In one form or another flailing the bank is the main thing bassers do around
Yuma. I have read all the conventional wisdom about deep water, but we
simple don't have any. The few deep(er) we have I have located and fished.

Our fish seem to often mover deeper into the heavy cover in conditions where
bass in other areas will head for deep water. It gets hot. Our bass find
trash to hide under. The water receeds they seem to move further up into
the cane and tulies into the few hollows.

I have caught fish in our deeper water areas, but they all seemed to be fish
that were actively chasing bait. Crankbait or spinner bait is usually the
thing to use then.

Anyway, I am going to be fishing some slightly deeper waters in the next
season. Havasu (40-60 feet) and Mead (upto a couple hundred feet) and I
would sure like to get some insite in how to locate fish in those lakes.
The ABA classic on lake Mead kicked my XXX last year.

The only time I have caught bass in Havasu in the past was throwing shiners
and waterdogs to/at prespawn and spawning fish. That was over 20 years
ago. I haven't really fished it much since except dropping a catfish line
off the back of my dad's houseboat at Havasu Springs or casting for stripers
as they roll in and out of the marina in the evening. Actually on Havasu I
hear a lot of the anglers head upstream and look for river like conditions
and fish like they do around Yuma, but you can't convince me that all those
spawners I caught in the lake when I was a kid head 30 or 40 miles upriver
for the rest of the year.

Bob La Londe
www.YumaBassMan.com