Nature Archive

Winter Haven
 Bass are heading deeper to escape the rapidly rising water temperature. Look to offshore structure such as drop-offs, dredge holes, and mussel bars to find the largest concentrations of fish. If there’s some form of cover available on or around the structure that makes it even better. Submerged grassbeds and brushpiles will both hold [...]

We are happy to welcome the Road Runners Club of America to Sunny Central Florida this week! If you see more runners than usual out and about, you will know why! In addition to the RRCA National Convention, here is a rundown of the sporting events you can check out this week/weenend in Central Florida:
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Kissimmee Chain
 There’s still plenty of spawning bass on the Kissimmee chain although most have spawned out and started to recover from a tough, long, and cold spawn season. Most fish remain in the shallows. Some have begun to migrate to deeper water. Look for late spawners around hard bottom areas with scattered cover 3-5 ft [...]

Winter Haven
 Amazingly these lakes remain mostly in pre-spawn mode due to the cold weather. Most female Bass are still full of eggs and holding in deeper water. Water temperature getting into mid 60’s will start what should be a very strong spawning cycle. We could see bedding Bass well into April or even May with [...]

Winter Haven
 One word sums up the fishing in and around Winter Haven area lakes over the last couple of weeks…DEAD! This will continue until the water temperature rises to around 60 degrees and gets the bass thinking about spawning again. Until then expect very few bites and be prepared to fish extremely slow. With water [...]

 
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Mark your calendar now for October 2011 because that is when LEGOLAND Florida is set to debut in Winter Haven. The announcement was formally made just minutes ago at Cypress Gardens, the new home of LEGOLAND. All in all, Merlin Entertainments Group plans to [...]

You have seen Pinewood dressed up for the holiday season with Christmas at Pnewood, now you can hear it jazzed up with the Music at Pinewood Concert Series. Bok Tower Gardens’ Music at Pinewood concert series begins January 24 at 4:30 p.m. with a performance by pianist Judith Alstadter. Alstadter is a graduate of Juilliard with a [...]

If you are too busy finishing your Christmas shopping to visit Bok Tower’s Christmas at Pinewood, there is good news! Bok Tower has extended the hours for the Christmas at Pinewood holiday home tour with this year’s theme, “Joy to the World.” Open through January 3, tours of the 20-room, 1930s Pinewood Estate will be [...]

The holidays at Bok Tower Gardens in Lake Wales will be especially joyful this holiday season with “Joy to the World” as the theme for the 15th annual Christmas at Pinewood holiday home tour that runs November 27 through January 3. Christmas at Pinewood has become one of Central Florida’s most popular holiday events. Designers will deck [...]

Note: The following post is a new regular feature you can find here on Catch Central Florida. Monte Goodman, from Central Florida Bucketmouths guide service will be providing regular fishing forecasts to help you know where to find the fish in Polk County. So, now that you know where they are…it is up to you [...]