I've read a lot over the years about the St. John's River around Jacksonville, but my only first hand knowledge is from driving over it. If we don't have any members from that area who can give you better information, the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce may be a starting point. I think they are pretty well known for bass fishing around there.
Yea snapper, I have fished it a couple of times.<br />Once back when the tornado had just came thru and the Chattahoochee was a booming and once when they were having a BP top 100 tournament there.<br />Man was that a joke.<br />It did not matter where you were fishing, when them guys decided to fish there, they did.<br />I have also fished Lake Jackson a couple of times and did pretty good there on big shiners.
SBN I hate to suggest you travel further South but I don't think lake Okeechobee (misspelled) can be beat. It is further South than you want to go but it really ranks up there especially this time of year.<br />I have heard about a couple smaller lakes northern parts of Fla (one of which is pretty big but has only one public ramp on it) that are managed for big fish I don't know the names however. I would suggest you contact the Fla DNR and ask about management lakes.
i've fished lake toho a couple times. its huge,cut up, has deep and swamps. had great luck on bass. but its around winterpark/orlando, middle fl. i used to fish a north fl farm pond- but its private. and i'd have a hard time finding it myself, after so long.<br /><br />those rodman links are great. looks like my kinda place - and someone pulled a 17lb2oz out not too long ago!
The Big O (lake okeechobee)and most of south Florida is still on the rebound from some seriously low water levels from a severe drought about a year ago, and even though the water level is back up to where it should be now, fishing seems to be off a bit... The Big O's still good, but I think I would stick with your plans for the north and central parts of the state...
