O'Dowd Lake
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Largemouth BassTechniqueDeep Diving Crankbaits (13'+)SeasonFallStructureRip RapThe water was cooling 57 -60 degrees of water, some warmer water could still be found in some area. majority of the fish were caught on rock with worked erratically crankbaits in shallow water in 6 ft. of water. the same presentation worked in a bay that still had green weeds. there was a finnesse bite on the weed edges presented very slow with a soft plastic stickbait or dropshot
- SpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueHard JerkbaitsSeasonFallStructurePoints
Water temps are currently in the upper 60s and the bass are schooling on steeper main lake points with deep water nearby. Points with isolated grass beds and isolated grass beds along steeper banks are holding bigger fish. Work the jerkbait on top of, or parallel to, the deeper grass beds (8-12 fow) with a 6-8 second pause in your cadence to elicit bites. The jerkbait bite will only get better as the water cools and make sure to play around with the length of pause in your cadence to determine what will get the fish to trigger for that particular day.
- SpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueLipless CrankbaitsSeasonFallStructureSubmerged Vegetation
If the wind is blowing O'Dowd has a lot of natural funnel points. Focus your attention between the islands and points, anywhere the wind is pushing bait. Rip a lipless through the remaining weeds. I like to use a low stretch flurcarbon for this on a 7ft medium heavy rod.
Khai TBronze AmbassadorSpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueTexas Rigs (Pitch/Flip)SeasonFallStructurePointsShallow (2-6’), lily pads, reeds, docks, submerged vegetation. Weightless. Texas rigged.
SpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueGrass JigsSeasonFallStructureSubmerged VegetationFish were blowing up bait shallow early but could not get them to bite so I scanned around a wind blown point and saw a ball of bait fish outside the weed edge. I slowly worked a jig and ned rig to catch a few quickly.
- SpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueGrass JigsSeasonFallStructureLaydowns
- SpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueFinesse JigsSeasonSummerStructureSubmerged Vegetation
We saw tons of bluegill Frye at the dock and caught this bass, some baby 4-6” bass and 2 8+” bluegill.
- SpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueWacky RigsSeasonSummerStructureDocks
