fishizzle Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 This seems to be a unique year for CT with all the rain. The water is higher this summer and the water is cooler than usual. The Lake I fish is 500 acres and up to 60' deep. It has points and flats but not much in the way of dropoffs except a few steep shorelines. There are smallies and largemouth here. Half of the lake is rocky shoreline and the other half is mucky with scattered brush. The water temp is now 72. The grasses on the flats have not really grown yet, either because of the temp or that the lake is 4' deeper than a usual summer. The brush has a few fish but not as many as the springtime and no big ones now. The smallies are scattered and not schooling that I've found yet. The flats aren't holding fish now and that's my question. Where are they. If they are not shallow and not on the flats yet in 8-12'water. How do you find concentrations of both species? Forage is both shad and trout as well as craws, sunfish and perch. Could they be suspended and how do you locate them? The lake is electric motor only and I have a cheap fish finder that locates schools of fish sometimes in 20-30' but I'm not sure if they are bass because I can't get them to bite on a dropshot. Thank you so much. Jim Quote
Tokyo Tony Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 This is also my home lake. To add to fishizzle's question... Usually this time of year you can find schooling, or at least concentrated fish in 8-12 feet over the grassflats, and you can catch deep smallies around some specific structure in 35-40 feet of water. This year, that's just not the case at all. I've caught some good fish really early in the morning, shallow, but once it turns 10 am or so, the bite shuts down and it's just a few dinks for the rest of the day, no matter where I fish. I've marked tons of fish over 60 feet of water suspending at about 47 feet. I'm almost positive these are trout...but could they be bass? How would you determine that? Lures, techniques? Thanks. Quote
Super User flechero Posted June 30, 2009 Super User Posted June 30, 2009 I've marked tons of fish over 60 feet of water suspending at about 47 feet. I'm almost positive these are trout...but could they be bass? How would you determine that? Lures, techniques? Drop a minnow down on light line... just to see what they are. It's not cheating, it's research. ...lol Quote
Super User J Francho Posted June 30, 2009 Super User Posted June 30, 2009 If the water is up, then is came from somewhere. Find the creek mouths, and work deep from there. They will be there, but you might have to fish very slow. Quote
Super User WRB Posted June 30, 2009 Super User Posted June 30, 2009 Need a lake map to help with this. Reservoir with a dam or natural lake? Do you know where the bait fish are located? The shad would be primary baitfish for average size LMB, shad and smaller crawdads for smallmouth. When the weeds are developing, look for patches of weeds with hard bottom areas between them. Avoid the larger weed beds located on mud. Isolated brushy areas are usually better than large brushy areas. With the high water the bass have a lot of choices, try to narrow it down by fishing the prime locations and that is why I need a map. WRB Quote
fishizzle Posted July 2, 2009 Author Posted July 2, 2009 the map I have is pdf the site doesn't like those sorry Quote
HAMMER23 Posted July 2, 2009 Posted July 2, 2009 You already know the answer ! think about what you said , you already know were there not. Now you just need to figure out how deep they are in the water column and what it's going to take to get them. Catt made a excellent suggestion "jigging spoon" you will hit them it's just gonna take a little work, but when you do , think about what just happened replay it in your mind , duplicate it then clean house. GOOD LUCK !!! Quote
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