Well, our Thanksgiving Food Feast is now behind us for another year. We find that our pants feel a little tighter around the waist as well.

Great weather this past week for us Floridians. I hit the Stick Marsh on Wednesday, and my game plan was to work the SW area of Farm 13(The Nursery).

The Stick Marsh for me is still stingy for bites. My last few outings have been plagued with a north wind, and this makes it difficult for fishing on the south side of the Farm.

I fished on both the Stick Marsh and Headwaters this past week. These two lakes that are very close neighbors are so different in many ways.

We are now moving into our Fall Transition time for our area lakes. Fishing waters adjacent to shallow water areas will be the best place to be able to find bass as they will be getting ready to move into the shallows for their spawning activities. Once the water temperatures get into the mid to lower 70 degree mark the movement will begin.

It’s been almost a full month since I was on the water due to the weather. Yesterday, I wanted to change all that. I backed my boat down the Stick Marsh ramp and went to crank the motor, to my surprise the battery didn’t have enough juice to do so.

With the two tropical systems that passed by in the Atlantic last week, and another system supposed to cross our state this week, it has made any kind of a fishing expedition tough to find a day with winds under 15 mph and rain.

I took a week away from the freshwater and hit up the Lagoon. It’s been some time since I’ve been there but during the summer months it can get quite slow for fishing. What changed my mind is all the hype every year about this time of a thing called The Mullet Run.

The Stick Marsh was stingy last week for fish. Water temperatures are around 82 degrees now and when there is a north wind the impoundment gets quite rough to fish.

Stick Marsh is still producing a good bite but finding areas holding fish is very limited at best. The spillway has been moving lots of water from Garcia and Fort Drum.