Lake
Rosalie, Butler Chain and Johns Lake
Fishing
Report by Captain Tim Fey
Week ending 11/26/08
This report covers the last 30 days. Things have been very
crazy to say the least. We have had several trips to Johns
Lake, Butler Chain, Conway Chain and a private lake.
Johns Lake has seen some good action, with early morning
action coming from the Deer Island cut area working SteelShads and
trick worms. Once the action slows in this area, we have
been going into the marsh area working trick worms and brush
hogs, all junebug colors, which have been producing 
some
quality bass. Most of the action has been coming in open
waters, with the baits being crawled slowly across bottom
around grass beds and hydrilla. Main lake areas that have
been producing for us have been the scattered isolated grass
beds, once again, a single blade of grass produces a good
catch. Jigs and whacky rigged senko type baits also have
been producing around docks and submerged structure.
Butler Chain has also been pretty steady for us. Drop offs
have been a major focus for us, tossing trick worms, craws
and brush hogs into 16 plus foot of water, and slowly crawling
the baits up into the shallower waters has been the ticket,
most bass we have seen and caught have been suspended in
12 foot of water on the drop offs. Lake Butler and Little
Lake Down have been the best producers for us, with Lake
Tibet and Lake Louise also producing some good numbers.
Conway Chain faired pretty well, with once again deep waters
being the big key to catching bass. Offshore weed beds were
holding bass with rattle traps, steel shads and 7 inch worms
catching the bulk of the bass. Several docks held some quality
bass, with a whacky rig doing all the catching, as the bass
would hit on the fall. Bite was light, so watching the line
was big key to getting them out from under the docks.
The private lake we have been fishing on occasion has been
producing very well. This body of water has seen some limited
shallow water action, sitting in the middle of the lakes
has been really producing some 
good numbers of not only bass
but some 2 pound crappie. Steel shads have been the main
bait for catching bass out there, and if worked like slow
rolling a spinner bait, the crappie will slam this bait.
Best crappie fishing action has been from 6:30am up to about
8am, then they just seem to shut down only getting a few
here and there, very scattered, but you can usually get the
limit by 8am. Best fishing waters have been in 12 to 18 foot
of water, with bass mostly suspended in 8 to 10 foot of water,
go deeper and you can catch some very big catch fish here
also.
When we have gotten a good shallow water bite going, it has
been mostly on brush hogs and trick worms crawled very slowly
on the bottom. Water temperatures have been holding pretty
steady in the low to mid 60's with schooling action
going on most of the day as the bass are really starting
to feed up good for the spawn. We have been seeing some scattered
beds on Johns Lake, Butler Chain and the private waters so
get ready for yet another great spawning season.
Captain Tim Fey
BassFishingFl.com
321-303-9207
Your Florida Bass Fishing Connection
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