Bass bed where?

[NittyGrittyBoy]

In a pond I normally fish, its roughly 10acres or so, extremely grassy and full of cypress trees, and back half is covered in duckweed. 

 

Where will the bass bed in this pond? Average depth is around 4ft, again grass everywhere! What are some things to look for? Tannic water if that helps. I caught a couple on a frog in the duckweed a couple days ago, water temp was 56°. Weve had a huge warming trend, 80° plus days and plenty of rain. I'm just looking for some insight on what I should target.

[WRB]

LMB the male make a bed or nest site on clean bottom area that are wind protected. Eggs die on mud because skit covers them. Look fit small open pockets lighter in color then the dark muck areas. Also look for bass,

Cypress trees root system can suffice for a bed if nothing else is available.

Look when the water temps are in the low 60’s.

Tom 

[Deleted account]

10 acre pond at 56 degrees, just walk the perimeter with polarized glasses and you will see whee they bed. Males start clearing spots fairly early.

[geo g]

Look for hard bottom, sandy, or gravel areas.  Figure out what plant life lives in those areas.  Then any pond or water body with those plants are possibly good bedding areas.  They don't bed everywhere, but frequently in preferred areas.

 

[TnRiver46]

In our ponds the bed all over the banks but it’s easy to see them. In flowing rivers they always bed up against a log or rock and you can’t see it unless it’s super clear during a drought or something 

[the reel ess]

Generally shallow flats. They'll find the hardest bottom around. That might mean just sandy if there's no rock.

[J Francho]

18 hours ago, BassWhole! said:

10 acre pond at 56 degrees, just walk the perimeter with polarized glasses and you will see whee they bed. Males start clearing spots fairly early.

This is what I was going to say.  I have a couple ponds I like to fish when it warms up.  Those fish are always the first on beds, usually 2-3 weeks before other larger lakes.