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    Once you decide on a where you wish to start. let me know either on site or through
    pm and i will try and help you all i can.
    As the guys have stated you are in an excellant area for several types of fishing.........
    and look to have the equipment to handle it.............

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    Yes speckled perch in the cooler months.
    Quote Originally Posted by pescador View Post
    Hi Yelim,

    My wife and I just took a ride around Lake Hollingsworth a couple of days ago. The good reports that you have heard, is that for Specks?

    Thanks,

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    Wear your PFD!!!!!

    This is the day the Lord hath made, rejoice and be glad in it.
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    Hello and thanks for the encouraging words!!
    Couple questions. Am i to take it that "long lining" or trolling with jigs really doesnt work in florida during the summer? Everyone seems to suggest cooler months for specks?
    Anyone familiar with Lake John? Can be launching my boat in 5 mins from house. It appears on map to be 3 canals that were probably phosphate or borrow pits that are connected to a lake that border a golf course (cleveland heights). Met a man there couple years ago that said he really slayed the specks there the previous yr.
    headed to Johns Pass Sunday Night. Hopefully we'll get some pics!!!





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    Speckled Perch (Crappie -Spec's) eat year round...........they are just a little harder
    to located once the primary spawn if over Nov - mid April.

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    I use to fish and catch a lot of nice specs in those three canals you mention south of and connecting Lake John. Putting in at the small ramp at Peterson Park off of Cleveland Heights.

    They dredged Lake Hollingsworth several years ago and the water in those canals turned murky and haven't fished them since.. They dumped the dredge water supposedly south of the canals, and south of the Parkway, but it sure changed the water in those canals..

    Lake John is over run with those algae feeders the last few times I've been in there..

    Again, that was in the spawning months... Most of the lakes in Lakeland, other than maybe Parker are too shallow I think for long lining..

    You can drift fish at different times and be effective.. Mud Lake near Polk City is another that I've caught crappie drifting..

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    Any thoughts on Lake Hunter. Small lake south of the Ledger building? Often stop there to flush my outboard and trlr after doing salt water. Lots of nice lily pads and reeds.

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    Same here as for running my motor when I need to, I use Lake Hunter, only a few miles from me.. I've seen people fishing the pads on the west side, and south..

    But I haven't fished the lake..

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    Nice boat.

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