A great video of a couple of good ole South Florida locals slaying largemouth bass on Lake Okeechobee.
Nice work @dannjshaw22 and Pressure Guruz!
#largemouth #bass #fishing #southflorida #florida #lakeokeechobee #dannyjshaw
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Showing posts with label largemouth bass. Show all posts
Showing posts with label largemouth bass. Show all posts
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Monday, November 18, 2013
Bass Fishing from a Boat by: Paul Gozzo
Last Saturday was the first time in my life that I (Paul Gozzo) ever bass fished from a boat and it was everything I every thought it would be and then some. Growing up in New England I had only fished ponds and small lakes or shallow rivers from the bank or shoreline. So when I migrated to south Florida, I kept up that practice whenever I would try a new pond. My curiosity had been getting to me though and lately I found myself creating a list of things to do in Florida before I move out of town next year and largemouth bass fishing from a boat found its way to my list!
So when my pal Tommy suggested we take a ride out of Sanford, Florida with one of his old buddies, I jumped at the opportunity.
The night before I attended a wedding in Titusville, Florida and had to crack up at myself for dreaming of delicious bass during those wedding moments when people are usually crying; the bride entering, the first dance, the cutting of the cake, etc. Every time I would have a moment not marred down in conversation, I would think of bass. Needless to say, that night, I could barely sleep. At one point I was even laughing at myself at how ridiculous this was, how excited I was, acting like a little kid.
The entire ride to our meeting spot in the morning was dark and vacant. I didn't even listen to music. Instead, I spaced out remembering all the large bass I have caught over the years and where I was when I caught them, who I was with, and what kind of lure I caught the fish on. I had some great thoughts and memories on that ride as it is any time I reflect back on my days on the water, or from the shore, over the years. Fishing has brought me to so many beautiful places and helped me to forge so many wonderful relationships, I will forever be thankful to the hobby of fishing.
We all gathered at the dock a few minutes before 6 am last Saturday.....
And the rest is history.
Another day fishing, this time a little different style (from the bass boat), but the same old story. A great day with images burned into my memory of good friends and fish.
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So when my pal Tommy suggested we take a ride out of Sanford, Florida with one of his old buddies, I jumped at the opportunity.
The night before I attended a wedding in Titusville, Florida and had to crack up at myself for dreaming of delicious bass during those wedding moments when people are usually crying; the bride entering, the first dance, the cutting of the cake, etc. Every time I would have a moment not marred down in conversation, I would think of bass. Needless to say, that night, I could barely sleep. At one point I was even laughing at myself at how ridiculous this was, how excited I was, acting like a little kid.
The entire ride to our meeting spot in the morning was dark and vacant. I didn't even listen to music. Instead, I spaced out remembering all the large bass I have caught over the years and where I was when I caught them, who I was with, and what kind of lure I caught the fish on. I had some great thoughts and memories on that ride as it is any time I reflect back on my days on the water, or from the shore, over the years. Fishing has brought me to so many beautiful places and helped me to forge so many wonderful relationships, I will forever be thankful to the hobby of fishing.
We all gathered at the dock a few minutes before 6 am last Saturday.....
And the rest is history.
Another day fishing, this time a little different style (from the bass boat), but the same old story. A great day with images burned into my memory of good friends and fish.
www.paulgozzo.com
http://about.me/PaulGozzo
https://plus.google.com/+PaulGozzo/posts
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Paul Gozzo Asks: Fisherman or Angler?
Fisherman or Angler?
“Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”
No, this is not a blog about the famous Biblical truth.
I want to address the question of fisherman vs. angler? See
how you match up?
A fisherman “figures it out”. He embarks on a journey to
figure out how to catch fish. For most fisherman, the journey begins the day
before and often times, weeks out. As Ted Williams, ya that Ted Williams, the
Hall of Fame baseball player who was also an accomplished fisherman, once said
something to the extent of, “ often times the biggest fish are caught the night
before”.
For example, fly fishing for trout in a New England stream
or wild Western River requires some knowledge and experience the latter of
which is absolutely necessary to actually becoming successful at the fly
fishing endeavor. Outside the obvious needs like transportation, rod, reel,
waders etc. the fisherman must learn to read the water to determine the highest probability of where
a fish will be and then to study the water to determine where to cast in order
to drift his fly naturally by where a fish most likely will be. Of course, all
of this is after choosing the right fly, or in many cases the correct version
of that fly and appropriate size as well as the size of the tippet at the end
of the leader. All of this and more goes into the fishing experience.
Angling on the other hand, is what you do after you hook the
fish. A good fly fishing angler will choose both where to cast from, so as to
give himself the best chance to naturally present the fly to the fish, and also
where he will position himself in the river to then fight and release the fish
once it is hooked so as not to disrupt the pool the put the other fish “down”
where they will become inactive. That angler thinks of the other fisherman and
his potential to catch more fish from the same pool as well as his probability
of landing the fish he is actually casting too all before making his initial
cast.
On the saltwater, often times it takes 2-3 people working
together on a boat to find, hook, and land a fish. Boat preparation takes time
and effort. Rod and reels must be prepared including the testing and setting of
the drag well ahead of time before the boat even leaves the dock. When a big
game fish is hooked, the angle and boat captain will communicate and the boat
is used to help reel in the fish. Then of course, a third person is usually
needed to net or gaff the fish. This teamwork is fishing. The guy on the rod
and reel is the angler.
These days, in our ego driven hey, “look at me and like me on
Facebook and pass my picture and love it on Instagram” immediate gratification
world, often times people rush to get to the point of that picture so much that
they miss the opportunity to fish. They angle. And the two are not the same. I
once read a quote that “only a surfer knows the feeling”….well the same can be
said here, only a fisherman knows the feeling. The feeling of figuring it out
and catching that fish. Hiring a guide who is on the water 300 days a year, who
rigs your rod, baits your hook, and tells you where to cast, or even hooks the
fish, then lets you reel it in, isn’t fishing. Yes, you are still angling,
although it can be argued that a valuable part of the angling equations is
missed when you do not actually hook the fish yourself, but none the less you
are angling to some extent if you fight and land that fish. Now take your
picture and pass it around the world and make sure to leave the part out about
how the guide hooked it for you!
Friday, April 29, 2011
Bass Fishing is getting hot in south Florida
Bass fishing in south Florida has been getting better every week for the past few weeks...
Check out this beauty that my friend Matt Stiebel caught the other day. It was his first largemouth bass ever weighing in at about 7 pounds.
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