How to fish this scenario

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Permalink Reply by Steve Hastings on September 4, 2012 at 12:35pm

Kevin,

 Always try to combine  or overlay cover and structure that will hold bass. Likely fish will be on summer/fall patterns, so consider main lake points to all the way back in coves. 

Try throwing frogs in the pads. This will let you cover water and locate fish.  Especially focus on those area where there is as much wood as possible, and combine those items with main lake points or in the coves, but just cover water. Fish tend to be scattered and roaming pad fields right now.    Hit anything that's isolated and close by these areas.  Senko's and flukes weightless  and jigs can produce pretty much year round and are great for targeting in and around logs, lay downs, etc, and use the senkos and flukes as throw back baits on a missed frog strike.

As the sun moves higher in the sky the you'll want to fish tighter to cover that can provide shade in those areas without it.

Look for those heavy concentrations of fry, their momma's are likely not far away.  If you see fry, look for wood/brush close by and throw at it.

Finally focus on the inside weed lines in the morning and the outside ones as the sun moves higher.

Good luck,

Steve

Permalink Reply by David Mast on September 5, 2012 at 7:27pm

Throw spinnerbaits or jerkbaits on those weedlines to get the active bass. If nothing, slow down and fish with swim senkos or or texas rigged plastics, droping them in holes you see in the weedbeds

Permalink Reply by Nate on September 5, 2012 at 8:32pm

I would head straight to the bluff walls that sit in 8'-25 ' of water and walk a drop shot down the steps of the vertical wall. Id give it a couple shakes and a pause on each step. In my experiences with squawfish lakes is that they will dominate the area that they inhabit, and that the bass will hold in a completely different area of the lake. The bluff walls will tell me which species has control of that portion of the lake. Bluff wall fishing is "can't miss"  in the early fall for both species but you will get a lot of <1lbs fish. Once I find them on the walls I will look for desirable looking features in the surrounding area of the lake for better bass. Basically areas as Steve H mentioned except I probably wouldn't bother fishing the back 1/3 of the pocket unless there is good depth and/or good current (spillway/active feeder creek). What side of the mountains are we talking?

Permalink Reply by Kevin Lunde on September 5, 2012 at 8:42pm

Thank you for all of these great responses. I made up this scenario for Eastern WA .