Punta Gorda Bass Club

The Dog Days of summer have arrived for me! One bass in three days.  The hit and miss rain storms are mostly missing the areas I fish and the resulting warmer water has kicked off algae blooms.

Dead calm, full sun, warm water and low oxygen levels, not a good time to bass fish.

 Tried topwater and a swimbait in early pre dawn darkness with no strikes. I thought at least a gar would slap at it but got nothing.  In case anyone is wondering I have a few places that are lit up by streetlight's at night. There is enough glare that I can see to cast and watch my top water stuff coming back. And the occasional curious alligator staring back...

Went to my trusted soft plastics and caught two small bass. Clear and hot, mostly calm with not a lot of fish activity.

Three small bass this morning and missed a few bites that were probably gar. There are a lot of small fry that I assume are tilapia along the bank feeding on the plankton and the rest of the food chain follows along.

Clear with a light breeze

Title says it all, caught a nice 19 inch bass while a rocket was going up from the space coast! It was the only fish I caught but another angler caught a 4.5 pounder while I was there. Catching fish like this in July surprises me, normally its October before the larger fish get active for me.

Full sun and no wind with a soft plastic for the fish.

Welcome

 Looks like you have realized the lack of places around here to fish, especially from the bank. Be very careful where you fish in PG, the police are cracking down and tickets start at $100 and no warning tickets.
Lake Webb has a few places that can be fished from the bank till the water gets high.
The Cocoplum waterway stretches for 10 miles across North Port and has several access points.
Kings Hwy between  US 41 and I75 has some water that holds fish. Most places are shallow, 10 foot is deep unless its an old marl pit.
 We do have a few invasive species but the peacock bass are still about 25 miles South in Lee County. Watch out for gators and fire ants, mosquitos are optional.

The last week has been tough fishing, few fish.


 

The bite should get better the closer we get to the full moon on the 12th.

You ever have "one of those days"? K and I had one where nothing went right. The sad part is almost all of it was human error. Everything from fishing line in the trolling motor to falling on the wet bank. It seemed like we were getting hung on rocks every other cast while fighting the wind.

We only caught 4 bass total with a double up included! We spent several hours trying for tilapia to no avail. We even tried night crawlers and caught nothing. Four small bass on soft plastics was the best we could do.

I want to give a shout out to the gentleman we talked to with the sweet boat with Garmin PanOptics! If you happen to read this send an email.

Probably hit east on Thursday with bait, and the park tomorrow.