Structure Fishing Question

Ronnie Garrison wrote:
Joshuall wrote:



Knowing that large mouth bass don't like current, how does what
I'm learning about fishing off shore mix? I mean if I pull off the
banks here and try to fish a ledge 30-40 yards off shore the water's
really flowing. Will they hang on a ledge in deep water where there's
current? And if not isn't all this off shore stuff mute for where I
fish? I"m haveing the same visualization problems with all of the
structure I've been reading about e.g. humps, sunken islands, ditches
etc. Anyone that can help reconcile this for I'd sure appreciate it.

In the lakes I fish, largemouth love current. If they are generating at
the dam and current is moving across ledges, humps and points, the
largemouth bite can be fantastic. As soon as the current stops, so does
the bite. This is true on lake like Eufaula, West Point, Bartlett's
Ferry, Siclair, Oconee and others that have current from power
generation or pumpback. That is one reason fishing is much better on
weekdays than the weekends - they seldom move water on weekends.

Bass will move up on top of points, humps and ledges, usually on the
upstream side, when current is moving across them. Current moves shad
to them. I have fished in current on the above lakes where I had to
stay on the trolling motor pretty hard to hold in one place. A big
crankbait that will hit the bottom is usually my best bait, followed by
a Carolina rig.

Ronnie

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Ronnie,

I think Jay Yelas would agree with you 100% about the generated currents
and how they bite as the current is being generated. He counted on it
for 3 days and it paid off big time :-).

Chris