Fishinbyrd

Some of you fish for like 14 hours?! dang. well I suppose if you had a boat with food and everything and it was nice outside... Anywho, I very rarely go 2 hours without even a bite. But it depends a lot on the lake. There's this one lake I just don't go to anymore because Im semi convinced there are no more bass in it After an hour and a half of no bites I go home, but I fish from shore and don't go through all the work of getting a boat out, etc. It can be longer if I'm making an actual camping trip out of it, but I don't do that much anymore. If I know the bass are there/there's a structure I'll fish it for at least 20 minutes, so a lot more than 10 casts. I probably catch an average of 1 bass every 90 minutes. My record is 4 in an hour (for a normal lake, once I fished an unstable lake where the fish were starving and pulled in one every 5 minutes...that actually got old fast, no sport in it).

So top water lures don't work as well?

No tips sorry. Just wanted to say, ugh, I hate trolling. Its about the most boring type of fishing there is for me personally. Also may have something to do with never having caught anything while trolling though

Lot of the reasons already mentioned. But reeling in a big bass that makes my reel go bzzzzzzzz is such a high, I can't find it anywhere else.

And I'm curious if any of you know why. Its more of a pond really, only 5 or 6 acres. So when the water levels drop its more pronounced than a bigger lake. So normally the largemouth bass do what I call "skids" to feed on the small fish in the lake. Since the slope of the lake is very gradual, the smallest stay in shallow waters 3-5 inches deep. The bass will skid through the shallow water, eating a fish, and then letting their initial momentum carry them back into deeper waters. Actually this wasn't the behavior I was initially posting about, but have any of you seen this? I just realized this is the only place I've ever seen bass do this. Anyways, back to the original question I've been building on. When the lake gets low the small fish are still close to shore, if anything, they are in slightly deeper water, possibly easier to get. Yet the bass will rarely go for them. For instance, in one hour of fishing with the lake low, I'll see one bass skid. With lake full I'll see close to a dozen bass skid per hour. This is important why? Well when the lake is full and they are in a feeding frenzy I can catch up to 3 bass in an hour. When the lake is low I'm lucky to catch 1 in 2 hours. I just don't understand the difference in bites just because the lake gets a bit low. added info: I use buzzbaits and spinners mostly Dawn usually in Arizona 6lb braided green line I can usually cast to the middle of the lake, usually get bites halfway in its a stocked lake (not the bass, trout and catfish) fishing from shore if it wasn't obvious very clear water about 15 ft at its deepest