I will be fishing the St. Johns river out of Astor from 2/22 - 3/8. Has anyone been fishing the river of lakes? Thanks for any reports JC
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I will be fishing the St. Johns river out of Astor from 2/22 - 3/8. Has anyone been fishing the river of lakes? Thanks for any reports JC
oh yea. The Astor area has been getting hit HARD the past month................ Dexter, Woody, George, St Johns river.................ALL lights out! Slab City!
Trolling (pending floating debris) or better yet dipping the pads has been excellent!!
PS. If your down here that long ............ you GOTTA take a day and drive over to Lake Crescent.... well worth the 15 min drive from Astor. (Check out "any" thread on the florida board with Crescent in it, or any post from Vic / anchorman)
Hope you have a Great trip! and good luck!!
I was down there last week and caught big fish in Crescent, Dead, and the River. If you are staying in Astor, you might want to fish the river from the 40 bridge to the jetties. The water in the river was warmer than the lakes and they will be outside or in the bonnets.
Thanks for the info. I am working on the boat rite now. I will have 7 rods set up for trolling this year. I can set them up for a 28 foot wide trolling rake. I did good the last couple of years with 5 rods, so 2 more cant hurt. I like pulling jiffy jigs 1/32 and 1/16 oz. Red head blue body and while tail is good and I also like Orange head green body orange tail. I have a bunch of colors but those have always produced for me. JC
Where are the jetties? Are they north of the 40 bridge.
Any one jigging the pads in Woodruff or the river between there and Dexter?
Should be some fish shallow I would think.
Joe
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Originally Posted by Danbo
I call them jetties but they are at the entrance to lake George. Fish down in the Jetty supports on the west side. The east side is shallow. If the weather gets bad go and fish the bridge supports of the Hwy 40 bridge.
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Originally Posted by Joe
I call them jetties but they are at the entrance to lake George. Fish down in the Jetty supports on the west side. The east side is shallow. If the weather gets bad go and fish the bridge supports of the Hwy 40 bridge.
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Originally Posted by Joe
Pads are popping on woody. Cant go wrong there. Good luck!Quote:
Any one jigging the pads in Woodruff or the river between there and Dexter?
Had a guy tell me the same thing.he said they were catching some big ones in the padsQuote:
Originally Posted by CrapSlabStu
we caught them in the pads on woodruff just a couple weeks ago...
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we caught them in the pads on woodruff just a couple weeks ago...
Was thinkin about goin over there this weekend, ya'll fishin in Woodruff or the run between Woody & Dex or the run between Highland Park & Woody.
Dexter and Woodruff are getting spanked hard lately. And I'm hearing 50 boats on Woodruff regularly with a very slow bite. I'm looking elsewhere as I'm not a huge fan of that kind of pressure.
I have been doing pretty good the last 10 days or so. Today I hit Dexter at first light and trolled long and hard to find them. On a turn I pulled a 2.4 Lb. Later in the morning I got a couple 2 Lb,s. Then I went to Woodruff and trolled for a hour to find them and I was pulling them pretty good and then... The out side rod really pulled down hard and it was on. She took all 7 lines with her during the fight, but once I landed it she was 2 Lb. 7 Oz. That is my personal best. Lets drink some beer and eat some fish!! JC
Way To Go JC!!!!!!
Another piggy from Woody.
Glad you had a good trip with some nice weather.
SMILE JC................ awesome fish :)
Thanks for the picture...that's awesome!!
Nice fish :HandsClappingGlad to hear the area still doin well with all the pressure !
Had a pretty good day on Dexter today, pulled some nice specks and a 5 LB 4 OZ stripper bass. JC
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nice post and pics
Nice crappie and that sunshine bass in the last pic is good eating also. Those sunshines will ruin a setup in a heartbeat! Good job.
Sunshine Bass? I figured it was a striper, I see there are records for both fish, what is the main difference in them? JC
P.S. I'm going out early tomorrow and give it everything I got. I mite even put them on the endangered species list for you guys.
Sunshine bass are a hybrid and they should have have broken stripes on the front half and straight lines on the rear half of the body. Lots of good info here.....
http://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/pr...sunshine-bass/
I see where the Astor Chamber of Commerce is having their 1st ever Happy Crappie tournament, too bad they scheduled it the same day we will be at Dora for the slabtogether
http://astorchamber.com/2014crappies...20page%201.pdf
Yeah its a sunshine. A striper doesnt have broken bars. If you look at your fish picture you will see the broken bars by the gills, the lines are not straight like they would be on a striper. This is a dead giveaway.Quote:
Originally Posted by JCsHOOK
As speckanator mentioned above, they are also known as hybrids in other parts of the country, they are a cross between a striper and white bass I believe. Do not hold me to this information on the specifics but a true striper has perfect unbroken bars/lines. If there are any disformation of the bars its a hybrid of some sort
we have them up here in a few lakes- stocked by dnr and we call them wipers!
I'm back in Ohio once again, I had a good trip to the St. Johns river again. The best day I had fishing was last Thursday I think, the temp was in the low 50's with strong west winds. I was the only one trolling Woodruff that day (some what like Lake Erie conditions). I pulled 41 fish over 1Lb. 8 Oz. and 8 of them well over 2 Lb. Once again my Minn Kota I pilot trolling motor was the most valuable tool on the boat for those conditions.
I also had a great time at http://www.frontstreet-bait.com/ Bean and Mary have a great fish camp with the best location in all of Astor.
Just for the record most all fish were released to fight another day, I brought home 60 fish. JC
:cheers2Glad you had a great trip & caught some real nice fish !! Astor area is nice & one place I want to learn more about for fishing
but I just always seem to go right past it to Crescent:scratchhead I plan to make it there at least once this year.
Sounds like a good trip to me. FYI, I stayed at Frontstreet based on your recommendation last Fall. It's not a bad spot at all.