dave_w

Harris - 02-03-08 Water temp 61-64.5 Launched at Hickory Point. For the most part, we limited ourselves to flipping worms in the Kissimmee grass. One keeper, several misses, & one break-off. Had a 6+ lbr come up by the boat while I was re-rigging and nearly sent me into a conniption.

Good job Lee! Fog was nice, huh?

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I launched at 6:30am at Hickory point. There was only one other boat there. I broke a shift cable so wasn't able to fish much; we tried the general area around the ramp but didn't pick up anything.

Well, how'd you do? I saw someone iwth an 18' or 19' fish and ski trolling down the canal Sunday. Looked like they were having a hard time....

I don't know how deep the canal is currently, as I haven't been able to get through the silt to get to it in nearly a year. I have heard Bass boats running in the main canal on weekends though.

You have to manuever around the buoys and stay on plane when entering the A/B canal. The buoys are marking the sediment deposits, you shoud be fine if you stay on plane. Don't even attempt going down the first residential canal, it is impassable for the first 200 yards or so.

I live on one of the residential canals off the Apopka Beuclair canal, for those of you who know/have fished this area, I am sure you will agree that they are very productive Bass/Panfish waters. However, the canals have been slowly filled in with sediment from Lake Apopka to the point that I haven't seen a boat go through since around Feb. of this year. After a great deal of effort by a number of concerned anglers, homeowners, etc. people are finally taking notice of the condition of the canals. Here is a newly formed website that illustrates the improvements that are in process/planned for the A-B canal system. http://therowwebsite.com/index.htm