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yakman72
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 Posted - 03/02/2012 : 9:01:57 PM
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i guess this is the right place to post this. so i dont know if yall saw my other post in the freshwater section but i i want to try my hand at freshwater fishing. this is closest lake to james island that i see on google maps. i will have a 4ft jon boat by this summer so i want to fishing that area over summer break. what bites their in the summer? i have read different reports sayiing nice bass fishing and some saying terrible overrun with panfish, one thing they have in common is saying things about big gators! so what is the best method for fishing that area in the summer? i want to catch largemouth and cats but im not below crapie fishing as a beginner. i would like to be able to camp out their alos to learn the trade for a few days. does anyone know a spot where i can pull the jon boat up on a preferably sand bank and pitch a tent, and not really have to watch for gators? when fishing that is their swamps, do you fish in the swamps? i heard fishing lily pads is good but do i fish around lily pads for and with? also do the cats hide deep in the summer or are they on structure? what can i troll with and for? i like to live bait fish but i can throw some artificials just dont prefer it. what are the methods for live bait fishing and what live bait do you fish with? and what are the good styles and names of artys? cranks or topwaters or spinners chatterbaits or frogs or bucktails or flies or lizards or worms or soft plastics? thanks
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pitcher
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Posted - 03/03/2012 : 11:14:40 AM
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There's surprisingly nice fish in GCR. There's also surprisingly large gators, if there was some place to camp you wouldn't want to do it...they'd never find your body, just the drag marks where a dinosaur took you kicking and screaming into the water.
As for what to use, for bass keep it simple...some type of topwater (Pop-R, Spook, buzzbait, or frog), soft plastic (worm or lizard), a couple of spinnerbaits, and a couple of Rattletraps. A frog like a Zoom Horny Toad or a floating hollow body frog can be fished over thick vegetation.
Minnows, jigs, or beetlespins for crappie, crickets or beetlespins for bream.
Whatever you want to use for cats.
It slows down in the heat of summer, but they can still be caught, with better luck early and late.
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OhioNavyNuke
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Posted - 03/04/2012 : 09:44:47 AM
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| theres no shortage of shoreline weeds and plenty of lily pads here and there in the reservoir too. ive had luck with the beetle spin for panfish and i usually work the edge of the weeds with soft plastics for bass. yes the reservoir is loaded with gators and most of them i see are 8-10 feet long but im sure theres plenty bigger. only boat i can get ahold of to take there is a rental canoe but ive never had trouble with gators following too close either. i plan on trying it more this spring since a friend is probably comming down for bass fishing so ill let you know how it goes. |
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goose creek reservoir
