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Neighborhood Lakes

February 26, 2010 at 7:58 am Leave a comment

The weather has been unusually cooler this year in SW Florida.

One way to overcome the cold water and north winds is to find a nice interior lake. Our community has many lakes which are fed from the Charlotte Harbor.

Fish enter these saltwater lakes during a flood tide or tropical storm through a drainage and leveling system.

The tide inlets that feed the lakes have large inlets but very small outlets. Once in, the diameter of the outlets prevents the fish from returning to the harbor. This creates a great opportunity to fish the many types of saltwater fish right in your back yard.

Snook, trout, tilapia, redfish and tarpon as well as many other saltwater species are all familiar targets in these lakes.

Some of these fish can grow to 36″ or larger and they can definitely grow to trophy size.

I had the oppportunity to catch four nice snook.

This is a catch and release fishery. And the only predator to this stock are aligators. But don’t worry, unless it’s mating season, the “gators” are just afraid of you as you are of them.

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