First full season in Florida

Miss Vickie and I moved to the Legacy at Leesburg this past February, unfortunately my boat trailer had a major crack in the frame and we were out for the season. Since then I have gotten a new trailer and we are excited about doing a lot of spec, shell cracker and brim fishing. We did manage some shell crackers and brim this past spring. We fish Lake Harris and surrounding lakes along with the St John’s. We fish out of a red with gold Nitro Z19 Pro.
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Nice catch, congratulations

Those are some nice ones

Nice job. Welcome to the area.

Good job Y’all! I’ll take some of those ‘crackers now!!

nice fish ! glad you got the trailer fixed. Now for some lake time with the boat.

Actually I have a new custom built aluminum trailer, the only issue is the guy built it on a salt water type frame, it’s a tad long but should last a very long time.
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Dang! That is 1 long trailer for that boat! [emoji16]


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Yes it is but it sits so well on the bunks and is super easy to load and unload alone!

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Awesome rig, [emoji108]! All you need now is the catwalk/handrail install![emoji16]

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I always fish Florida crappie in the winter, what do you use for the Bluegill aka Crackers? and is there a better season for them?

I have found that for brim and crackers, grass shrimp on a small gold hook with a split shot above fished with out a cork dipping in the pads works well.

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I'm guessing a light long shanked Cricket hook would work, I will try to get some grass shrimp. I haven't noticed mainly because I don't use minnows much, but do most Fl bait shops carry grass shrimp? any advise on how to keep them? thanks

Not too many bait shops carry grass shrimp. I have a long handle net that I bought from Rural King, find eel grass and run the net around and trough the grass. The shrimp are very small and almost translucent but the crackers, brim and specs can’t refuse them. Best time for cracker and brim here at lake Harris is early March.

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Lakeside Bsit in Tavares sells grass shrimp when they can get them.

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That’s true but the owner says they only sell them during brim season, they make more off minnows during spec season.

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