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Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Bladed Jigs
Structure
Docks
Forage
Bluegill
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Fall
Technique
Structure Jigs
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Bluegill
Water Temperature
63°
Caught a few fish on docks but the best bite was around 10ft around remaining clumps of green grass
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Bronze Ambassador
9/27/21
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Fall
Technique
Frogs/Toads
Structure
Matted Grass
Just fishing from shore this morning and I'm happy to say that the frog bite is back on. Loads of pike out in the weeds were hitting the spro flapping frog and the bass were shallow hitting the smallest live target hollow body frog.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Fall
Technique
Soft Swimbaits (Sm/Md)
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Bluegill
Tough start to the day with no fish on the frogs or chatterbait. Caught a couple small pike and bass on the outside weed edge with a bluegill colored spinnerbait. The 1/2 oz Dark Sleeper really saved the when fished very shallow. Turned a slow day into a good one with a few quality fish.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Summer
Technique
Spinnerbaits
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Bluegill
Still a lot of vegetation along the shorelines and surrounding the “islands” for late August, however it’s not quite matted enough for punching effectively. We ended up cruising about 15-25’ from shore and was able to effectively throw spinnerbaits with fluke bait trailers and Texas rigged worms along the weed lines. If fishing within the vegetation, frogging may have been a good option as well but we didn’t end up going that route today. Next time!
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Summer
Technique
Bladed Jigs
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Water Temperature
68°
Caught a handful of bass by ripping the slobberknocker through submerged vegetation.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Summer
Technique
Topwater Popping
Structure
Docks
Northwest corner of the lake. 3-6 feet of water. Run top waters across the whole weed flat and docks
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Pre-Spawn)
Technique
Crankbaits 0-6'
Structure
Points
Found tons of fish off the lake’s only point. They were stacked up just off the top of where the bottom drops from 6’ to 15’ FOW. Cast it from off shore past the school and rolled the crank bait right through them. Caught a bunch small ones and a handful of nice ones.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Pre-Spawn)
Technique
Bladed Jigs
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Minnows
Trolling over submerged vegetation at 6’ and targeting shadows was the key on a sunny May Day with a water temp of 64° the bass will be settling into the spawn any day now. Bass mainly struck on a reaction bite.
