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Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Summer
Technique
Topwater Prop
Structure
Open Water/Basin
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
87°
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Summer
Technique
Spoons
Structure
Open Water/Basin
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
87°
Water temperature is around 87 degrees, large mouth bass are schooling all around the lake along with small pockets of hybrid bass and white bass. First thing I did was locate the section were the were breaking the surface than I shut off all my sonar and this seems to help the large mouth from spooking them and they would stay close to the boat. Casting into the schools and retrieving the silver castling at a medium to fast retrieval. I was mainly fishing the discharge side the first day I boated 21 large mouth and August 27 I boated 16
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Summer
Technique
Soft Swimbaits (Sm/Md)
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
84°
The water temp was 84° with a light overcast I was able to find some schooling Bass between 9 AM to 12. I was throwing large swimbaits to try and target the lager bass. The large Swimbaits I was using were Mike Bucca style hard swimbaits like the bull shad. I got about 3 4lb-5lb bass by doing this. Then I moved to submerge vegetation, I caught 7 bass by slow rolling with pauses the kietech easy shiner perch color, working in 8’ of submerged vegetation.
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Summer
Technique
Drop Shot
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Shad
There wasn’t much schooling going on today. I caught 8 Lg mouth bass all on the 6” roboworm (Aaron’s morning dawn) was the star bait. The water temperature was 84 degrees and the wind was 15mph coming from the south East. I targeted all the submerged vegetation in all the coves around 8’ of water. The temperature from the sun was scorching!!🥵
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Summer
Technique
Drop Shot
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Insects
Water Temperature
85°
I fished a Aron’s morning dawn robo worm in 8’-10’ of water using a drop shot rig. I was targeting the outside edges of submerged vegetation. I used 20lb power pro braid with a 4’ leader of 8lb seaguar.
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Summer
Technique
Spoons
Structure
Baitfish
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
89°
I was fishing out in open water in 20’ depth spotting the schools of shad than casting the silver and orange spoon out letting it sink 5’ and than a slow retrieve. Large mouth bass and hybrids were mixed. 10am - 1pm was when they were hitting
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Summer
Technique
Wacky Rigs
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Bluegill
Water Temperature
87°
Got out early on Decker, caught around 10 or so with a few 3lbers along with one crappie and a big gaspergu in the mix. Caught most on a PB&J Senko around the reeds and in the hydrilla. Also caught a few on an underspin in the same area.
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Summer
Technique
Swim Jigs
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Just tick the top of the grass with your swim jig and jerk the rod tip a couple times to produce an erratic action. The reason I’m using a swim jig over a chatterbait is because the water is pretty clear and I want the bait to be as natural as possible!
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Bladed Jigs
Structure
Reeds
Such a great trip. They were short striking the mini max and i ended up putting the 3" zako on the jackhammer and it worked great! I put a video on youtube on this trip if you want to see how i fished it. https://youtu.be/2c4Nobkd3l0?si=qXMMeejOsLZjMJwX