West Central Bass League - Lake Florida

The West Central Bass League returned to Lake Florida on Wednesday July 14th. We had fished there several weeks earlier on a Thursday night and the fishing was pretty tough for the most part. It was nothing compared to what we faced on this night though. Out of the 18 teams competing there were 6 zeros and another 6 boats only had 2 fish. There were still some nice fish caught though as usual.

1st - Ron & Joe 9.67 lbs

2nd - Andy & Mike 9.51 lbs

3rd - Kelly & Scott 8.30 lbs

4th - Brad & Wayne 5.20 lbs

Big Bass - Ron & Joe 4.08 lbs

After the top 3 the weights really dropped off as you can see. Fortunately we were able to find some fish and actually have a fun night of fishing. Our first stop was deep water area with scattered weeds and a few rocks. We ended up staying on this spot for the first hour. The action was very slow but after that hour we had 3 fish in the boat with one of them being 3 3/4 lbs and another close to 3 lbs.

Our next stop was another deep area with similar features to the first. We ended up spending the entire second hour in this location and the action was much faster. We probably ended up catching 15 keepers in the hour if not more. Most of the fish were 2 lbs or under but we were able to cull up a few times with fish in the 3 lb range.

Our final hour was spent bouncing around several other deep weed areas with little success. I was able to catch another fish close to 3 lbs on one of the spots but at that point it was not big enough to help us. All of our weigh fish for the night ended up coming on watermelon jigs or watermelon texas-rigged finesse worms.