Florida guys, if you can deal with the morbid heat, Orange Lake is your best chance for double-digit pigs RIGHT NOW!  Fished it yesterday with a friend during a tourney that we weren't a part of.  We were on the water from 6:30 to about 1 or so, and saw a 13, a 10, and I myself almost caught a hefty mama that threw my spinnerbait at me mere inches from my outstretched hand boatside :-[.  Aside from hawgs, good numbers of quality fish all around.  Good topwater bite until about 10 AM.  All of my good fish came on topwater and spinnerbait.  Be prepared to sift through a lot of pickerel!  They're as thick as the hydrilla. 

it is insane right now. there was a 53 pound bag there last week. its taking over 30 to win most tournys in orange and lockloosa(most of them go throught he creek). the water is dropping a little but muy grandad went yesterday and never left the canal where the boat ramp is and had 20 pounds and no he was not flipping although most people are.

I spent maybe 30 minutes flipping and missed 3 fish.  Most of the day I threw a Rage Toad and a chartreuse sexy shad spinnerbait, which is my new go-to, by the way.  You can just seemingly catch fish at will there right now.  I've never seen anything like it!

Glad to her both lakes doing so good! haven't been on either in years but have caught some hefty fish there. Anything going on in lake Sante Fe?

sante fe is horrible.

here is the story of last weekends extreme on orange.

Ran . Division on Orange sunday. Had 15 boats. Had waviers because of slot limit but they were only allowed to bring 2 fish 22 or over to scale. 5 fish limit min 14. Winning weight was 34.05. Said they had to throw back 2 or 3 that were too long. 2nd was 30.00 with a 10.07. 3rd was 28.55 before penalty for 4 dead fish, one was 10.14. Official weight was 26.55. He tried his best to keep them alive but live wells in his gambler acted up. 6th place was 22.28 with the big fish of tx at 10.82. There were 3 over ten and at least 4 or 5 over 9 weighed in. 10 out of 15 boats weighed in a limit. I personally didnt fish tx but did put boat in water and was off by 8:30. in the two hours i did fish caught 2 eight pound mud fish and one bass that was 17 1/2 inches. one mud had dh crosswise in his mouth and only the line tie was showing. the other had a buzzbait that was about 9 inches long all the way down his gullet. Did get it back but not the dh. As everyone knows Orange is on fire right now. Saw Peter T there and was told Terry Scroggins and Bernie Schultz(sp)were out there also. Seems everyone wants in on the action. As long as they dont take them out or kill them guess its ok. but those bass have to have seem most everything by now. That parking lot is full all week anymore.

Are you guys talking about the Orange Lake near Ocala?

yep

im headed over sunday

Wish I could this weekend.  I'll be there and Santa Fe the 14th and 15th. 

Hey etommy28

Let us know if the bite is still on.  I can't try it until next week.  I've never been there--where is a good launch?