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Post by tampaspicer on Mar 14, 2024 8:39:21 GMT -5
Me and the wife have an Air BnB this Saturday with a pontoon boat in Astor. Never fished there before but am considering bringing my pole. Is the fishing worth it?
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Post by tonyroma on Mar 14, 2024 9:54:11 GMT -5
Google Stripers on the old bombing range.
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Post by cyclist on Mar 15, 2024 9:13:18 GMT -5
Bring your blue crab traps!
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Post by cracker4112 on Mar 15, 2024 11:33:23 GMT -5
Don't know about the fishing but definetly check out Silver Glen Springs. Get there early on weekends...
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Post by whitebacon on Mar 15, 2024 11:43:00 GMT -5
Don't know about the fishing but definetly check out Silver Glen Springs. Get there early on weekends... miss home. Tell our buds I said hi . |
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Post by tampaspicer on Mar 15, 2024 11:44:30 GMT -5
Definitely going to one of the springs on Sunday. Been to Silver Glen and Alexandra before. Might check out Juniper Springs this trip never been there before.
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Post by cyclist on Mar 15, 2024 15:04:42 GMT -5
Have fun! Sounds like a blast.
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Post by Captj on Mar 22, 2024 10:03:35 GMT -5
Visited all three of those springs when I went to camp in Ocala back in the early 60's. Camped on Lake George as well. Some mighty big bass there back then.
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Post by throttle on Jul 9, 2024 14:34:08 GMT -5
Definitely going to one of the springs on Sunday. Been to Silver Glen and Alexandra before. Might check out Juniper Springs this trip never been there before. Juniper is a puddle with extensive picnic facilities. If you've snorkeled Silver Glen you've seen the stripers. If you swim under the rope line there's a deep well full of them circling... kind of like being inside a dark hour glass full of fish. Pretty cool. Also you should check out salt spring at the north end. Again, blue crabs... |
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Post by tampaspicer on Jul 9, 2024 14:51:05 GMT -5
Definitely going to one of the springs on Sunday. Been to Silver Glen and Alexandra before. Might check out Juniper Springs this trip never been there before. Juniper is a puddle with extensive picnic facilities. If you've snorkeled Silver Glen you've seen the stripers. If you swim under the rope line there's a deep well full of them circling... kind of like being inside a dark hour glass full of fish. Pretty cool. Also you should check out salt spring at the north end. Again, blue crabs... Might make a run up to Salt Springs sounds interesting. When we at Alexandra springs earlier this year you had to make a reservation for summertime just to get in the springs of Ocala. Crazy it's gotten to that. |
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Post by Crkr 23 on Jul 9, 2024 14:51:31 GMT -5
This post was started back in March, but if you're there this time of year there is generally a bunch of stripers caught at the croaker hole in Little lake George. Chuming and fishing with grass shrimp is generally the best way to catch them.
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Post by tampaspicer on Jul 18, 2024 12:03:31 GMT -5
This post was started back in March, but if you're there this time of year there is generally a bunch of stripers caught at the croaker hole in Little lake George. Chuming and fishing with grass shrimp is generally the best way to catch them. We are going back in a couple weekends. Don't think we'll make up that far north considering we will be staying in Astor. Any place to fish for them on the south side of Lake George? |
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Post by One Man Gang on Jul 18, 2024 12:12:19 GMT -5
My mate will be up there that week, staying in Astor as well. I thought about joining his family and dragging the airboat up to ride but I have too much other stuff going on.
The springs are cool to hang in.
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Post by Crkr 23 on Jul 18, 2024 12:36:31 GMT -5
This post was started back in March, but if you're there this time of year there is generally a bunch of stripers caught at the croaker hole in Little lake George. Chuming and fishing with grass shrimp is generally the best way to catch them. We are going back in a couple weekends. Don't think we'll make up that far north considering we will be staying in Astor. Any place to fish for them on the south side of Lake George? The mouth of Juniper Run,the mouth of Salt Run and the mouth of Silver Glenn during the week. Probably small Wild Shiners would be your best bet. |
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Post by tampaspicer on Jul 18, 2024 12:39:51 GMT -5
We are going back in a couple weekends. Don't think we'll make up that far north considering we will be staying in Astor. Any place to fish for them on the south side of Lake George? The mouth of Juniper Run,the mouth of Salt Run and the mouth of Silver Glenn during the week. Probably small Wild Shiners would be your best bet. Thanks I've caught them in North Georgia before but never in Florida. We are going out on the lake Monday. Gonna try Juniper Run. |
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Post by Crkr 23 on Jul 18, 2024 13:04:57 GMT -5
The Croaker Hole would be about a 20 mile run from Juniper. It can excellent this time of the year when the water is hot. The Croaker Hole is a big underwater spring and the stripers gang up in the cool spring water.
P.S. I don't know how it is now but years ago the "strippers" gathered at the Silver Glenn on the weekends and holidays, so there's that. Have fun
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Post by Crkr 23 on Aug 3, 2024 6:30:32 GMT -5
Some buddies caught 25 or so stripers at Salt Springs a couple of days ago. They were using small wild shiners and they would hit the dead floaters just about as well as the live ones.
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Post by Crkr 23 on Aug 6, 2024 18:16:51 GMT -5
Just heard another striper report, a friend of a friend had 14 over 10lbs at the mouth of Juniper Run.
I'm pretty sure he was using wild shiners. In my experience the best time to catch them is right at dark and a couple of hours after.
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Post by tampaspicer on Aug 7, 2024 14:45:03 GMT -5
Some buddies caught 25 or so stripers at Salt Springs a couple of days ago. They were using small wild shiners and they would hit the dead floaters just about as well as the live ones. We took the pontoon up there. There were a bunch of strippers in there. We weren't fishing though. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2024 7:16:32 GMT -5
On the Illinois River there are all sorts of stripers, white bass and hybrids. We used to catch them on dead minnows better than live. We used to say “the deader the better”
Don’t know why
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Post by Crkr 23 on Aug 11, 2024 7:30:54 GMT -5
Strippers generally want a live "minnow", stripers aren't so particular. 😉
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Post by One Man Gang on Aug 11, 2024 7:43:28 GMT -5
I know of no stripper looking for a dead minnow.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2024 7:44:14 GMT -5
🤪👍
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Post by Crkr 23 on Aug 11, 2024 7:52:38 GMT -5
Damn, Illinoisman edited his post.
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