Lake victor

Its in the edge of florida, anyone ever fished it? We drove past it the other day and my son has been asking to go this wkend.

It is a trolling motor only lake. It does have a nice boat ramp. Has produced some big bass during the spawn. The locals are known for marking the beds with a piece of cane and coming back after dark to fish them. From what I've seen thay didn't do the bass population any favors. I've heard the bream fishing and catfishing is decent, but I haven't been over there for a few years. That's all I've got. Good luck.

It has some nice crappie in it. I have caught bass also. Haven’t caught many bream, but I think it was just the wrong time.

It's still got some big fish in it but nothing like it used to have. 95% of the big bass in Victor are caught during the spawn. There a group of us that fish it and all these other panhandle lakes in the spring and we release every big female that we catch. But Victor, like all of the other lakes in the panhandle, now have a pile of people fishing them, that if they do manage to catch an 8-12lb fish, they are tossing it in a cooler and heading home to brag about it. Taking these genetically superior fish out year after year has been hugely detrimental to all of the panhandle lakes for the last 20-30 yrs. Everyone wants to "skin mount" one for the wall. Leon Brooks Hinds just across the Bama line about 10 miles north of Hurricane Lake is the same way. Back in the early 2000's, that place was loaded and for a 4-5 yr period was probably one of the best lakes I've ever fished for big fish. Now days, you can walk from boat to boat across that lake in the spring and the fishing quality reflects it. All these lakes used to give up a ton of big fish in the 10-17lb class and occasionally bigger back in the 80's, 90's and early 2000's, but there has been a huge decline in the big fish populations in all these lakes, especially in the past 10 yrs as the pressure just continues to increase. You have to actually work to catch a 10+ fish anywhere in the panhandle now days. I went from catching literally dozens of fish in 8-12lb or bigger class every spring to now catching just six to eight a year in that same size class. I, as well as several other guys quit guiding in the early 90's because we realized that when you added up all the fish our clients were taking home, even though we were turning loose every big one we ourselves caught, we were damaging the big fish populations in all these lakes. Peach will probably chime in and give his two cents but he'll just tell you the same thing.

Abolt pretty much nailed it. I wouldn’t make a special trip to fish it. They actually had a fish kill there several years back and I’m not sure it has recovered.

Y'all wanna give out some pointer just looking to catch a few dont have to be nothin big.

Give it a couple weeks at least. These Florida strain fish go into a funk when they come off the beds and fishing generally sucks for a couple weeks right after they get done. The kicker is that once this 2 week period ends, they go on a heavy feed and you should be able to catch some beating the banks. I'd look to start fishing it right around the first week in May. It's not real deep in most places. There's a decent amount of offshore structure (old trees and stumps from when it was filled) in places. I'd use a 1/8 oz bullet weight with a 3/0 worm hook and fish a 6" zoom lizard or a 7.5" ribbon tail worm like a culprit in Junebug or Green Pumpkin, or a weightless trick worm or albino colored fluke, especially since the males will probably still be guarding fry from the spawn on this full moon. Fishing early, you can also probably catch some fish on top with a buzzbait. There are a bunch of docks between the boat launch and the dam. Once the sun gets high, you can usually pitch these baits under them and get some bites. Like Peach said, the numbers of fish in there are probably still down due to that fish kill.

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