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Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Winter
Technique
Spinnerbaits
Structure
Laydowns
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
45°
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Pre-Spawn)
Technique
Spinnerbaits
Structure
Humps
Forage
Shad
I was fishing a extremely shallow “hump.” Like in 2 feet of water going to 3. Sounds crazy that they’d be that shallow in 49 degree water but it was proven. I was beating the bank with a terminator 1/2 oz chartreuse and whit spinner bait. ( I was getting short strikes so putting on a trailer hook was a must) I also painted one of the blades orange and that stood out in the 6 inches of visibility!
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Fall
Technique
Crankbaits 0-6'
Structure
Rip Rap
I was finding that if you were able to get your boat as parallel to the rocks as you possibly could you could definitely get 4 or 5 more fish out of the day. Also I listed this in the fall but it’s more of a late summer bite, when the days start dipping into the 70’s.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Pre-Spawn)
Technique
Finesse Jigs
Structure
Laydowns
Bass are chomping on Blackhawk right now. Throw a jig with craw trailer around laydowns and big rocks around shore.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Pre-Spawn)
Technique
Lipless Crankbaits
Structure
Rip Rap
Forage
Crawfish
Water Temperature
54°
The fishing was pretty good. Had a blast just covering water with the lipless. Watch the video to find more information!
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Structure Jigs
Structure
Laydowns
Forage
Crawfish
I had some time to take the boat for a rip at the end of the day so I decided to make the most out of it. The water was probably 2 inches of visibility. The conditions were pretty windy on the main lake (15-25) and the water temps were anywhere from 72-75. It was a 80 degree day and was cooling off once the sun had started to set. I couldn’t get a moving bite going really so I decided to pitch to some docks and was also skipping to docks, I was getting some bites skipping it in the backs of docks but not a lot of quality. I moved to the inlet and started to fish some lay downs. That’s where the quality was and I caught a decent one for the north county! (3-9) I was fishing an outkast tackle Cage Feider jig, it was 1/2 oz and the color was black sapphire. I paired this up with a Strike King Rage Craw chunk in black with blue flake. I fished it on a 8.1 Daiwa Tatula Reel and a 7 ft Medium Heavy rod with Suffix 30 lb connected by a fg knot to 20lb Suffix Advanced Fluorocarbon.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Tubes
Structure
Docks
Forage
Crawfish
Water was super dirty and very shallow docks. (2ft or less) lots of pressure on this super hot day so flipping this in the middle and shaking it was producing. Got me 4th in a local derby around the house.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Wacky Rigs
Structure
Docks
Forage
Crawfish
Had a tournament on this body of water and thought docks was the way to go, I was wrong but ended up catching 31.38 lbs for a two day event here to get me second and lose by a pound and a quarter and get second. Really like to catch them on a Jig here but I couldn’t get it going, my last resort was skipping a wacky rig around to get bites. I was catching dinks to 3 and a halves so I didn’t switch. MaxScent works for sure! Skipped a different brand around in the morning until I broke it off, re-tied and put a general on. Skipped the three docks I just skipped too before I broke off and caught a 3.02, 2.76, and a 2.20 and basically glued it in my hand the rest the tournament.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Summer
Technique
Structure Jigs
Structure
Docks
Forage
Crawfish
Water Temperature
78°
Really tough day of fishing, but managed to pull off the win in the I-Bass series tournament on BlackHawk. Fish were very lazy because of the brutal summer heat but we pulled though caught them good early in the morning on a shallow crank and then once the sun came up switched over to a skipping jig, Texas rig, and Tokyo rig and just grinded on docks the rest of the day.
