Bass Food

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Permalink Reply by P.J. Koshi on April 10, 2010 at 1:37pm

I know that Sculpin and a Crawdads will be on the bottom all the time and they are usually a brown to red color. The Crawdad's associate with rock and they do turn a blueish tint in the summer as far as I know but I have not seen one that looked blueish to verify. The perch and bluegill and any pan-fish forage are going to be in schools of some size suspended during the the summertime. They will often suspend above weeds and within them if they grow tall enough in relatively deep water. As for the exact or even ballpark depths I don't know. I know in eastern WA in the summer months I have seen Largemouth feeding on Dragonflies. Thats a pretty pathetic amount of knowledge but I don't really know much about the seasonal habits of bass foods.

Permalink Reply by Aaron Christel on April 10, 2010 at 1:41pm

I have caught fish in late summmer that had craws in them that had blue coloring on them.

Permalink Reply by Tag Watson on April 10, 2010 at 2:37pm

A couple additional notes on crayfish habitat and location.

Crayfish require shelter, which includes thick vegetation, brush, logs, man made objects and rock as PJ mentioned. Also, while crayfish will be on the bottom the majority of the time, they will also climb vertical structure like dolphin pilings, cling to aquatic vegetation in all parts of the water column and even hang out in densely matted surface vegetation.

Permalink Reply by P.J. Koshi on April 10, 2010 at 3:16pm

Thats very helpful and cool info thanks Tag!

Tag Watson said:

A couple additional notes on crayfish habitat and location.

Crayfish require shelter, which includes thick vegetation, brush, logs, man made objects and rock as PJ mentioned. Also, while crayfish will be on the bottom the majority of the time, they will also climb vertical structure like dolphin pilings, cling to aquatic vegetation in all parts of the water column and even hang out in densely matted surface vegetation.

Permalink Reply by Ronald Hobbs, Jr. on April 11, 2010 at 10:03am

Bass eat whatever they can fit in there mouth. That is what bass food is. I think the bass put themselves into a postition to take advantage of the easiest and most abundance of forage. Just because a fish was dining on crawdads doesn't mean they won's eat a minnow when it swims buy. I have caught tons of fish that are spitting up both. Bass food is bass food

Permalink Reply by Shawn O'Connell on April 11, 2010 at 4:32pm

I agree, Bass are opportunists just like any predator. Matching the hatch is great but just this morning I watched a guy,(my dad), catch a nice smallie on a hot pink crankbait. Tell me what that matches? On the other hand don't tell me what that matches:) By the way, I bet him he wouldn't catch anything on that crank and I'll never hear the end of it.

Ronald Hobbs, Jr. said:

Bass eat whatever they can fit in there mouth. That is what bass food is. I think the bass put themselves into a postition to take advantage of the easiest and most abundance of forage. Just because a fish was dining on crawdads doesn't mean they won's eat a minnow when it swims buy. I have caught tons of fish that are spitting up both. Bass food is bass food

Permalink Reply by kzoo on April 11, 2010 at 7:15pm

Does anyone have any feed back using perch pattern on Lake Washington? I've tried jerkbaits with the perch patterns haven't had too much luck, I have more luck using silver with a blue back. Being from Michigan, the perch pattern is a killer for smallies, I'm not quite sure what's up here.

Permalink Reply by Dan Johnson on April 12, 2010 at 3:47pm

San Diego bass eat baby ducks and rattle snakes.

Ronald Hobbs, Jr. said:

Bass eat whatever they can fit in there mouth. That is what bass food is. I think the bass put themselves into a postition to take advantage of the easiest and most abundance of forage. Just because a fish was dining on crawdads doesn't mean they won's eat a minnow when it swims buy. I have caught tons of fish that are spitting up both. Bass food is bass food

Permalink Reply by Tom Edwards on April 12, 2010 at 3:52pm

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Permalink Reply by Ronald Hobbs, Jr. on April 12, 2010 at 5:06pm

Perch patterns work great in Lake Washington, you just have to throw them in the right spots, just like any other lures. I catch alot of fish on perch jerkbaits but mostly cranks.

kzoo said:

Does anyone have any feed back using perch pattern on Lake Washington? I've tried jerkbaits with the perch patterns haven't had too much luck, I have more luck using silver with a blue back. Being from Michigan, the perch pattern is a killer for smallies, I'm not quite sure what's up here.

Permalink Reply by kzoo on April 12, 2010 at 6:20pm

I'll keep on trying! Thanks for the feed back!

Ronald Hobbs, Jr. said:

Perch patterns work great in Lake Washington, you just have to throw them in the right spots, just like any other lures. I catch alot of fish on perch jerkbaits but mostly cranks.

kzoo said:

Does anyone have any feed back using perch pattern on Lake Washington? I've tried jerkbaits with the perch patterns haven't had too much luck, I have more luck using silver with a blue back. Being from Michigan, the perch pattern is a killer for smallies, I'm not quite sure what's up here.

Permalink Reply by P.J. Koshi on April 12, 2010 at 9:54pm

I use a perch color jerkbait and a crankbait about as frequently as any other color scheme and I do pretty well. Have not fished Lake WA with a perch color one yet but on Eastern WA lakes Perch patterns are killer.

kzoo said:

I'll keep on trying! Thanks for the feed back!

Ronald Hobbs, Jr. said:

Perch patterns work great in Lake Washington, you just have to throw them in the right spots, just like any other lures. I catch alot of fish on perch jerkbaits but mostly cranks.

kzoo said:

Does anyone have any feed back using perch pattern on Lake Washington? I've tried jerkbaits with the perch patterns haven't had too much luck, I have more luck using silver with a blue back. Being from Michigan, the perch pattern is a killer for smallies, I'm not quite sure what's up here.

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