Structure Fishing Question

"Joshuall" wrote in message
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I've been watching the recent Woo Daves dvd I purchased on structure
fishing and doing some off season reading. Here's where I'm hung up I
guess. On the dvd with Woo he's fishing a lake, a big one and obviously
there's "some" current, but not like one would have on a river. And the
rivers we have around here flow pretty darn fast.

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.

The other thing is that I know I can run over the structure with my
graph, but we have our fair share of rough fish here and cats etc. so it
will be really hard for me to tell the difference. Thanks in advance for
any thoughts or clarifying help.

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Josh The Bad Bear


Here in East Texas, the way largemouths react to current is lake dependant.
A lake like Toledo Bend, where they pull water for power generation, the
largemouth bite will turn on when they are pulling water. The current is
sometimes quite noticeable miles up the lake from the dam. Just as in a
river, the bass will nearly alway face upstream, i.e., into the current, and
generally be close to whatever structure is present using it as a current
break.

Whereas, on a lake such as Lake Fork, whenever they are pulling water to
maintain lake level, the bass bite will slow down noticeably. The bass will
generally pull back into deeper water and may often suspend. When they do
this, it can be pain to get them to bite, even when you locate them.
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Doyce