Silver Lake - 11/11/2014

I was originally going to visit Lake Tarpon today but instead I decided to save some windshield time and stay a little closer to home and try out Silver Lake. I imagine there are about 100 Silver Lakes around, so to clarify I was on Silver Lake at the northern edge of Hernando County, I-75 crosses over it around mile marker 307.

This was my first time on this lake so I didn't really know what to expect. I have done numerous web searches and can find very little about fishing on this lake. I put in around 8:30 this morning and was surprised at how many boats were around, perhaps it being a holiday for some added to the traffic. I started off trolling 4 lines behind my motorized kayak, one had a beetle spin, another had a small crank bait, and the other two had one each soft plastic jig and maribou jig in various colors. I ended up with about a half dozen crappie, none of which were big enough to keep. The biggest was just a hair over 10", the rest were 8-9". Most were caught in about 6-7 feet of water, water temp was 67F. I could not find a consistent color that they wanted, in fact I don't think I caught more than 1 fish per color.

Anyways, it was a fun day of trolling, not sure if I'll visit this lake again anytime soon though.

Thank you for sharing. We like pics too btw. Even if they ain't big'uns.

Thanks for posting!

Hey Jersh, I used to fish and camp at Silver lake. I lived about 1/2 way between Silver Lake and Brooksville off of Hwy 50. I mainly bass fished there but we did troll there from time to time and had some pretty decent luck. Back then, about the only jig I used was a Red Head, Green body and Yellow tail Hal Fly. I always called it Christmas Tree. I did pretty good on some Blue/Black Hal Fly's also. Never caught any huge fish but we did catch some 1 lb to 1 1/4 lb crappie. Haven't been there since the late 90's but I would imagine there are still some good fish in there. Let us know how you do if you go back.

Thanks for report................Glad to see someone else tried that lake.
I fished about 12 yrs ago - was disappoiinted to say the least...........
Caught Warmouth / Bluefill & Catfish - no specks...........
Again, thanks for report............glad you enjoyed yourself..............Silver lake is
very pretty lake...........on the river...........

I know this is a old post but has any body fished there lately. I stopped there today and is a nice looking lake.
Randy

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I fished it a couple years ago. I only caught one crappie about 11" and I fished for a good 4-5 hours.