Cloud, Florida. I went to Trout Lake and fished for several hours, and experienced my best day of fishing on this chain both in the quality and quantity department. Well, I turned onto Bass Highway and had a good feeling about how the day would go.
There is a public boat ramp operated by Osceola County, there are no public restrooms, but ample parking and a great place to launch a kayak off to the side of the boat ramp.
One thing that I liked about this lake, is that it is relatively small, which means you can cover a good bit of it in your first trip. Like many natural lakes in Central Florida, it is a soup bowl shaped lake, with emergent grasses running from close to the shoreline to yards offshore. On the south end of the lake there are houses with docks, and fields of lily pads in between them. I spent an hour fishing topwater but also going through trying to establish a pattern.
I ended up getting my first bite on a swimbait a little over an hour later, and for the next 3 hours fished swimbaits and speedworms on the outside edge of the grasses and caught roughly 25 Bass.
I was able to cover about half of the lake in 4 hours. I also worked lily pads when I came across them catching Bass amongst the pads, but these were smaller than the ones I was catching along the edges of the grass.
