Hello everyone! First time posting here!
I am pretty new to bass fishing and this is my first year with a bass boat (finally!) and I’m having some difficulty. I’m addicted to every kind of bass fishing video and I do a lot of research but.. can’t really find any helpful advice that applies to my problem.
So.. I live in Upstate NY, on Chautauqua Lake. Surface water temps just hit upper 50s lower 60s and the water at the moment is very clear. 4-5 ft visibility with even more at certain places. This lake is VERY VERY weedy and I’ve found a good spot that I’ve been doing pretty well on lately. Yesterday, I was out trying to duplicate what I thought was a pattern, and I came across probably 50-60 bass roaming around above the weeds. I threw everything but the kitchen sink at them.... not one single fish even looked at my bait. I would put the bait right in front of them and even run my bait into them sometimes... they wouldn’t even care.
This really got me scratching my head thinking that maybe my retrieves were bad or.. I’m not using the right color ? What do you guys think ? Below I’ll put a list of the conditions and the baits I tried. I fished this expanse of weeds for 4-5 hours straight with not a single bite. TOUGH day
Conditions -
Sunny
Clear skies
4-5 ft Viability
Weeds / Weed lines / Weeds to sand bottom transitions
58-63 water temps
Pre-Cold front (yesterday was in the 70s and today it’s in the mid 50s. Gonna be like this for a few days)
Baits -
Chatterbait - green/white / blackblue
Swim Jig - blue gill
Jerkbait - translucent greenish
Drop Shot - pink plasma tail
Spinnerbait (I know it wasn’t the best idea, but had to give it a try lol) - chartreuse/white
Jig - green pumpkin/orange
Texas Rig - Worm Junebug
Lipless - red eye shad bluegill color
Shallow Squarebill - sunfish / red craw
That’s just about everything I have on my boat to fish in the weeds. If there is a bait I missed let me know because I’m lost...
Thanks in advance and I’m happy to be here !
