Hello Folks,
I hope everyone had a great weekend and hopefully you got a chance to get on the water. I know lots of folks enjoyed the weekend with family and maybe you got to wet a line.
I went over to my daughter’s house for a cookout and when we left for home after the rains, I did notice a slight change in the weather. It seemed to be a little cooler. Even my wife noticed it as well. So, with that in mind, I’m prayin’ for some cooler weather. I’m just over this hot summer we had!
I talked to Kyle at Bitter’s Bait & Tackle and he reports that the freshwater fishin’ has slowed way down. Kyle says that folks were gettin’ the children ready for back-to-school, and just a few folks were fishin’. The panfish have slowed down due to the heat and no one is willin’ to endure the heat for bluegills. The bass fishin’ has been good to kinda slow.
X-treme Bass Series will be holdin’ a tournament this comin’ weekend on Johns Lake. The tournament will be on September 8, if you are interested.
X-treme will be havin’ a tournament on the Kissimmee Chain the same weekend, September 8, out of Camp Mack. If you need more information you can go to their website Xtremebassseries.com for times and dates for future tournaments.
Folks, we are just a few weeks away from Speckle Perch time here in Central Florida. Of course, we do need some cooler weather to get the water temperatures down in our lakes to get those ole specks to bite. Hopefully that will happen real soon. We do have a full moon in a couple of weeks, so hopefully that will get the bass to start bitin’ better.
I would like to share a story about my good friend, JR. This story was told to me by Chip Dover, JR’s fishin’ buddy. It seems that at every fishin’ tournament they fished together, when they came to the scales to weigh in their fish everyone wanted to know what lure or bait they used to catch their bass on. JR and Chip always told everyone they caught all their bass on a bubblegum jiggin’ spoon. They always had this spoon on the deck of the boat when they came to weigh-in. It became the fish story within the tournament when they fished together.
I have a picture of that spoon and you can see all the teeth marks on that ole spoon. I’m just kiddin’, folks. They never used or caught a bass on the ole spoon. JR and Chip just wanted to have some fun with all the anglers that they fished against. Chip still has that ole spoon and he carries it now in his boat to remember his buddy JR.
Well, that’s it for this week. I hope you have a great week and I hope to see you on the water real soon.
Tip of the week: Go Fishin’.
Save a few and good luck!