Central Florida Bass Fishing Report Sept 2021 Winter Haven Lake Kissimmee Camp Mack
It’s been one truly wild & crazy summer here with the bass fishing in Central Florida. I can give you a handful of lakes that will consistently produce good fish day after day, then you show up and you KNOW the fish are there, and they are being obstinate and do not want to eat. Then the next day you’re heading out and run past those fish to another spot they are on a feeding frenzy again so you whip back around... go figure. But, that’s why we are thankful the calendar says September so that we have Saturday college football to give us a break from “the grind as it were.”
So let’s get started out in Olde World Florida on the Kissimmee Chain fishing out of Camp Mack, a Guy Harvey Marina, Lodge, and RV Resort. We have been enjoying a good stretch of decent lake levels below the Lake Toho lock with all of the recent rains but the Army Corps of Engineers is still trying to bring the lakes down. Pray for more rain & that Mother Nature keeps up for a few more months because with the water up, the fishing has been awesome! We’re talking about incredible “offshore” fishing in 3’-5’ over shellbeds and scattered hydrilla with eel grass and it is honest to God so much fun if you like an early morning topwater bite then switching to swimjigs, chatterbaits, Gambler EZ swimmers, flukes, etc.
I’m always locked & loaded with an array of baits rigged & ready to start our days out here. I like all of the afore mentioned baits lined up, but also in different sizes and colors because again, these fish can change on a daily basis. To simplify, I’ll have “smaller” white or white & chartreuse baits along with bigger gold or gold & black baits until we know if the bass are keying in on shiners or shad.
In Winter Haven on the South Chain and many of the smaller stand alone lakes we’re still fishing out deep, deep like out in the middle of the lakes when you find schools of bait. And just because we are fishing in up to 30ft of water does not mean I won’t have topwaters and flukes rigged-up for the first 2-3 hours of the day. Here I don’t over analyze: natural color topwaters, flukes, smaller swimbaits, jerkbaits, and crankbaits. Because it is dealing with a creature with a brain the size of a pea just be versatile and it’s “normally” easy to figure out the puzzle. Til that one day they have you shaking your head, but go back the next because it’ll be “game on.”
Capt. Scotty Taylor
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