Captain Lynda reports fishing has been great. For the past 2 weeks she and Joe have been catching some beautiful specks out of Lake Monroe and the St. John’s River using a pink, a blue or a red Ron’s Zip jig tipped with small minnows on a drift rig. They seem to be concentrated in 6 to 9 feet of water and are being caught right at the drop offs and are moving in to bed.

A Culprit Pro-Frog and flipping with a Bass Assassin June bug blue tailed worm are both producing some nice bass. A lot of the local small lakes are producing some bass. Fishing a wild shiner on a free line (without a bobber or weight) is still producing some huge 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 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. The St. John’s River around Crow’s Bluff is a great place to fish a Producto watermelon, Junebug or redbug Hot Rod worm. 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.