Fishing Report, Specks-Palm Coast 1-20-13

Weather: high 74 deg, Mostly sunny, Barometer has been trending up 30.24

Winds: 8 mph ENE

Water temp.: ?

Target Species: Crappie (Specks) Method: Drifting with jigs

Location: local lake, Palm Coast, Fl.

Catch: (6) Specks,      (1) Bass,   (4) Bluegill, (1) Warmouth     -Kept (4) Specks, (2) bluegill

After spending most of the day making plumbing repairs at home, I loaded up about 3:30PM and headed to meet Rick at a Lake in Palm Coast that I had not fished in probably 15 years. I would guess its about 8 acres or so. It has some scattered pads covering about 1/2 of the lake as well as scattered around the banks. There are a few areas of cattails along the bank also. All in all it is a real fishy looking lake. The water looks dark due to the dark bottom but is actually pretty clear.

The bream were popping the surface, feeding out in the pads. I believe if we had some crickets we would have done pretty good on them. Rick caught a few really nice ones on his fly rod with a crappie jig which is  a little hard to do as the jig is a little big to fit their small mouth.

The Speck bite was real slow, we each caught (3) though we only fished a couple hours.

I did manage to catch one small bass on a chartreuse beetle spin and (1) small warmouth.

I would like to float some shiners in this place…..I expect there are some really good bass hanging around in those pads!

We’ll be fishing this place again soon.

Here’s some pictures from the trip.

Good luck,

Larry Stephens

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