Friday, January 18, Lake Okeechobee
Dan writes:
I spent all day today right around Clewiston, in what is referred to as the West Wall. Picture a hay field a mile wide and four or five miles long, where the hay is about five feet tall. Now flood that field with three to four feet of water, and you’ll have an idea of what we’re fishing. Just like a hay field, it all looks the same from afar. When you get down in though you find that there are areas where the grass may be taller or shorter, where there is a mix of different vegetation types, where it is thicker or thinner than average, where the bottom is harder or softer, or where there is rock, sand or shell under the water. The key here is wandering over these areas and noticing which ones the fish seem to like.
There are individual fish scattered throughout, but every once in a while you will come across an area with two or three beds in close proximity, so you circle around this area looking for more. I found one or two areas where the fish are congregating, and marked them on my Lowrance GPS. The big fish are not up spawning yet, but by next week they may be, and if I need a place to run to late in the day that’s close to home, I can zoom right in to these bedding fish without having to search them out again.
Annie writes:
I stayed in today and caught up on email, made phone calls, and worked on the computer. It was not the nicest day, so I figured it would be a good day to spend in the tent. The tent is actually working out quite well. It is quite spacious, and we have a little computer table set up, a wardrobe area, and it is really not bad at all.