FLW Tour Lake Toho Water Temp: Practice: 73 Tournament: 65 Post Spawn/Pre Spawn
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I haven’t been able to post during this tournament because we have no internet service in the house we’re in. There really wasn’t much to say anyway. The fish are in a post/pre-spawn funk and everyone was complaining. Not so much that they couldn’t find fish, but that once they caught a good fish you couldn’t get another bite in the area. Gabe and I practiced in Lake Kissimmee the first day. Fishing was tough, but we caught a couple good fish. Gabe caught 4 and I caught 3; both of us caught a fish over 5lbs. The second day we fished in Lake Toho and that was worse than Kissimmee. I caught 3 small fish and Gabe caught 5 small fish. So the next day we headed back to Kissimmee to see if we could catch more fish in the areas where we had caught the decent ones the first day of practice. This day was even worse; between the two of us we got 1 fish after 5 hrs of practice. So we left Kissimmee and drove to Toho and launched there to finish out that day. We caught 3 or 4 keepers. The last day of practice we concentrated on fishing the Kissimmee grass in Lake Toho. The morning started off slow with Gabe and I both catching a few small ones. I was dead sticking a fluke and Gabe was throwing a topwater and a worm. About mid day I started smokin’ the fish. I caught one about 8lbs, followed up by a few good keepers. Click to enlarge...
I shook off 4 or 5 before Gabe let me set the hook again. We moved about a ¼ mi down the lake and Gabe gave me the ok to set the hook; it was over 5lbs. Needless to say, I wasn’t allowed to set the hook anymore. Things were looking up. Many of the anglers were fishing this way and I was feeling pretty good about what I had learned. I felt like I had a pretty good chance of making the cut if I could get around the Kissimmee grass.
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