Hello Folks,
I hope you are havin’ a great week, and, hopefully, you got a chance to do some fishin’.
I wanted to let everyone know that there is a newsletter titled “Inaugural Harris Chain of Lakes Newsletter.” This is the first ever edition of the Harris Chain newsletter. You can go on the FWC’s website and read the attached newsletter and get information about all the lakes in the Harris Chain.
You can get information about aquatic plants, wildlife, habitat, and the fisheries. These surveys will cover plant surveys, Alligator Surveys, Trawl Surveys, Specks Age, Creel Surveys, Fish Community, Bass Samples, and Vegetation Mappin’. All the information done on these surveys was completed from July 2023 ‘til June 2024. If you have any questions, please go to myfwc.com website or call them at 1-850-488-0331.
We are still dealin’ with some high water issues on the St. Johns River. We are havin’ some problems with high water right here as well. I talked to Orange County Parks and Recreation and they are sayin’ R.D. Keene boat ramp is still closed due to high water. They are waitin’ on the water to go down before they open the ramps back up.
I also just talked to Lake County’s Park and Recreation and they told me that Johns Lake ramp is not open, either. The ramp will be closed until the end of the month. So, the only ramps open to fishin’ would be West Lake Toho in Kissimmee and the Harris Chain of Lakes. Also, the ramps are open at Buzzard Beach on Lake Eustis and Hickory Point on Big Lake Harris. I just checked with the folks at Trimble Park, and the boat ramp is open on Lake Beauclair. That ramp is open 8 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. each day. They are on their winter schedule.
If you want to go speck fishin’, the Downtown Sanford Marina is open to launch your boat. The folks there reported that they were open and so is the ramp. The ramp is open from sunup until sundown. There is no overnight parkin’ allowed at the Marina. With so many ramps bein’ closed due to the high water, your places to fish are kinda’ slim.
I got a report from West Lake Toho, and they are catchin’ plenty of bass on shiners. You need to fish in the open holes in the hydrilla. Folks are catchin’ 10 to 15 bass per trip. You can catch some bass in the Harris Chain of Lakes. Most folks are fishin’ around the submerged hydrilla.
Hopefully, we will start gettin’ some cooler weather so those ole speckle perch will start bitin’.
Well, that’s it for this week. I hope to see you on the water real soon.
Tip of the week: Full Moon
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