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Largemouth BassTechniqueSoft Body Swimbaits (Small/Medium)SeasonSpring (Spawn)StructureBaitfishUse electronics to find the bait balls or follow the birds. Bass were actively schooled and feeding on baitfish in coves and secondary points. Lots of success with soft body swimbaits worked at slow to medium speed at lower depths.
SpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueStructure JigsSeasonSpring (Post-Spawn)StructureReedsThe spawn seems to be running late this year. By this time, we're usually in post-spawn, but some bass were still on beds or staging points. The most effective method of the day was pitching jigs into brush and reeds. Craws seemed to get the most aggressive bites. Also had a chance to test out the new Shimano Mastiff line in 16lb. I had one setup spooled for lipless cranks and one setup with a braid to fluoro leader. The line casts very smoothly and I did not have any issues with line twist, even when casting directly into the wind. The abrasion resistance was very good, even after a few catches the line was fully intact with no kinks or fraying.
SpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueTexas Rigs (Pitch/Flip)SeasonSpring (Post-Spawn)StructureStanding TimberCatching14-15” on Yum Dinger 5” watermelon and Caffeine Shad soft jerk bait. Much windier than planned. Lots of bass boats fishing the timber.
- SpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueTexas Rigs (Worming)SeasonSpring (Post-Spawn)StructureStanding Timber
Weather report was wrong and the calm day was 12 mph winds. In a kayak, that is a lot. Fished the standing timber south of the east boat launch with Texas Rigged Yum Dinger and weightless Caffeine shad. Fished 4 hours and caught 6 in the 14-16 inch range. Lots of boats in that spot. I planned to fish the humps, but the wind blew me around too much.
David TisdaleBronze AmbassadorSpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueBladed JigsSeasonSpring (Pre-Spawn)StructurePointsCaught them on secondary points using small TRigs Strike King Cut-R worms and white Jackhammer chaterbaits
- SpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueTexas Rigs (Worming)SeasonSpring (Spawn)StructureStumps
Launched the boat at sunrise and ran to the south end of the lake to start looking for beds in some of the coves on the east side of the lake. There weren’t any beds up shallow, there were a few up in the reeds. I just had to blind cast on flats and drag a worm around feeling for the bait to drop and then hold it there until I felt a thump. I fished that way for the first 3 hours of the day and caught some small males, so I moved to the dam to fish the rip rap with a Frittside 7 banging it off the rock in 8-10 foot of water and I caught a couple nice fish that way. The wind started picking up so I decided to go fish standing timber in protected coves dragging creature baits and that wasn’t working so I went out to some main lake points that had some stumps around it and drug a Carolina rig around fighting the wind. I got some solid bites on the stumps. I caught my best fish on the Carolina rig in 8-15 foot of water. All the fish were pre-spawn. I caught the Carolina rig fish on a fluke style bait I pour myself. The color is similar to tilapia magic.
- SpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueWacky RigsSeasonSpring (Post-Spawn)StructureStumps
The bass were still spawning or just finishing up. I was using a wacky worm and dropping it next to the trees and I was getting bit almost every cast! A lot of people use Texas rigs or shaky head worms around the trees so they don't get snagged. I was fishing a wacky worm and getting 3 times as many bites because the fish were not used to seeing that presentation next to the trees like that. Link to my YouTube video of this trip is here https://youtu.be/M_MAUiqSjc8
- SpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueUmbrella RigsSeasonSpring (Post-Spawn)StructureBrush Piles
Lake Fayette in March the bass like to spawn on these 8 to 10' humps in open water surrounded by deeper water. We threw a lot of different baits at them but the most productive way was using an umbrella rig crawled very close to the bottom. I would cast it out, let it sink all the way to the bottom, pop it off the bottom with a jerk of the rod and start slow rolling it back to the boat. The bass would hit the bait as it ticked off rocks or sticks. It was such a fun way to catch them and they were hitting it almost every cast. Here is a link to my youtube video of the trip. https://youtu.be/8eSzbl9Po9g
