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.

--
God Bless America

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.
--
Doyce

"Ronnie Garrison" wrote in message
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Chris Rennert wrote:


It depends, if you are talking LM, how much shoreline structure is
availalbe?? What other species inhabit the lake. Are LM the dominant
species, or do you have Pike, Walleye, Smallmouth? Bass naturally are
not a schooling fish. They may gather in packs to hunt, but school and
feel in open water when they are forced, such as lack of cover and prey
in shallow water.
Northern bass must be very different from southern bass - our bass school
all year long, hunting in big schools following the shad, especially in
open water during the summer. There is lots of sunfish in shallow water,
but they prefer shad. This is even in lakes full of hydrilla.

Big difference there is the shad. We have very few lakes with shad or any
kind of major schooling fish that bass would prey on.
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Ronnie Garrison wrote:
go-bassn wrote:

I think it's more of a question of the bass positioning themselves in
predictable locations then it is a feeding scenario, much like it is in
tidal rivers. The no-current scenario in your lakes is on par with the
slack tide situations I face. The fish don't really stop eating
during the
slack tide, but they do scatter & reposition themselves when the water
stops
moving.

Warren

They are still there - you can see them on a deptfinder. They do move
off the structure and suspend, and I have a very tough time getting them
to hit. As soon as the current starts they move into contact with the
structure and feed. This movement is often just a few feet - straight
out over deeper water.
That is a question I kept asking myself the year that Yelas won the
tournament. I figured those fish cannot be far. But I suppose when they
know if they wait till a certain time they will have a feast, they are
not going to go out of their way to expend energy.

Chris

I suppose they can actually be conditioned to migrate to certain spots as
soon as they hear those floodgates open. Unfortunately there are no "real"
river-run reservoirs in my area so my experience with them is based solely
on my readings & watchings. Maybe my tidewater analogy doesn't apply like I
thought.

Warren

"Chris Rennert" wrote in message
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Ronnie Garrison wrote:
go-bassn wrote:

I think it's more of a question of the bass positioning themselves in
predictable locations then it is a feeding scenario, much like it is in
tidal rivers. The no-current scenario in your lakes is on par with the
slack tide situations I face. The fish don't really stop eating during
the
slack tide, but they do scatter & reposition themselves when the water
stops
moving.

Warren

They are still there - you can see them on a deptfinder. They do move off
the structure and suspend, and I have a very tough time getting them to
hit. As soon as the current starts they move into contact with the
structure and feed. This movement is often just a few feet - straight
out over deeper water.
That is a question I kept asking myself the year that Yelas won the
tournament. I figured those fish cannot be far. But I suppose when they
know if they wait till a certain time they will have a feast, they are not
going to go out of their way to expend energy.

Chris

I'm still confused. acccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccck (my kingdom for a
brain) !

--
God Bless America

Josh The Bad Bear

Joshuall wrote:
I'm still confused. acccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccck (my kingdom for a
brain) !

I apologize Josh,

what part are you the most confused about???

Chris