The most positive thing I can say about the two Florida events this year is at least I came away from them without a terrible year ending finish.  After being in the top 10 at Okeechobee and crashing hard followed by a solid first day at Toho followed by a crash again it can make you want to scream sometimes.

I spent about half my time in practice in Toho and the other two days split between Cypress/Hatchineha and Kissimmee.  After practice I pretty much found most of my fish in Hatchineha and some in the south end of Kissimmee.  Going into the tournament I figured I would spend my time in the Hatch and use Kissimmee as a backup simply because I had more bites in the Hatch.

First day of the tournament I ended the day with 13 pounds and 18th place, all the fish came out of the Hatch on a Senko around isolated cover either reeds or pads as long as it was away from everything else and isolated it had a fish on it.  Felt comfortable about the second day because there were plenty of fish around in the areas I was fishing.

Day 2 was a colder night and for some reason they simply did not bite in the areas I was fishing in the Hatch like the first day, even the few guys fishing around me didn't catch them the second day either so the bite simply died in their.  That is the problem you get when you fish your tournament in that lake, it is very inconsistent. 

Made a run down into Kissimmee and simply could not get bit in any of the areas I found in practice and the day was done.  The frustrating part of fishing Florida is most of the time it is the area that is special.  The hotspot this year on Kissimmee was Osceola slough.  That is where a lot of the big bags came from and the tournament was won.   I have fished that area for the past 7 years I have been down there and I've caught them here and there but no one ever has done that well there in our tournaments.  This year I was running low on time in Kissimmee and fished 90% of the lake except Osceola Slough.  I intended to go there the next day in practice to finish up th e lake but the winds were howling that day so I opted to go somewhere else.  That was a big mistake.  It seems like in Florida areas are such an important thing that you have to cover everything available or else you run the risk of missing it like I did here.  I still managed to draw a check but never really had the right deal going or even found the right deal, that is why I opted for Hatchineha because I simply received the most bites in that lake vs. the other areas and that is all you can do at the end of the day is do what the fish tell you to do with the bites the give you.

Got pretty mad and remotivated after the event so I spent a day on Wheeler before it went off limits and the fishing was pretty good, so I'm looking forward to a decent tournament there.