Lake Ashby 2-12-16

I got a chance to try out Lake Ashby on Friday. It was my first time to that lake. It was still cold and a little windy when we hit the lake. Water temp was 53 deg. The wind was blowing out of the south west and it picked up as the day went on. We set up and made a drift pass across the lake. Rom was on the front seat with his rods set straight down. I took the back seat and ran the rods out off the back. It was a slow morning and we talked to two other boats. Both were using minnows, we were using jigs.

Ron did better than I did but we did land 7 fish. We did better than the other boats that we talked to.

Good story and picture to back up.
Where is lake Ashby ?
Care to give any details as to jigs, colors, depth speed of drift etc.

Thanks for your allowing us to be part of your fishing family

Man, look at that sun dancing on the water, a keep sake photo for sure...very healthy lookn' Spec...was there about 3yrs ago & caught a bunch of 10" fish...looks like they've grown up, thanks for sharing

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Originally Posted by fishin813

Good story and picture to back up.
Where is lake Ashby ?
Care to give any details as to jigs, colors, depth speed of drift etc.

Thanks for your allowing us to be part of your fishing family

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I'll let him tell you his details, but can inform that lake Ashby is located NW of Sanford on hwy 415... north of Osteen & south of New Smyrna

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Originally Posted by fishin813

Good story and picture to back up.
Where is lake Ashby ?
Care to give any details as to jigs, colors, depth speed of drift etc.

Thanks for your allowing us to be part of your fishing family

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It is just southeast of the intersection of hwy 44 and sr 415 between Deland and Osteen.

great report for Ashby...never been a real great lake for big specks...but it sure can produce big gators and big rattlers. Used to coon hunt all that area back in the day.

Thanks for update Mike & Mike

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Originally Posted by Speck Detector

I'll let him tell you his details, but can inform that lake Ashby is located NW of Sanford on hwy 415... north of Osteen & south of New Smyrna

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oops that would be NE of Sanford, heck just follow H=slabs directions :Rofl where's that EDIT button

Thanks to the others for posting where the lake is at. It a smaller lake and the deepest I could find was 9 ft. in the center of the lake. We caught our fish in the center of the lake, We were drifting around 1.1 mph. Used a drag anchor to hold the speed down to that. The first few fish hit on a darker green twistie tail and the the bite turned to a light green chartreuse tail. The largest we got was 14".Attachment 228998

I hope that tire is not on your trailer:yikes if so you need some new shoes quick.

Excellant report and pictures of jigs used to catch.............
Thanks for sharing.


Hopefully that is just back up spare tire. Sure has a tremendous amunt of
dry checks - yikes

Not to worry about the tire. Not mine and not on anything. Is a spare that is in the garage and made a good back drop. PS. the fish were running deep, close to the bottom.

Thats great to hear. Dont wanna see nobody in accident.

no problem - just bustin' on you a little...............in good fun

That's what I was thinkin on the skins. I pass Ashby all the time doing my job and wonder if I can get the boat in without 4 wheel drive. I think my first trip should be in the canoe as I can put it in anywhere and find out whether or not the bigger ride will go.

Glad you got some fish today, it sure was pretty out. I did stuff for my Valentine today.

I don't think it would be a problem with the launch. Ramp is paved and I had no problem with the bass tracker. Parking is limited to the side of the road.

Thanks Jim.

NICE

Ashby is up & down, mostly good for Bass but has a few specks - I live very close & used to go a lot more. The ramp is ok, No dock & if the water is up you will usually get your feet wet trying to load & unload. It has had problems with low water(no freshwater coming in) & farm runoff, it has been over fished for some time now. The part timers at the trailer park do their yearly "every fish is a keeper" trip in the fall & spring. Parking is limited & just hope the locals that can watch you leave & come back in aren't watching, had my truck broke into once & tried to get into once before but they got spooked & were unsuccessful. The salt water guys use it as a motor flush in the summer time, I see more salt boats go down there back in the water for a few mins & never unload & then 5 mins later they are back out :hatchet:- prolly the most traffic in the summer is for this.