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Species
Spotted BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Texas Rigs (Pitch/Flip)
Structure
Docks
Forage
Blueback Herring
Water Temperature
68°
Real Diehl
Bronze Ambassador
4/12/25
Species
Spotted BassSeason
Spring (Spawn)
Technique
Shakey Heads
Structure
Points
Forage
Crawfish
Water Temperature
65°
Spots are coming in for their spring spawn. There are some fish chasing and shallow in locations, weather dependent, but fish are on points and humps in numbers. Rocky features on cold mornings do better than straight clay, feeding off the bottom.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Texas Rigs (Worming)
Structure
Docks
Forage
Bluegill
Water Temperature
67°
It’s that time of year and a lot of people forget about swimming a worm, one of my favorite ways to catch frye gaurders! I throw this on both a spinning and casting setups. 1/8-3/16 on spinning and up to 3/8 on casting. I should go by too. Stay back off the bank and make long accurate cast around cover and docks. Typically you can pick off more than one fish. The key is to slow roll the bait making sure you stay in contact with the bottom. Hook set wise, reel and set. Tight Lines!
HotbaitZoom UV Speed Worm Green Pumpkin / 6"
Out of Stock
VMC Sinker Stops Medium
Out of Stock
Sunline Super FC Sniper 10lb / 200 Yards
Out of Stock
Real Diehl
Bronze Ambassador
4/10/25
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Spawn)
Technique
Football Jigs
Structure
Laydowns
Forage
Crawfish
Water Temperature
65°
Fish are moving into spawn coming into the full moon on Hartwell. Cooler temps have some them held back a touch, but the fish are close.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Spawn)
Technique
Bladed Jigs
Structure
Docks
Forage
Bluegill
Water Temperature
65°
Look for beds and frye guarders. Most of the bass have finished, but there is still another wave of bed fish on the way. Most of the fish are in groups of 3 and those fish seem to be a little more aggressive and you may be able to pull more than one fish off of the bed, but the key is patience. Make good flips past the bed and slowly swim the bait up to the and shake the heck out of it. It may take a few flips, but they will EAT IT!
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Topwater Walking
Structure
Points
Forage
Blueback Herring
Water Temperature
73°
Up shallow on the points at daylight, but as the sun comes up move out and fish on the cane piles in 20-30 ft of water and change to chrome. Follow up fish that miss the topwater with zoom super fluke on weighted hook. 1/16 or 1/8 depending on depth fish are located on livescope/forward facing sonar.
Berkley Cane Walker 4 1/3" / Chrome
Out of Stock
Heddon Super Spook Jr. Bone / 3 1/2"
Out of Stock
Berkley Cane Walker 5" / Bone
Out of Stock
Berkley Drift Walker - EOL Black Chrome / 4 1/4"
Out of Stock
Berkley J-Walker - EOL Chrome / 4"
Out of Stock
Heddon Zara Spook Bone / 4 1/2"
Out of Stock
Sufix 832 Braid 40lb / Low-Vis Green / 300 Yards
Out of Stock
Species
White BassSeason
Summer
Technique
Spinnerbaits
Structure
Baitfish
Forage
Blueback Herring
Water Temperature
74°
Located baitfish (Blueback Herring) being pushed to the surface off of points, and cast Spinnerbaits. Largest Wiper was 23 inches and 6.5 pounds.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Wacky Rigs
Structure
Laydowns
I fished Lake Hartwell for both Largemouth and Spotted Bass. While there are still some spawners, most bass were post-spawn and heading into the summer season patterns. I was able to find largemouth in muddied creek arms along flooded trees and laydowns in the morning using weighted weedless wacky rigs and megabass boa buzzbaits. During the heat of the day, move to stick ups and flooded brush, under overhanging trees and shade using weighted, weedless, wacky rigged senkos. I was also able to target spotted bass on rocky, main-lake primary points. For spots, utilize swimbaits on primary points and ned-rigs on main lake island ledges and rockpiles.
Megabass Spark Shad Swimbait Albino / 3"
Out of Stock
Sufix 832 Braid 50lb / Low-Vis Green / 150 Yards
Out of Stock
Sunline Super FC Sniper 10lb / 200 Yards
Out of Stock
Sunline Super FC Sniper 12lb / 200 Yards
Out of Stock
Daiwa Tatula LT Spinning Reel - EOL 3000 / 6.2:1
Out of Stock
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Texas Rigs (Worming)
Structure
Flooded Brush
Water Temperature
75°
I fished the 2023 ACa collegeite national championship. We were one of the only teams that figured out the largemouth. We were flipping craw tubes into flooded timber up creek arms
