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Largemouth BassTechniqueTexas Rigs (Worming)SeasonSummerStructurePointsFocus on the wind blown sides of the points; slowly drag and pop worm. Also have fun with the sand bass and crappie if the LM bass aren't biting. They like smaller hair jigs w/ spinners.
- SpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueCarolina RigsSeasonSummerStructureLaydowns
Used Carolina Rig with 3’ leader. Using baby brush hogs watermelon color.
- Omnia Community MemberBronze AmbassadorSpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueHard Topwater (Popping)SeasonSummerStructureBrush Piles
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White BassTechniqueBlade BaitsSeasonSummerStructurePointsWe were fishing in about 42ft of water and was using jigging blade chartreuse and orange. We caught 25 white bass in one hour.
SpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueTexas Rigs (Worming)SeasonSummerStructureRock PileI went out with my Dad to Ray Roberts this morning from about 7 AM to about noon. The day started out at about 80 degrees outside with a steady 10-12 mph wind out of the southwest and mostly sunny skies. Early on, we threw squarebill crankbaits on the dam and were able to catch some spotted bass and a small largemouth doing so, but nothing of size. After about an hour and a half of this, we left the shallow bite to spend the rest of the day offshore, as the wind was dying down and it was getting hot, as hot as 95 degrees outside with a heat index over 100, and little to no wind. The skies were still mostly sunny, and the water temperatures ranged from 80-85 degrees across the lake. Water clarity across the lake was all pretty much the same, with about a foot of visibility. We spent probably 70 percent of our remaining time on the lake graphing, finding offshore rock piles, road beds, and old house foundations in anywhere from 8-25 feet of water, and we would only stop and fish the ones we saw active schools of bass on when looking at our sidescan and down imaging. Once we located one of these schools, we would utilize our livescope plus live sonar to position the boat correctly on the school, and then drag through the school and cover/structure with big worms. This pattern produced our 2 best bites of the day, a nice 5.59 pound bass that I caught (pictured with the report), as well as a nice 3 pounder that my dad caught. Overall, it was a fun and rewarding day chasing big offshore bass with big baits on one of the toughest lakes in Texas to fish in the heat of the summer, and I learned a lot from this trip! Ray Roberts can be pretty unforgiving this time of year, but if you put in the time with your screens, you can still put good fish in the boat! Thank you all for reading my reports and good luck!
- Omnia Community MemberBronze AmbassadorSpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueHard Topwater (Walking)SeasonSummerStructureSubmerged Vegetation
Early morning topwater bite was hot in shallow water points with patches submerged grass and/or shade line.
- Omnia Community MemberBronze AmbassadorSpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueWacky RigsSeasonSummerStructureRip Rap
- SpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueCarolina RigsSeasonSummerStructureBrush Piles
Although I put shad under forage, bass are so complex in their diet. Most of the time bass eat Shad all year round with bluegill and crawfish making up a huge portion of the diet in spring time. Brush piles in 10-15ft of water are amazing early summer as bass start to move onto their summer stuff. I recommend throwing a wide variety of baits from craws to flukes. Many brush piles are found on main lake points or on flats around spawning pockets.
