BassOnline Fishing Outfitter is pleased to announce that we have introduced a new Peacock bass fishing video with incredible under water footage. The video was made with the help of North American Fishermens Dan Larsen with additional partners and was created to air nationwide and be available by download from sources such as YouTube.com and Google.com. BassOnline.com, Florida’s largest provider of Florida freshwater fishing tours is the host provider for the video.
The promo video above was just completed and designed to promote the hard fighting peacock bass in South Florida. The video features special underwater coverage, along with specific data on canal and lakes in Florida. The footage is in the same areas that you will be fishing when you come fish with us in South Florida. This video was made up specifically using artificial lures, while another popular technique is live bait (shiners) fishing. We once again wanted to separate our service from the rest by using experience and our knowledge that will once again be used with you on your trip. This will be the official video for our Florida Peacock bass website www.flpeacockbass.com. The video is a bit longer then we would have liked it, but once you have watched it you will understand why we simply could not edit any of the great footage.
So, check back often at BassOnline Video Blogs for the best Florida freshwater bass fishing video footage ever seen on the web!
We would love to hear from you! Please feel free to contact us if you would like to help or suggest a body of water in your area. If you have any questions on the videos or if you are interested in a fishing trip in Florida or you would like additional information on the fishing trips or fishing videos please contact us on this form, thanks you and good fishin!.
Today I had the pleasure of taking more of our repeat customers that have been coming to us for over 6 years.
What a good group of people, Joe and Athena Mitchell for the Bronx in NY are on a 3 day package trip. They selected one of the many discounted trips we offer, as we are known for our excellent service and great value with in the industry. The 3 days will be split up through the week, tomorrow they go out with Capt Tony another great bassonline guide on our staff.
We spent our day catching fish most of the day and having an excellent time until the thunder storms came in and we had to leave, here’s a good picture of a good time we all had.
Here’s an email we received late that evening from Joe & Athena,
Just wanted to drop you a line to say how much we enjoyed our trip with Capt Brett yesterday. He was knowledgeable, a lot of fun, had a great sense of humor was very attentive- simply put, all the qualities and service that we have come to expect and rely on as repeat customers, fortunately, we are never disappointed.
We will forward our photos as soon as they are available.
Thanks Again, Athena and Joe Mitchell
If you are visiting South or Central Florida for work or vacation and want to experience the best bass fishing that there is to offer then please give us a call. We can be reached at (888) 629-BASS or email me…
The South Florida area is one of the hottest spots in the country for vacationing and bass fishing. For proof of this, you don’t have to look any further than the amount of bass fishing guides in the area. There are plenty of South Florida bass fishing guides, and each one promises an enjoyable fishing trip.
If you are an experienced angler and know your way around a body of water, chances are you won’t need the services of a fishing guide. There are plenty of prime bass spots that can offer great fishing in South Florida.
South Florida Fishing Guides
The number of South Florida bass fishing guides is due to the popularity of this area as a vacation spot. These services are great for someone who is in the Naples, Ft Myers, Palm Beach, Ft Lauderdale and Miami area for a family getaway or even a business trip. They are also great for people who are not exactly experienced in bass fishing. Hawghunter.net, south Florida’s largest bass fishing guide service offers guaranteed catches with it’s industry trend setting fishing policy, NO FISH, No PAY! Many of the other services will charge you regardless whether you catch fish. That fact alone tells you how confident the guides at Hawghunter.net are that you will catch fish with them.
You don’t have to drain your pocket book to enjoy these fishing trips either. Many of the South Florida bass fishing guides offer trips that are quite affordable. An eight hour trip for two people can be purchased for anywhere from $350-$400. There are various amounts of time that these trips are available in for less money. Some of these guides will also offer lessons and refresher courses in bass fishing. They give you the opportunity to spend a day on the water with a bass fishing expert.
These guided trips are a great addition to any Florida getaway at an affordable price. You can either take the whole family, or split off by yourself instead of going shopping. There are many South Florida bass fishing guides to choose from, we suggested this one because of it’s #1 ranking on Google. They should be able to find a fishing adventure that suits your needs and preferences. There is an abundance of information online about many of these services. Take your time and research them before making your choice. Make sure you book as far in advance as you can, because many of the South Florida bass fishing guides book up quickly, especially during vacation season.
Other great reasons to book a fishing trip in the South Florida area include the weather and the number of other things to do in the area. Not to mention that it is some of the best bass fishing in the country, whether you use a guide or not.
We would love to hear from you! Please feel free to contact us if you would like to help or suggest a body of water in your area. If you have any questions on the videos or if you are interested in a fishing trip in Florida. Our if you would like additional information on the fishing trips or fishing videos please contact us on this form, thanks you and good fishin!.
From Staff and Wire Reports BassOnline.com
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“Gas, Boat cost, Tow Vehicle, Insurances or maintenance all dictate when and how the costumer can fish.”
For local fishermen and part-time anglers alike, fishing cost has grown sky-high. Actually the current economic situation for fishermen has been affected. Whether an angler travels to there local lake for large-mouth bass or maybe a distance for urban peacock bass. He’s noticed a drastic increase in his overall cost to fish, which changes the number of times his kids and friends get to go fishing with him. The economic situation has changed the way fishermen go fishing, they have had to make personal changes in when and how they fish.
Full-time Bassonline.com guide Capt Brett Isackson said, I think, “The economic change really has seem to alter my client base and increase the number of trips I have taken,” we seem to have more local angler verse out of state clients. One of my most resent customer Ken said, “I have had to change the way I look at fishing, but have not enjoyed fishing this much in a long time.”
President of Bassonline.com Capt Todd Kersey said, “Detailed planning of each client’s fishing experience helps them realize that they can still be a big part of the fishing experience, by helping with planning and decisions on where we go and what technique they would like to fish. Most anglers by habit fish the same half-dozen lures all the time and only use a few techniques. The great benefit other then the overall cost savings, is learning new techniques & lures presentations throughout the different seasons of the year.
Capt Brett remarks, another customer Matt said recently, “With the increase cost of gas, boat payments and insurance it’s much cheaper for me to just show up and have you take me fishing. I have no fuel cost, no boat payment and I don’t have to worry about finding fish and for that, my son is very grateful. We show up and start catching fish. The best part is when we are done I don’t have to clean the boat. I’m fishing more and catching more,” he said. Capt Todd replied, like we always say in this business, “a good day of fishing starts with a good plan.” We are more diligent about it then most … we work harder at it and it just comes easier to us.”A good guide makes a great day out of a really bad day of fishing,” there are bad days of fishing. We just don’t let our customers know that.
Capt Todd continues to point out, “We are a full time guide service, a lot of guides can say it. But, very few can actually accomplish that and it really shows in our catch results.” Overall guiding cost have been increasing for years, but with the accelerated fuel cost our charges for being a guide need to increase also. We have had to go up a little on the price (of a guided trip). That’s just an effect of fuel cost. “The last time we went up in price, gas was $1.50 a gallon.”
In a phone conversation with another full-time Bassonline.com guide Capt Mark Shepard, he said, a resent customer toll him, “The storage alone in Florida, not even counting that I would need to get rid of my sports car.” no way, he said, “we will continue to use you guys when we go out.”
Capt Todd replies, while there has been substantial decrease in tourism throughout the state of Florida, we have seen a big increase in all the local metropolitan areas. Inimitably, we thought it would affect the number of trips, “But it’s like one guy told me over the phone, - if you’re wanting to go fishing and you’re a serious angler, it doesn’t matter if gas goes up to $10 a gallon, your going!” Our happiest customers are anglers who had owned their own boats and are now hiring us as a guide.
One of the ways we try to keep our customers is by offering a NO FISH, NO PAY policy. We have had rejection in the industry to it, saying it a marketing gadget. But it’s not, we look at from a full-time professional guide stand point, “if we can’t find fish and get you catching fish, then we don’t deserve to get paid.” It’s as simple as that, by being on the water all the time it is easy for us to offer. “I guess if I was fishing part-time around another full-time job it would be hard to offer also.” If they hire any of our BassOnline.com guides, they can at least count on that. The big swing is not that surprising “As a matter of fact, the customers we deal with are pretty much set on taking fishing trips,” Todd said. “I have actually guided many people myself who said, “they sold their boats instead of paying the boat maintenance, payments and the gas, then they booked me.”
It is affecting the tourist who might be visiting over the next two or three months,” he said. “But right now, I think we are hovering around the same overall numbers “Nearly everyone on the water is feeling the effects of rising boat and fuel costs. He says, people are still going out on the water but they’re buying 1/2 or 3/4 day trips instead of the full day trips. Instead of going out by themselves, they are bringing one or two people with them.
If you take the cost of an average freshwater guided trip $300.00, divide that by three and it come out less then it takes for me to fill-up my Ford F-150 full of gas. How can they NOT go out fishing with us! Do the math, the actual cost of a fishing guide in no way compares to the cost of owning your own boat.
Lake Toho and other Central Florida lakes have had there hot moments with bass up to 10 1/2 pounds over the past couple of weeks after a spotty stretch in May and early June.
Try Lake Toho, Lake Kissimmee and Cypress Lake for quality largemouth bass. Morning bite, useing plastic toads near reeds and hydrilla at first light. Zara Spook topwater lures will also produce big strikes. Switch to spinnerbaits with wind and plastic worms at mid-morning. The bite has been off in the heat of the day but picks back up in the afternoon and through the first few hours of darkness if you are interested in night fishing. Switching back to plastic toads and topwaters during this time will create more bites. . . . Use crickets, redworms and small poppers for bluegills, shellcrackers and bream.
Tournament fishermen and our guides are targeting pockets of clean water with fresh green hydrilla in the open water. There are massive spraying operation all over the lake, so stay away from the killed or freshly sprayed hydrilla. This pattern has lead to boating a large number of bass and several trophy bass 7 to 10 pounds. The bigger fish seem to be stacking up when you find the hydrilla clump there living in. When fishing these clumps, searching with plastic worms seem to be the hot thing. The bigger the better, a 10″ or even 12″ worn seems to be the hot ticket in dark colors, like black and junebug.
Other variety affective techniques in the hydrilla include - lipless crankbaits, Horny Toads and topwater plugs. Some other bass are coming off of casting swim-baits. Seem the average bass is larger on swimbaits, but at times so are the strikes.
If I had to guess I would say, that the fresh green hydrilla is holding 50 percent of the fish in most of the Central Florida lakes right now.
If you are interested in learning some of these techniques or going out with some of our fishing guides that are catching all of these big Florida bass, give us a call 888 629-BASS.
Today once again, that’s right. Just here in May 2008 and back for more Mike Koziol all the way from Palos Park, IL. Mike and I had a great trip and swapped several stories last time he was here. I new he would be back, but never thought so soon.
With the water up in the Everglades most other guides services are complaining there not catching fish and believe me there not. So I really wanted Mike to have another great trip with Mike, I know the conversation would be good but I needed to locate quality bass to ensure our success.
Mike met me at 6:00am, actually his wife dropped him off, introduced herself and said, “you guys are crazy getting up this early.” Boy, if I had a dollar for every time I heard that, I would take everyone fishing for FREE…ha-ha.
As we headed out, I ask Mike if he was up for adventure and of coarse he yes…that’s all I needed to hear and we were off. After a nice ride and good conversation we got to the boat ramp put the boat in and away we went. A 10 minute ride out to the first location and we started fishing.
We started with top-water of coarse and it wasn’t long at all before Mike was hooked up on a bass. Mike’s first fish weight-in around 4 lbs, it was a great way to start the morning. As the day progressed to bright blue bird skies, Mike wanted to say with topwater despite what I said. I tried several other lures with some success, but Mike stayed with top-water continuing to get strikes. As the day became brighter the fish were starting to short strike his lure, but “die hard Mike” stay with it and I am glad he did.
Midway through the afternoon, cloud cover started to appear. The cloudier it got the better the bite became. With the storms approaching we decided to get close to the boat ramp for a quick exit if needed and what a great choice it was. The rain came from all side, but only provided sprinkles at best for us. As you can imagine the fishing only got better with the cool air and added winds.
Mike ended the day with a 5 and 6 lb largemouth bass back to back, on topwater of coarse. In bass fishing, every day is a new day and on this day presidency paid off!
I had a another outstanding day with Mike, we fished hard and worked for every bite but it was worth it in the end.
I can’t wait till next time…thanks again Mike for another great day.
This week I had the pleasure of taking my return customer Ken Acher out for three days of fishing.
Ken decided after last time, that he was going to share it with a few of his friends. So, we ended up with 6 guys on 3 boats for 3 days, these guys were awesome, good fishermen and all from the big state of Texas.
We started the first day on the famous Lake Okeechobee which was a little slow, but it was good for the size fish we were catching. No giant trophy bass today, but one of the 3 boats caught every fish on topwater lures. Overall, all three boats did pretty well and a great start to 3 days of fishing.
The second day was in the Everglades, with the rising waters from rainy season the fishing was unpredictably slower then normal. Our first location, the water raised almost two feet overnight. Putting in at the boat ramp I know we were in trouble. All three boats split up to cover the area as fast as we could, a couple of 3 and 4 lb fish were caught, but I still wasn’t happy with the results. So, we decided to pull out all three boats and go launch at another location. This is something they were very surprised about. Ken even remarked, “the effort you guys are giving us is not going unnoticed.” I have went with guide services all over the county and never had one put fourth the effort that you guys are. The move was a good one, not only did we stop for lunch as a group which was a lot of fun but everyone got to put fish in the boat after we relocated.
On the third day we did really good, almost like we had planned it this way..haha. We headed south to Miami area for Peacock bass, once we arrived all three boats headed to the same location to make sure we put fish in the boat as fast as possible. The weather forecast was 80% rain, so we know we had to work quick and inefficiently as possible.
All 3 boats started putting Peacock bass in the boat right-a-way, then we split up to try to locate new groups of fish. We did this until lunch time where we all stopped and went to lunch at the famous Sonia’s Cuban seafood restaurant.
As normal the weather forecast was wrong again, “are these the only people in the world that can be wrong most of the time and still get raises”…haha. Well, on this day we were glad the weather forecast was wrong. After a nice lunch we all headed out in search for the group bragging rights, “that we were the best on this day.”
At the end of the day, each boat had over 25 peacock bass, that’s more then 75 for this group in one day. With one largemouth bass weighting-in at 5.4 lbs and tons of 3 & 4 pound peacock. But none would match the 7lb-4oz peacock bass that was caught near the end of the day, what a trophy Florida Peacock bass.
We really had a good time with guys and are looking forward to seeing them again next year the even a bigger group!
HT3’s Summer Slam Series team tour was in the Everglades Sunday, launching out of Holiday Park. The weigh in concluded at the S.A.F.E.R. pavilion as the director David Oliveira called the results out. He and his partner Jeff Ladroux handled the launch, weigh in and recording of the results and did so in an accurate and timely manner.
It was a great, but extremely hot day that at it’s conclusion found the winning team BassOnline.com of Brett Isackson and Mike Allgar taking home first place on 18.62 pounds and $480.00 on just 7 boats competing.
In a distant second was Steve McDonald and Bud Randall with 15.70 pounds while big fish of the day, a 6.10 pounder was caught by third place team of Jeff Justice and Danny Shelton. The top 5 finished out with HT3 American Tour anglers, Aymon Wilcox and Kevin Thomas in 4th while the team of Burke and Burke came in 5th.
Next up for the Everglades division is July 20, so the anglers have a few weeks off to fish other events, cut the grass or just relax as the dog days of summer are officially upon us.
While the fishing tournament on 4-27-2008 was a great hit once again, much of the support came from running this event for the seventh year in a row. Let’s not forget the great cause at hand, saving the canals and achieving Everglades Restoration or as we say it “Restoration With Recreation“. The event is put on by S.A.F.E.R. a 501 C3 non-profit organization, dedicated to preserving the fishery for sportsman.
The event when off with out a hitch of a problem, a total number of boats in the event was 29. This number was down from pass tournaments with 150+ boats, most related decline to increasing fuel cost. While others support that the high water levels in conservation area 3 caused declined catch ratios, which lead to anglers staying home. As always, the Everglades still had to prove why it is one of the best fisheries in the country. Even with the decreased number of boats and high water levels, it still took 19+ pounds for five fish to win the bass fishing tournament.
Before recapping the results, I wanted to point out a few things. S.A.F.E.R. was responsible for building a new tournament weight-in pavilion at Everglades Holiday Park which was a great hit among the fisherman present. Years of use from many groups and clubs alike, will surly befit many anglers. Pictures of the event and pavilion can be seen at the S.A.F.E.R. website.
The support is really appreciated for the many of you that just fished for the cause, many anglers even fished by them selfs. While many of the local marina’s, boat dealers could not seem make it out, owner of BJ’s Bait & Tackle Shop Mark Escobar took time away from his tackle shop to show support and picked up 2nd place big bass honers.
One of the amazing things was the lack of support of anglers that call this place home and even more so local fishing guides that claim to be professional. There are lots of fishing guides that “claim” to be supports, but none of them showed any interest in the support of this Everglades Resortortion event on Sunday. Yes, I mite be taking this a little personal because I am one, but I think it just simply shows how many real professionals we have in the area. Funny isn’t, making a living fishing the Everglades…but not interested in the longevity. Not even the park guides support the even, which in the long run have the most to loose by the canals closing. Amazing to me, these guides will be the first ones to cry like babies to the FWC when they have no where to fish! Many of the guides from BassOnline did support the event as always. So, please keep this in mind when recommending or using a fishing guide service in Florida!
The fight continues, S.A.F.E.R. wants to thank all of the local anglers for there pass, present and future support of this great cause.
Results:
1st place, Tony Masiello, 19.07 lbs (BassOnline Guide)
2nd place, Belits & Belits, 18.51 lbs and big fish 7.03 lbs
3rd place, Nelson & Wellbaum, 16.01 Lbs
4th place, Alexander & Sithline, 14.72 lbs
5th place, Hicks. 13.02 lbs
2nd big fish, Escobar & Mouler, 6.30 lbs
The event when off with out a hitch of a problem, a total number of boats in the event was 29. This number was down from pass tournaments with 150+ boats, most related decline to increasing fuel cost. While others support that the high water levels in conservation area 3 caused declined catch ratios, which lead to anglers staying home. As always, the Everglades still had to prove why it is one of the best fisheries in the country. Even with the decreased number of boats and high water levels, it still took 19+ pounds for five fish to win the bass fishing tournament.
