The spillways are flowing with vengeance this past week which made for some tough conditions at our area lakes. Last Monday’s report I wrote while sitting in front of the SE spillway at Stick Marsh. The water was coming out with massive amounts of water that was dirty and lots of vegetation along with it coming out of Garcia. The spillway area was actually swirling around like a huge eddy moving the water and vegetation in a whirlpool type cyclone. We spent the rest of our day moving around with only a few fish caught. I talked to my friend whom I fish once a week with and he spoke to a gentleman that works for St. John’s water management and has control of the spillways. The waters coming out of the Ft. Drum area is at 3,296 gallons per second level PER SECOND, imagine that! The Stick Marsh spillway where we have been fishing is at 1,060 gallons per second.

It will take awhile before the waters settle and the fish acclimate to their surroundings. Hopefully we will get a break from the rains from previous weeks and by the end of October things will get back to normal.