I currently live in the Gainesville, FL area and am looking for any suggestions of some good spots to try in the area. Have done plenty of bass fishing down in South Florida where I'm originally from but since I've been at UF I've never really had a chance to do some fishing till now.

Any locations and tips to fishing those spots would be very helpful. Thanks!

Here's the guy to tell you what's in that area - Tell him I said howdy.

Dr. Mike Allen

http://fishweb.ifas.ufl.edu/Allen/Allen.htm

Orange lake has an Xtreme tournament series on it starting in Jan

http://www.xtremefishingseries.com

jeff,do you have a boat.if so pm me and i'll give you plenty of places to fish. if you dont have a boat let me know and we'll go wet a line sometime. i fish a couple times a week and am 30 mi. n. of g,ville.