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  1. 02-12-2022, 09:13 PM #1
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    Would like to know if the spawn is over. My buddy and I live in middle Ga. It's a 5 and half hr drove to St John's river and Astor area I guess. We are another month away from them hitting shallows. Should we make the drive. Never been there. We are going on another person's word. What would you do. Simple yes or no.. thanks
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  2. 02-13-2022, 07:14 AM #2
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    I would go! I’m headed down there on the 24th! Staying in Astor and will be fishing with a buddy that’s been down there since New Year’s Day! He’s been catching fish everyday, but they have not spawned yet! Talked to him yesterday and almost all of his female fish have had eggs, not bloody, still in them. We were there about 3 weeks ago and caught several in 14-16 FOW! No one was catching them shallow at that time! With the temps starting to climb, they should start in the next week or so!

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    Here on the Harris Chain arm of the St.Johns the fish have been confused. The water temp has bounced down and back up so many times. IMHO they have been spawning, and spawning, and spawing on and off for a long while. The temp drops push them back out, but I've caught them in the shallows on and off. I've been long line trolling mostly (relatively unusual for down here) and catching them too. So I'm thinking the big spawn is yet to come. I've read others here say we're at the tail end, so don't know exactly, but the fishing is good now, so come on down.
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    Pretty much in Central Florida there is a 3-4 month window late December into early April, so many variables between Rivers, lakes, deeper vs shallow body's of water....just south of where your headed they've started to spawn, however, the river fish seam to have a mind of there own...Good luck, no reason you won't catch fish, but to "load the boat" well that's just fishing....

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