This past weekend the weather was in the range of 70's plus but yesterday it dropped down into the 40's and 50's. The weather forecast for the next couple weeks is supposed to stay in the 40's and 50's along with some rain showers.
My question is about bass and where i should be able to find them or what to use when there is that much of a change in weather. Any tips and information would help! [cool] If there's anything else you need to know about my situation, just ask.
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Dramatic tempurature drops alone are bad for business, but combine a cold rain on top of that, and it can seriously leave you wondering "what happened to the fish?" Depending on how big the body of water is(how fast the air temp will affect the water temp) will determine the extent of the damage. The weater is cooling off here as well, but just to the lower 70's from the upper 70's. So, not a big difference, just no progress.
Around here, atleast, the fish like deep structure when the chill comes on. That's not always the case, however. The bream and bass alike move down into the water column to find shelter. Now, that doesn't mean they won' venture to the shallow water structure during the hot part of the day.
Slow your retrieve down. Fan cast a specific area of the water that has shallow and deep water structure. Change up your presentation and depth after a couple of runs through your sets of casts. Once you find what water level the fish are at, you can then begin fine tuning with color and different style baits until you find a combo that works.
It's a pain in the butt to do all that changing around, but it will pay off.
1.Find what level of the water column the fish are at.
2.Find a lure that will keep you in that water column as to stay in the strike zone longer.
3.Match a color with your lure selection that the bass are responding to.
Following those three steps should help put fish in the boat. Don't be affraid to use your "go to" lures either, no matter what the conditions are. A little luck never hurts.
The very first thing I ever tie on my hook when i'm bass fishing is a Zoom 6" Paddle tail suspending worm, in white. Rigged with just a hook, it sinks nice and slow, and depending on the speed of your presentation, you can cover the entire water column. [cool]
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what i was thinking if i get out there this weekend, is first just tying on a tube and fishing some of the cover on the outer edges but then this is where i need a back up plan because if that's not going to work for me, i dont know where else to fish really, because other than the little bit of cover on the shoreline, the lake doesnt have too much deeper cover to offer.
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if it is leagle to target bass you your area this time of year,
go in to the cannals. that is where the active ones will be...
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If you don't already own one, buy a simple Barometer. When you have cold fronts accompanied or without rain, keep an eye out for when the barometer is rising or falling.
If it is stable, normal teckniques will not entice them. On the rise or fall, is the trigger to get them to bite better.
As was said earlier, slow it down to a crawl.[cool]
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If I am reading him right, he is talking about the thaw front.
fish in our lakes up here seem to be locjawed shortly after the ice goes off the lakes. that is not realy the case, it is that the thaw brings down a lot of food from rivers lake edges bird droppings on top the ice from the winter along with dead bugs that came out on winter days only to meet untimely dimize.
point is for about 3-4 weeks after the thaw it is almost imposible to get fish to strike. its like after your third slice of pumpkin pie on turkey day all the fudge in the world wont get you to budge untill youve made a little room...
the reason I suggested to target shallow lakes and cannals is because the waters are wormer so feeding fish there are more active and will go poo sooner after thier taisty morcles and will be more willing to take another offering...
so we could actualy say the fish are having a thanks giving feast that cant be beat...[
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That sounds like the perfect condition for he wet fly hanging from a bobber. Even a nymph should work.[cool]
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Reads like my VT vacation last spring. They will be suspended, look for a few shallow if the sun can peek thruogh at all, edge of canals or next to deep water drop offs. I did find a few on the flats, but real spotty. Which ever is your confidence bait, work it realllll slowwwww. I prefer crawdads texas rigged for this time of year.
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yeah, i was thinking of working a tube really slow along the shoreline cover and around some rocks that are right next to the shore that gets deep pretty fast
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Well, I guess this is kind of a different lake to fish. It's a power plant lake so the water temp is def. different than the surrounding lakes that are just opening up now.
The lake im talking about; i've already caught quite a few bass out of there this year, but now we've just had all this cold weather come in!!
i want it to go away!!!! [
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