I am from WV and fish our small mountain lakes. I run a 2007 Triton Aluminum 17ft with a 50 HP Mercury 2-stroke which fits me perfect up here as most of our lakes are 2000 acres or less. I'd love to bring it down to FL and stay with family and fish Kissimmee Lake or any of the other chain of lakes to go after some Florida strain bass. We can catch numbers up here its just that our bass don't grow year round like they do there so a 3lb bass is really a big bass here. I wanna come down there and give it at a go at some true big bass. Is my boat sufficient to fish out of on a lake like Kissimmee? Looking for honest answers here. I know a 20,000+ acre lake would swallow a small 2000 acre lake like what we have up here.

I haven’t fished Kissimmee in many years. Used to fish it often and you should have no problems. Just watch the storms. Fortunately on Kissimmee you can see them coming pretty far off. If it looks bad, fish closer to the ramp and see if it passes.