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What is the best bait for bass fishing in the summer?
The best summer bass fishing lures are spinnerbaits, lipless crankbaits, skirted jigs, topwater frogs, and plastic worms. The type of lure to use depends on where you are casting. Reaction baits such as crankbaits, topwaters, and vibrating jigs are excellent for shallower areas.
Do bass go to deeper water in the summer?
While productive depths during the early summer are dependent on the lake, I like 6 to 12 feet of water. During the height of summer, bass may move as deep as 15 or 20 feet, especially in clear water. Fishing crankbaits along weed edges is a proven summertime tactic for big largemouths.
What colors do bass like in the summer?
The most fundamental rule is to fish brightly colored baits in dingy or muddy water and light, subtle colors in clear water. The logic here is that a bass’ visibility is hampered by silt, and colors like chartreuse, yellow and orange are easier to see than bone, pumpkinseed and smoke.
Do bass bite on hot days?
Merciless hot weather is right around the corner. The heat will change the behavior of big bass. If you expect to catch them, you’d better make some changes, too. As a general rule you can expect them to move deep, but that’s not because they want a lot of water around them or over their heads.
Do fish go deeper when its hot?
When it gets too hot for a fish to be comfortable, they move to deeper (and cooler) waters. Temperatures just 10 feet below the surface can easily change by 5 to 10 degrees, which is generally enough to make a fish comfortable.
Where do bass hide when its hot?
HUNTING IN SHADOWS – Structure fishing is paramount to success in summer, as bass hang tight to docks, branch overhangs, bridge abutments and lily pads—anywhere they can cool off in the shadows and hide from the sun.
Why is bass fishing so hard in the summer?
Largemouth don’t feed in summer. Largemouth go deep in summer so are difficult to find and catch. Largemouth bass will always gravitate to their preferred water temperature over all else.
What temp are bass most active?
Bass spawn in waters that range anywhere from 55 to 80 degrees, which is a 25-degree range of possible temperatures.
How do you fish on a hot day?
8 Tips for Fishing in Hot Weather
- Look for Current. When humans become overheated, we turn on the air conditioning, or at least a fan.
- Find the Shade. Just like humans, fish search out shade as a respite from the beating sun.
- Use Worms on Your Hooks.
- Fish Fast.
- Go Deep.
- Fish at Night.
- Fish the Shoreline.
- Take Care of Yourself.
How do you catch bass when it’s hot out?
By fishing fast and not giving the fish a good look at your bait, they will strike at it out of instinct instead. In shallow water, try burning a spinnerbait, buzzbait, or fast twitching a fluke-style plastic jerkbait as fast as possible. Flip and pitch a heavy jig or plastic to maximize the rate of fall.
How do you fish in 90 degree weather?
With a few warm-weather tactics, you can get as many hits as you would on days when the mercury is below 80 degrees.
- Look for Current.
- Find the Shade.
- Use Worms on Your Hooks.
- Thread a nightcrawler or garden worm onto a size 8- or 10-hook, letting most of the worm dangle.
- Go Deep.
- Fish at Night.
- Fish the Shoreline.
Where do big bass go in summer?
Here are the top five places to look for summertime bass:
- Find Bass in Water Currents.
- Overhanging Cover Where Bass Hide.
- Main Lake Humps and Points House Bass Too.
- Ledges and Drop Offs in Reservoirs.
- Bass Like Dense and Floating Vegetation in Natural Lakes.
What bass lures to use in July?
1. Plastic Worms. During the heat of summer bass will often move to cooler, shady areas near the bottom of the water column. This is why soft plastic worms, rigged either Texas or Carolina style, are warm weather winners.
What do bass feed on in summer?
Once the spawn concludes, bass begin to feed aggressively. Bluegills, frogs, shad, and golden shiners make up the bulk of a big bass’s summertime diet. Bluegills and shiners are great year-round bass baits but frogs are the best mid-to-late summer bass bait you could find.