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Old 02-22-09, 10:23 PM   #1
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Default Lilly Pads In the Classic

They kept saying in day two of the classic that those dead lilly pad stalks were a hard bottom area. Is that true with every lake ? Do the lilly pads themselves make that bottom hard ( Roots ) ? And I guess the bass will spawn in that hard bottom area ?
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Old 02-22-09, 10:29 PM   #2
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Excellent question! I'd like to know ma'self! I'll be watching this!

I hope you get some help!
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Old 02-22-09, 10:44 PM   #3
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yeah, i'd like to know the answer to this too.. i was wonderin the same thing..
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Old 02-22-09, 11:00 PM   #4
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well here at guntersville the bottom ain't hard around the lily pads. very soft i think. i'll see next time i get out there, ok?
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Old 02-23-09, 03:52 AM   #5
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Bass prefer harder sandy bottoms to spawn, not mud, lilly pads will grow in many different bottom types. The pattern might of been targeting lilly pad stalks that were in harder bottom areas would be my guess.
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Old 02-23-09, 08:17 AM   #6
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where our cottage is the lilly pads all seem to grow in the soft muck bottom
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Old 02-23-09, 09:52 AM   #7
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I found that to be interesting also, most of the pad fields I've fished over the years were growing in a mucky concoction of dead lily pads and stems from years past. I guess if you clear enough of that muck away you would eventually reach a sandy bottom?
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yeah in my uncles pond in florida the whole lake is pretty much just a mcuky bottom but lily pads grow..... but ill check next time i go
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And I guess the bass will spawn in that hard bottom area ?
does anyone know this answer?
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Old 02-24-09, 10:08 AM   #10
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does anyone know this answer?

My favorite honey hole to sight fish is covered in lilly pads, laydowns, and a gravel bottom.
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what about the mucky bottoms? will bass spawn in these areas or do they perfer the hard bottoms
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Old 02-24-09, 10:45 AM   #12
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Water Lillies do grow on firmer bottoms or substrate. When I run turtle traps in the marsh I trap in, I always walk on water lilly edges because it is alway a firmer bottom. Its not necissarly rock or gravel, but a sand clay mixture. I don't think plants can root real well if its a pure clay substrate, especially the blue clay. So its probably always a mixture of soil.
Bass perfer to spawn on harder bottoms than just muck or mud, I think most fish do. If a fish spawned on a muddy bottom, the soil could cover the eggs and deprive them of oxygen. Male channel catfish, flat head and blues always fan the eggs in rivers to keep debris and soil off of their eggs. Good fishin
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Bass will spawn in lilly fealds but they need some other type of structure around like rocks, wood, ect. Buy the way yes the bottom is harder just below the top three or four inches. The top will feal mushy but just below that it will be harder.
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Yes, bass prefer a hard bottom for spawning
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what about the mucky bottoms? will bass spawn in these areas or do they perfer the hard bottoms
They will, but will do anything within their bassly power to prevent it (just what I've read).
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