Found a spot on Black Creek in the Florida panhandle where the warmouth were holed up in 15 ft water. Managed a half dozen medium crappie as well
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Found a spot on Black Creek in the Florida panhandle where the warmouth were holed up in 15 ft water. Managed a half dozen medium crappie as well
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Nice catch.
Looks like a couple of nice dinners to me ! congrats !
I thought all the Warmouth in the area was caught last summer ...
Good Catch .... Black Creek will be about the only place to fish in the lower end till the water gets down ... Really running in these flat ditches down 3280 and here at the house. ... Bet the upper end of Black Creek And Camp Creek are running as well ... bout 4 inches of rain ..
Thanx
JSC
nice catah
nice catch there!looks like you get some pretty big size warmouth down there!all the ones i ever got were rather small,and were in va and wv.
Nice mess of fish
Those things hit hard, and fight real good. Did you catch them in downed trees or wood of some kind. Knew a guy who fished them in the St Johns. He tried to teach me but I didn't have the patience.
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Originally Posted by skeetbum
They were near the bottom in some heavy structure. In about 12 to 13 feet of water
Bill used braid tied direct, pretty stout, and used a 1/16 bare lead head with a chartreuse curl tail. Mostly cuz they were cheap and he got hung a lot. There were some undercut banks in some old logging canals off of Lake Woodruff that I used to fish and I used the same jig. If it hit the bank on the cast, it was like ringing a doorbell and they would rush out and strike. If you didn't bounce it off the bank, they may or may not show interest. It was great fun, and made for several very good dinners. Those canals were so grown over last time I was there that you would need a couple of days with a chain saw to open them enough to fish, good while it lasted.
Very nice mess of fish.
Very nice catch, I have caught Warmouth before but I have never caught that many in one day. Are you typically able to catch a mess of them like that? I generally just pick up one or two incidentally. They are a pretty fish and they fight like a small bass.
This was an unusual catch. Haven't caught them like this is many years. Last time was in Lost Lake maybe 8 or 10 years ago. I did have a partner with me for this catch. Like you, usually you catch one here and there incidental to bream, etc.
Several years ago I fished in a small pond on a Government expeerment station that was full of them, many times using a roostertail you would have 2 on the treble hook and another one or 2 would be chasing it. Caught a few old mudcats in that pond to. Just a few years ago I took my son to fish in an old out of the way millpond, it was full of grass and just had holes you could fish in, we were bass fishing with plastic worms. We must have caught 50 warmouths each that day, it was a blast. They were about as big as they get, they really hit those worms hard and fought hard. May have been more than a "few years ago", my son was about 12 then and he is 29 now. My how time gets away. Some of the creeks I float fish these days you can't hardly catch a bass anymore for the warmouth grabin your bait first.Quote:
Originally Posted by fishwalton