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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
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.
Bresh
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
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
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
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.
