How would you fish it - part 2

[marlboroman]

Lake: 7 miles long 100 - 200 yards wide - Largemouth

Water: clear

Structure: trees, stumps, sandy flats

Air Temp: 74 F

Wind : 14 mph WSW gust 20

Time of year: prespawn/spawn

Water Levels : normal pool - max depth 30 feet

*** Time of Day: 10:30am - 3:00pm ***

I added time to this little question, you can answer for any time frame, this is just to help the people with like places.

[ABA CAST CHAMP 2006]

Tubes if the fish are biting vertical presentations.  Jerkbaits and spinnerbaits too.

[Catt]

Under any conditions one should always look for contour changes along the bottom.

Once these areas are located work all available cover with reaction baits until you establish a pattern and then switch to slower presentations.

[justfishin]

Wow, its pretty breezy on your lake today. From what you gave me, and most importantly the prespawn/spawn scenario, I would fish the sandy flats especially the ones that had stumps on them. I would start out beyond the drop off of these flats near a creek channel and go with a  swimming jig,spinnerbait, Silver Buddy or rattletrap first to see what hanging out along the edges of the flat first. I would slowly work my way in over the flat and look for some grass, stumps or anything supporting some type of cover and fish a tube or lizard ( since its so windy) with a 3/16wt. I don't fish for bedding bass so this is a make believe scenario for me.

[cart7t]

I'd be on a C-rig like crazy fishing any secondary points adjacent to a spawning area.  

[frogtog]

1/2oz Hawg Caller spinner bait on points. 8-)

[pete s]

wind,wind,would try protected areas in the nw part of the lake..  look for flats,canals,bay areas.  nw part of the lake gets most of the sunlite that time of the year ,usually more vegetation,and this area afford some protection for the 20 mph winds out of the wsw. that time of the day the big fish tend to move(many years fishing that time of the year big fish caught during that time of the day). start out fishing shallow to deep,looking for signs of spawn. fish small plastic baits tubes,lizards etc. if bass are on or near the beds. if it looks like the bass were trying to bed and seem to have left area because of weather changes. try flipping the nearest thick vegetation. if no luck move to deeper drops ,fish carolina rig etc.. they will be somewhere near the spawning areas. pay attention to water temp. look for the warmer water. should be able to quickly determine if the bass are actiive on the beds.

[CaptMikeStarrett]

I would rig three rods.

A small rattle trap to search for emerging grass and bucks.

A c-rig with lizard for flats and pee gravel spots

A wacko / no weight for any structure found.

Pick it apart from there.

Capt Mike

[Curado]

I would try to find some spawning areas out of the wind and make a pass by them real quick looking for fish on the beds and also throwin a spinnerbait and lipless crank around there. Depending on how that worked out; I would start throwin a C-rig, lipless cranks, jerkbaits, spinnerbaits, and maybe a jig on secondary points until I found something they wanted.

[Wenatchee WA]

wind blowin like a mutha, you need to hit bank that water is crashing on, next look for a point if available bass will stage here, next to cover, they will pick off and wind blown forage or weak baitfish that can't handle the weather easy pickins. but the wind does suck. soft plastic jerks, or nail weight senkos the wave and wind will do most of the action for you.

[bassmaster8100]

Considering the wind you want to throw a moving bait. Then considering the prespawn/spawn situation Im gonna check the water temp. If the temp is mid 50s are below Im gonna look for a channel preferrably with some stumps, I would be slow rolling a spinnerbait or a crankbait. The crankbait would be the first choice bouncing it off the stumps looking for a reaction bite. However if the temp is say 60 or above I know there is the possibility of fish moving up to spawn, I dunno about everywhere but I know in this part of the country where I am fish generally move up when the temp usually reaches 60 to 65. In this case Im throw a small spinnerbait and pitching an ISG dream tube.

[Shakes]

1/2 oz. white Strike King Bleeding Series spinnerbaitt with size 2 and 4.5 double willow blades. I'd run about 6 inches below the surface everywhere I fished. Those flats would be FIRE!