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In today’s fast-paced world where articles and videos are popping up everywhere, it’s easy to fall prey to information overload. There are times most of us would much prefer to get some friendly advice in the form of a short tip rather than a several hundred word article!
So here are the first of a series of quick bass tips to help lessen burden of the information avalanche surrounding us…
Whether you are a dedicated bank angler or a boat owner that hits the bank a few times a season, there are a number of things you can do to up your bank fishing success.
Here are ten tips to help you become a better bank angler:
Actually this is a little bass fishing secret I employ in ponds and reservoirs with populations of schooling baitfish like shad (Southeastern & Western U.S.) or alewives (Eastern U.S.).
As either spring ramps up and summer starts to wind-down, schooling baitfish start to congregate in the main lake area and bass often do as well. The reason the bass are there? …
The presence of all that food…
Not to mention, to take advantage of ambush situations where
Anyone used to fishing ponds, lakes or reservoirs with fairly deep water should realize many summertime bass reside in main lake areas. While taking up residence in their main lake hide-outs, summertime bass often relate to main lake points, offshore bars/humps/rock piles, submerged cover on deep structure, deep weed beds and creek channels.
The reasons bass prefer these summertime locations are simple;
Just as bass prefer areas with cooler temperatures and plentiful food, baitfish also live out in the main lake deeper water for similar reasons. As environmental conditions change, the summer to fall transition kicks off and usually occurring between earl September in the north through late October on southern waters.
When the calendar passes the Autumnal Equinox,
Have you ever stopped to think about the relationship of the Sun, the cover you’re fishing and how it might impact the bass using the cover? Are you doing all you can to “keep the Sun out of the bass’ eyes” when you’re fishing shallow cover? Many anglers do not even consider this factor but…
If there’s one thing that gets the old blood pumping when fishing new water, it’s finding spots where great structural elements combine with good bass-holding cover…
If the new water body is a man-made reservoir, a classic structure-cover combo is scattered brush on points leading to deep water shown here:
A really cool thing about the brush laden point above, the brush starts in shallow water and extends out to the edge of the shallow to deep drop-off thus providing almost limit-less ways to fish it…
Okay so I am not that great a poet 🙂
For many folks across the country, this summer is starting out just like the winter did… Warmer than normal!
Here in the Midwest, we’re looking a one of our first strings of 90+ temps and it’s only mid-June (I wonder what August will be like!)…
As the air and water temps continue to rise, many bass move offshore to humps, bars and ledges.
Learning how to successfully fish these offshore structures will often mean between a day where you’re catching bass or only a sunburn…