Monthly Archives February 2012

Farm 13 that is, just outside of Fellesmere, Florida. Chrissie started us off this morning with the Chug Bug again and had three fish to the boat to our nothing. Not being real slow my thoughts turned to topwater for her boyfriend. I rigged up a 6’6″ Shimano Compre with a Stadic reel and 15 pound Power Pro without a leader this time. I tied on a Zoom Horny Toad for him and showed him the way to fish it and how to get the speed right. About ten minutes later we turned parallel to a stump flat and he sailed a cast out over it. About three turns of the handle and the bait disappeared into a big surface boil and Todd leaned back into the rod. The fish surged towards the nearest stump but he managed to turn it and got her headed out towards the boat...

I took my daughter and her boyfriend out on Stick Marsh just prior to a front coming through and thought the fishing would be outstanding. Turned out not to be the case and we worked hard for the bites we got. Chrissie started us off with the gar pictured above that smashed a Chug Bug about ten feet from the boat. I destroyed the hooks trying to get them out but the bait will be good to go again after I rerig some new ones. We only caught 15 bass in about six hours of fishing but with the warm weather in the forecast and a full moon on the way it is going to fish really well in a couple more days.

I never get tired of the wildlife down here and big gators are a great part of the scenery. The one we took the picture of was a big un’.

Rick Greene

My buddie John and I hit the Stick Marsh for two days last week and had a great time 80+ fish to the boat up to 7lbs with lots of 4′s and 5″s in the mix. Most of the fish were caught in the south end on the Farm 13 side of the impoundment in and around shallow wood and a couple of the old drainage ditches that lead into this area.

A couple of early morning fish fell to a Chug Bug but the bulk of the days catch came on TriggerX Flutter Worms and Senkos. Dark colours produced the best. Contrary to the heavy gear the locals use, we were fishing with 6’6″ Shimano MH spinning rods, Stradics, 15 lb Power Pro and a fluorcarbon leader. The business end was a 4/0 Gammie wide gap worm hook texas rigged. We had no problem boating the fish with this equipment...