Seminole for Labor Day Weekend

Question
Mr. Jack,
I just found this forum today and have read most of your Seminole advice already.  We are actually renting a house near your place on Spring Creek Rd.  We're coming over from Fort Walton Beach, FL.  
After reading, do all of the places and techniques produce for this time of the year?  I know the water temps will still be high and the fish either deep or buried in the hydrilla.  What additional information can you provide for the Labor day weekend?

Thanks in advance and hopefully we can get together for an ice tea and fishing stories.

Craig

Answer
By Labor day weekend the weather should be beginning to cool some especially at night.  While it is true some fish will be deep and if you are good at catching deep fish you should try them.  However there are likely to be a good number of fish beginning to move toward the shallows, especially if we have some cool nights.

I have found fish in relatively shallow water in every month of the year.  By relatively shallow I mean ten feet or under.  I have found that the areas in the standing timber (now broken off at or near the water line) about ten feet deep. My best luck year around has been casting so that my lure bumps the stumps as deep as possible or casting a worm to a stump and letting it fall on a completely limp line.  If there is any tension on the line the lure will swing away from the stump.

Of course at that time of year early and late is by far the best.  I seldom get up early anymore but I like to go out an hour or so before sunset and fish  until I get tired.  Most of my larger bass with the exception of the early Spring pre spawn, have been caught at night on surface lures.  Usually I work just off the creek channel to about 100 feet or so.  

Worms or other plastics are always good most any time of year but they must be fished close to the cover either  tree stumps or hydrilla.  Sometimes a big ten inch worm works well while at other times a 4-6 inch works better.  Use as little weight as possible and keep the worm near the bottom of the trees or at the edge of the hydrilla patches.

I hope you have good fishing.  I hope to be doing some fishing about that time too.

I hope this has been of some help.  Thank you for calling on me to answer your question.  If it is late it is because my computer  was upgraded and "donotreply.com" has been put in spam and I didn't catch it until today.

Give me a call if I can be of some further help while you are here.
My phone number is  229-861-2366

Jack L. Gaither
Lake Seminole, Georgia.