Today I had the opportunity to fish with Steve Raimo and his 8 year old son out of Clewiston, Florida. I have fished with a lot of kids, this kid was a ace to say the least. Today’s weather was clear and calm, not want we really wanted on a hot summer day. In these condition’s you have to be almost sneaky and very patient when fishing your areas.

We had short day, but we were still able to catch some fish and see a lot of wildlife. The lake level is coming up nicely and we should be back fishing in the grass beds by next week. It has been two years sense we have fished the grass-beds and swamps of Lake Okeechobee. This is quite exciting going into the spawn for this winter. As history repeats it’s self, the fish will love all the brand new habitat already full of life. Looking ahead, this is going to be one of the most exciting times to fish the lake.

With all the new places to explore, each fishing trip is going to be a new adventure for every customer.

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What a good day we had today in the Everglades with Tony Miresse, his son Mark and his friend Eric Burton.

When Tony told me it was Eric birthday today and he ask, “how’s the fishing.” I said, it was a little slow in the Everglades but were still catching fish. I suggested to them, that they may want to go after the peacock bass simply because they have been more consistent. They said, “let’s go out in the Everglades I like the idea of the alligators and bird watching over urban development.

So, we decided on the Everglades and it turned out to be a good day the pictures tell it all!

This was also Eric’s first time bass fishing, “not bad for his first bass.” The fish today were caught on a good variety of fishing lures, although the bigger fish were caught on crankbaits.

I think we had as much fun as I hope all of you did. Till next time, tight lines!

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St. Johns River from Green Cove Springs down to the Palatka area. There’s a great bite of croakers coming off the shell bars near Green Cove Springs. The Shands Bridge has been excellent, but sporadic like most summer fishing. Bream are biting all over the river and will only get better on this moon phase. Many are just hanging around the beds after the full moon last week. But should gather back together next week on the new moon. Catfish are biting in the Trout and Six-Mile creeks.

Area lakes (Lochloosa, Orange, Santa Fe): Bream fishing is good in Lochloosa. They’re off the beds and can be found up under the docks in 3 feet of water. Speckled perch are still being caught in the deeper areas of Santa Fe.

Rodman Reservoir area, the Bass fishing is especially good for schooling fish. The Oklawaha River is the best place for some excellent catfish action this week. Fish the deeper holes, especially near undercut banks.

Elsewhere: The catfish bite in the ponds at Hanna Park is good right now. Surprisingly, there was a report of croakers being caught on nightcrawlers this week.

By JIM SUTTON, The Times-Union

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 We had the pleasure of going fishing with the Willins Family from NY today. Bruce his wife Cheryl and daughter Sam, it was really cool. Sam is a girls softball player and they were in town for a 4 day long tournament. So, dad decided to do a family fishing trip in there off time which was a blast.

While I did not get any pictures myself, they did with there family cam. It was like we were filming a new peacock fishing show almost, I still can’t believe my battery went dead in my camera.

Sam started things off with a 4lb jack, what a great fighting fish. You can tell she fishes with her dad, catching blues in NY because her form was almost prefect. Then Bruce missed a few, I think it was more of a lite bite then his skills. He then followed up with a 2lb peacock bass which jumped off at the boat. After a few location changes and adjusting our retrieve of the lures everyone started to hookup. It was one fish after another for a while, I think Bruce broke off on the largest fish of the day. But, ended with a nice 3 lber on almost the last cast of the day.

The Willins family will be down again next year and we look forward to fishing with them again.

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Remember the summer days were made for Peacock bass fishing, they love the heat!

Tight Lines,
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Today I had out Austin Pittman and friend from the great state of Arkansas. These guys were a bunch of good guys to be with, the kind of guys you look back and can’t figure out how the day went so fast.

Austin was in town working, decided to get out for 6 hours of Peacock bass fishing. When he called, Austin said, “can we catch a peacock bass in 6 hours” and I said, “yes, even two guys from Arkansas can catch these fish with the right guide of coarse.”

Let me tell you these two guys can fish, they caught just over 20 peacock bass today. At the end of the trip Austin said, “I will be back for work next year and you bet I will be calling you to go do this again, I had a blast.”

I look forward to you guys coming back and experiencing all that we offer in South Florida Fishing.

Tight Lines,
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