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Updated July 2 2009 To book a trip with Captain Joe or Captain Lynda
call our toll free number. Captain Joe reports, Water levels remain high and daily rain showers are sending run-off from fields and canals into the main lakes and rivers. The mouth of residential canals are producing schooling bass. Rising water levels have made the canals more accessible. Apopka-Beauclair canal is still producing big shell cracker and blue gill. Also look for bedding panfish around lily pads in coves and canals. Big catfish are moving into the Wekiva river to spawn. Fish the deep holes with nite-crawlers or medium domestic shiners. The bass will hold tight to heavy cover during the hot summer days. Flip or cast a rubber worm into grass or pads and slow down. Crappie have moved off the beds into open water. Don't worry you can still catch them by tight lining a drift rig in deeper water. I like the marked channel in Lake Monroe. Lake Harris has some very deep holes on the Yalaha side and the bridge is good at night. We now carry the Wally Marshall Signature Series Crappie pole's in 12 and 14 ft lengths. They are excellent for tight lining. Be sure to use a Ron's Zip Jig tipped with a minnow. Shell Cracker are on the beds in most area lakes. Fish any concentration of lily pads with red worms in canals and coves. Good spots on the Harris chain are the pads in 9th Street Canal on Lake Harris and Dead River. Also the canals on Little lake Harris and the pads near the Astatula ramp have been good. We now carry the Deep South line of Bass rods. Captain Joe and Captain Lynda use them exclusively in their guide service trips. These rod are very light and sensitive and we highly recommend them.
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CAPTAIN LYNDA HAWKINS GUIDE SERVICE REPORT BASS'N GAL GUIDE SERVICE Cell phone 352-267-0062 Toll Free 1-866-383-1893 Captain Lynda reports fishing has been great. Dr. Eric Helms and his in-laws caught and released several nice bass while fishing with Captain Lynda on a private lake. Keith Poche was here from Alabama pre-fishing for the BASSMASTERS tourney and Lynda showed him some of her favorite spots. He came in 22nd out of a field of 200. He was also pretty happy. George Williams caught several big specks out of Lake Monroe using pink Zip Jigs and gold Ice Jigs tipped with minnows. They were tight-lining. We hope that George’s wife is on a fast recovery from her broken arm so that she can show him how to catch those huge specks. On another crappie trip on the Harris Chain, Jerry Caya and party caught enough keepers for a fish fry. Gary Walkley bought his wife, Michelle a crappie trip for Christmas and they went this past week on Lake Monroe and had a ball. Specks are really hot this season and several of her trips have produced some nice ones. The Harris Chain is still producing specks slow trolling in 3 to 5 feet of water around Johnson’s Point, Helena Run and Hickory Point. Lake Griffin is also producing some good ones as well. Night fishing under the Howey Bridge is also giving up big ones. Silver, pink, blue, gold or a pink and chartreuse Ron’s Zip jig tipped with minnows are working. Also a Shorty’s Ice Jig in the same colors is picking up some huge specks. Lake Monroe is just full of big specks this year. The mouth of most of your canals on the Harris Chain is giving up some pretty nice bass using a Rat-L-Trap, topwater baits or a swimming type weightless worm. They are also on the beds and can be caught using wild shiners, or flipping a small plastic bait on the bed but remember to release them. A Culprit Pro-Frog, flipping with a Bass Assassin June bug blue tailed worm and wild shiners are all producing some nice bass. A lot of the local small lakes are hot right now. Fishing a wild shiner on a freeline (without a bobber or weight) is still producing some of the bigger fish. A Rat-L-trap (chrome blue, chrome green or gold} has also produced some nice bass for my customers. A slow falling sinking weightless worm (Producto’s Hot Rod works great) or a white and chartreuse Stanley spinner bait reeled in as slowly as possible, are both working quite well. Be sure to lift up on your rod tip occasionally to make the spinner bait look as natural as possible. A Producto watermelon, Junebug or redbug Hot Rod worm is a good bait to be throwing right now. If you think you are fishing too slow, slow down even more. This bait can produce some huge bass but it has to be worked very slowly. Lake Dora, Lake Harris, Lakes Cypress, Toho and Lake Hatchineha are still giving up some nice bass on wild shiners and flipping the heavy Kissimmee Grass. Be sure to try a frog or toad, cranking them fast (first thing in the morning or all day if it is overcast), over lily pads, topped out hydrilla and along weed lines for largemouth bass. Captain Lynda is now fishing some private lakes as well as Central Florida major lakes and rivers. For the fishing trip you’ve dreamed of, give Captain Lynda a call at (toll free) 1-866-383-1893, or cell number 352-267-0062. Check out Captain Lynda's web site
Stop in at Sorrento Bait and Tackle to view the 15.2 pound lunker bass replica mount done by taxidermist Paul Solomon of Winter Garden. This bass was caught by Captain Lynda and released so others could enjoy the thrill. For the fishing trip you’ve dreamed of, give Captain Lynda a call at
(toll free) 1-866-383-0193, cell number 352-267-0062.
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