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Deven Mitchell
Bronze Ambassador
3/31/25
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Pre-Spawn)
Technique
Football Jigs
Structure
Points
Forage
Crawfish
Water Temperature
60°
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Spawn)
Technique
Finesse Jigs
Structure
Flooded Brush
Forage
Crawfish
Water Temperature
62°
Fish are solidly on beds!
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Drop Shot
Structure
Brush Piles
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
68°
Taught a 4H class today from the bank using KastKing spinning gear (kastking sponsored the event) at Roosevelt lake. The kids were novice anglers and this is their first time ever fishing. The water levels are the highest in history and there is little to no shoreline fishing. I knew it would be tough and the kids needed a technique that was easy and produces with little effort- drop shot wasn’t good for all the structure but POWERSHOT was the trick. 12-15lb KastKing Kovert Flouro, robo worm hook, and 1/4-3/8 dropshot weight. Right now any kind of worm in the trees will produce. From powershot, wacky rig, weightless sanko, pegged sanko, Texas rig worm or brush hog will flat catch em. If flippin use 17-20lb Fluoro. Wind blown bank in afternoon especially productive.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Crankbaits 0-6'
Structure
Flooded Brush
Water Temperature
65°
We got on the lake at sunrise and fished coves with crankbaits. I caught my bass on the Rapala Rocco and the BX Brat. All the fish were shallow and hanging around submerged brush where there was also a clean and rocky bottom. The fish were mostly in the mouth to the middle of the coves for us. The key was finding banks with river rock and submerged trees and brush and casting right up to the bank and coming in contact with cover. There were some buck bass on beds but they weren’t locked on. The bite was on fire from sunrise to about 9 to 9:3O am and then it shut off. I also caught the bass in the picture on a green pumpkin swim jig with a speed craw trailer fished in the same areas as the crankbaits.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Hard Jerkbaits
Structure
Boulders
Forage
Shad
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Spawn)
Technique
Texas Rigs (Worming)
Structure
Brush Piles
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
67°
Texas rig worms, creature baits are doing very well. Wacky Rig did catch some fish but the curly tail trick worm type baits did the majority of the work. Early morning and Mid Day were the key times in our trip. Water clarity is dirty. With little visibility. Our fish were actually caught in the dirtiest parts of the lake.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Spawn)
Technique
Hard Jerkbaits
Structure
Brush Piles
Forage
Minnows
Jerkbaits in 8-12' of water or over the tops of brushpiles, also a good shallow crankbaits bite running your crank over the tops of the same brunch piles
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Pre-Spawn)
Technique
Hard Jerkbaits
Structure
Brush Piles
Drop Shot with the Smallie Smasher was king in 17 to 20’ of water on the bigger girls. Caught a nice female and a couple of nice males shallower on the A-Rig over brush casting toward the bank. Off points the Megabass vision Jr +1 worked well getting it down just over the rock near boulders.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Pre-Spawn)
Technique
Texas Rigs (Worming)
Structure
Flooded Brush
Forage
Crawfish
Water Temperature
57°
The water has come up with snow melt and the water temps dropped from over 60 degrees to the mid to high 50’s. The bass have moved into heavy cover in flooded trees and bushes. They weren’t hitting reaction baits so we switched to Texas rigged worms on a 3/16 ounce weight. We were throwing into flooded trees and next to bushes on hard cover and gravel bottom in the middle to the backs of coves. The bass we got were in 3-8’ of water. The water is pretty stained mid lake where we fished so we were throwing darker colors. Both river ends were chocolate milk and so we stayed mid lake.
