February 2010, Big Bass!

February 27, 2010

It has gotten cold again, so we had a couple of days off the water, just like the last few cold spells after two or three cold nights and days the bass finally start eating again. I fished with Kyle Clevenger and his friends Jonah & Todd. We caught bass on shiners and artificial baits and had a great day together.





February 24, 2010

I fished with Mike & Rosemary Moses from Cleveland Tenn. today. We had a great day of fishing and beautiful weather. It was their first Okeechobee fishing and can't wait to come back again!















February 23, 2010

I fished with Bill Parrish and his life long friend Joe, the boys are from Gallatin Tenn. and love to catch bass. They have been fishing Okeechobee since 1965 together, and have caught a lot of fish.


































February 22, 2010

I fished with Renee & Christina Trevino from California today. It was their first bass fishing trip and they had a blast! We caught some great bass and had a lot of fun fishing together.








February 21, 2010

I fished with Andrew Bowers and his friend Curt Stoever from Pa. today. We caught some very nice bass and had a lot of laughs.













February 20, 2010

I fished with Terry Garner & John Sullivan from South Bend again today. We caught a lot of bass and had a great day together.





























February 19, 2010

Today I fished with Gordon Thomas and his son-in-law Paul from Canada and their friend Bill from Wisconson. The water has been cold for four days now so the bass are starting to feed again. As you can tell from the pictures we had a great day. Gordon caught this big catfish on wild shiner in addition to a lot of bass. We had a lot of laughs and a great day together.














































February 18, 2010

Today I fished with Terry Gramer and his friend John, both guys are from South Bend Indiana. It was another very tough fishing day with water temperatures in the 50's. Fishing has been tough this week with cold weather ,wind and cold water temperatures.










February 17, 2010

I fished with Ron Cramer and his friend Rod today. It was another very windy and cold day and fishing was very tough!














February 15, 2010

I fished with Abram & Josh Kirschenbaum from NJ today. The water was very cold this morning (56 degrees) and the bass fishing reflected that, we caught a few fish very early at first light, and then had a long lull before the water warmed up and the bass started biting again. We did catch some very nice quality sized bass, and had fun together.






























February 12, 2010

Today Don Harris and I fished together again, Don and I fished previously in November and had a great day. We had another great day today but the weather was not near as nice cold, and very windy! Don is a great guy to fish with.








February 10, 2010

Today I fished with Wayne Melton and his childhood friend Rick, these guys are something very rare in Florida these days (Florida Natives)
These guys are great outdoorsmen and love to fish. The weather was abhorrent, cold and extremely windy with winds of 30 mph creating 3 foot waves on the lake. The fishing was toug, but we caught bass anyway, and had lots of laughs together.






























February 9, 2010

Today I fished with Roger Shroeder from St Louis, Roger and I have fished together before and always have a good time together. It was another windy, rough day, but the bass still bit for us.










February 8, 2010

Today I fished with Adrie Theuns from Chicago and his friend Franz Passage from Belgium. We had a terrific day catching big Bass and laughing. It's always fun when the fish are biting, and they have been biting a lot lately! I love my job when I get to spend my days catching Bass and having a great time with good people.





















February 7, 2010

Today I fished with John Wason, Bill Krah and Dick Slansky. The guys are in Florida for a business conference and are staying in Orlando. They had fished Lake Okeechobee previously only this year they visited with us. We had a great day on the water catching bass on shiners like crazy. The boys caught some pretty big Bass as the picture will show you. They had three other guys from there company that fished with us also from another boat. We had a great day catching big bass!



February 6, 2010

Today I fished with Tom Vigil from Chicago and his friend Maureen from Delray Beach. Tom and I have fished together before, so it was good to see him back again. It was a very windy day, and we caught some very nice bass.






February 5, 2010

Today I fished with Steve Farley from Vermont. Steve is an avid fishermen and has fished many different venues. We had a great day on the water together catching Bass and laughing it it up.







February 3, 2010

Today I fished with Gary Ross from NY and Don Stover from Penn. As you can see from the pictures it was another great day for catching big Bass on Lake Okeechobee. I know this big bite will not last forever, but I hope it does!






















February 2, 2010

Today I fished with Odell Allbritten from Illinois, Odell is recently retired so his son Kyle decided to give him a guided fishing trip for a retirement gift. As you can see the Okeechobee bass were very good to Odell today, It was another day of catching as opposed to fishing. Just the way I like it!
If you have never fished the Big "O" before you don't know what your missing.

February 1, 2010

February started off with a bang!
Dan Joliceur & Bob Scheefer from NY came to Okeechobee to fish with us again. It has been a couple of years since I fished with the guys and a lot of good things have happened around the lake since then. We had a great day catching bass after bass on wild shiners, for about two hours we could not keep a bait in the water without a bass blasting it! It was incredible! Dan caught two big fish today, as you can see he is all smiles.