Floral City results, Saturday, March 28th

March 28th (Burrr cold)

Floral City
Lake Floral
Lower pool - Tsala Apopka Chain


After two (2) cold fronts in two days,
temp. from 80 plus to low of 46 on Sat.
2 1/2 inches rain, water temp in 70's,
Saturday morning opened with bara. pressure 30:09, calm winds by 9am press
had jumped to 30:17 - by 10am 30:19
and stayed high till 2pm b4 starting dn.
Wind speeds -wnw to west varying from
4.8-6.9 gusting at times to 17mph.
With all those variables, 10 teams took to
the 9,000 stained acres of water for the
FIRST time FCC had tried lake system.

Two (2) positions paid for "big fish"

1st: Enoch & John Harris
1 lb 9.4 oz

2nd: Kirk Whitehead / Dave Rideout
1lb 8.7 oz

Two (2) positions paid for "7 fish wgt
catch"

1st: Darryl & Terri Cole
7 lbs 12.5 oz

2nd: Kirk Whitehead / Dave Rideout
6lbs 1.5 oz

Pre-fish previous Sat-Sun - Tues -
Thurs showed that larger females had
already spawned out and were in stress mode. 10 - 12" females were
still carrying roe still possible month
off on spawing.

Cole team: Wally Marshall rods, spider
rigged, minnow tipped with Skipper's &
Ron zip jigs: Hot pink - copper colors -
buttercup along with Brewer mini sliders - chart/black.

Whitehead team: Wally Marshall rods,
spider rigged, minnow tipped using Ron's
zips yellow - orange & hot pink

Both teams working 14 ft water varied
depths of 4 - 9 ft.

Participating teams Floral City event

Bill Bercaw / Harold McGhee
Dave Troester / Tony Office
Dave Blankenship / Greg Humphries
Enoch & John Harris
Darryl & Terri Cole
Mike Moore / Jim Whitt
John Peyton / Mike Herbst
Stan & Jackie West
Bill Badley
Kirk Whitehead / Dave Brideout

Next tournament will be Sat., April 11th,
St Johns River (Astor Florida)
Public Ramp off hwy 40.
Can fish anywhere including Lk George
Dexter, Woodrift to highway 44 bridge Deland.
Anyone needing assistance contact Darryl Cole or Harold McGhee
352 516-0869 or 813 215-9759

Nice fish in new water.

fishin813,

Just want to take the time to say, " Thank You" for your tournament reports, and the photos. Looks like you really put a lot of time into doing this, really enjoy reading them, as I'm sure many others do also.

Regards,
pescador

Thank you, we try to give as much information about a lake as know.
How a lake was fished, various styles used to catch fish and what equipment
was used, types of assessories (jigs - hooks - bobbers - etc)
Depth worked and water temp, barametric pressure and time of year.
If records are kept this will help most fishermen have a starting point on what to
do.

Thank-you FCC for all the good info, and Results here at my local lakes...Very nice talking W/you guy's, really like the photo's...Stephan Wolf in Homosssa, F

Will not have another tournament in the Tsala Apopka Chain until October 24th,
Lake Henderson, Inverness.
We welcome questions about other lakes in Florida from Crescent Lake to Okeechobee
Will do our best to assist you in answering - to make you day more productive and
fun on the water.
Thank you for your comments Mr Wolf

Harold McGhee
sec/vp FCC