Bass and Trout Fishing Lakes

Fishing lakes and streams bring great financial and personal value to the land. Spring Creek Aquatic Concepts specializes in creating the finest fishing lakes, ponds, and streams. Fishing lakes and ponds often charge anglers the right to fish there. Some fishing lakes and ponds stock their waters with bass while others have waters stocked with trout or another fresh-water fish.

Bass continue to provide the most consistent fishing action and success could be termed fair to good. The early morning and late evening hours have produced the best catches, with topwater and soft-plastic baits being the most productive. Bass biting on most area lakes. Try South Turtle, with the bigger bass and some panfish in 5 feet. Bass can be taken in the spring on plugs and spinner baits along the north shoreline and throughout the lake during summer on plastic worms, plugs, and spinner baits along weedlines. Black crappie are low in abundance but average 10".

Bass fishing is slow. One fisherman caught 2 cats, 31.5 and 29 pounds on crawdads at Rabbit Island area. Bass and northern pike seem to be active at the weedlines of most area lakes. Bass are often found near the rock structure in the middle of the lake and off the multiple points.

Bass anglers are taking fish from various locations, including the slop, shallow weedlines, outside weed edges, and around the docks. Bass are usually fileted when taken for the table, however, more and more Florida bass anglers are adopting "catch and release" angling, where the bass are returned to the water after being hooked and retrieved. Bass fishing on Lake Cypress generally improves in April and May when water released through flood control canals concentrates forage fish. A drawdown is planned.

Trout in lakes and reservoirs will use deeper water as cover where trout in moving bodies of water use undercuts in river banks and other natural elements like logs and eddies behind rocks and boulders. In many ways trout fishing streams and river is much easier than fishing lakes and reservoirs. Trout are attracted to certain types of bait and lures. Some which yield the most interest from trout include spoons, jigs, flies, salmon eggs and worms.