Stick Marsh/Farm 13 Florida

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As the weather goes in the rest of the country, so goes the weather down here. From a beautiful day in the 70's with winds calm we find ourselves the next day with temperatures in the 30's - low 40's and winds blowing in excess of 20 MPH. For the fisherman wanting to work the lake with artificial bait this makes for a difficult scenario.
Tim Snyder arrived on the 16th to a better weather pattern, but with the previous two days of blustery cold weather they looked to doing a mixed bait day. Temperatures in the AM were quite cool, (low 40's), but predicted to warm up nicely, and the wind was expected to be in the 10-15 MPH range.
We started in the back lot where we had had some pretty good success, but by late morning the bites had been sparse.

It was time for a change of scenery and I could think of no better place than an area in the SW of the Farm that had produced well for me previously.

It was as if someone threw a switch. Over the balance of the day we seldom sat idle for more than 5 minutes, and in between bites on the live bait we were able to catch some on Senkos. All and all it turned into a very successful day. A couple of real big gals were on but didn't make it to the boat, however of all the fish making it to the boat only a couple were smaller than the one in the picture above.
It was our hope to get back into the same area yesterday and work with some artificial but the fickle weather did it again. The wind warnings were out for even the lakes so we opted to do a bit of boat maintenance.
See you out there.
Scott