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Morrison Springs on the Choctawhatchee

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#1 ·
River bite still slow this morning. We launched at Morrison Springs and fished upriver for a few hours. River still exceptionally low. Water color not as clear as you might expect, but it's fine for fishing. The spring run was a little milky and not really clear until you got close to the spring. Ended up keeping 14 decent bream and 5 small cats.

Saw a few mullet jumping but no sturgeon. Also, saw only 1 big shellcracker close to the spring. Usually you see many fish of different kinds, but not today.
 
#5 · (Edited)
We were actually fishing in the river, but down near the river where the spring water meets up with river water and starts to mix can be good fishing. I have never fished in the clear spring water but do see people doing that. Understand to fish it for bream you use 2 or 4 lb mono with earth worm and a very tiny lead or no lead at all and let it sink slowly. Fish away from the boat with spinning gear. I'm sure there are exceptions though
 
#7 ·
Back to the Springs

Back to Morrison Springs yesterday. Forgot the darn cricket box so all we had for bait was a nice bunch of catawba worms. Catfish became the target by default and we managed to put 16 small blues and channels in the box...no flatheads. Got a few bream as well and used a couple for cut bait.
As we were launching a good friend arrived. He ended up with 9 cats and 4 crappe .
The spring run was a little clearer than a couple of days before.
 
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