The term "too much of a good thing" is often overused. For anglers in Florida, however, it is a welcome fact of life. Regardless of the month, the temperature or the weather, somewhere there are always several species biting, and they can frequently provide the kind of world-class action that's made Florida the country's premier fishing destination.

It isn't easy trying to figure when to be where to catch the best bite, but here are 36 suggestions that shouldn't disappoint this year.

JANUARY
Striped Bass:
Lake Talquin
If not the best striped bass fishery in Florida, Lake Talquin is certainly one of the top three. And January is a great month to sample it.

Concentrate your efforts in the lower half of the lake, near the dam. During midday hours, seek stripers along the first significant drop from the shoreline in 6 to 9 feet of water. Early and late in the day, or all day, if it's heavily overcast, the linesiders move up onto shallow finger bars and points, in as little as 3 feet of water.

A number of lures take them, but a 5-inch white curly-tailed plastic grub on a 1/4- to 3/16-ounce jighead is one of the deadliest. Ten- to 15-fish days are not at all uncommon, and the fish average 6 to 12 pounds -- with 20-pound fish being taken every year.

Alternatives: Snook will be holed up for the winter in the Myakka River above Port Charlotte Harbor. Anglers working the deeper outside bends, especially around fallen timber, catch them on jigs, jerkbaits, and topwater plugs.

Bass are hitting the beds on Lake Arbuckle, and you can find spawning fish along the shoreline in 1 to 2 feet of water.

FEBRUARY
Largemouth Bass:
Lake George
Despite its north-central location, this is a prime month for spawning bass on Florida's second-largest lake.

Savvy anglers start their search along the west shore near the mouths of Salt Run, Silver Glenn and Juniper Springs runs, since these spring-fed tributaries help warm the water. If the winter is mild, expect bass to be spawning well along the east shore near Pine Island, the south shore, and around Hogg and Drayton islands.

Look for bass to be making their beds on the inside edge of the grassline where eelgrass and dollar bonnets meet. If the beds are vacant, small spinnerbaits, soft plastic jerkbaits or Trick Worms fished in the outer areas of the eelgrass should locate some bass.

One key indicator that bass are in the immediate area is uprooted eelgrass floating in mats on the surface. The bass uproot the grass while fanning beds.

Alternatives: This is the prime month for bedding bass on Lake Kissimmee, and local anglers check out those areas where bottom scraping took place during the most recent drawdown.

Crescent Lake has big speckled perch working their way toward the shallows to spawn, and anglers drifting minnow-tipped jigs in 7 to 10 feet of water should find these crappie.

MARCH
Largemouth Bass:
Lochloosa Lake
Ten years ago, anglers declared Lochloosa "legally dead." Today, it takes better than a 3 1/2-pound per-fish average to win a local tournament! This month, those fish are heading shallow to spawn.