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Conference wahoo::fishing

Title:	Fishing Notes- Archived
Notice:	See note 555.1 for a keyword directory of this conference
Moderator:	DONMAC::MACINTYRE

Created:	Fri Feb 14 1986
Last Modified:	Fri Sep 20 1991
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1660
Total number of notes:	20970

1072.0. "Walt Disney World" by COOKIE::INDERMUEHLE (Stonehenge Alignment Service) Thu Mar 30 1989 16:58

We, myself and family will be heading down to WDW in June. We will
be staying at Fort Wilderness on the WDW property. Has anyone sayed
there and fished the canals that I have been reading about in all
the brouchers? There are canoe's for rent and a lisence is not required.
The claims are that there are some nice bass to be had in those
waters. 

If you have been there and had any luck, what did you use?
Being a Colorado trout fisherman for years, I haven't a lot of
SUCCESSFUL experience with Bass'in. We supposedly have some good
bass water down around Pueblo, but you couldn't prove it by me.
One bass in 3 years and I couldn't even stretch it from it's
illegal 14" to a legel 15".

Thanks,

John I.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1072.1	didn't fish, but saw	WAHOO::LEVESQUE	Torpedo the dam, full speed astern	`Thu Mar 30 1989 17:48`	4
	Watch yourself when fishing those canals. There are some cousins of Coonass' Phideaux in that thar water! The Doctah
1072.2	Gators can move	DECWET::HELSEL	A thousand points of lightwt threads	`Fri Mar 31 1989 13:16`	12
	That's an interesting point. If you are ever in Florida or someplace and you see a gator, it may be wise to skirt way around him/her. In case you didn't know it, gators can run as fast as a dog for short distances. "short" means further than you can run before he/she gives up. Just a tip. /brett
1072.3	good time	GRANMA::JAMES		`Tue Apr 04 1989 14:04`	7
	My family and I stayed at WDW three years ago. We stayed in the Contemporary Hotel on the WDW property. They have a deal were they come and pick you up at the hotel dock out back with a float boat and take you out for a two hour fishing trip. It was great, in two hours I caught seven bass,nothing big 1 to 2Lbs,and my wife caught one. Of course hers was the biggest,3 1/2lbs.
1072.4	There's Bass in them there hills!	WFOOFF::WHITTEMORE_J		`Mon Apr 10 1989 12:48`	37
	My family and I went to WDW last August and stayed at Ft. Wilderness. I brought a pack fly/spin rod, fly reel, spin reel, and the ol' tackle box. We were so busy with all the things to see and do that I didn't get to wet a line until the day we were scheduled to leave. I fished one canal from 06:30 to 08:00 and got not a bite. It was not a good looking piece of water at all. (I did see/spook a family of deer). My daughter and I did go on the horse back ride, twice, and the 'trail' they take you on parallels a real nice canal for some ways. Both times by this water way I noted several BIG swirls as fish left the shore waters due to the passing horses. These were no small fish! Had I had the time to get back to these canals to fish I have no doubt that I could/would/should have connected. I don' remember the lay of the land well enough to tell you how to get to this spot other than to tell you that it is 'behind' the horse 'ranch' and that there's a widening of the canal into a sort of pond. I don't know if this water is accessible with one of there canoes as I don't know if the waterways are interconnected. (If there is no canoe access to this canal you could probably use a rental bicycle to get back to it from the road by the horse ranch.) You might well take the trail ride early on in your stay (use one of your 'sun and fun' coupons) to locate this water for some early morning pole prodding! GOOD LUCK Joe Whittemore - From where the Westfield Meets the Westfield By the Westfield In Huntington (MA)