I live on this lake. I remember the day Dean Rojas weighed in. I was 10 or 11 yrs old and it was phenomenal. I fish there everyday, no luck beating his record yet though lol.
What gets me is the fact they're using cloths baskets to weight the fish. Now what they use is over-the-top in my opinion. I think the old ways are best.
I don't make videos, but I've got a photo album loaded with proof. I've got three 12 lb bass under my belt, and seven 10 lb'ers and many huge bass on down from there. My single best day was actually a half day on the Stick Marsh/Farm13 in late November. 48 live wild shiners produced 35 bass for me fishing alone. Two were 10 lbs, one 9 lb'er and two 8 lb'ers gave me a 5 fish limit of 45 lbs, so I know what it feels like. But I had many other huge bass on that half day, with most weighing 5 lbs & a few a little heavier, so 35 bass totaled 162 lbs. What a memorable day. Another short story, I decided to fish the 2nd half of the day by driving from my home in Melbourne to fish Toho. Scattered thunderstorms were here & there. It rained hard on my way there, but quit & was overcast upon arrival at the boat launch at the North end. I had to wait for some sort of regional BASS or FLW tournament weigh in, so I set back and watched the weigh in. This tournament involved an amateur with each semi-pro. But the amateurs got to COMBINE their weight with the weight of the pro they fished with. The pro's were featured & weighed & paid first. Most of the crowd had left, as I readied my boat. I heard over the loud speaker "If your combined weight with the weight of the pro you were assigned to totals 21lbs, you are in the money". .......OK.....so then I went fishing at the mouth of Shingle Creek near the North end of the lake. I caught a 7 lb'er and two 3 lb'ers fishing a floating/diving minnow similar to a Shad Rap in about an hour. That's 13lbs total just by myself. Had I been partnered with a pro in that tournament, I would've been in the money. I've been living & fishing the lakes of Florida since 1969. I love our local bass waters. I wouldn't trade them for anything else, although I would love to have Guntersville as a bonus lake.
@@mr.edmiston6725 Just because I mention a single day of fantastic fishing using live wild shiners, don't even try to assume "my success only comes from using live shiners" because that's pure bullshit. Many trophy bass.......and I do mean many, were indeed caught using artificial lures. My very first 12 lb'er came on a Zoom Mag ll pumpkinseed & chartreuse plastic worm. Another of my four 12 lb'ers was caught on a #90 Whopper Plopper. Only my other two 12's came on shiners. ( Besides, there's a lot of true effort & techniques involved with fishing live wild shiners, and they are NOT "the end-all, go-to solution". There are times when a big bass won't even touch a live shiner, FACT. ) I would say 60% of all trophy bass over 8 lbs caught by me, came on artificials. I only use wild shiners from late November thru late April. And when using wild shiners, I'm tossing artificials between the shiner bite. December of 2018, I caught a 9.5 on a shiner. 15 minutes later in the same area, I caught an 8.5 on a Nicholas JT Kenny Grass Wizard jig. I hate when people assume the shit they do.
