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Orchard Lake
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Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Bladed Jigs
Structure
Docks
Forage
Bluegill
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.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Pre-Spawn)
Technique
Wacky Rigs
Structure
Lily Pads
Mid May - Water temps are in the right spot, but the main wave of bass have not made the push to the shallows to spawn. Two techniques produced a large number of fish. First slow rolling a 1/4-3/8oz jig with Menace grub around submerged grass & emerging fresh lily pads & stems. Secondly, fan casting a 5" General or Dinger w/ weedless Neko hook wacky style around any pockets of vegetation or visible shallow cover. The spawn should start full on any day.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Bladed Jigs
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Bluegill
Water Temperature
65°
Fishing for postpawners over milfoil flats as well with weed edges that have pondweed mixed in. Burning a chatterbait when the wind was higher proved to be effective as well as a swim jig in calmer areas.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Wacky Rigs
Structure
Docks
Skipping a wacky rigged Senko under docks and over hanging trees produced some large mouth bass in the evening.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Buzzbaits
Structure
Lily Pads
Forage
Bluegill
Water Temperature
64°
Fishing a buzzbait on pad edges, a trailer hook was critical to better hookups. When the sun came out a frog worked well.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Spinnerbaits
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
I have had success post spawn fishing the submerged vegetation with either a shad colored willow blade spinner bait with no trailer or a shad colored swim jig with swim bait trailer. I have caught a lot of aggressive male large mouth bass this way especially when fry is present. Less than 6ft of water has been where the majority of the strikes have been.
