't tolerate them moving in.Several reasons.I have a feeling my wife doesn't feel the same way.....

I remember it like it was yesterday.I had gone to drop off some equipment in a neighboring county.On the way back I stopped to get a coffee for the ride back.At the store it was on the TV.The first tower had been hit.I thought that was strange and how did a pilot mess up and hit a tower like that when its so obvious. I drove back into the outskirts of town and stopped to pick up something for the boss.Right after I walked in and was talking about it with the girl worker,we watched the 2nd one hit live.Then we realized what had really happened and I got real mad and wanted to go join up but I was too old. I decided on that day terrorism will not control my life.Im not going to change what I do or my beliefs because of it.

I caught one almost 4 out there on a 5 inch senko,along with 8 other fish one day last spring.Took a friend on July 2nd and we only caught 3 small fish in several hours using all kinds of baits.I heard of a 10 being caught there.

Hey,Thanks for sharing.I had to watch all of them.Lol.

Try skipping under docks from late morning on.Deeper docks that are low in the water are best.Most docks like this consistently hold fish.They will bite a variety of soft plastic baits. Another pattern is fishing a deep hole very slowly with a large worm. And I fish with live bait more in the summer.Shiners or bluegills.Hook em through both lips.Use as small of a hook as you can,so the baits action won't be reduced.I generally won't use a cork in most of the places I fish. I know some people think it's less than sporting to use live bait but if you release the fish,what difference does it make? And even if you don't release it,its OK so long as no laws are broken and you don't get too greedy.

welcome! For carp I bait an area with bread balls and corn.I use a small but strong hook and make a medium to large size bread ball .No cork.Make sure drag is set good.My grandson had one break 25 pound mono!

Carp do well on some weeds.They love niad,which is real common in Florida .They don't like eel grass though.We stocked them in my home lake.They eat like crazy .I snagged a 23 pounder about a year after we put them in at 1 pound or so.I t gained 22 pounds in 1 year!! I don't know the SC laws for them,but in Florida a biologist must approve them for a lake and they have to be sure there's no outlet where they could escape.

Salty Fishinhole same as my wife.Not too appropriate on either one.

I took a friend's daughter fishing once in my bass boat.We launched and got the motor cranked.We were heading down a canal to a lake and she asked me " Why is there all this water in the boat?"I had forgot to put the plug in.The boat was already pretty full so I turned around and got back to the ramp area in time to keep her feet dry and get bailed out.Dont think she told her mama!I know I didn't!?

I also once wade- fished a bass tournament in gator infested waters.No, I didn't win.But didn't have to wrestle with wally either. And sofla,My son is the big saltwater man in the family ( He does commercial and recreational fishing)He is also good at bass fishing but I can tell he just doesn't get why I love bass fishing so much .He would much rather be saltwater fishing.I love doing it too,esp.inshore,but if I could only do 1 kind of fishing it would be bass.Cant explain it but that's it.

No ice fishing ?

I waited 4 hours one time in the truck with MY WIFE,waiting for it to quit storming so we could fish. Top that!!?

Go Gators.# 1 in the east!!!

I caught a big prawn shrimp once on a little piece of dead shrimp.I must have snagged it because I didn't see a mouth ? on it. I also watched a 4 pound bass try to swallow a one pounder I was reeling in .He hung on for a few seconds and let go.

There's a pond I know that's stocked,which is across the road from another,bigger pond that's also stocked.10 years ago or so ago they drained the bigger pond and put most of the fish in the smaller pond.( I was told this by the game warden that lives there on site.) Anyway,if you didn't know better you would think there is no bass in it.My son and me caught a few one day.I had a fish break my line one day.Other than that,nothing.I put my boat in last winter and fished very slowly around the whole thing without anything but one tap from a bream.Not a swirl,no sign of anything.But I believe there must be some huge,old fish in there.Live bait may be the best solution . The water is fairly murky in both the ponds ,which is in contrast with most of the other lakes around here.The fishing in the bigger pond is always slow too,but you usually catch 2-3 in a few hours at least.These ponds are one of the few around that are actually managed by the state experts but the bass fishing there has always been probably the worse of any I fish.Its mysteriously slow.Its also the one place I fish that gives me the creeps.Im always looking over my shoulder there.

Got out at daybreak today on my lake.Tried the frog for a little while at the first hotspot down the lake.Nothing there.So I fished the big eel grass bed going down the lake.Picked off a couple on trick worms.Got down to the island and got a 2.15 on the trick worm,and one on a black grape culprit worm.Got to the next hotspot past the island and got a couple on flukes.Fished east along the south shoreline inside an eel grass bed with nothing for awhile,then they began clobbering the 4 inch senkos in watermelon seed. in the eel grass and skipping under docks.Then drifted west across the middle of the lake and got another one on the trick worm.Tried a chartreuse swim bait across the deep hole with no results.Lost a big fish on the 5 inch senko when he pulled me off in an eel grass bed. Then I fished the other side of the island fishing back toward home.Nothing much for an hour or so.Then I got a 3.3 in the same area were my pb was caught years ago.The rest of the morning I skipped senkos and z- hogs under docks on the way home.Got a 2.14 under one of my favorite docks,which has a pontoon boat there also.Also caught the dink of the year which was maybe 4 inches, for my last fish of the day. The fish haven't bit this good since may.Caught 22 overall.Only a few dinks.Most were caught under docks.Best 5 fish totaled app.13 pounds. Here are the best fish.Y you may need to scroll way down to see them.I was trying to eliminate my owl post that got on here somehow.I can fish pretty good but technology not so much. Mike

lol that's how I feel about bass pro shops!

lol.Doing that right now. ( The early thing )?

Went to Academy sports last night to get them and they didn't have any.Web site says they carry them. So I settled for more senkos and a pack of ribbett frogs.

I usually use the June bug horny toads esp in low light conditions.Ive caught a few on two old top water frogs that I've had for so long I've forgotten who made them.They are green.

Mine was on an Olympic rod and spinning reel( ever hear of that?)and 12 pound stren. A fishing buddy broke the rod when he said"Is this an ugly stick?And he bent the rod to touch tip to butt.SNAP!!

what color(s) would be best for fairly clear water with the pad crasher?

I have been an occasional frog user but I now have 2 nice froggin rigs.so I'm doing it more.I plan to use one for slow topwater,and the other for cast and retrieve.What I'm looking for in a frog: 1. Must be as weedless as possible. 2.Must have good casting distance 3.Must have a good hook-up up ratio. 4.Must be liked by the fish.! I realize there will probably be one for each application. I use zoom horny toads for cast and retrieve.They get me a few fish.Theyre the one I have some success with at least. Thanks,Mike

Cool.Never seen this before.A girlfriend and me both caught the same bream once.He ate both baits within a few seconds.