Some Please Explain What Bass Truly Do In The Summer?

[WRB]

Points are a good choice if the lake has points. Most natural lakes are bowl shaped, may have a few bays or coves, maybe islands, fairly flat bottoms. The outside entry corners of bays and some coves can attract bass due to the change is shoreline contour and island ends also attract bass similar to a point.

We don't all fish man made deep structured lakes with long points.

Tom

[Catt]

Points do not have to be long to attract bass & many natural lakes have points...at least the one I fish do.

You mistakenly think I only fish southern resevoirs...keep thinking that!

[RoLo]

During the summer season, bass fishing is more stable and predictable.

All things equal, bass will 'always' opt for a site with a fast drop-off into deep water.

However, during the summertime, largemouth bass (not smallmouth) are preoccupied with lush vegetation.

During this season, it seems that bass will leave the best drop-off to be in the best weedbed,

but the distance is never great, just a minor shift within the same year-round site.

 

A 'point' can be long, short, pointed, rounded or a broad shore-hugging shelf.

It's not the shape of the shelf that matters so much as its overall area (carrying capacity).

In fact, the best spots on many points is not the "point" at all, but one or both corner pockets

at the base of the point (inside turns). This is particularly true in natural lakes, and in manmade reservoirs

when the point doesn't reach a stream channel (river or creek).

 

Roger

[Catt]

Points do not even have to be attached to the shore.

Even with out electronics one can read visible cover to determine structure under the surface. Study your map at home, study the shoreline, study all visible cover.

[RoLo]

Points do not even have to be attached to the shore.

 

Good point Catt.

Some of the best underwater points are not disclosed by a jutting shoreline,

yet there might be a fish-holding shoal on the business end.

Ridges, shoals & reefs that aren't betrayed by the shoreline (by the 0-ft depth line)

are among the lowest pressured hotspots.

 

Roger

[ww2farmer]

Don't be fooled into thinking there are "rules" about summer time bass fishing. They can and will be shallow, sometimes in great numbers. I fish lakes that have plenty of deep water available to bass, yet even when the water is at it's peak temp. for the year, I can often catch them in the dirt. If you live on a lake with boat docks, there WILL be summer time bass in the shade of the docks.

[WRB]

I've read a bunch of confusing articles on what bass do in the summer and I am still confused.  I am a kayak fisherman with no technology to find fish. Can someone please just give me a general idea of what a bass will do on a 85 degree day from sun up to sun down.  I don't need anything fancy!  Cheers, and thank you for the help in advance.  The water is decently warm too, nothing insane, but it most certainly isn't cold.

I would bet you are confused by now! Good luck young man.

Tom

[Loop_Dad]

I think bass generally follow the most expensive boat on the lake at that time. So when you see those expensive boat fish the same area

 

joking aside, one needs to "put time" on the water to find the pattern and catch fish. There's good chance the ones who spend lots of money on the boat fish a lot, therefore there's good chance they know the current pattern. Learn by observing them. I recently moved to a new state and I am out of the elements to say the least, but slowly learning by my own experience and by watching others.

[Mainebass1984]

I think bass generally follow the most expensive boat on the lake at that time. So when you see those expensive boat fish the same area

 

joking aside, one needs to "put time" on the water to find the pattern and catch fish. There's good chance the ones who spend lots of money on the boat fish a lot, therefore there's good chance they know the current pattern. Learn by observing them. I recently moved to a new state and I am out of the elements to say the least, but slowly learning by my own experience and by watching others.

 

Time on the water is essential to figuring out exactly what the fish are doing, finding a pattern within a pattern.

 

Its not the boat that makes the fisherman !

 

I know a few guys that have the most expensive boats but couldn't catch a limit of bass if there life depended on it.

 

Back to the original post question... You want to figure out summer bass patterns ? Go fishing early and stay late.

[Loop_Dad]

 

Its not the boat that makes the fisherman !

 

 

I was joking about the price of the boat in case you took it seriously...

[ColdSVT]

Some awesome info in here!

[Big Fish Rice]

Points are obvious, Google Maps will help you there. Any type of cover where the water will be shaded are excellent.

If you are fishing points, or breaks, one lure can really help you find out what's beneath your Yak - a jig. Choose a 1/2 ounce football jig with your favorite trailer and start shallow and work out. If you're pulling up green weeds, chances are you're in a great summer spot. A rocky bottom can be great too. Look for weeds and rocks, you'll feel them both easily.

Without electronics, you have to maximize your casts. Instead of trying to work an area shallow to deep, zig zag back and forth so that you cover water and cover the different depths.