Hey all,

 

I'm new to the state of Florida's fine bass fishing. I normally do my fishing in NJ. 

 

I was looking if anyone could send me in the right direction as far as fishing from the bank for bass. I've had some success at my grandmothers house (lives on a canal), even pulling out one or two 6 lbers. I was looking to head down to the holeylands (I believe that is what they're called).

 

Anyone have any advice and or suggestions for exact areas? It looks like there has to be 100's of miles of canals in there!

 

 

Thanks for your time

 

--Andrew

I'm not sure what part of FL you from but I'm from Jacksonville. I just moved here from NJ about a year ago and ironically my name is Andrew.

But if u fished a lot in NJ like I did I was from Monmouth county the fishing here in FL is 100% better like night and day.

Rat l traps or similar bait. 

Cross one off the bucket list. Friday I get to fish a lake in Kissemmee... A dream come true! Will be fishing mostly stick baits (my confidence bait). and will be bank fishing. Walked part of the lake today. Lay down logs, pads, grass, isolated timber and open water... oh my. Everything looks good. What should I concentrate on? Thanks.

Sorry, should have posted in central FL bass fishing.

Hey all,

 

I'm new to the state of Florida's fine bass fishing. I normally do my fishing in NJ. 

 

I was looking if anyone could send me in the right direction as far as fishing from the bank for bass. I've had some success at my grandmothers house (lives on a canal), even pulling out one or two 6 lbers. I was looking to head down to the holeylands (I believe that is what they're called).

 

Anyone have any advice and or suggestions for exact areas? It looks like there has to be 100's of miles of canals in there!

 

 

Thanks for your time

 

--Andrew

 

What town? Maybe I can help if you're near me :-)

Cross one off the bucket list. Friday I get to fish a lake in Kissemmee... A dream come true! Will be fishing mostly stick baits (my confidence bait). and will be bank fishing. Walked part of the lake today. Lay down logs, pads, grass, isolated timber and open water... oh my. Everything looks good. What should I concentrate on? Thanks.

From my experience I would say it depends on the weather that day. How sunny it is, cloud cover, etc. A good app u can download is called bassmaster powered by scout look. Also keep an eye on barometric pressure, dropping pressure results in better fishing. With that being said it all depends but if its real sunny with clear skies, fish heavy cover, get your stick baits under those mats and grass. If you got good cloud cover than anything can work, the fish will be more active, try the edges of structure and grass mats. That's my 2 cents. Good luck!

It's seasonal here, don't limit yourself to one species.

Thanks for the help.  Deeper water grass produced the best for stickbaits.  Those FL bass sure look different then our nothern ones. 

 

Also taught a guy and his son from North Wales who were using live worms, and who only fly fishes over there, the benefits of artificals for bass.  He was going to head over to Walmart the next day to stock up on hooks and stickbaits.