50+ Acre lake, stocked about 7 years ago with Florida's, where they at? Getting harder every year to catch fish in general, much less a big fish.
Lake is probably underfished though we have been removing 13" and less LMB for about 2 years now. Lake get's checked via seine about twice a year.
3 years ago during the spring you could get worn out catching 1-3# bass, with an occasional 5 or 6 pounder in their. Typical day for me then was hauling in about 12 1-3 pounders and a mix of 4,5,6 pounders though less in quantity. Last year fishing dropped of, and now a typical day I'm lucky to catch 4 to 6 fish 14" and less. Big ones aren't biting. Where the heck are they? For the record I have caught and witnessed being caught a few 6 pounders, and have heard that we have produced some 7 and 8's via catches. All were released.
I have read and heard stories of the Florida LMB getting less aggressive/smarter as they mature, but this is ridiculous. I have thrown every lure in the box at them. At first they loved artificial worms, then they quite biting them as much. Next starting tossing crank baits at them and would wear them out, but now.......they don't want any of that.
Our bream are definelty under fished. You think that the bream are just to easy for them to get?
Anybody else run into this problem with Florida's?
Where can I buy some dynamite?
