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@@blvfishing good luck! Let me know finger video helped you out or not! The Harris chain videos on ditches have been my most popular videos so many must be finding them helpful.. Appreciate the feedback 👍

Appreciate it! They should be moving out in them ditches if the weather starts cooling off. Check out the other two videos on ditches from me down there on the Harris chain too. I wish I was back in Florida next week for the team championship but this year it's on Kentucky lake next week!

@@bospurgeon1039 yes a nasty bathroom is better than no bathroom 👍

@@bospurgeon1039 wish I had the season I had in 2024. 2024 was a tough season. Struggled at the start of the season and finally got back into form and rhythm the last 3, but it was too late and ended up losing Team of the year by 1oz 🤦

They do at the trout pit. Then strip pit bait and tackle has a lodge in West mineral

@@jeffreyrodgers5835 when we fished down there eustis was actually the worst lake of the chain in the Bassmaster Team Championship. Carlton is actually where it was won. Apopka has picked up a lot and Harris is on the decline hopefully the bite comes back there and they quit killing grass 😡

I wish we could but unfortunately due to Kansas laws we would be breaking the laws. Any tournament and their competitors has to throw all the bass back and cannot keep them.

What are you referring to about cleaning? I'm all in for advice on what the viewers are wanting to see more of.

Ive never fished for channel in there but there is a good amount of good bass in North 45.

I believe there are carp in the pits but I am not 100% certain on the species of carp they are.

Catfish wise I don't know much about lol. South #40 I've heard has some good cut fish. I think they sell bluegill but could be wrong on that call Columbus bait and tackle or strip pot bait and tackle and they will be able to tell you whats the best bait to use for them. Both of them see a lot of catfish caught and should be a bit help.

@@levisnow88 thank you kindly for the response man. It means alot and I definitely will 💪🏾😁

@@allenthomason3889 I do agree. Chest mount view is not the best. With my channel I focus mainly on why the fish are where they are and show my viewers where I catch them and why. If you go through my How when where why playlist you can find tournament breakdowns and see my channel does something very few channels do.

Thank you. Me to Stockton is probably my favorite flipping lake right with Truman. No smallies I stayed in the stained water. Did catch a keeper smallie though in practice I believe. I know I caught one but can't remember if it was a keeper.

I always try to set the hook up 👍. In This case the week before I found out these bass were picking it up and moving it off beds. If I set the hook up they would pop free. So I started setting the hook the opposite way they were running with it and they were staying pinned. Unfortunately in this case that did not work. They were very hard to get hooked on that day altogether. Still got 2nd by .02 of an oz 🤦😬

It's a great spring cove!

#22 North has a lot of bass in it. We just fished it for our classic as well and every team out of the 15 had a limit except one. South #40 is a good solid pit with stained water, #39 is clear but has a good population of smaller bass. The pits are mostly up but some still you akt get a bass boat in the ramps yet. Smaller boats you can though.

I'm going to guess yes. I'll be checking them out this Friday, I was at fort gibson yesterday for a BFL and got the good ole skunk 🦨🤦.

The looks of the boat don't catch more fish.

@@levisnow88 agreed. You’re the pro I’m just a weekend warrior.

I'm just a weekend warrior to, far from a pro lol. The boat needs some TLC that's for sure. A bigger nicer boat is always a plus but not a necessity.

😂 in my defense they feel bigger when they get in that grass 🤦😆😂

Got 2nd place but it wasn't pretty 😂. Some of these pits are hard to find any fish over 13"-15" slot limit. A 13oz can go a long way 🤦😆

Yeah very little 😂. Here in this area they are keepers under 13" and over 15". Like in this tournament there were 0 bass over 15" and there were 20 teams. About 200 bass caught. Some of these pits are full of small bass.

Most are still very low. Not sure why all of #22 and #23 are full.

Thank you I try to breakdown and explain things where everyone can understand. When it comes to achoring and fishing from a pontoon that's a lot different than using a trolling motor. I seen quite a few boats on Griffin with pontoons out on the edges of the ditches. Not sure if they was fishing for panfish, pickerel or crappie or something else. That would be a good start though.

Thank you, stinks we fell short but 2nd this early in the season isn't bad at all. Stinks it was all little bass to lol. Water levels in this pit are very close to normal. Other pits are still very low though

Yes there are some good whitetail out here. Don't seem to be as many big ones like there was in the 90s but still plenty of good ones. My uncle in the 80s killed a 32point on state property south of Scammon.

Not sure about riding bikes but a good pit to fish for Bass and been seeing some good trout pulled out this past year as well.

Those 12oz on day 1 were culled. We had just over 13lbs and was in 31st place out of 248 teams on day 1. Day 2 we had almost 11 pounds and finished in 28th place. 12 ounces was a big difference as well with the weights. 12oz less and we would have been in 36th. Every ounce made a big difference.

I am not. I fished in Florida though a lot though. Conway Chain, Kissimmee Chain mainly with other local area smaller lakes. Doing the ditches on the Harris Chain because there is very little content on the ditches or drains on the Harris Chain or any Central Florida lakes.

Not sure what your meaning? Im putting as the into in my new videos because of the excitement level and it gives all viewers new and current my passion level of the sport

North of the bridge on 10hwy on the west side. It's the best one I know up in that area

Thank you very much. I fish from a kayak and GRDAs kayak regulations makes it difficult. I have been coming down from 43 bridge in Missouri. But its a hard paddle going back. Thanks again. Looking forward to move videos. @@levisnow88

@user-hu1yl4tq9c the map shows a ramp on that point heading into the first big cove on the north side east of HWY 10. I got another video of grand in September not sure if you saw it or not. It's from the BFL I fish in September. Not sure how much I'll be at grand this year. I broke my right hand so I'm going to definitely miss the 1st BFL in February there. Then they won't be back until September. I will definitely be down there in August getting ready for that BFL. Going to be looking for some productive brush piles. This year I'm going to be putting exact GPS locations in my tournament breakdowns. Putting coordinates of brush piles, structures and every bass I catch in practice and the tournament. Something I haven't seen done on TH-cam for "free" anyway. I'm not doing the TH-cam to make money. I'm doing it to build a brand and help as many anglers as possible catch more bass and understand how to catch bass in all seasons. Appreciate the support 👍.

thank you for all the information. @@levisnow88

The ditches are best in the winter. After the fall transition and pre spawn. There should be fish on them year around though. For March and April the spawn is mostly over in Florida. The deeper grass in the ditches can be good after the spawn as well. Big worms work well that time of year. Also picture these ditches like an interstate or freeway. In Florida in the natural lakes, they don't relate as much to the ditches like in the highland man made lakes. They do still relate to them in this manner though. So picture the ditches as a freeway. Then look for flats, lilly pads, Kissimmee grass, coves and canals closer to these ditches. Picture all those as things like grocery stores. As water temps warm up after late fall and winter. Then more bait fish, crawfish and other things that bass move shallower up into those areas. Around 17 years ago in Florida on the Conway chain, we fished primarily ditches with submerged hydrilla and eelgrass. We fished Wednesday night jackpots on the Conway chain and did very well for two young men not from the area. My buddy was from north Carolina and myself Kansas. In the year we fished Conway we fished around 40 of the jackpots. Winning roughly 20 of them and finishing in the money in over 80% of them. We fished other areas to depending on the time of year. But primarily the ditches there was always bass. Back then we didn't have the gps or maps showing contours. We called it fished drops, where the water would drop depth would 5ft then drop quickly into 10-15ft "for example." Now after getting older and learning more and being able to study contour maps from my phone. I've realized looking back these were ditches we were fishing. I hadn't fished anywhere in Florida since 2008 before I came down in December for the 2023 Bassmaster Team Championship. I first compared water clarity of the Harris Chain and Conway chain by using Google Earth. I then went and looked at those areas with contours on navionics Web app. I wasn't sure how well a pattern like ditches would work out because there was very little information about ditches or also called drains from some people. So I did lot of studying on the navionics mostly on Harris because it was one of the deeper lakes on the Harris Chain. I choose to look at deeper water because of it being early December and the water temps can reach the low 50s. The deeper water doesn't cool off as fast and cold fronts don't effect that deeper water as much. We had 1 extra day before the official practice started and the Harris Chain was off limits until practice on Saturday. So we fished lake Yale which is somewhat considered the Harris Chain but you can't get there by water so it wasn't off limits. Yale had similar contours. We only had about 4 hrs to fish Yale so I pick out a ditch and some flats around that ditch. The first spot we fished had a good ditch that ran close to the shoreline Kissimmee grass. We only caught one little bass there but I seen a lot in that submerged hydrilla in that ditch. I had a lot react to a jerkbait but wouldn't bite it. We then fished a flater bank down from the ditch and caught 5-6 decent bass biggest just over 3lbs, using a 4" ribbon tail worm in June bug its called a big hammer ringer worm. It works great for finding bass then when you find them you can upside to a 7" or 10" ribbon tail. 7' zoom mag II, and 10" ribbon tail I recommend a zoom ole monster. Speed tail style worms work good as well, zoom speed worm and a mag speed worm is what I use. Oncei find them with the smaller worm I go to the bigger worms because bigger worms in most cases catch bigger bass. If the bass are not as active though the smaller worms they bite better. Some guys start with big worms then go smaller if they don't get bit. I do just the opposite. Spinnerbaits, bladed jigs, and rattle traps are good for active bass as well. So once I find an area with bass I work it over with these baits to see how active the bass are. These baits will get bigger fish mainly the spinnerbait and bladed jig. Rattle traps or lipless cranks don't seem to get as many of the bigger bites. We couldn't get anything on bigger worms or the reaction baits that day. It was 80 degrees and water temps started in the high 60s and ended in the mid 70s, no wind, no clouds and a cold front had just pushed through the day before. We talked with a big name local guide that said it was very slow for him as well. So for the 1st day of practice we fished big Harris. Looking for areas similar to those contours we found on Yale. We first would go to those areas and idle around the area looking for the submerged grass using side imaging, down imaging and 2d sonar. When we found the grass we'd fish the deeper submerged grass and also the shallower shoreline Kissimmee grass, and lily pads. The first day I used a jerkbait quite a bit using FFS. Throwing the jerkbait over the submerged because the jerkbait is good at drawing the bass up out of the grass. I didn't catch any on the jerkbait but it let me know that the bass were tight into that submerged grass. My partner threw lipless cranks, bladed jigs, and Texas rig worms. We fished shallower as well close to those ditches to see if they was up shallower. The 1st day of practice we fished a lot of different things trying to figure out a pattern. I focused primarily on the ditches and deeper shell beds. With the water temps in the low to mid 70s I didn't figure they would be out in those ditches as well. I focused on the ditches though because there was a cold front forecasted for the first day of the tournament and lows in the 30s. The 2nd day we fished Dora mainly and beuclaire. I have a video on these ditches we fished on Dora and also on big Harris. In Dora we fished submerged grass in ditches closer to the shoreline Kissimmee grass. We found out they was biting the bladed jig "chatterbait" very well in the morning and with clouds. When the sun came out the 4" ribbon tail worm and speed worm worked better. So after catching around 8 keepers with the best 5 around 15lbs on Dora. We then the 3rd day went back into Harris and looked for shallower ditches. We found two good shallower ditches and a big submerged hydrilla flat right up from the ditch. We had around 18lbs but the area we found was a known community hole. We then ran back at the end of the day to the good ditch we fished on day 1. We caught 3 keepers on it and really pinpointed the area of the offshore grass that was holding the bass. . Day 4 was just a half day practice per tournament rules. We chose to fish Griffin to see the size it had and a lot of local reports and tournaments were saying griffin was producing big bags. We didn't get to fish many areas due to a very crowded ramp on the south end of the lake so we seen another ramp online not far away. We went there but itvwasnt usable so we had to put in at the state park I think it was called. It was way back in that far west canal. We ended up fishing a few areas down in that area. We catch a limit but a small limit in some ditches in the submerged hydrilla. We chose to stay in Harris for the tournament both days. #1 the cold front coming in and the deeper water in big Harris. #2 I only got a 25 gallon gas tank in my boat and it was only getting like 2miles per gallon of gas with idling around marking the offshore grass. Running to Dora required two long idle zones so we wasn't sure if we had enough gas to get there and back. #3 was similar to #1 was Dora being shallower I didn't know how that cold front would effect those fish. You can see that whole tournament breakdown it's 2023 Bassmaster Team Championship on my channel. Day 1 we was boat #38 out of #248 to take off so knowing the around long island was a local community hole we went there first to get there before the crowd. Started off with trolling motor issues but figured out we couldn't fix it and just had to deal with the horrible noise 🤦. The wind had pushed us off our main ditch there and another boat was between us and it and boats everywhere on the grass flat. We fished around and got to that ditch and the other key areas on it catching 4 or 5 keepers on bladed jigs and the bass were smashing it si yhst told us we had the right lures, 12" minimum was the limit, nothing hardly over 1lb. Next area was a ditch directly off the south bank of long Island. I don't think we caught one there that pass. We then went to that ditch and submerged hydrilla we found on practice day 1 and 3. It's just north of hickory point ramp. We caught a 6-10 there the only bass there on day 1. Then we ended up catching two more decent ones almost 2lbs on that ditch off the bank of long Island. We had just over 13lbs and was in 31st or 32nd after day 1. All on the bladed jig. Day two they reversed boat numbers so we was closer to the boat going out. We decided to start off on that ditch north of hickory point because we only seen 1 boat there on day 1 and about 50 around long island. We caught two over 2lbs and missed one there on bladed jigs. We struggled up in the long area missing two and finally getting our 3rd keeper. We then ran back to hickory point area and caught another keeper there. The wind quit blowing and no clouds so that's when they started biting the Texas rig pegged sinker with a 4" big hammer ringer worm. We ended up catching 7 keepers. 4 on the ringer worm and 3 on the bladed jig. 5 came from that hickory point ditch. We had 10-13 I believe on day 2 and ended up moving up into 28th out of 248. That's just an example of how quick they can change and move and also different techniques to catch them. Usually once you find them they don't move far you just got to change techniques to catch them. We caught them all the way from deeper in the ditches and some in 2ft of water up from those ditches. The ditches area good starting point anytime of the year to catch bass

​@@levisnow88 I'm currently on the Harris chain now. I fished the team trail through the Canadian circuits and we struggled on Harris as it was completly different from our largemouth in the north. We placed like 198th place lol. This video has given a better understanding as I'm finally pricing everything together going into my 4th week here. I leave in a few days. But it's been great knowledge figuring out a complete different style of fishing. Regardless very informational as I'm going back to griffin tomorrow as that's where I've been catching most of my fish ( other then Yale punching mats with a 2oz)

Great to hear it helped you Brian. I'm not sure how the ditches bite is this time of year but they shouldn't be far from the edges or the grass lines. They seem to hold on that offshore hydrilla pretty much all season. I don't live in Florida and didn't grow up fishing there but I understand grass fishing very well. Our local area here in Southeast Kansas is full of milfoil which is similar to hydrilla and Florida fishing in central Florida has fit this style for me very well. I did live a year In Florida in trade school and that helped a lot to understand it better.

Your Welcome! Thank for watching 👍

Thank You I appreciate you watching 👍

Thank You!

That might an extra $100 per event for some 🤣

Thank You! I thought I'd add that as my introduction this year, every time I watch it, it makes me want to get out there!

Do you have Facebook messenger? If so send me a message and I'll explain it to you what to look for. I can send you pictures and explain easier that way. facebook.com/levi.snow?mibextid=ZbWKwL

​@levisnow88 yes I just dm you

That should increase your bites. in the mid 60s they still should be setting up on that hydrilla and eelgrass. Shell beds are good to if you find some.

It was 25lb Sunline Fluorocarbon. I believe it was FC sniper. Fishing in that hydrilla and eel grass I went with the 25lb because I didn't want to break any off.

@@levisnow88Been using braid and it’s been slow out there for me. I’ll try switching it up, thanks! 🙏🏻

What's the water temp down there right now? My partner was just using 17 or 20lb flour. A jerkbait can be good when the water temps 65 and under. Lipless cranks work good in that grass to. Texas rig pegged 1/4oz weight ribbon tail or speed worm catches em good to.

Thank You! These ditches in Dora I think would have been better to fish in the BASS Team Championship. I chose to stay in Harris though because of the cold front sweeping in and I with Dora being shallower, I wasn't sure how that would effect those fish. Then also my boat only has a 25 gallon gas tank so the idling through dead river and Dora canal I wasn't sure if I'd have ever fuel. I really felt these ditches in Dora though had better quality.

Your Welcome and thank you, it's great to hear that others are finding this information helpful! I didn't fish eustis when I was down there but that's the next lake on my list to do a video on the ditches. It will be recommendations from what I see on the countout map so can't guarantee they will be good areas. The main purpose is to show others what to look for on the contour maps so they can locate high percentage areas faster.

Not sure if you seen the video on the Dora ditches or not. Here's the link to it. th-cam.com/video/J9GdsPDebzk/w-d-xo.html

@@levisnow88Can’t wait to watch! Any information would be greatly appreciated.

So far we are getting some decent winter rain. Hopefully the spring rain comes in and brings water levels back up

Yeah I think they might be whipers. I just know there bigger than a white bass 🤣.

And a whole lot more attitude..........@@levisnow88

Yes they put up a fight that's for sure!

Thanks Bud for the input 👍. We did fish these areas in a tournament the 2023 Bassmaster Team Championship and actually got 28th out of 248 Teams "from these areas." "That's a $1k Cheque" 😏 We was boat 38 on day one and was the 1st boat on long Island. Actually it wasn't that full in there. Only about 20-40 boats came through on day 1 and only 2 fished the ditch by the point south of the island. Most of them all stayed out on the flat. Day two only seen 10-15 The south side of that island had very little boats on it 10-15 and nobody stayed on it very long either and very few hit that ditch in the west. Day 2 only 5-10. As for the area north of hickory point there was 1 other boat on it over two days we caught a 6-10 there and 5 more keepers day 2. We had over 13lbs day 1 and just over 10lbs day 2. Actually very possible to pull 13-17lb limits consistently. Also a lot of bass there perfect for guys looking to get out fishing. In that some time we was down there it was taking 12-14 for 2nd place in local tournaments. This video is about Harris not Griffin. You take care and glad I could teach you a few things 👍

Here's the Tournament Breakdown 👍 th-cam.com/video/o441AelwsR4/w-d-xo.html

Here's one for you on Griffin th-cam.com/video/Zh41nmeBhFM/w-d-xo.html

If you can catch some they put up a good fight! When that one bit that crank bait it just about ripped the rid out of my hand! I was like wooo what is this. Then see it and was like oh wow I never knew they was in any pits. Hope you get some when you get out there!