Thread: Hernando lakes. . .Big Goose Egg!!!

The bite has turned off quite a bit over the last month. And that's on every body of water I've been on locally. Seems to me like they spawned a lot earlier in the season than normal. Only time I do decent lately is right at sunrise or an hour before sunset. Overcast and rainy days usually pay off a little better as well (in my experience) if you can stand it. They're going to be deeper with as warm as the water is around here right now. From what I understand it's tough fishing for specks right now in many areas in FL. Definitely come September things should start turning back around. In the meantime, it's time to transition to hunting gill beds which can also be a blast if you get on em.

Crappie bite is definitely off for me compared with last years results.
About the same number of trips at the same lake doing the same thing has resulted in about half as many fish.
Last year i only used jigs, this year im also using minnows with jigs and minnows on just plain hooks, but it makes no difference.
Minnows definitely help with the bass, but not as much with the crappies.
They sprayed very heavily a few months back which killed most of the vegetation along the shorelines where i prefer fishing.
All that eventually sunk to the bottom and new stuff is growing, but i really think it changed everything.
The lake is small with no water deeper than about 10’, so the weeds provided the best year round protection.
But im now able to see what appear to be new beds on the shoreline that i just assume are bluegill beds?

Try the Withalchotie river or up north 301 beyond Citra. Think it is Orange lake.