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Fishing Reports: |
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Welcome to the Bass Country Fishing Adventures fishing
reports. I hope you enjoy reading these as much as we have making them
happen.
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Fishing With
Capt Mike Rudder |
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Fishing Friends,
I really appreciated you
fishing with me on
Okeechobee over the past
several years. The water
level in Okeechobee is
probably 4 to 6 feet
lower than when we last
fished there. This is
the reason I have moved
to Kissimmee Lake
located just east of
Lake Wales, Florida.
Neva and I have
purchased a home at Camp
Mack which is located on
the river at the north
end of Kissimmee Lake.
We are located just
south of Orlando and
Disney World I am
fishing Kissimmee Lake,
Toho, Walk in Water, and
some other smaller lakes
in the area.
February, March and
April are great months
to fish here on
Kissimmee !!!!!!!!!! The
big ones are looking for
a place to spawn and we
will know where to find
them.
If you are in the
Orlando area or just
want to come fish,
please call me:
606-521-4692 cell
863-696-3749 home
Check us out at
www.mikerudderfishing.com
Lets go fishing again,
Capt Mike Rudder |
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January 27, 2009 |
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 The
weather has warmed up and the
fishing has really picked up
during the last two days.
Yesterday we had a 6 lb and a
6lb 8oz on spinnerbaits. The
best 5 fish, yesterday, would
have weighed 18 lbs or better.
They did not start biting until
the water temp got up to 67
degrees about 2:00 pm. They were
in the Hydrilla just off the
Kissimmee grass line in North
Cove.
The water temp started 59
degrees and got up to 69 degrees
at 4:00 pm.
Today we caught 15 good bass on
shiners and artificial. Ray
Frenette of Lake Wales, FL
caught a beautiful 7lb 9oz
female on a wild shiner. We
caught 8 fish on shiners and 7
on spinnerbaits and one on a
Bang O Lure. The water didn’t
get as warm today, it only got
up to 65 degrees and the bite
was slower and not as aggressive
as yesterday. The best 5 fish
today would have weighed at
least 19 lbs.
Mike Boggs fished Philly Point
and caught one about 10 lbs on a
shiner along with a 5lb 8oz on a
spinnerbait.
A 13.8 lb Bass was caught in
Kissimmee and weighed in at Camp
Mack in a local tournament
Sunday. |
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January 15, 2008 |
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 Fishing
has been slow for the last
several weeks. We have had
unusual cold weather making the
water temperature hang in the
mid to high 60s. Some fish have
been taken on artificial but the
better quality fish have been
coming on wild shiners. We have
had our best success on Crooked
Lake but the larger fish have
been caught on Kissimmee. We
fished Toho Lake last week with
the best of the day being about
4 lbs. Today was a much better
day. There was a cold front on
top of us, and the wind was out
of the north blowing at 10 to 15
mph and the air temp only got up
to the low 60s. The water temp
was only 61 degrees but the fish
bit pretty good for about an
hour. We caught four bass but
one was 9.95 lb. Come on down
and lets go fishing. |
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December 18th, 2008 |
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 Winter
fishing in Kentucky can be about
like ice fishing but the
smallmouth love it. The water
temp on Laurel Lake is 47
degrees and the air temp has
been hovering around 40 to 45
degrees for the last several
days. I have come home for
Christmas and looking forward to
getting back to Florida the
first of January.
The floating fly has been
catching lots of smallmouth and
some largemouth during the last
few weeks here in eastern KY,
but today the silver buddy was
the bait. This 5 lb+ smallmouth
was caught on a gold colored
silver buddy in about 18 ft of
water on a hump in Laurel Lake. |
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December 9, 2008 |
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 Fishing
has really been tough on
Okeechobee for the last few
months. Everyone has been
waiting for the water to come up
and the fish to return to the
grass. We have all figured that
it would take the spawn for the
fish to return to the shallows
from the main lake. I fished
Okeechobee Monday and Tuesday
and found the fish in one small
area in Moonshine Bay. We caught
17 good fish, one about 6lbs, on
Monday and 23 on Tuesday. There
were two other boats that fished
the same area and caught about
twenty fish on Tuesday. It is
the week of the full moon and
the fish are in there ready to
spawn. They are full of eggs. We
caught all these fish on
watermelon/red super flukes
fished around patches of grass.
There is lots of gator grass
growing in Moonshine Bay and the
water level is getting lower.
The water level was 14.25 when
we were fishing and if it get
any lower it will be very
difficult to get up on plane. We
destroyed a prop on Tuesday
trying to get out but we did
find the fish. |
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December 5th, 2008 |
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 Fishing
has been tough because of the
cold fronts and 60 degree water
temp here in Florida. We decided
to go to the Everglades and try
Sawgrass Recreation Area. The
water temp was a little warmer,
it got up to about 68 degrees by
late afternoon.
Bass in Florida are very
sluggish if the water temp is
below 65 degrees. The fish were
very slow in the morning but did
pick up after lunch. We had 12
fish at 1:00 pm and a total of
41 bass by 4:30 pm. We caught
several fish on watermelon
flukes, some on baby brushhogs,
but we found that they were
hitting best on June bug/red
flake 8" worms fished with 1/8
oz sinkers. |
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December 1st, 2008 |
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 The
cold fronts going through the
southeast have really effected
the fishing in central Florida.
The water temp. has been in the
lower 60's for the last several
days and fish seem to be biting
best late in the afternoon. We
had a frost on Thanksgiving
morning that reminded me of
Kentucky. Small baits and a slow
presentation has been the rule.
I have had my best success on a
5" paddle tail worm in June
bug/blue
tail with a 1/8th oz sinker. The
best fishing has been on Lake
Hachineha around the peppergrass
and on the edge of the needle
reeds.
I have sampled all the lakes in
the area during the last several
days and it seems that the water
temp has slowed the bite in
Walk-in-water, Crooked,
Kissimmee, Cyprus, and Arbuckle.
Some fish are being taken on
Toho on rattle traps and live
shiners. |
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