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Great Fishing in a Time of Chaos! The lake is slowly filling back up and as of the time of this report is at roughly the 17-1/2’ mark. Which means it’s about 2-1/2’ down from normal full pool level, but only about 6” from where they tend to keep the lake level in Winter months I believe. As you can imagine the rising water creates lots of chaos as weed beds are constantly shifting and moving around and you can have an incredible fishing spot one day and it’s gone the next! But the water is beautiful and full of life! You just have to keep your head down and keep working and nobody will work harder than us to stay on the fish! Trips have been generally producing between 30-50 bass per trip with lots of GREAT bass between 8-10 pounds! I love this time of year as the fishing really heats up post spawn! The lake is in the process of resetting itself and I’m happy to report looks great with lots of beautiful and healthy bass!
Finally getting to do a fishing report after so many folks asking if everything was okay because I hadn’t been posting! Lol The 2025-2026 Drawdown is pretty much officially coming to a close as the water is coming up and in another couple weeks the regular ramps will be usable again. It was unfortunately necessary as the drawdown attracted people from all over trying to take advantage of all the fish from this big lake being forced into a smaller area. The Hole Buzzard game was on a level I’ve never experienced before! Everybody fishing on top of everybody and I’m glad the water is on its way up so we can spread out and hopefully things will become more sane! Lolol The big fish bite started out good at the beginning of the drawdown and in the end we were getting incredible numbers, usually between 70-100 per day with big fish after big fish! But again looking forward to the lake at normal water levels and the lake will reset itself and the floating and submergent weeds will return after a little while. Will get back to doing regular reports now.
Thank you Lord for this current warming trend! It has been another strange and up and down weather year for here on Rodman and the other local lakes we fish. A lot more cold by Florida standards than us Floridians are used to and man did it wreak havoc on the fishing! I actually saw water temps in the last two weeks that were in the 40’s!!!! Poor fish didn’t know if they were coming or going!! lol Made for some up and down fishing. But things are starting to stabilize and the fishing is exploding! Trips are producing typically 50-70 bass per day right now with LOTS of great and trophy bass!
Mega-Cold (by Florida Standards) and slugging out sone good days! I won’t BS you and tell you that it’s been easy, that just wouldn’t be the truth! It’s been a slugfest! Just front after front, and bitter cold and wind. Water temps have plummeted and have even been down in the 40’s and anything sub 60 degrees is tough here in Florida. When the water is in the 50’s it’s been about 20-25 per day and when it jumps above 60 we’ve had days where we boated 50-70 bass. Yesterday it was 19° at the ramp and the entire landing was nothing but ice. This morning it’s 28° again. All you can do is work hard and swing for the fences! Looks like possibly once we get past this week there might be a few weeks of 70+ degree air temperatures. Really hope that’s true! It hasn’t been easy, but we’ve had some great trips in the last few weeks with 22 bass topping the 10 pound mark so far this season with the biggest being about 12-1/2 pounds and almost 80 over 8lbs!
Getting Close to Hammer Time! When the water gets low, everything changes! Places where you were catching 40-60 per day dry up and you have to start all over again relocating them and sometimes they may not be where you think, but will move in when the conditions are exactly right. Having a true and historied knowledge of where to go when is absolutely PARAMOUNT, but can also cause tougher than hoped for days for even the most grizzly vet! We’ve had a few surprises and then also had some things play out like they always have historically! Bottom line is we’ve had some GREAT days and it’s ramping up and I believe the best may be yet to come! Trips are still producing 40-60 per day and some HAWGS are starting to show up and the last few days have been spectacular, so I’ll start with those days first! I had long time return buddy and customer Kurt Juberg and on day one he was solo, day two had a buddy and day three was by himself again. Day one he had a career day and caught his PB! He caught 54 bass topped by 7 bass over 7lbs, an 8-1/2lber and a big and GORGEOUS PB that tipped the scales at 11-1/2lbs!! That’s 9 big bass in one day! Day 2 they had 50 bass even to 7-3/4lbs! Day 3 he had 52 bass to 7lbs 15oz that’s 156 bass in 3 days! Just STUD BASS after STUD BASS! Next up we had the Powell clan in for a few days and they caught nearly 100 bass topped by bass weighing 8, 8-1/2 and 10lbs! Next up was legendary friend and angler Mike Galbusieri and he and pal Bob boated 52 bass to 7-3/4lbs! Next up we had Preston Pullman in for a mornings fishing and they boated 43 bass to 6lbs! Last but certainly not least I had Nolan Brown and fam in for a morning trip and we boated 32 bass to 6lbs! So as you can see from working newest to the oldest trip, there were some days where we had to re-find the fish, but as we are getting a little further in, the Fishing is starting to explode! I may slow down my fishing reports to protect the areas we are fishing from a bunch of the hole buzzards over the next 3-1/2 months or so, but will pop in from time to time to keep folks updated!! So far this young, new season (October 1st) that brings the total number of trophy bass to 23 (over 8lbs) with 6 of those being double digits 10lbs and above!!!!
ABSOLUTELY AMAZING 2025 FISCAL SEASON!!!! First I want to give a HUGE shout out to all of the amazing customers that make possible all of the ABSOLUTELY INSANE numbers that I am about to report to you! Without you guys and our extended fishing family,? none of this would be possible! As many of you know my fiscal year runs from October 1 to September 30 of the following year. I do this for two reasons. One is because the Fall is the beginning of my busy season and two I run it concurrent with the TrophyCatch Florida season. I just wrapped up my most wildly successful season to date! I went back and crunched some numbers and here are the incredible results from this past season! I did 326 guided trips in total. On those trips we caught 9747 Bass, which works out to a 30 Bass per day average. In those 326 days, 277 trophy bass (Bass over 8lbs)came over the side of the boat!! if you do the math, it’s about an 85% success rate for days fished divided by number of Trophy Bass? caught! Which shatters the previous record by a LONG SHOT!!!! Of those 277 Bass 56 of those Bass were 10 pounds or bigger!!!!! Which is the second best year I’ve ever had for Bass over 10 pounds! The biggest being John Orton‘s Hall of Fame Bass that came in at 13-1/2 pounds!!!! John’s Bass was the 13th Hall of Fame Bass that customers have caught in our boats!!!! I am so excited for this upcoming year. Right ?now trips are producing between 40 to 60 Bass and I’ve got some incredible trips yet to report on that we just had! So excited to see how this next year plays out! I went through and picked out a couple of pictures from this incredible season real quick, I know I didn’t get everybody’s in there, but just wanted to post a few examples of the Eye Candy from this past season!!!!! Thanks again everyone and you have my most sincere gratitude!
ABSOLUTELY AMAZING 2025 FISCAL SEASON!!!! First I want to give a HUGE shout out to all of the amazing customers that make possible all of the ABSOLUTELY INSANE numbers that I am about to report to you! Without you guys and our extended fishing family,? none of this would be possible! As many of you know my fiscal year runs from October 1 to September 30 of the following year. I do this for two reasons. One is because the Fall is the beginning of my busy season and two I run it concurrent with the TrophyCatch Florida season. I just wrapped up my most wildly successful season to date! I went back and crunched some numbers and here are the incredible results from this past season! I did 326 guided trips in total. On those trips we caught 9747 Bass, which works out to a 30 Bass per day average. In those 326 days, 277 trophy bass (Bass over 8lbs)came over the side of the boat!! if you do the math, it’s about an 85% success rate for days fished divided by number of Trophy Bass? caught! Which shatters the previous record by a LONG SHOT!!!! Of those 277 Bass 56 of those Bass were 10 pounds or bigger!!!!! Which is the second best year I’ve ever had for Bass over 10 pounds! The biggest being John Orton‘s Hall of Fame Bass that came in at 13-1/2 pounds!!!! John’s Bass was the 13th Hall of Fame Bass that customers have caught in our boats!!!! I am so excited for this upcoming year. Right ?now trips are producing between 40 to 60 Bass and I’ve got some incredible trips yet to report on that we just had! So excited to see how this next year plays out! I went through and picked out a couple of pictures from this incredible season real quick, I know I didn’t get everybody’s in there, but just wanted to post a few examples of the Eye Candy from this past season!!!!! Thanks again everyone and you have my most sincere gratitude!
ABSOLUTELY AMAZING 2025 FISCAL SEASON!!!! First I want to give a HUGE shout out to all of the amazing customers that make possible all of the ABSOLUTELY INSANE numbers that I am about to report to you! Without you guys and our extended fishing family,? none of this would be possible! As many of you know my fiscal year runs from October 1 to September 30 of the following year. I do this for two reasons. One is because the Fall is the beginning of my busy season and two I run it concurrent with the TrophyCatch Florida season. I just wrapped up my most wildly successful season to date! I went back and crunched some numbers and here are the incredible results from this past season! I did 326 guided trips in total. On those trips we caught 9747 Bass, which works out to a 30 Bass per day average. In those 326 days, 277 trophy bass (Bass over 8lbs)came over the side of the boat!! if you do the math, it’s about an 85% success rate for days fished divided by number of Trophy Bass? caught! Which shatters the previous record by a LONG SHOT!!!! Of those 277 Bass 56 of those Bass were 10 pounds or bigger!!!!! Which is the second best year I’ve ever had for Bass over 10 pounds! The biggest being John Orton‘s Hall of Fame Bass that came in at 13-1/2 pounds!!!! John’s Bass was the 13th Hall of Fame Bass that customers have caught in our boats!!!! I am so excited for this upcoming year. Right ?now trips are producing between 40 to 60 Bass and I’ve got some incredible trips yet to report on that we just had! So excited to see how this next year plays out! I went through and picked out a couple of pictures from this incredible season real quick, I know I didn’t get everybody’s in there, but just wanted to post a few examples of the Eye Candy from this past season!!!!! Thanks again everyone and you have my most sincere gratitude!
