Anyone fish the clermont chain on the regular? Me and a friend fished Mineola Sunday from 8-3 and caught 3 total fish, tough day. Water viz ranged from about 1-4 foot visibility, light winds, weather was nice though, recreational traffic was actually fairly light. My only catch was on a berkley frittside 5 jr crank, missed a few others with it, and also missed a massive blowup skimming a swimjig over some emergent grass. My buddy got 2 on a senko, one was a chunky 4 pounder. Could use a little direction, we're headed back this weekend.

Haven’t fished Clermont chain in decades. Used to fish it quite a bit back then. Had one tournament in the summer and a guy caught a 12.5 throwing a worm to the base of the cypress trees in lake Louisa. 

Put in another 8 hours on Minneloa and Minnehaha this last Sunday, she’s being real stingy, I caught 2, partner skunked. My first came a shakey head, second came on a weightless trick worm. Partners only strike came on a frog.

 

Water’s high and on the clear side with about 3-4 feet of visibility, dark tannic colored. Light winds and high temp was 90 with high humidity. Kind of miserable but it sure beats working!

try a speed worm? 

On 10/1/2024 at 4:29 AM, Sethshaun said:

try a speed worm? 

My partner is pretty good with a speed worm, I never could gain any confidence in it. He doesn't seem to swim it like most do. Got any tips?

it's good lure. it goes anywhere and it has vibration and it's not scary. 

 

I use the smaller one not the magnum. all the normal stuff. flip it in the grass. drag it on the bottom. hop it, swim it and twitch it   keep moving until you find a dumb one because you know they're looking at it. sometimes I let it sit on the bottom for 20 seconds in a good spot. I buy those super cheap teeny tiny glass rattles off Amazon and smoosh them in there

 

 or switch to a neko rig it's good for covering lots of water and its a vertical presentation if they don't want the swimming thing

 

Headed to Crooked Lake Sunday, any tips?

I’m in swfl. Anyone around here?

Are you on FB? There is a group called SWFL Fishing. 

On 10/19/2024 at 4:46 PM, woolleyfooley said:

I’m in swfl. Anyone around here?

👋

 

 

 

On 10/18/2024 at 6:09 PM, Bass Rutten said:

Headed to Crooked Lake Sunday, any tips?

Crooked, Grassy, Placid and to some degree even the best of them all Istopoka, fish pretty much the same. 
 

At a tournament on Istopoka Saturday we found beds scattered in submerged hydrilla which is the best of signs 

 

I haven’t fished Grassy in years but remember always going out with a decent bag. 
 

Prop baits and frogs early through scattered reeds clumps, spinnerbaits only with a light water chop, weightless stick baits pitched into pad fields mid morning to late afternoon, and for me a Magnum UV Speed Worm anytime anywhere 
 

 

 

Mike

10 hours ago, Don51 said:

Are you on FB? There is a group called SWFL Fishing. 

Nope, no Facebook for me.

10 hours ago, Mike L said:

👋

 

 

 

Crooked, Grassy, Placid and to some degree even the best of them all Istopoka, fish pretty much the same. 
 

At a tournament on Istopoka Saturday we found beds scattered in submerged hydrilla which is the best of signs 

 

I haven’t fished Grassy in years but remember always going out with a decent bag. 
 

Prop baits and frogs early through scattered reeds clumps, spinnerbaits only with a light water chop, weightless stick baits pitched into pad fields mid morning to late afternoon, and for me a Magnum UV Speed Worm anytime anywhere 
 

 

 

Mike

Cool! Hey there! 👋 

Fished Crooked yesterday 8-4pm, we caught about 15 total fish, most being around 1.5lb, biggest being around 2.25 lbs. Caught a few in the morning right away on lipless, but most all the rest of my fish were caught flickshaking small worms, partner pulled in his share speedwormin’. Fished lots of dead water, then found them stacked up in small stretches.

On 10/19/2024 at 4:46 PM, woolleyfooley said:

I’m in swfl. Anyone around here?

I'm east of Tampa.