Fall Bass Fishing on Lake Okeechobee: As we creep into the heart of the fall season, Lake Okeechobee will begin it’s annual fall patterns. The water starts to cool and the live-bait, shiner, fishing gets even better! Our guided trips are catching 25-40 bass in a 4 hour trip, with the average fish weighing about…
Okeechobee Bass Fishing Guide: Captain Wade Lightsey Catching big fish never gets old for Captain Wade Lightsey, a sixth generation Okeechobee Native. Having spent his entire life fishing and hunting on Lake Okeechobee, it seems only fitting that Captain Wade would become one of the best Bass fishing guides on the Big O. March was a…
How did he do it? That is the question everyone is dying to know the answer to. Fast Break Bait & Tackle caught up with Mike Jones to find out the secret behind his back-to-back victories on Lake Okeechobee. This past Saturday, February 18th, Mike Jones weighed in an impressive 20.80 lbs to take the…
Girls just want to have fun and what better way to do it? Captain Allen Duke put this mother-daughter duo on the fish this morning. They boated 15 bass in their four hour live-bait trip on the north end of Lake Okeechobee. The mother’s bass weighed in at 4.67 lbs and the daughter’s fish was…
Capt. Ryan Hathaway is slaying big bass during the morning bite. If flipping and pitching for big girls interests you, then now is the time to go! He boated 30+ fish in four hours with 15 of them being 3-6lbs. His flipping rig of choice was a 3/4oz tungsten, a black/blue Medlock punch skirt and Gambler…
Big bass are thick on the lake. Capt. Kyle Monti, boated 23 bass on artificial bait. Most of his catches were 3lbs and up, with 3-5lbs being the average. Bass up to 8lbs are being caught daily on Lake Okeechobee. The early morning bite is hot with the shad spawn still going strong, therefore, white spinnerbaits and…
I had the great pleasure of taking out John and his son from PA on a great trip. We caught 40+ fish that ranged from 2 lbs to 7 + lbs with the average fish being 3 lbs.
All the fish were caught on wild shiners.
Check out some great pictures from the trip below.
Lake Okeechobee is known for Big Bass and this time of year always produces some big fish. Lately trips have ranged from 25 – 40 fish with several trips catching fish over the 7lb mark. Big bluegill moving up to spawn create a great opportunity to catch those big bass feeding on them. Bass and…
The wild shiner fishing is great right now, trips are catching 50 + fish. Check out some great pictures from recent trips here on Lake Okeechobee.
The big bass are starting to feed on some big blue gill and red ear!!!!!! Getting close to catching a big mess of panfish!!!!!
Let’s go fishing!!!!
I had the privilege of fishing with Jamie, Doug, and David for two days and we catch the fire out of the 4-5 lb fish. In the two we managed to catch 122 fish and I am confident that we actually had over 130, however, when you are catching them as fast as we were…