This report is short and simple, the bass fishing has been amazing so far for the month of October. Despite the unseasonably hot weather; Top water, soft plastics, crankbaits, and spinner baits are all working, and all of them have landed my clients big fish. Check out all my clients catches at http://www.youtube.com/user/OrlandoTrophyBass and see for yourself the fish I am putting my guests on.

Kevin Przybyl
“Casting Towards a Cure for Cystic Fibrosis”
www.orlandotrophybass.com
407-506-5154

Heat and afternoon rain, that sums up the weather for the past month. Despite the 90 degree temps and water temps in the mid to upper 80’s, the fishing remains steady. On average my non-experienced guests or first timers still manage to land 10-12 fish in four hours on artificial baits, and usually get at least one fish in the 4-7 lbs range. I am a soft plastic angler and really don’t use hard plastics as much as other but recently we have been using Top water pop’ers and have been very successful with catching schooling bass within the first hour or sunlight. Most of those fish are in the 2 lbs range, but during the past two weeks I have had two guests each land a 6 lbs’er off a pop’er. Flukes and sinkos are working best during the rest of the trip. Now that summer is ending and fall is fast approaching, the fishing is only going to get better. As the waters cool down the fish are going to be more eager to bite, so I know my clients that are already booked for the end of September and November are going to have bigger numbers. Fall specials available for advanced bookings.

Kevin Przybyl
“Casting Towards a Cure for Cystic Fibrosis”
www.orlandotrophybass.com
407-506-5154

The long wait for my son to be born finally came to a end two weeks ago. He is very healthy and already starting to grow up on me. With the birth of my son, I had to take a few weeks off, but this week I returned to taking people out fishing. Being away inside the house for the last two weeks, my body forgot how really hot it is out on the water, so I am getting used to that again. Even with the sun blazing down on you, me and my guests quickly stop paying attention to it because the fishing has been amazing. I took out Pat and his son Kieran from the UK on Monday, it was there first time fishing for bass and Kieran landed 10 bass, and Pat landed 4, but lost 2 five pound bass right at the boat, both in a row. I had them fishing in a 13ft deep hole with watermelon seed sinkos with ¼ once weight, texas rigged. Not bad for first time anglers. Wednesday I fished with my friend Scott, and we both put on a show, landing over 25 fish in four hours. 6 of which were at least 4 lbs and range 17-19 inches long. Bass were feeding and busting out of the water all morning long. Out of the 20 bass we caught only 2 or 3 were less than 2 lbs, they were all fat and happy. Scott’s several 4 lbs bass were caught with a sexy shad crank bait. When we ran into bait fish, we would both throw watermelon seed flukes and were pretty much guaranteed a fish. Even this being the hottest time of the year, we are still catching trophy bass on almost every trip. If you’re a youtube fan check out my videos of my guests catching fish at http://www.youtube.com/user/OrlandoTrophyBass and my partners awesome videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/16ftsprint ,and subscribe today to my channel to get new videos as they are posted.


Capt Kevin Przybyl
www.orlandotrophybass.com
"Casting Towards a Cure for Cystic Fibrosis"

May is my favorite month of the year, great bass fishing, and it’s Cystic Fibrosis awareness month. Before I get to my report, I wanted to thank everyone who has come out and fished this year so far. As of May 16th during the Cystic Fibrosis Great Strides Walks in Orlando and Tampa, we raised over $1100 for Cystic Fibrosis research and closer to my $3000 goal for the year.
The Month of May has been another spot on month for catching bass. Watermelon red and green pumpkin seed flukes have been working the best for me. This month most of my clients have been catching 25 + fish in 4 hours off these two colors. The hours between 7 and 9 am have been the times most of the numbers are coming. However, later in the mornings have been when the bigger bass 4+ pounders have been caught, still using the flukes. If the bite really slows down I have them switch to a weightless black/blue sinko. We have not had much luck with shinners, a few here and there, despite having caught several fish that spit up the shinners they have been feeding on. Same goes for top water lures; they have been throwing poppers and horny toads with a few here and there, but when we switch to the fluke the action of that bait sinking in the water like a dead bait fish, just drives the bass nuts. The large majority of the fish are being caught in 7-9 ft of water, in clear water, over hydrilla. The water temperature has been holding steady around 80-82 degress. I expect nothing but great fishing during the month of June.

Capt Kevin Przybyl
www.orlandotrophybass.com
“Casting towards a Cure for Cystic Fibrosis”

Another week has passed and fishing continues to be great. On a 4 hour fishing trip my guests have been catching 12-20 fish. The fishes sizes continues to vary from 1 lb to 6lbs. Soft plastics seem to be doing the best for catching these bass. Super flukes in watermelon red, and silver have been working the best. A close second has been green and black sinkos, weightless; these sinkos are producing the bigger fish that are caught. The month has brought warm weather, but at times some strong winds, making fishing with weightless plastics a little more challanging. The water temperature is around 72 degress and the fish have been very active even after a cold front has come through.

This past week, between trips I was able to take out my wife, brother and sister-in-law out for a few hours. They have very little fishing experience but in total they caught 9 fish in less than 2 hours. My wife leading the way with 5 solid keepers. I really enjoyed spending that time with them we were all very relaxed after spending those few hours away from the attractions we went to earlier that week.

The trips that I have been on the last few weeks have had good fishing. The only tough weather I have dealt with over the last few weeks have been the winds. Winds have been steady at 10-15 mph with high gusts almost everyday for the past two weeks, but the bite remains strong.
I have been spending most of my time between Lake Conway and a private lake. I was still getting fish on Conway site fishing beds early in the morning hours before the wind kicks up, mainly small males but getting solid numbers. On the private lake Flukes, crank baits, and spinners have been getting the most bites. Watermelon red flukes have been the most productive out of those baits. Also the shinner bite has been strong especially in the late morning, early afternoon hours.
I ended this week fishing with Rodney and his 8 y/o son Troy. It was a great day of fishing and Troy truly impressed me when he landed all his fish throwing a watermelon red fluke. Troy really impressed me after he took a brief nap, and as soon as he woke up he made one cast and landed a fish. That’s a new technique I am going to try at my next tournament. Troy nearly had a 5+ lbs bass but lost it right at the boat, but made up for it when he caught a bass on the last cast of the day.

Capt Kevin Przybyl
www.orlandotrophybass.com
"Casting Towards a Cure for Cystic Fibrosis"

Lake Conway and Lake Toho have been my focus most of the month of February. My game plan most of my trips were to site fish, I admit I had both good and bad days. When a cold front was passing through or right over us, like bass are supposed to, they pulled off the beds, making it difficult to get numbers off the beds. I did make adjustments to fish in deeper water out in the middle of the lakes and looked for steep ledges, which Conway has plenty, and managed to get a few. These cold fronts really screwed things up, not just for me, but many anglers I know. One week the water temp was 65 and then a cold front would pass through and drop the water temps down almost 8-9 degrees. Like I said, Mother Nature was not very friendly to me this month, but I still managed to get some 7 lbs and several in the 3-4 lbs range. I will be honest, this was not my best month, but the temperatures will be back to normal this weekend, in the upper 70’s and low 80’s, and the bite will improve. As this years spawn winds down, my focus will be fishing deeper water for post-spawn bass, and getting ready for the summer bite.

Capt Kevin Przybyl
www.orlandotrophybass.com
"Casting Towards a Cure for Cystic Fibrosis"

The beginning of the month was a very difficult month of fishing for me. The cold weather in the beginning of the month dropped the water temp into the low 50’s making the fish very lethargic. Fish were still being caught but not at the rate they were normally being caught. It finally started warming up a week ago and the water temp has quickly warmed up too. The second week of the month showed improvement with more fish starting to move up on beds. Today, Friday 13th proved to be a very lucky day for my guest Roger. Roger and I spent the day on Lake Conway, site fishing and catching fish all day using shaky heads with junebug finesse worms, Roger ended the day catching a 9 lbs bass off a bed with that shaky head. The temps are supposed to remain in the 70’s and 80’s over the next week, so the site fishing will only be getting better as more and more fish spawn.

Fly fishing for Shad on the St. Johns River

Today was a most incredible day for Fly fishing. The wind was next to none all day. The morning started out with a brilliant Sunrise. The Shad have moved up into the river to Spawn and in the next few weeks the bite will be incredible!

The Area we fished today had hundreds of them jumping and skipping all over the place. Along with the Shad fishing the Crappie fishing was looking pretty good as well as the boats around us were on fire. The St. Johns River is one spectacular place for sure and it never seems to stop surprising me with all the Wildlife and Birds, I believe we spotted about 10 eagles today along with about 50 other Avians species.

Here is a picture of Steve Fly Fishing along the rivers edge







Orlando Florida Fishing Charters with
Captain Tom Carver of FlatAddicted.com

Well, 2009 has quickly arrived and to be honest I am pretty excited about the New Year. On a personal note, I am hoping this is the year my wife and I finally start the family we have been trying for over the last few years. I am also hoping for another healthy year for me and all those effected with cystic fibrosis. I would also like to take the time to wish all my clients, friends, and future clients a Happy New Year.
I have been fishing everyday over the last three weeks thanks to some great unusually warm weather, preparing for trips and tournaments. John’s Lake has been slow for me the last few weeks. The usually morning schooling fish are still productive but once they slow down I have had some difficulty locating fish. I have been waiting for some pre-spawn and spawning spots to turn on. The water temperature on John’s Lake as of last Friday was 63 degrees, still a little too cool for bedding fish to begin.
Lake Toho on the other hand, has been on fire for me. Now, they are spraying hydrilla with helicopters which usually shuts down the bite in certain areas while the hydrilla dies off. Thankfully there areas that I have been fishing have not been sprayed. All my fish are being caught in clear water, using a dark colored worm. Haven’t seen any bedding fish yet but I am seeing the males scouting the shallows.

Capt Kevin Przybyl
www.orlandotrophybass.com
“Casting Towards a Cure for Cystic Fibrosis”

Fishing continues to be hot despite the much cooler weather in the last two weeks. Most of the fish I have been catching are in shallow water. I have been fishing on a private lake most of the month, and would catch 15+ fish in just a few hours. All of them were in 3-5 ft clear water, around fallen trees and scattered grass. They were caught with a tequila sunrise 6 inch worm, ½ oz blue/black jig, and spinner baits. The few times I was on John’s Lake, schooling fish gave for some good action during the early morning hours, with much success with silver rattle trap. Once that bite slowed down, we would fish the rest of the time with topwater frogs on the matted and scattered grass near the banks catching several 3-4 lbs bass.

Capt Kevin Przybyl
www.orlandotrophybass.com
“Casting Towards a Cure for Cystic Fibrosis”

If you are coming to Florida, now is a great time to hire a guide and go bass fishing. Whether you like bass fishing or saltwater fishing these next few weeks are prime fishing weeks. Bass are feeding this time of the year in preparation for the winter, now is a great opportunity to catch a big hungry bass. Fishing this month has been very consistent, early morning, between 7 and 9 am, I have been spending my time catching schooling fish with shad colored flukes, spinner baits (various colors), and the occasional top water plug or frog (black). Once the schooling action slows down I change gears and fish very slow, flipping black and blue colored jigs into thick grass and brush piles. It is a lot of work and takes a great deal of patients but the rewards are worth it. My bigger fish this month have been caught flipping jigs.
Weather is now begining to play a factor on how I fish. Fish are most active before and during an approaching front, the bite is rather good during the time. It’s after a front passes that tests any angler. When I fish the days after a front passes you usually get some wind and bright blue skies, so fishing docks, thick grass and brush work the best for me. If it’s windy I tend to fish the windward side and flip into areas where the wind is not directly blowing into, you will usually find fish held up there waiting to ambush passing by bait.


Capt. Kevin Przybyl
www.OrlandoTrophyBass.Com
“Casting towards a Cure for Cystic Fibrosis”

Bass fishing in the during the Fall months is as exciting for me as that of the spring months . In the Spring the bass become aggressive when protecting there spawing grounds, and in the Fall they become aggressive as they feed on shad . During the fall months the shad move up into shallower water, where eventually they begin to die off and the winter months arrive and the water gets cold. Granted the lakes don’t freeze or really drop below 50 degrees in the winter months, but that doesn’t stop the shad from moving into shallow water. As they move up in large groups, they bass can usually be found right behind them, waiting and watching for the weakest ones to fall away from the group. When that happens, that water just explodes both below and above the surface as the bass feed. This is the best time of the year for top water action. During the morning hours I will throw top water poppers, or under water baits like rattletraps. The rattletraps I use look similar to that of the bait they are feeding on, but you must also keep in mind water clarity and sunlight, because too much flash from a bait may turn fish away.
This past week was a great example of the importance to paying attention to your surrounding and reading what the fish want. Saturday I was out with a friend, fishing a pond in his back yard. We had shiners and casting them out about 15-20 yards out. Thirty or so minutes passed without a bite but I had noticed schools of shad right up against the shore line. My next cast was thrown about 5 feet from that bank. As soon as the bait touched the water I had a fish, and now a pattern. I continued making casts 5-8 feet off the shore line and pulling a fish in on every cast. In a matter of a few hours we had 20 fish landed and about 15 missed hits. I followed this pattern on Sunday on John’s Lake and discovered pretty much the same pattern, bass feeding in shallow water. At one point on Sunday the shallow fishing stopped, so we moved into a deep channel throwing a Carolina rig and managed to land a few more fish before we called it quits.

Saturday’s Equipment: 6’7” Berkley Lightning Rod with Cardinal 302 reel w/ 8 lbs Stren Fluorocarbon line
Live Shinners as Bait

Sunday’s Equipment: Rod: Bass Pro Shops 7’2” Extra heavy action Rod
Reel: Daiwa 100tsh 7 bearing w/14 lbs flurocarbon
Bait: Carolina Rig w/ a Black Zoom Finesse worm.


Capt. Kevin Przybyl
www.OrlandoTrophyBass.Com
“Casting Towards a Cure for Cystic Fibrosis”

Tropical Storm Fay caused destruction all over Florida, and my heart goes out to those whose lives have been lost and changed forever because of the storm. It almost seem impossible that something good came from this storm, but as an angler the storm has significantly helped. John's Lake is the lake I fish the most and this past Sunday was the first time since the storm, that I was out fishing. The water level was almost back to its normal level, and fished like a brand new lake. Fish were shallow and I could reach areas again that I haven't been able to in almost two years. Water run offs into the lake caused the lake to have current, something I haven't seen in years. That current attracted fish all week long and with continued afternoon thunderstorms that current will continue for days to come. Shallow crank baits seem to be producing the most bites, followed by dark colored jigs. Jigs have been very successful around the docks. With the water levels being up and the fall quickly approaching, I see the bite only getting better, so now would be a great time to book a trip with any guide in Florida.

Capt Kevin Przybyl
Orlando Trophy Bass
www.Orlandotrophybass.com
"Casting Towards a Cure for Cystic Fibrosis"

Sorry folks for not having a report recently, I had some login issues, and believe me, they were all my fault. Anyway, lets talk about bass fishing here in Orlando. Summer is deffiently upon us, everyday around 2 pm the thunderstorms are booming. This has been ongoing everyday for over a month, and I love it. Finally you can tell the water levels are rising. Instead of the usual 4 foot drop from the dock at the boat ramp, its now a two foot easy step. As for the fishing, this past week was a tough one. Bass were caught but the numbers were a little normal than they have been, and I have had to work for those bites. I have been fishing in 8 to 10 ft with plenty of grass and hydrilla in those areas. Like I said its been work, but the fish we are catching a decent fish in the 2.5-3 lbs range. I have noticed there has been less schooling in the morning, they are just not feeding as much, and can you blame them, just yesterday the water temp on lake conway was 88 degress. Those that aren't familiar with Conway, that lake gets pretty deep, many spots over 20ft deep, but again keep in mind its the middle of summer, and in a few short weeks, things will begin to change and the fish will start getting into a fall pattern. Even though its hard work, we are still having plenty of fun, so give me a call and book a trip.

Capt. Kevin Przybyl
Orlando Trophy Bass
www.OrlandoTrophybass.com
"Casting Towards a Cure for Cystic Fibrosis"

The summer fishing is in full swing here in Orlando . Early morning I have been fishing shallower water with weightless sinkos, and spinning baits. Once the sun comes up, I start my way into deeper water, fishing patches of grass and hydrilla. As the day progresses and the sun is beating down on us, I move into deeper water throwing deep water crank baits or a Carolina rig. In the deeper water I have been looking for deep brush piles or hydrilla. Despite the fact that the fish slim down during the summer months, fishing deep hydrilla is still producing fish in the 5 plus pound range. Occasionally I’ll run into a school of fish feeding on shad, and will throw a slightly weighted or weightless fluke. Depending on the afternoon cloud cover, I’ll switch gears and start throwing topwater baits around scattered grass, which is producing catches. Evening fishing has been non-existent most of the month of June because of strong thunderstorms. I love to fish in the evening hours so the past month has been killing me, but the rain is helping with the low water levels we have been facing the past year. If you can handle the heat and humidity, great summer fishing is a reality here in Florida .



Kevin Przybyl
KP's Fishing
www.OrlandoTrophyBass.com
407-506-5154