Spring Time Sight Fishin'

[BASSMAN1301599783]

Last spring while fishing the back of a creek, I found this large area where the creek opened up and spread out into a shallow flat.  Lots of brush, bushes and trees and gravel/sand bottom.  The particular location wasn't the area that pros say the big ones go to.  It was a [glb]LONG[/glb] way from the main channel or even any water that was over 5 ft deep or better.  There were multiple largemouth just about 1.5 or 2 ft. deep.  Some of them looked to be may 3-5lbs. Some maybe bigger.  Every now and then a 30 or 40 lb. Gar would swim by or a Carp as long as your leg, but they never disturbed the bass.  My dad and I spent 1/2 a day trying to get any one of them to bite.  I hooked one about 2 pounds on a reaction strike.  The rest wouldn't even look at it.  Multiple lures, jigs, worms/lizards, crankbaits, topwater, and more.  

The creek channel the ran back into it, became our faithful area.  But we never fished that far back into it.  Also we never seen anyone else back there fishing besides us.

What's goin' on??????????  And what can I do to prevent this catastrophic event from happening this year?

Thanks

[squid]

I heard that a good stick of dynamite works well...lol.  Kidding aside, could be a number of reasons.  Did it rain hard the day/night before?  Could have been the temp of the water....just about anything really.  Did ya try any live bait?  JT will give ya a better answer than I did, I am sure of it.

[Nick_Barr]

i would use a Kreature bait texas rigged. throw it past them and make it look like its intruding their area and they will usually hit it.

[pigpounder]

if the water is pretty clear try and if the tiny creature bait has not worked try half of a 4" senko on a 1/4 jig head cast pass the bed wait till she dose the circle to come back to bed and dont be in a hurry, good thing's come to those who wait  

[Chris]

Where they prespawn, postspawn? Water temp? clearity?(was this the clearest water in a given area?) Where the fish roaming or just hanging out? Did you try the area at night? Was there an influx of bait in the area? moon phase? <~ these are the things you need to figure out to find out what mood they where in and why they where there. The fish might have been roaming around looking for a place to bed and was not interested in feeding. If that was the case then watch the moon phase and water temp. If a front or an influx of water pushed them off the beds they hang in the area also waiting for conditions to change. If they already spawned they maybe in the area for awhile protecting the fry or waiting to move off into deeper water to recoupe. The also could be in the area if its known to hold baitfish.

[Nick]

Did you spot any hollowed out places(beds)? Or were these fish roaming?  Was it pre- or post-spawn? Help is on the way if we get more facts.

[Will]

It sounds like the fish could of been spawning. Once they get on the beds they it can be very difficult to catch one. Best bets for spawning fish would be jigs, tubes, lizards, craws, dropshot, and senkos.

[Nick.Culver]

Did you ever try a senko weightless?