03-26-2007, 04:48 PM
I fish a powerplant lake in North Dakota mainly for bass. Recently, the water has come up about 2 feet or more. The water in the recent years havn't been this high, but now there are little back bays with more cover ect.
This comes to my question. There are a few places that have a lot of reeds and cattails and i was excited to go back there and fish them with my tube. The problem was, there was carp all over the place and they seemed to be trying to get in the middle of these thick reeds and cattails right up next to the shore and if you stayed back there you could just listen to them splashing around all day. So it's pretty much a why question, i was just interested in why they are doing that if anyone can help.
A lot of carp were back there on Saturday when we had a 70 degree day and when i went back on Sunday, i started to catch some bass back there and i think it's because some of the carp had moved out and were not in the way for the bass to be back there.
Here's just a pic of the shoreline to give you an example of what i'm talking about.
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This comes to my question. There are a few places that have a lot of reeds and cattails and i was excited to go back there and fish them with my tube. The problem was, there was carp all over the place and they seemed to be trying to get in the middle of these thick reeds and cattails right up next to the shore and if you stayed back there you could just listen to them splashing around all day. So it's pretty much a why question, i was just interested in why they are doing that if anyone can help.
A lot of carp were back there on Saturday when we had a 70 degree day and when i went back on Sunday, i started to catch some bass back there and i think it's because some of the carp had moved out and were not in the way for the bass to be back there.
Here's just a pic of the shoreline to give you an example of what i'm talking about.
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